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Which foods make you feel better after eating them?

75 replies

Veryinteresting24 · 04/02/2024 15:45

I find bananas are a good mood food for me. Also maybe obvious but I like a healthy light meal such as salmon with baked potato and fresh veg. I also enjoy a roast dinner with mash, roast potatoes, veg and gravy.

I find I’ve become more sensitive towards certain foods as I’ve got older and I don’t like anything too spicy any more and I can’t eat a huge meal. I just ate four chocolate biscuits and enjoyed them but nutritionally I know they are not doing anything for me.

What foods seem to agree with you and do you feel better after eating them?

OP posts:
HarrietSchulenberg · 04/02/2024 15:52

Eggs. Preferably boiled eggs but poached and scrambled have a similar effect.

Original poster
Veryinteresting24 · 04/02/2024 15:58

Yes I know what you mean about eggs. If I can’t think of anything I fancy to eat I make a mushroom omelette!

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PointeShoesandTutus · 04/02/2024 16:03

Any kind of soup - tomato, mushroom. Broths too like ramen, pho etc. Love a warm, healthy soup.

TheChosenTwo · 04/02/2024 16:05

Spicy food for me is such a pick me up, it can cure all!
Also home made sausage rolls, make me feel instantly happy.

crackofdoom · 04/02/2024 16:05

Rice and lentils. Or a nice big colourful salad.

NOT DS1's birthday cake, which I made yesterday and which sent the entire house into a sugar coma....😬

DustyLee123 · 04/02/2024 16:06

Pudding with custard makes me feel better. Like being a child again.

olderbutwiser · 04/02/2024 16:07

My homemade soup. A random mix of stuff, always a little spicy. Warming and filling and makes me feel very virtuous.

fishfingersandtoes · 04/02/2024 16:09

Potatoes, especially jacket potatoes always make me feel good.

TrtseHkpr · 04/02/2024 16:09

Spicy food, particularly veggie curry or daal. It just makes me so happy!

ZebraD · 04/02/2024 16:10

Kimchi, fermented goods…happy gut happy me..

PrawnofthePatriarchy · 04/02/2024 16:11

Sushi.

PastTheGin · 04/02/2024 16:11

Proper home made chicken soup, heals the body and the soul.

Original poster
Veryinteresting24 · 04/02/2024 16:15

Yes agree about homemade soup and sushi.

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PaulCostinRIP · 04/02/2024 16:16

Hot buttered toast.

blackpanth · 04/02/2024 16:23

Steak

SwordToFlamethrower · 04/02/2024 16:24

Chicken and salad

blackpanth · 04/02/2024 16:24

TheChosenTwo · 04/02/2024 16:05

Spicy food for me is such a pick me up, it can cure all!
Also home made sausage rolls, make me feel instantly happy.

Yes sausage rolls have to be homemade

FargoLargo · 04/02/2024 16:28

Ginger tea.

Derrymum123 · 04/02/2024 16:31

Jewish chicken soup. It should be available on prescription.

Hedonism · 04/02/2024 16:32

Kale, with olive oil and salt.

DaisyDaffodil · 04/02/2024 16:32

Any shellfish and pasta.

ConcertaFirstTimer · 04/02/2024 16:34

Garlic and chilli
citrus fruits
Home made soup
roast kale

Darklane · 04/02/2024 16:35

Champagne

DaftyLass · 04/02/2024 16:37

Fresh fruit
Roasted meat
Anything made in an open flame, preferably on the ground (campfire, coal put, ground smoker)
Homemade soup

placemats · 04/02/2024 16:37

Olives, raw celery and satsumas. Can't abide salt added to food after it's been cooked and go easy on salt pre cooking.

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