What's Your All-Time-Favourite Comfort Food... - Healthy Eating
What's Your All-Time-Favourite Comfort Food? This is a single choice poll and please feel free to say what 'other' is.
103 VotersPlease select one:
Scrambled eggs with baked beans
Starter tomato and parmazan cheese soup. Main sausage mash peas/carrots and onion gravey. Followed by Eve’s pudding custard/clotted cream. All home made from scratch excep sausages which should contain 97% pork. If any room left follow/end with a cheese board. Mmmm enjoy......,.💕💕💕💕
Chicken soup is a cure for everything.😊
Oh dear, I don't seem to have any comfort food, no favourite meals either. 
Did you have a favorite item growing up, beaton ?
Not that I can remember Activity2004. Allways been a fussy eater and vegetarian even though no one in the family was. I remember being told that when I was very young I only ate cornflakes and beans on toast.
That sounds good for a breakfast. Was that for every day or just when you weren't going to school?
Not sure on that.
Just ice cream usually vanilla. Mashed potato with eg butter.
Rolls or toast and peanut butter or fruity buns. Really unhealthy!
Yum
Moussaka, followed by beans on toast. As a kid it was Heinz tomato soup don’t eat it now prefer homemade 😂
None? This should be an option. I’m not an emotional eater.
I eat for health and energy, not sport. All the options are more towards unhealthy or junk food options. I’m gluten, dairy, and soy free. I eat clean, not like the options of the pole. Sorry!
Well said!!! I'm strict vegan...The options are surely not comfort foods, more like a heart attack about to happen disgusting!!!
Lamb chop and mashed potatoes but every meal must include 3 or 4 fresh veg..so although I don’t have lamb chops that often, I must have veg every day with a dot of coconut oil mixed in
Lamb, yum yum yum, yum yum! 😊
Sounds great to me, too, Hidden . 
Great job with the poll, too!
3 or 4 veggies every meal? Good on you! What are some of your favorites? How are they prepared?
That sounds just like our main meal. Folk are not eating enough vegetables these days especially the green ones. How I love spring cabbage just lightly boiled for about three minutes. Tibbly
I agree. I just can’t get in 3-5 veggies every meal. Curious for ideas of how others achieve that. What v glues comprise those 3-4 per meal, and how they’re eaten.
I love cabbage. I just don’t eat it very often or other goitrogrens because I have Hashimoto’s.
I find it easier to start with a salad or to do a stir fry.
I like vegetables, too, but it depends on what they happen to be and if they're in season.
Very simply ..steamed mostly..sometimes cooked in with potatoes.. occasionally microwaved ..I am nearly 83 so cook very simply now.. I love tenderheart cabbage, and nearly every other veg..tho I am not so keen on frozen veg tho I do keep some in my freezer.. veg takes up half my plate ..I would like to be more advenrutous with some of the veg I see in shops offered by owners from abroad but a little nervous of being too adventurous in case it wouldn’t agree with me.
The microwave is a piece of equipment we wouldn't have in the house. A consultant surgeon advised us against it about 25 years ago.
I respect your comments about microwave cooking but hopefully they have improved in 25 years....but there are so,many things in use now that surely have risks ..from containers we freeze food in to fumes from traffic, ingredients in so many foods, shampoos, cosmetics to name just a tiny few.. sprays on vegetables and fruit, supermarket trolleys, bank cash machines ..life is just a bit scary that’s for sure.
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It's not that they have been improved over 25 years but it's the actual cooking process that our friend the surgeon is totally against.
Vegan Samosas
Home made tomato soup on cold days and rice cake covered with a nut butter and with a dollop of blackcurrant fruit spread on top whenever its a bit warmer.
Sory inteuk is the blackcurrant fruit spread like jam/jelly?
*I'm in the uk
More jam than jelly, but with no added sugar it's called fruit spread. Other flavours available but the blackcurrant one goes so well with peanut butter.
Swedish Glaze with strawberries - they complement each other perfectly
Sorry. What is Swedish gaze! I'm from the UK
Hello mysmugcat, Swedish Glaze (can be purchased in Tesco and Waitrose) it is a dairy free, gluten free alternative to Ice Cream, it does contain Soya and is a little on the sweet side, thats why I have it with fruit. (I am also in the UK)
Best wishes
Debs
The glaze sounds great, Kitten-whiskers .
Boiled eggs and toast and bread pudding. Yum
Rassomalai!
Sorry what is this?!
It's an Indian dessert.
