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comfort food

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fizzers Sun 07-Apr-19 16:08:27

what is your favourite comfort food?

mine is soup and bread or beans on toast

Judy43 Mon 08-Apr-19 21:33:50

A bowl of porage with butter sugar and top of the milk. Or bread and milk. Childhood comforter

grannybuy Mon 08-Apr-19 20:36:36

Fried egg on toast ( when I feel that I shouldn't have any more chocolate)!

Daisyboots Mon 08-Apr-19 20:10:51

I have never understood the allure of macaroni and cheese maybe because it's something we never had as children. My favourite quick foods are fried or lightly scrambled eggs on hot buttered toast or cheese on toast. Tonight DH didnt fancy much so it was egg and chips followed by strawberries and cream. Strawberry season has started here. :D

Lilyflower Mon 08-Apr-19 19:51:28

Cake. I look forward to my afternoon tea every day and eat very little beforehand so I can indulge.

labazsisslowlygoingmad Mon 08-Apr-19 19:50:22

macaroni cheese no not mac n cheese i prefer good old fashioned macaroni cheese name!
or mash quorn sausages and baked beans

Skinnylizzie Mon 08-Apr-19 19:26:54

If I have had a bad day I love spaghetti milanaise. If I’m celebrating I love it! My favourite restaurant closed last year and I do miss popping in for a fix.... sad

CanadianGran Mon 08-Apr-19 18:45:58

Grilled cheese sandwich... all the bready, buttery cheesy goodness in one package.

GrannyLondon Mon 08-Apr-19 18:17:27

Hot, thick sliced, white bread toast, loads of butter.
Bread & jam.
Very rare special treats.

Selsey99 Mon 08-Apr-19 17:58:24

The oddbird u r my favourite up to nowx

KatyK Mon 08-Apr-19 17:57:37

Yes 1inamillion big standard crisps for me too.smile

CarlyD7 Mon 08-Apr-19 17:53:56

Another vote for a Bacon Buttie - made with a fresh bloomer loaf thickly sliced, wth lots of butter, and a smidgeon of brown sauce. And a hot cup of tea. Lovely.

GinJeannie Mon 08-Apr-19 17:27:26

Oh just the mention of crusty bread and lashings of butter brings back childhood memories. Unfortunately I am now Coeliac so the bread leaves a lot to be desired! Comfort food now is cold roast chicken!

1inamillion Mon 08-Apr-19 17:01:23

Yes KatyK - Cheese and Onion crisps, bog standard ( no posh designer/crinkle etc)

Wiltshiregrams Mon 08-Apr-19 16:03:34

Get yourself a perching stool. I have one as cannot stand for long. The stool has really helped and I do most of the cooking in our house (my daughter and two grandsons). Can find them on eBay or social services might provide.

Steph5108 Mon 08-Apr-19 15:27:51

Toasted granary bread, sliced banana on top and drizzled with runny honey...yummy!

cavewoman Mon 08-Apr-19 15:16:44

Huge fluffy dumplings in thick black onion gravy.

jaclovesdogs Mon 08-Apr-19 15:04:37

Beef and vegetable stew with crusty bread ? yum ?

lovebeigecardigans1955 Mon 08-Apr-19 14:44:10

It's got to be mashed potatoes which are salty and buttery with a very runny soft boiled egg in the centre covered with grated cheese. Bliss.

OldGeezer Mon 08-Apr-19 14:12:22

Depends when. i.e. Coming home between 2 and 5 in the morning after delivering a calf/lamb or rarely, a foal - the world's most buttery toast with lots of Bovril and a mug of tea. As a treat, any evening, home made rice pudding made with brown sugar, full cream milk and served with double or clotted cream. Lunch after working outdoors all morning in the cold - Shepherds Pie. Sunday morning breakfast - runny, buttery scrambled eggs on buttery toast with smoked salmon and Tabasco Sauce. Home made bread and butter pudding. I could go on ( and on, and on - - - )

Happysexagenarian Mon 08-Apr-19 14:11:53

Scrambled eggs on toast......... or chocolate.....hmmm!!

glammagran Mon 08-Apr-19 13:56:44

Macaroni/cauliflower cheese. But most of all, Indian food

Juliet27 Mon 08-Apr-19 13:50:55

Yet another macaroni cheese - with a crispy cheese top or jacket potato (in the oven rather than microwave) with lashings of butter. Both take me back to comforting childhood..

Sheilasue Mon 08-Apr-19 13:44:40

You have all made me really Hungary and most of the things you have written I love too.
Don’t know if I am getting weirder as I get older but I have just have a cinnamon bagel with raisins and cheese and tomato in the middle

Millie22 Mon 08-Apr-19 13:40:15

A cup of tea and slice of madeira cake.

GrandmasueUK Mon 08-Apr-19 13:38:44

Boiled eggs chopped up in a cup with toast soldiers or Heinz tomato soup with bread.