What's your favorite comfort food?

Chocolate chip cookies and milk.

yummm…warm ones!

My thing is pasta with whole milk, butter, and celery salt. From childhood.

Warm, melted cheese.

I avoid comfort foods like the plague…but warm brownies with ice cold milk. Just shoot me now!

Pop corn.

I probably answered this last time: linguine with meat sauce and melted mozzarella.

My spaghetti, my mud pie.

Parents’ home cooking.

Bourbon.

Follow Your Heart’s large Italian salad w/vegan cheese & their Mediterranean plate.

Comfort food basically doesn’t exist for me. When I feel anxious or depressed, I lose my appetite and have to force myself to maintain some sort of decent diet. Twice, things have been bad enough for long enough that I lost more than 50 pounds. Losing weight is good, but not like that.

However, I will say this: there is hardly any situation that can’t be helped by a judicious application of chocolate.

Poutine.

Tapioca pudding.

@jeruba Same here. I can’t eat when I’m stressed or upset.

My comfort food is homemade reuben’s. I indulge maybe once a year. Yummy!

BBQ and bourbon

<<——- ::ahem::

A juicy Burger and a Beer

A must after a day of skiing or hiking

Turkey pot pie.

^^ I’ll have dinner with both of you.

Like @Jeruba when I’m really down I don’t want to eat. During the weeks after my Ex left and when my ankle was broken, I lost about 10 pounds.

But for your ordinary anxious times, depending on the season, a hot open roast beef sandwich with mashed potatoes and lots of gravy in winter or a hot fudge sundae with dry walnuts in summer. Oh – and Wise potato chips, but they have to be Wise.

But I tend to eat what I want to eat most of the time and use portion control and the scale to not go crazy weight or healthwise.

I love our local auctions. They always have brownies for sale. And my grandson turned 14 last week. Mom made a giant pan of brownies, and served them warm with ice cream. Heaven!
I don’t have brownies in my house. Or cheesecake. OMG cheesecake!!!

@Dutchess_III From all your posts, you seem to have a love-hate relationship with food.

No. I just have different habits in place to keep me from getting overweight. One of those habits is to not have high calorie dessert and junk food on hand.

@Dutchess_III Same. I’m down probably 20–30lbs since you saw me!

Context is everything. Very often I am most soothed by fresh things, other times melty cheese is all.

Good for you @KNOWITALL! But.you didn’t look overweight when I met you.

I’m surprised by some of the answers, but we’re each different. For me it has to be warm, soft (like pasta or mashed potatoes) and there’s almost always an element of dairy. I guess I’m still a baby at heart. LOL

But @Dutchess_III, I gotta say, warm brownies with vanilla ice cream and ice cold milk is comforting!

I needed it too. But boy did I have a tummy ache later!

@Dutchess_III Nope, I still have the pic and I was a cow. :D

You were not a cow!

@Dutchess_III Well I still have 20lbs to get to goal, but I’ll get there before winter. I just can’t exercise in 100 degree weather, or even walk the dogs. :(
Gym smell makes me nauseous and hardly anyone wipes off their equipment, I can’t do it.

You go girl !

I don’t think of comfort food necessarily as food that I eat when I’m sad or mad.

I think of it as food that feels like a hug when you eat it.

Stress eating is less about comfort for me. And more about a masochistic urge to cram crap when I feel like crap. Which is usually just junk food. It doesn’t comfort me to eat it.

@raum Good points.

Me too @raum.

Chocolate chip ice cream. It is the taste and the crunchiness I like.