@Roberta,
Soft boiled eggs? Maybe just the whites -- when I was a really strict vegetarian I recall going back to eggs was tough as the yolks were incredibly strong-tasting to me, but the whites were fine.
Cous cous? It's very small pasta. Also pastini or really any kind of noodles for soup, the small kind, like alphabet soup. If you can get whole wheat, that's better re nutrition.
Hang in there Ms. Kvetchstress (trying saying that 3 times fast) Extraordinaire!