What is your favorite comfort food??

@Debs_place (10520)
United States
April 1, 2008 10:27am CST
At night, after I get home from work, there is nothing better then a bowl of ice cream to release some of the stress of work and the drive. Chocolate is good too but not as good as ice cream. I think it takes longer to eat the ice cream so it helps more. Cherry brandy helps me sleep, so I like that too. So what food helps you feel better? What is your comfort food? Any special reason? Like it was something grandma gave you to eat as a kid.
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30 responses
• United States
1 Apr 08
I would have to say that chocolate is one of my comfort foods. I also love the Raisin Rum ice cream from Haggan Daz. It is so yummy. I feel so happy and free when I am eating either one of these foods.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Raisin Rum ice cream -- that sounds real good! and of course Chocolate - which should be a food group onto itself that we should have every day. Required
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• United States
1 Apr 08
I know it's like their should be a law or something that requires chocolate to be part of a healthy lifestyle or something. But that's just my fantasy. Chocolate is so good I get shivers just thinking or talking about it. I just bought some two bars of Caramello today and I can't wait to sink my teeth into that piece of dark, sexy, and handsome piece of chocolate.
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@weemam (13372)
1 Apr 08
Ice Cream is my very very favourite , I could live on it alone lol xxx
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@weemam (13372)
1 Apr 08
If you need any help to eat it you know where I am :) :) xx
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@sherrir101 (3670)
• Malinta, Ohio
1 Apr 08
Lays Classic potato chips are my favorite comfort food. All I have to have is a few and I am comforted. It takes me forever to go through a bag of chips. But I always have some in the house for when I do need them.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Lays Classic...used to like those, but now I prefer the baked ones. I guess it is healthier that you don't eat them all of the time. My ex- used to eat a bag of chips a night.
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@AmbiePam (85478)
• United States
2 Apr 08
I guess home made fried chicken. Fast food fried chicken doesn't count, I might as well eat a bucket of grease. My deceased grandma used to make the best fried chicken ever. Whenever I was sick as a child I'd ask my mom to make it. Of course I don't have it often, and I didn't back then either. I probably haven't had it enough to get tired of it.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
2 Apr 08
I love fried chicken..but have never made it. Do you have a recipe for it?
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@pkc3000 (1266)
• India
1 Apr 08
Dear friend Usually I take light food in the night after coming from office. I prefer chapati with simple vegetable curry without any spice.I also like fruit juice or any type of soup. I always prefer bread & butter which is less consuming time and there is no cooking headache. pkc3000
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
But what is the food that you eat that calms you down after a hard day or you want when you are upset?
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@gemini_rose (16264)
1 Apr 08
I do not really have a comfort food! If I am stressed I tend to go the opposite way and am unable to eat a thing! I never used to be like that, I used to eat packs of crisps and would quite happily sit and eat a huge bag, and sometimes I would have a dip to go with it. But the last couple of years I just cannot eat at thing if I am stressed, it is good in one way as then I do not put any weight on but it is bad in another because I always end up losing quite a lot of weight instead and then I look and feel really ill.
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Oh, I can only dream about losing weight without trying to lose it. Nothing kills my appetite. Consider yourself lucky. Then you can enjoy eating to gain some weight...what a wonderful goal that would have to be.
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
2 Apr 08
Get me a well prepared Millet bread, firm, steaming, with a fine mixture of cassava flour-Get a smoked Giant wild Rat, they are usually 5-6 kg-boil it in tomatoe soup,add some fine pieces of dry cucumber and then salt to test, steam it up until the meat is soft and ready-get a fine mix of G.nut and simsim paste and then season the Giant rat meat with the mixture-lay the table and invite me for a meal-that is what my ethnic group calls, a favourite comfort food!
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@gberlin (3836)
1 Apr 08
My best comfort food is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I never get tired of them. Also, anything sweet but chocolate chip cookies realy it the spot. And especially dark chocolate. Could be why I can't lose weight.
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@gberlin (3836)
3 Apr 08
The milk was a given! I have often posed your question to God and the answer seems to be that fruits and veggies also taste good. I do like to eat fruits and veggies and they taste good to me but I also like the stuff that is not as healthy too!