Very difficult to describe the taste apart from delicious (in my opinion).
Not often available in restaurants - even if it is on the dessert menu.
Fortunately (my scales may disagree here...) it can now be found in some of the larger supermarkets in the chilled department.
A company called Royal is the most popular brand.
For some reason I can't upload a photo but here's a YouTube link..
Wikipedia describe it as follows:
Ras malai consists of sugary white cream, or yellow-coloured (flattened) balls of chhana soaked in malai (clotted cream) flavoured with cardamom. It is cooked in sugar syrup and milk with saffron, pistachios and kheer as stuffing. Homemade ras malai is usually made from powdered milk, all-purpose flour, baking powder and oil, which are kneaded to form a dough, moulded into balls, and dropped into simmering milk cream.
Definitely worth a try! 😊
wow .. sounds great. I have to give that a try. Although it does rather explain why Indians have one of the world's highest rates of obesity and heart disease 
Good point!
Mind you I believe it's mainly a celebration time dessert.
Now I'm fantasising about curry... Damn! 🤤
OMG I love Ras Malai and other similar Indian deserts! Cardamom flavoring and as a scent is divine!
This does look amazing...😊
Jam Roly Poly and custard made with wholemeal flour and beef suet. Real family food that I remember from my school days which were a long time ago; I left school in 1951! We never got overweight on that either. Makes my mouth water to think of it.
Tibbly.
LOL - I'm just old enough to remember school meals like that (I think they were replaced with chicken nuggets and chips about 5-10 years later). And you're right - we didn't get fat. Isn't that odd?
I really enjoyed school dinners, and although they did have a fair amount of stodge, they definitely weren't ALL stodge. There were always lots of veg and I remember them being quite tasty. My theory is that it's just a matter of degree; whereas today kids are literally eating a plateful of starch and chemicals, with virtually nothing else of nutritional value in there, we ate MOSTLY good stuff with a tolerably modest component of rubbish.
I remember my favourite was bananas in custard. Utterly bizarre really, but it hit the spot when you're 8 years old with unsophisticated tastes!
Just a bit of fun 😊👍😉
crikey -this is supposed to be a healthy eating forum?
what is shrimp and grits by the way??
Right, and what’s the purpose and goal of this seemingly meaningless poll?
How about a “What’s your feel good healthy food, the ones that make your stomach happy, give you sustained energy, help meet daily nutritional requirements and are satisfying?”, poll?
Grits are an American coarse ground corn kernel made into a porridge, the poll idea was put to us and we liked it and went with it, so if you have any poll ideas then please just say. Polls are a bit of fun and we have members who interact on the polls who don't normally post and I think that's really great as it's your forum. 😊
Here's grits and shrimp
Shrimp is a type of sea animal and grits are made with corn, alchemilla12 .
Hehehehehe!
I eat both shrimp and grits here and there. Try it sometime with cheese melted on the grits and mix them together. In my personal experience, the mixing together does taste great!
Cheese on anything is amazing! Is there anything that doesn't taste great with cheese? Not sure I can think of anything. Hard cheese with coffee (sounds weird, but is yummy to me, anyway), goat chevre mixed with canned salmon, goat cheese with a splash of salsa or tomato sauce, cheese and cake, cheese with anything sweet spicy savory. Cheese with anything! Cheese! Cheese! Cheese! I'd be on a diet of straight cheese if I could!
Unfortunately, I'm supposed to be dairy free. On a rare occasion I'll have goat or sheep cheese, but not very often.
Cheese is very healthy, but you have to be careful if you have issues with lactose.
It can be, but not always. It contains a lot of fat and salt. I know that when I ate a lot of cheese, I was fatter and puffier, retaining water. (I'm not fat, but I'm short and small, so gaining even 2 lbs shows up loud and clear!). I don't have issues with lactose. I have Hashimoto's, so I need to keep my inflammation down. Dairy is inflammatory, so no (or rarely any) dairy, no gluten ever, and avoid soy like the plague. If only I could free-range eat cheese like I used to! (picture chicken free range scratchin'. that was me!). Oh, whahhh! Those were the days.
i know what shrimp are just didnt know what " shrimp and grits " was....
That sounds awesome. No line-caught fish here, but I like the sound of all that fresh/natural stuff, and I think it answers ShootingStars 's question about 'how do you get enough veg in?'. The key, surely, is to pick veg that have lots of natural flavour and cook them in ways that lets that flavour shine through. I'm thinking a standard British roast with carrots, parsnips, shredded cabbage, onions, cauliflower .. there's five veg already, and usually prepared very simply.
