Pabulum

Synonyms for pabulum:

Sense 1

chow, foodstuff.

Sense 2

eats, meat.

Sense 3

bread.

Sense 5

provision.

nourishment

nurture.

nourishment (noun)

diet, sustenance, nutriment, food.

pabulum (noun)

eatable, victuals, victual, comestible, edible.

Usage examples for pabulum:

• This heterogeneous mass of considerations forms the mental pabulum with which we feed our minds. - "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler", Samuel Butler.
• I do not wish to seem, even, to be cynical or pessimistic, but when I look at some of the mental pabulum that our newspapers supply, I cannot but feel that we are making vast efforts to maintain the commonplace and dignify the trivial. - "Quit Your Worrying!", George Wharton James.