What's comfort Food really?

@missybear (11391)
United States
April 8, 2012 7:20am CST
To me all food is food, some people say that meat loaf mashed potatoes and gravy is comfort food, or ice cream is comfort food.....does it really comfort you?. Do you eat certain foods when you feeling down that comfort you, I eat food cause I have a hankering for certain things not because i need to be comforted {I like spelling the word COMFORT}. Do you have a certain food you eat when you're feeling down and out and all alone?
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@ShyBear88 (59284)
• Sterling, Virginia
8 Apr 12
Comfort food is food that makes you feel good and bring backs nice warm memories. To everyone comfort food will be different. For me its benaies a Spanish type of doughnut. That always brings back happy memories for seeing and going to New Orleans to see my grandparents and my dad making them every now then. Also roast beef that is another one for me of my mom staying home all day and cooking this roast instead of going to work. I don't eat them when I'm doing to eat a comfort food you don't need to be sad or anything you could just want to eat it. When I"m down I just eat a piece of chocolate nothing special and not the same kind. Its what ever chocolate I can get a hold of.
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@missybear (11391)
• United States
8 Apr 12
I just love to eat period so any food is good for me
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@in2day (120)
• Netherlands
8 Apr 12
At times I eat a lot of chocolate, chips, ice cream, desserts, sushi and dimsum. But when I was depressed I couldn't eat anything! I smoked a lot back then. I lost 7 kg in 1 month! Being depressed is not good for me XD
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@missybear (11391)
• United States
8 Apr 12
It's not good for anybody I'm sure but it's better that you don't over eat when you're depressed, just think if you would have gained 7 kilo
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
8 Apr 12
YES...there are foods that are COMFORT foods! Foods that have me envisioning a blazing fire on a cold winter's day! Foods that wrap me in a warm, fuzzy glowing feeling! Just the smell of those foods in process..gives me comfort...A pot of home-made soup..a beef stew..home-made bread and Apple pie! They all wrap up what my mind perceives as comfort! HOME..home-made foods..and then a warm, cuddly place to lay my head...all part of the component that spells comfort, to me!
@missybear (11391)
• United States
8 Apr 12
I love all those foods you just mentioned, now I want some stew.
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• Canada
8 Apr 12
LOL! Can't you just smell it simmering away..wafting aromas..of so much comfort? I am very thankful...that sweets OR snack foods..are not my comfort foods...but I sure won't turn down a warm piece of apple pie! I am truly sorry, I forgot to wish you and yours a spectacular Easter!
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
18 Apr 12
I am one of those chocolate people..LOL...I like chocolate most anytime though. To be honest, if I am down and out, I don't really have a comfort food..I eat way less. I think that chocolate would be the one thing that made me feel better if I did try a comfort food.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
18 Apr 12
I love chocolate ...especially the German kind that my mom always brings me. I don't need to be down and out to eat a whole big ole bar.
@averygirl72 (37726)
• Philippines
11 Jun 12
As I read this discussion, I would like agree to this post. I think one of the comfort food I consider are chocolates. I do not know but I am so addicted to chocolates especially dark chocolates. The problem is too much chocolates can be bad for health and your teeth.
@marguicha (215570)
• Chile
26 Apr 12
My own definition of comfort food is somethin you crave when you are feeling down. Anxiety is something I have often. For many years I helped myself with a ciggy, but quit smoking about 4 years ago. Since then, I smother anxiety with food.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
26 Apr 12
I quit about 4 years myself and went on a diet the same time cause I was afraid once I quit smoking I gain wait.
@marguicha (215570)
• Chile
26 Apr 12
I could not do both. I ate hartd candy for over a month before I said "stop!" I could not slim down those pounds later on.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
30 Jul 12
hi, i just wanted to eat everything i want when i am feeling down,i dont have any food to eat just to be comfort,because i know any food will comfort me when i feel im full.abut most of the time i eat chocolates,fried chicken and pork siomai.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
30 Jul 12
Chocolate and fried chicken, 2 of my favorites also
@GardenGerty (157615)
• United States
9 Apr 12
No, when I feel down, I eat EVERYTHING!!!! I feel very comforted right this very minute because my sweet hubby made me a wonderful ham and cheese sandwich, since we just walked in the door from a little trip. It certainly tasted yummy and hit the spot, so in a way it is comfort food.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
9 Apr 12
I love it when my honey cooks, it seems to taste soooo much better being made just for you.
@lowyder (282)
• Canada
9 Apr 12
i believe comfort food is whatever you want to have as a snack either chips,chocolate or ice cream yum lol and what ever makes you feel good and a bit of joy or goodness from enjoying these things some people certain fruits are there comfort foods like a apple or something would be there preffered snack or comfort food if you will. i believe that is what comfort food would be to me Low~!
@missybear (11391)
• United States
9 Apr 12
• Philippines
25 Apr 12
A comfort food is something that we can eat that relieves our stresses and just really comforts us. Different people have different types of food. Some people may like ice cream as their comfort food but for me, ice cream is not a comfort food. So we each have our own comfort food. Mozzarella sticks are my comfort food.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
25 Apr 12
Oh yum, I love those
@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
19 Apr 12
I think comfort food depends on the person- it's just a favorite food which differs from every person. Comfort food for me is ice cream and cake, or junk food- whatever yummy and edible is available.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
19 Apr 12
What ever is greasy fattening and deep fried I can't live without period.
• Philippines
9 Apr 12
I think all food is a comfort food. There was a time after I took the examination, I feel so sad. What I did was I ate any food , and then my sadness vanished. Any food will comfort me, but Dark Chocolates will be the best. Why? It's because it can elevate our serotonin thus it makes us happy.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
9 Apr 12
I'm more of a milk or white chocolate person.
• India
9 Apr 12
Most of them have different have different food which feels comfort to different ones. I felt that chicken and chapattis is more comfort me and I doesn't feel anything bad when I est them and I love them and my body doesn't show and side effects when I eat the. This is a sign which show you can have them a lot Happy mylotting!
@missybear (11391)
• United States
9 Apr 12
You lucky if you don't gain weight, I have to watch what I eat and I love sweets and fattening foods
• India
22 Jul 12
To most people, comfort food is more than just food that satisfies your hunger. It is food that gives you psychological pleasure because it has sentimental value for you and is nostalgic. For some people comfort food is that banana cake that their mother used to serve with custard cream or ice cream from a place they used to frequent with their father.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
23 Jul 12
Banana cream cake....yum