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What are your comfort foods?

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Fallingstar Sat 21-Feb-26 17:19:10

The weather is grim, the news is abysmal, and on top of that we have the ups but more importantly ‘the downs’ of day to day life to contend with. So what are your comfort foods?
Mine are homemade soup with freshly baked bread from the Bakers shop and chocolate.

Basgetti Mon 23-Feb-26 15:48:23

Macaroni cheese, vegetable mash with cheese, baked potato with …… hang on, cheese, basically 😁 Big mug of tea with dollop of sugar, too (don’t usually have sugar).

labazs Mon 23-Feb-26 15:26:02

at the moment i am eating hot cross buns like they are going out of fashion! its helping me with the stress of moving house!
otherwise its ice cream or chocolate

knspol Mon 23-Feb-26 14:36:19

Thick butter with a slice of toast underneath and marmalade on top.

cc Mon 23-Feb-26 14:14:13

GANNET

My husband’s home made wheaten and walnut soda bread out of the oven with butter. He started doing it to use up our walnuts before the squirrels got them.

Great name Gannet!

GANNET Mon 23-Feb-26 14:11:48

My husband’s home made wheaten and walnut soda bread out of the oven with butter. He started doing it to use up our walnuts before the squirrels got them.

annifrance Mon 23-Feb-26 14:11:37

Homemade soups, poached egg on toast, tarka dhaal, coque au vin with lots of mushrooms, lasagne, cheese on toast.

cc Mon 23-Feb-26 14:08:51

Naughty Dempie55, very naughty!

Dempie55 Mon 23-Feb-26 14:07:05

Digestive biscuits sandwiched together with chocolate spread and dunked in English Breakfast tea.

cc Mon 23-Feb-26 14:00:19

Greyduster

A good fish pie;
Bacon lettuce and tomato on a panini roll with lashings of mayo;
A chunk of good cheddar and a crisp apple;
A baked potatoes with tuna and sweetcorn;
Malt loaf.

My list would be very like this, apart from the malt loaf. I also love really fresh crunch crusted white bread, still warm, with butter.

Shirls52000 Mon 23-Feb-26 13:57:01

Poached eggs on whole wheat toast either with avocado or smoked salmon

boheminan Sun 22-Feb-26 21:01:48

Fried egg on fried bread with a spreading of MMmmmarmite

Scribbles Sun 22-Feb-26 20:14:30

Not necessarily together and in no particular order:
Vintage cheddar on toast
My own home-made soup, any kind
Semolina pudding with raspberry coulis
Well done, almost burnt, toast smothered in unsalted butter and home-made marmalade.

hollysteers Sun 22-Feb-26 19:17:31

Smoked salmon and scrambled egg

lilypollen Sun 22-Feb-26 18:46:26

Corned Beef Hash with a bit of chilli seasoning. Homemade soup and soda bread (Lorraine Pascale recipe) close second.

MT62 Sun 22-Feb-26 18:03:15

Fish finger butties on nice sourdough & best butter, not forgetting the tomato sauce 😋

SporeRB01 Sun 22-Feb-26 17:12:47

Hot chocolate drink
Porridge with berries and banana
Rice pudding
Indian or Thai takeaway

Fallingstar Sun 22-Feb-26 16:42:44

That was in reply to the chips posts, sorry.

Fallingstar Sun 22-Feb-26 16:41:54

Am afraid Mayo is just on everything these days whether you want it or not, I imagine it will be on the traditional roast dinner next and put on top of shepherds pie, well, if they put it on traditional ploughman’s sandwiches, why not??
Would be so pleased if it was offered in sachets rather than being slathered all over everything. Nasty stuff 🤮

Blossoming Sun 22-Feb-26 16:40:21

Tomato soup and toast.

Tuliptree Sun 22-Feb-26 16:29:43

SiobhanSharpe

No argument but Mayo on Chips is fine if they are long and crispy French fries à la Belgique - but not on soggy chip shop chips. They of course need the salt and vinegar .

No, no and thrice times no <shudders>

SiobhanSharpe Sun 22-Feb-26 16:28:12

No argument but Mayo on Chips is fine if they are long and crispy French fries à la Belgique - but not on soggy chip shop chips. They of course need the salt and vinegar .

Tuliptree Sun 22-Feb-26 16:23:38

SiobhanSharpe

And if I was on a diet it would be buttered spinach, also with a poached egg on top.

Spinach imo is a much underrated food.

SiobhanSharpe Sun 22-Feb-26 16:21:52

And if I was on a diet it would be buttered spinach, also with a poached egg on top.

SiobhanSharpe Sun 22-Feb-26 16:19:53

When I was a bit under the weather with a cold my mum used to make me hot buttery mashed potato with a boiled egg on top, scooped out of the shell, to mix in.
I still make it myself sometimes for comfort.

LemonJam Sun 22-Feb-26 16:10:27

I cant imagine a life without chocolate 🥱. Gelato ice-cream lovely in the summer. Baked potatoes with crispy skins with cheesy fillings and fish pie are both very comforting in winter months....