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Your “go to” comfort food?

(117 Posts)
MawBroon Tue 13-Feb-18 19:48:12

I am a keen cook, have even done it professionally, but when I feel poorly (like today) my “go to” is warm toast with peanut butter.
Or tinned tomato soup (Heinz de préférence)
If I have the energy, (which I don’t) my final favourite is thick sliced ham, fried egg and (oven) chips.

BRedhead59 Wed 14-Feb-18 13:31:32

Whatever it is don't buy it!

Kim19 Wed 14-Feb-18 13:38:13

Have to admit that part of the 'comfort' is simplicity of acquisition when I'm poorly and have, in desperation, resorted to tinned Mac cheese. Not as good as my hand knitted version but certainly works when the body seems unwilling. Shocking, eh?!

sarahellenwhitney Wed 14-Feb-18 13:50:20

Cheese and onion crisps. Feet up watching a tv drama.

Teddy123 Wed 14-Feb-18 14:04:43

Home made real chips .....

GabriellaG Wed 14-Feb-18 14:27:45

I prefer Waitrose tomato soup, which incidentally came a clear 1st in a recent blind tasting by 20 top chefs food writers and critics.
As for comfort food...home made semolina or rice pudding (skin on) with a good quality blackcurrant conserve. Also mature cheddar cheese on thickly sliced toast topped with slices of tomato.

Daddima Wed 14-Feb-18 14:36:34

As a child, invalid food was Heinz tomato and Ambrosia creamed rice, but trying both recently, found them nothing like I remembered. Reduced salt and sugar maybe?

Comfort food now would be buttery mashed potato with something with gravy or sauce.

GabriellaG Wed 14-Feb-18 15:10:53

Having read all posts so far, I realise that chopped up eggs in a cup, Farleys (original) rusks, buttery mashed potato with a soft boiled egg in the middle, home made mac n cheese (copied from Almazan kitchen on YouTube) and numerous others are ALL my favourites. Can't choose just one ?

Marydoll Wed 14-Feb-18 15:22:22

My mother's homemade Scotch broth (Strained through a sieve) and crusty bread.

Grandma70s Wed 14-Feb-18 15:27:11

I’m another one for Heinz tomato soup and boiled or scrambled eggs. Mashed potato would be good as well, but if I were feeling really in need of comfort I wouldn’t want the effort of making it.

Nanny41 Wed 14-Feb-18 15:30:42

Marmite on toast
Eggs on toast
A lovely cup of tea to complete the picture.

merlotgran Wed 14-Feb-18 15:31:46

Toast and marmite here as well but when I was a child I would recover from car sickness with a mug of Oxo and a chunk of dry crusty bread.

Gagagran Wed 14-Feb-18 16:03:11

Grandma70s You could try frozen mash if in need of emergency comfort food. It's £1 for a bag at Tesco and is what I use when I have a gastritis flare up. Delia Smith did a cookery book using convenience foods and recommended frozen mash! I make a bit of gravy granules gravy to go with mine. It's very soothing.

EmilyHarburn Wed 14-Feb-18 16:23:30

Chips and fried eggs with ketchup

Madgran77 Wed 14-Feb-18 17:07:45

Mashed potato!!

Shizam Wed 14-Feb-18 19:03:32

MOnica, I buy Waitrose steak and kidney puds. Only place I can find them. I so love eating them. Then the suet sets in my stomach and have a food baby for the rest of the night. Doesn’t put me off though! They remind me of childhood and my dear mum.

hulahoop Wed 14-Feb-18 19:46:36

Scrambled egg on toast my oh calls it my poorly tea .

MargaretX Wed 14-Feb-18 20:35:48

Tea and Toast always.

GabriellaG mentioned chopped eggs. That is what my mother always made. I called it eggs-in-a-cup. when small. I loved it and didnt know anyone else ever had it or knew about it.

shirleyhick Wed 14-Feb-18 21:09:09

Crusty bread with thick butter

jacq10 Wed 14-Feb-18 21:13:12

Bang goes Frugal February!!! I know I will have one of the above tomorrow but it has been a great post.

Overthehills Wed 14-Feb-18 21:17:46

Chopped eggs in a cup!! I thought my mother invented that! I’m having it tomorrow whether I need comforting or not!

Boolya Wed 14-Feb-18 21:20:56

Hot lemonade (diet sort these days); white sliced bread with butter (Lurpak) & Bovril spread thickly. .

squirrel5 Wed 14-Feb-18 21:24:29

Just reading the posts late in the day,my ultimate comfort food has to be soft boiled egg and buttery toast soldiers,also tinned peaches and icecream,

Pittcity Wed 14-Feb-18 21:25:31

Another vote for toast and marmite here!

etheltbags1 Wed 14-Feb-18 21:31:06

Eggs done anyway with crusty bread. Heinz tomato soup or chicken soup and toast with jam or honey also raw onions

Cherrytree59 Wed 14-Feb-18 22:35:34

Another one for egg in a cup!
And yes I thought it was just something my mother did!shock