Baked potato with butter, salt and pepper
If it's comfort food I'm after it has to be ASAP so could be a handful of biscuits and a milky coffee, cheese and pickle sandwich, mashed banana on toast!!
Homemade fish pie, mixture of salmon, pollock and smoked haddock with carrots and peas in a creamy chive sauce topped with peppery mashed potato. Heaven on a plate but creates a terrible amount of washing up!
Wow, I love the sound of your Fish pie - it sounds gorgeous!
Ice cream
What flavor of ice cream, shamrock12 ?
I really enjoy a dessert - usually on the weekend, and a favourite is apple pie/crumble with dairy ice-cream.
Zest
Or rhubarb crumble, yum. Our rhubarb is just peeping above the soil in the garden.
mine is julienne raw (washed) carrots in a home made pepper dip with chick peas, sounds lots but really a two minute job, done on a Sunday and snack all week and cheaper from the shops
I really liked sliced 🍌 banana in dark chocolate soy mousse...😊
Other - oven baked (jacket) potatoes with just enough butter
Pea soup or mashed potatoes.
hummus i can eat a ton of.
Which flavor of hummus, andyswarbs ? My favorite flavor of hummus is Pine Nut.
i have never seen or tried pine nut hummus. Providing it is refined fat free and packed to the hilt with taste and excludes any of my allergy foods I'll try any combination.
I wouldn't worry too much about this portion regime. Just eat fruit and vegetables as they come into season and benefit from them then but do try to fit in a green leaf vegetable as often as possible. We buy fruit and vegetables in our street market. Having checked out a trader's fruit we then buy a larger quantity at the next market and put it in the freezer for the winter. Meals could get boring if you are limiting yourself to portions however it is said that you are right to try to include various colours.
Tibbly
Hey tibb, I eat through a nutritionist for celluar health level.
Sorry i don't eat just them that was meant to just be an example.
My diet is far from boring, its not like i don't eat meat, fish eggs, nuts, seeds etc lol🤗
No food is boring im thankful for all food, healthy food saved my life, literally.
I get plenty of greens☘ im sure all my friends think im a rabbit🙈.
I eat 2 to 3 from each list for phytonutrients. Basically just throw my 5 colours in my shopping basket, i know amounts now without having to measure. That was an example for how to fit your portions in to your day to show just how easy it is.
I'm glad to hear that your green leaf vegetable intake is good. We just take the view that so long as we eat what Nature has given us there is little need to do any measuring. The great problem today is that the food manufacturers have made some people lazy as the ready made junk is pushed in the supermarkets etc. Perhaps we should rename you as it's Easter and call you "Little Rabbit instead. Ha! Ha! By the way I love your little cartoon figures.
Tibbly
Hey tibbly, glad your back on here more as i notice you wasn't for a while, i think your great for the forum🤗.
I know exactly what you mean about junk food, there signs, adverts, junk everywhere these days, its so bad.
I don't own a microwave either, i enjoy working out what im going to eat, when i report to my nutritionist its easier to know what i have done right, i do follow seaons to as she tells me to. I have had a sheet for years that shows me amounts for my 2 to 3 colours a day. I totally get you or others don't do this but i get told to due to past ill health. Etc.
I have special tests done every 8ish weeks as i had a very bad condiion years ago.
I doubt many have the option to the tests i do. I owe my life to them.
My hydration, to my adreals, hormones, kidney, liver, fungi.. list is massive as to what is tested.
I have alot of disease in my family from ibd, type 1 diabetes, thyroid problems, ostiarthrius, full bowel removal, cancer, & more, im gunna do everything at my young age i can to make sure my body has the best enviorment it can lol.
i batch cook to so portions etc are easy.
my friend has been a rabbit🐰🍠🍊🍇🍆🍅🍎🍃🌿🌽 now for only 2 weeks & its seriously changed her health/life so im converting them one by one into rabbits lol.
If your ever interested in why she is doing it to our explain though pm x
Homemade raw fruit bars and baked beans on toast with grated cheese on top.
I like apple pie and ice cream as long as the crust is gluten free and the ice cream isn't cookie dough since they don't make a gluten free version where I live, yet. I go for the mint chip ice cream.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Has to be this kind.
Chocolate is probably my favourite comfort food...although it can depend...especially if it's daytime, I might go for melted cheese on toast. I love cheese. Also, although it's not food, I might have cocoa especially on cold winter nights.
