Best food to break fast with

Looking for some food ideas for my vegetarian self to introduce over the next few days. With the emphasis on nutrition and bowel health. I am on day 7 of a fast. Had water and green tea in this time. I started it to try and improve my bowel health after weeks of loose movements following a vomitting and diarrhoea illness. My last previous fast was for a week about a decade ago. I don't do intermittent fasting. I am aware my digestive system will not be ready for complex or fatty foods just yet, not large quantities. I wish to stay dairy free for a period, again for reasons of gut health. Any suggestions would be amazing, thank you 😁

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i did like dr fung suggested and didn’t have the runs.

just start out with something tiny, wait 30 min to an hour before having something else.

i had bone broth at night ,waited ,1 date , waited , 1 date .

the next day i made some whole food vegetarian recipes from dr Fuhrman cookbooks and sidechef app to focus on refeeding with whole foods over the next couple of days

do you have a vitamix ? a food processor ?

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Nicely done! I am breaking my 7 day tomorrow and had wondered the same sort of thing. Instead of bone broth you could do something like a vegetarian Japanese clear soup to start (super easy to make) or even use some veg stock for egg drop soup if you eat eggs. I’m going to then move from broth to a “keto ramen” for dinner using a tiny amount of miracle noodles veg and protein. For some reason I feel like very light Asian cuisine will be a nice soothing way to come back in to food. Hope this helps and great job!