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What is your go to comfort food when you cannot be bothered?

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Grumblegrumblegrumble · 20/09/2026 12:52

What is your ultimate comfort food and what do you make when you just can’t be bothered.

I have a cold 🤧 and I had forgotten how awful they can make you feel. I was going to make pizza tonight - I can just make the dough in the bread maker but I not sure if I can bothered to roll it all out.

What is your go to?

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IchiNiSanShiGo · 20/09/2026 13:36

Oven chip butty, crisp butty, pasta with butter and grated cheese, proper oven baked potato with lots of butter and cheese, or with some tinned minced beef and onion

SwirlingAroundSleep · 20/09/2026 13:36

Tortilla chips and hummus if properly lazy, otherwise it’s jacket potatoes with cheese and beans

GreenEyesIsBack · 20/09/2026 13:37

Merchant gourmet black dahl, always have a few packs in the cupboard.

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saveforthat · 20/09/2026 13:38

Microwave mash with tinned salmon

BandyAid · 20/09/2026 13:38

Gnocchi with passata and grated cheese. Takes 3 mins and is so nice.

SpiceGhoul · 20/09/2026 13:40

Instant ramen, chips and gravy, itsu soup dumplings or boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with butter and pepper scooped up with toast, knorr chicken noodle soup. Pastina if I'm feeling less lazy.

alloutofcareunits · 20/09/2026 13:40

FloofyKat · 20/09/2026 13:00

Beans with grated cheese, marmite on buttered toast on the side (don’t like beans ON toast as the toast gets soggy).

This is my exact favourite meal, beans with grated cheese in a bowl, toast with butter and marmite on a separate plate! 😋

Tana433 · 20/09/2026 13:41

Nachos. Cheap tortilla chips, a layer of salsa and a layer of cheese all mixed together then in the oven for 12mins at 180 to heat through and melt cheese. Delicious!

Pieceofpurplesky · 20/09/2026 13:41

Toast or Heinz tomato soup with bread.

coffeeagogo · 20/09/2026 13:43

Egg mayo sandwich or scrambled eggs on to toast (am basic!)

Whataloadoffuss · 20/09/2026 13:43

With a cold, I'd go spicy chicken noodle broth or some sort of soup and toastie. I keep some meals in thre freezer for this very issue. Hope you feel better.

Rookie93 · 20/09/2026 13:45

Tinned cheese & tomato ravioli on toast or soft boiled eggs with toast soldiers. If I can't even be bothered to even do toast then porridge with nutmeg and milk

Funnywonder · 20/09/2026 13:50

I don’t feel like eating hot food when I’m not well, so I usually live on cereal. Special K (or equivalent supermarket knockoff) with red berries. I also eat it when I generally can’t be arsed. I never eat it for breakfast😄

2manyEnergyDrinks · 20/09/2026 13:55

mushroom risotto (not made from scratch but the gallo packet ones that you just add water too and boil on the hob. Once cooked add a ton of butter and grated cheese)

or
pasta mixed with butter and grated cheese

Sunbringer · 20/09/2026 13:58

Soup and a cheese toastie

GellerYeller · 20/09/2026 14:00

Heinz soup/hoops/bolognese/ravioli with buttered toast
Scrambled eggs on toast.
Add grated cheese to any of the above.

Pixie2015 · 20/09/2026 14:10

Beans on toast with regae regae sauce is the best

Astra53 · 20/09/2026 14:14

Fish fingers, ready made mash and peas with tomato ketchup.
Scrambled eggs on toast
Toast with marmite and cheese

2manyEnergyDrinks · 20/09/2026 14:16

I forgot to mention cheesy scrambled egg on buttered white toast
or a cheese and tomato toastie done in those old fashioned basic toastie machine that makes it into triangles.

basically cheese and carbs in any form 😂

MamaBobo · 20/09/2026 14:20

Baked potato….a proper one, baked in the oven until the skin is really dark and crispy. With prawn marie rose if I have prawns or Longley Farm cottage cheese if I am in the UK.

I sometimes need a really easy meal with no oven and Tuna Pasta is the go to then. Mix a tin of tuna in olive oil with a tin of ratatouille and heat through while cooking some pasta. Mix the whole lot together….nom nom nom. Especially nice made with Connetable Tuna and Cassegrain Ratatouille.

pinkpony88 · 20/09/2026 14:23

Cheese and tomato toastie
cheese on toast
cheese on bread
cheese

AlwaysExtraHot · 20/09/2026 14:25

I have an appalling cold and have been buying chicken soup (the fresh kind in tubs) and adding tons of lemon juice. With some good fresh bread.

frozendaisy · 20/09/2026 14:26

Heinz tomato soup (yes another entry) with cheese on toast (not toastie) to dip in
failing cheese on toast - grate cheese into soup and dip in bread

or

mash potato with salad cream

PrincessHoneysuckle · 20/09/2026 14:27

Wine and crisps.
Pasta n Sauce, cheese and broccoli flavour
Jacket potatoes and cheese

Cuppachuchu · 20/09/2026 14:30

2 weetabix with warm milk and raisins.
Or boiled eggs and soldiers.

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