Mine are fish finger sandwiches, toast and jam, beans on toast, cheese and ham toasties, chicken soup and sausage n mash.

There are others but I can't remember them off hand.

Any other weird and wonderful foods that fall into these categories? :)

Seabrooks Crisps, Granny Smiths Apples, Crispy Chicken Grills, Sausages & Mash Potatoes (with loads of brown sauce) :clap:

Bangers and mash (cant do the brown sauce thing, I prefer onion gravy)

Chineese takeaway's

Pizza but only from Bibs in Dinnington

Kebabs

Chocolate

A full breakfast sandwich with tomatoes and pepper, but only from Tom's Tucker at Homewood :thumbsup:

For me, all comfort foods seem to be carbohydrate-heavy meals with dollops of fat for good measure, things which you can just snuggle down & warm up with then go to sleep afterwards. Porridge (with lots of brown sugar & cream, of course). Mashed potato (with lots of butter/cream/milk/cheese to provide the fat element) or, even better, aligote. My favourite at the moment is risotto (again, has to have lots of butter & cheese in it): it's fairly slow and tedious to cook, but if you give it the time it needs and put a lot of love into the stirring then it's the most rewarding dish.

Or, for the ultimate slob out, get a pizza delivered and collapse in front of the TV.

Given that most classic comfort foods are very much carbohydrate-based, it makes me laugh that one of the main claims of the Atkins Diet seems to be that "now you can diet and still eat the foods that you like". Not if the foods that you like are comfort foods, you can't.

Plain Flapjacks from Spar
Special Fried Rice From The Chinese Takeaway
or Sometimes
Some KFC:gag:

Chip butties, lashings of vinegar and tom sauce. Gotta be a nice cheap white bread though, preferably "basics" range!

I'd have to agree with you Pauly, fish finger sandwiches (with ketchup) are yum!

I also like baked beans on toast, jam on toast, croissants with lots of melted butter, strawberry cheesecake or carrot cake whenever possible, liver pate on toast, blue doritos and dip and bread sticks with cheese and chive sauce.

I have plenty of others but that's to name a few :)

Just a selection:

- Chips; chips with mayonnaise when a lot of comfort needed!
- Chocolate - and again more chocolate
- Quavers
- Halva
- Choc chip biccies
- Digestive biccies
- M&S Potato salad
- Bavarian Slice from Cooplands

It's a mystery how I managed to lose a stone over the last year! :o

StarSparkle :)

Special Fried Rice from the Chinese!

that always makes me feel better!

Mmmm.... I love halva! :)

Haven't had any in ages. Where do you buy it from StarSparkle?

Originally posted by sparklesista
Mmmm.... I love halva! :)

Haven't had any in ages. Where do you buy it from StarSparkle?

Hi Sparklesista!

I usually buy it from Beanie's at Commonside, but they also sell it at Holland & Barrett in town.

Enjoy!

StarSparkle :)

I love halva too, my grandma always used to buy it for me as a treat (halva, pine kernels, and crystallised rose/violet petals) when I was a kid.

Arabic/Turkish/Greek/Israeli delis are the best place to buy halva - there's one at Upperthorpe near the swimming baths (used to be Red Sea Continental Foods or somesuch, I think it's now called Al Sultan), they sell halva in huge tubs (about 1kg), far too tempting to have knocking around the house! There's a few shops on Abbeydale Road which will probably have it as well.

I don't have sweet tooth, but occasionally when I am stressed out I binge on biscuits and chocolatey things.

I don't even care much for chocolate. I'm even allergic to dairy products! What the hell is all that about?

Mine are :

Thick granary bread, toasted with lots of butter.
Mashed potatoes
Cheesecake
Chocolate
Uncut, crusty bread, sliced thickly with strawberry jam.

Droool droooool!!!!

Oh and stew and dumplings (just had that for dinner)

Got to agree with homemade stew... ooh! Gonna make some tomorrow now! :clap:

Toffee popcorn, Pistachios & Cashews!!:)

Originally posted by StarSparkle
Hi Sparklesista!

I usually buy it from Beanie's at Commonside, but they also sell it at Holland & Barrett in town.

Enjoy!

StarSparkle :)

Thanks StarSparkle - I will check it out oh and will definatley enjoy ;)

Originally posted by DanSumption
I love halva too, my grandma always used to buy it for me as a treat (halva, pine kernels, and crystallised rose/violet petals) when I was a kid.

Arabic/Turkish/Greek/Israeli delis are the best place to buy halva - there's one at Upperthorpe near the swimming baths (used to be Red Sea Continental Foods or somesuch, I think it's now called Al Sultan), they sell halva in huge tubs (about 1kg), far too tempting to have knocking around the house! There's a few shops on Abbeydale Road which will probably have it as well.

Thanks for that DanSumption!

I'm half Iranian which is how I got introduced to it but since moving away from my parents I've not been able to get my hands on any :(

I think I might just need that 1kg tub to make up for it! ;)