What's your "go-to" comfort food

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Same here. Stress or pressure or unpleasantness in my life usually removes my appetite, like for hours, or even days. I simply don’t eat because the thought of food is faintly nauseating if I’m upset and perhaps also because the gnawing-hungry feeling is a distraction from the emotional upset?

That said - I have occasionally craved sugary-fatty things when stressed out. Cheesecake, perhaps. Or donuts or brownies. But that’s rare, maybe once or twice a year. I’ve wondered if an over-abundance of stress hormones starts some physical chain reaction that leads to me craving cheesecake, or brownies.

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Graham crackers and milk.

23

Mapo Dofu so hot I’m sweating balls and my mouth is numb and tingling, with wheat noodles.

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Pho

25

Me too.

My definition of comfort food is when I’m feeling lazy and I want something tasty to eat. Something aromatic the will fill the house with wonderful smells.

Crock pot chili for me.

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Big bowl of beans with lots of hot sauce, diced onions on top and warm tortillas on the side.

27

Cheese crisp. Or a bean burro.

28

Cream of wheat.

29

Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey ice cream, or Amy’s Shells and White Cheddar Dinner (with the gooey cheese packet).
Depends on the weather.

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Chocolate and/or toast with lots of butter and peanut butter.

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Anything with peanut butter and chocolate.

32

Some kind of candy*, most often chocolate.

*Or, as we call them down under, lollies

33

I wish I was one of those people who can’t eat when they’re sad, upset, angry, etc. Comfort eating is my coping mechanism, as my fluctuating weight will attest.

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Toasted cheese and vegemite sandwiches

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My homemade bread pudding (no raisins, sometimes blueberries), made in a small round ceramic bowl (two servings), and devoured semi-hot exactly 8 minutes after removing it from the oven.

I’ve also perfected a recipe using pumpkin instead of the bread, and it tastes like pumpkin pie soufflé. :slight_smile:

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Homemade macaroni and cheese

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Also, I don’t think of comfort food as food that I eat when I need emotional support. To me, it means food I eat when I want to feel comfortable/nostalgic.

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When I’m ill, I always make buttered toast cut into three strips. That’s what our mother would give us when we were sick, and I swear nibbling on toast strips is a different experience from eating regularly sliced toast. By some magic it tastes better to me, too. :slight_smile:

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Fry bacon. Add tin of Heinz (and only Heinz) Baked Beans to the bacon, so that it sucks up all the bacon fat. Serve on toast made with brown bread.

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It’s a three-way tie:[ul]
[li]Kraft mac & cheese[/li][li]Kind-of-tuna-casserole (cream of mushroom soup, tuna, and rice)[/li][li]Häagen-Dazs Rocky Road[/ul][/li]
…that said, last night my ex-bf’s dog died: she was my “step-dog” for a couple of years, and for whatever reason I wanted nothing more than a Big Mac. Hadn’t had one of those in at least a year, but I stopped at McDonald’s on my way back from his place and got one.