Best Comfort Food

Hakumei Naru

What food do you eat for comfort? (or drink)

Chocolate poptarts while reading a good book. I discovered this a few days ago. I'm trying to get over lots of bad things that have happened to me so I'm doing this alot lately. I need to put on weight anyway.

The Sweeper

While comfort eating to excess isn't a good idea, I find pasta carbonara a good comfort food. (In a small bowl because comfort eating to get rid of the misery of being a big fat blob is counterproductive.)

Anything with simple carbs. Or a full roast dinner, especially if someone else has done all the work.

Hermione*

Mashed potato Especially with spring onions, yum.

I love comfort eating while reading (did a lot of it last year); found a little Lindt dark chocolate, hot choc with marshmallows (has to be made with milk though), or a moderate-sized bowl of ben and jerry's to be quite effective.

Hakumei Naru

Just discovered that chocolate covered turkish-delight is wonderfully satisfying ^_^

Yum.

CathyMoran

I would have a few comfort foods - having a cup of tea while having chocolate would be one, another is thai green curry (you can get microwavable bowls that are done in 3 minutes) and onion flavoured corn snacks are another.

Having the odd treat once a week is no harm as part of a balanced diet and not just as a comfort food.

xzanti

Beef Stew with plenty of spuds
Baked potato with Sour cream and chives
Bangers and mash
Cheese on toast

fade2black

Rice is good if you're hungry and want to eat thousands of something. (stolen)

Tree

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

While comfort eating to excess isn't a good idea, I find pasta carbonara a good comfort food. (In a small bowl because comfort eating to get rid of the misery of being a big fat blob is counterproductive.)

sadly the misery of being a fat blob only encourages some of us to be fatter blobs!

i reckon hot popcorn is the business for comfort eating, or mashed spuds,

or just a bowl of mushy peas with loads of butter (pregnant lady food i know but i blame the mammy)

Sauce

My ultimate comfort food is Toast with coleslaw and ketchup or Ben & Jerrys ice cream

Kolodny

Pretty much any sort of cheese for me (but the smellier the better) with warm, crusty bread and loads of real butter.

Alternatively, a potato and spinach gratin from M&S with the really rich creamy sauce - never fails to lift my mood.