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
ANd you have to have it with a glass of ice cold milk...warm chocolate chip cookies. Nice going! If I am not careful, I will be drooling on my keyboard. Oh I understand about not being able to lose weight, but the best foods are so unhealthy. Why is that?
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• Canada
1 Apr 08
Comfort food... yummy! I'm not really a "mood" eater at all and I don't eat to alleviate stress... but here are a few things that I consider guilty pleasures... Ice cream (when I do have it, I try to buy the best quality I can afford at the time) Homemade apple crisp (with extra brown sugar, just because *grin*) Nachos and salsa Chips with that Philadelphia whipped sour cream and chives cream cheese (not the "chip dip" one) Fritos or Munchos (super salty and really not something I should ever be eating hehe) Dark chocolate Strangely, I also consider creamy mushroom rice (you know that stuff mom used to make using cream of mushroom soup and instant rice???) a comfort food... LOL! I have cut most carbs from my regular diet and I probably miss rice the most. Made with the cream soup, it's something I'll find myself eating, once in a blue moon, particularly if I'm having a pretty lousy day.
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• Canada
2 Apr 08
Yep! LOL Not "really" a mood eater... but if I'm gonna be, it'll be the rice before any of the other junk food... my poor stomach *grin*
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Wow, it all does sound good. Especially the dark chocolate. Ahh...you are a mood eater..tht mushroom soup and rice...my mom never made that - now i feel deprived. We would have rice with milk and sugar or scrambled eggs with buttered egg noodles.
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@bintil (86)
• Indonesia
2 Apr 08
i like both chocolate and icecream, but the most thing i like is chezz`um and sour cream pringles. i love it..
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@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
2 Apr 08
Comfort food really make someone feel great and extremely satisfied. In my case, I love to eat ice cream and certain fruits like apples, oranges, strawberries, etc. Of course, cakes, chocolates, and other sweets also make my day.
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• Indonesia
2 Apr 08
it depends. usually when I want comfort, I would go for some cold drinks or ice cream. but when I am also feeling hungry at the same time, I would buy some burger or french fries. :P but when it is at night, well, instant noodle is still fine. LOL.
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@shynie (556)
• Philippines
2 Apr 08
During a stressful day, when bored, while watching tv, after everything is done, a bag of Tostitos and a jar of a good salsa could do just anything. Makes me feel better and comforted. I have been into this craving eversince and this has been a lifetime favorite. It has never changed.
@bobet17 (158)
• Philippines
2 Apr 08
I really like ice cream than cake,eveytime my husband go home he always bring me ice cream and I love the chocolate with oreo flavor,I love to eat this during midnight while watching tv.I like also the combination of noodles,bread and ice cream.
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@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
2 Apr 08
Ice cream is the best, I just got done having a bowl of Moose Tracks with chocolate sauce on top, yummy.
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
1 Apr 08
Coconut ice cream with a cadburys chocolate flake broken up over it with strawberry sauce that is my wicked combination to comfort me and its sooooo delicious and yummy. I have been known to run a nice hot bath, lie back and tuck in, double stress relief! Mmmm now I am making myself hungry. I have always liked ice cream, I am not a big dessert eater but give me ice cream any time! But coconut ice cream is the best, the creme de la creme!
@slickcut (8141)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Im not one to always agree but i have to agree ice cream is my favorite....It was given to me as a child and maybe that is the reason...Another good one for me is milk and oreo cookies....I have never tried cherry brandy but if it helps you to sleep i need some ..Lol...I have insomnia a lot so maybe i get get some and try it...
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@youless (112112)
• Guangzhou, China
2 Apr 08
I like chocolate or potato chips. I will feel happy to eat them. Eating snacks like that while I am watching TV is so relaxing.
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• New Zealand
2 Apr 08
Hi there. I have got Chocolate as my Favorite Comfort Food. The other food is possibly Ice Cream, only just possibly though. I eat Chocolate more than I do Ice Cream. Catch ya later
• United States
4 Apr 08
awww my grandma made this dish called stickes. it was basically rolled up dough that looked like sticky buns, and she poured canned milk over em mixed with vanilla and sugar I think and then bake em up.. I could eat a whole pan by myself