Do you eat childhood comfort food…

[Lippykidsonthecorner]

When you’re ill/feeling down/a bit blah?

I live abroad so it’s sometimes hard to get, but I headed to my local *British shop, which I rarely go to today. I’m feeling achey and a bit fluey, just a bit rubbish.
I purchased potato cakes (mum gave me these when ill as a child 🤷🏻‍♀️) crumpets, Lucozade (turns out I don’t like it anymore 🤮) Heinz chicken soup (used to have Ox tail, but wasn’t going there!) Mintolas and Munchies, a Walnut whip, Vimto, Monster munch and angel delight (very bad and just not the same!)
I probably do this once per year and usually in the winter as I start to feel homesick.
Does anyone else?

Bread and butter pudding

Porridge with hot chocolate powder mixed in. Mmmmm

Frosties and cream :) still have it now if I have Frosties and any left over cream

Primula cheese squeezed onto ritz crackers. It was my granny's idea of a dinner party canapé and I still love it.

Sliced bananas with cold ambrosia custard is the only food I want when I'm poorly! Takes me back to being a child again.

Mmmmm! Choppy egg and tomato sarnies. Yum!
cheese on toast with tomato and loads of salt..and sweet tea.
buttry white toast and sweet tea..
may have to go and get some!

Wow!! Blast from the past. I loved Sweet Valley High! I loved the television programmes back then as well. I remember having Frosties (do you remember Tony the Tiger 😂) with cream.

If I feel poorly I will have Heinz tomato soup with soft white bread and lemonade with the fizz taken out. I remember those whistle lollipops as well!

Our local pharmacy still sells whistle pops as well (as do amazon), my favourite childhood comfort food was tinned rice pudding with a huge spoonful of strawberry jam, I still eat it now!

Mashed potato & carrots mashed with butter. Or creamed rice. Or semolina with a blob of jam.

Sausage. Chips, beans plus a fried egg on top!

I’ve never heard of choppy egg 🤷🏻‍♀️I’m from the North West originally. We’d have dippy egg & soldiers 🤔if that’s the same

I always remember on Sundays, we have a special dessert/pudding…trifle, Vienetta, bake well tarts etc..during the week, it was a Club biscuit or Penguin

Heinz tomato soup, and a cheese sandwich made with toasted bread, butter and grated cheese (not melted), to dip in, and some lucozade. Doesn't work if you make a cheese toastie so the cheese melts, too greasy for dipping and untoasted bread with cold cheese dipped in hot soup is claggy in your mouth.
Born mid/late eighties.
Introduced DH to it, he thought it was weird because of the toast cold cheese, dip in hot soup combo, but now he's a convert and even made it for DS when he had a cold recently.

Cheese, especially Stilton or Danish Blue, is a game changer for a fish finger butty. And hold the ketchup.

Also from the NW.

Dippy egg, for me, is the soft boiled egg with the top lopped off for the toast to go in.

My issue with dippy egg is I’m not good enough to ensure the yolk is still adequately runny 🤤but without any snotty white! 🤢

@hamustro Have you got a B&M nearby? They stock Cadbury's Marble bars!!!

I’ve had plenty of porridge as an adult but your post instantly took me Ready Brek that mum used to make on winters school mornings. While I was still at primary school - until 1987 - the milk had to be heated on the hob. Summer of ‘87, we got a microwave. Total game changer for hot breakfast cereal!!!

They're not the same. They're Australian and made with crap chocolate.

Not from my own childhood, but I've eaten kids' food when I've had morning sickness with all my babies. Grilled cheese, fish fingers and smilies, Munch Bunch etc

Love it when the grandchildren are here. OH makes - with their help andnot all at once
dippy eggs,
fish fingers/sausages beans and chips,
the tin of sausages in beans,
jelly and ice cream,
angel delight,
trifle,
donuts and custard,
rice crispy/cornflakes chocolate biscuits
lots more
all the sort of things we did with the girls when they were little, reliving the fun bits with the gc.

Custard is out the packet, not the proper home made custard. Birds is his memory of custard (especially pink)

I loved Ready Brek on a cold, winter morning before school

Another childhood favourite was Weetabix with milk but then microwaved so it was nice and warm and soft. I still have that sometimes, I get the choc chip Weetabix crispy minis and microwave those instead. I basically lived off that in my last year of my nurse training, it properly soothed me after horrific 13 hour shifts.

I don’t use food for comfort or soothing anymore but I do think it’s so powerful how certain foods and smells can reconnect us with feelings of safety and being cared for. I read once about always buying a new perfume for a special holiday or wedding, and then that smell will always evoke those specific memories. It really works.

Ambrosia rice pudding or semolina, heated up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream plonked in the middle.

For some reason, if I'm really hungover (which is rare, thankfully) I want a Pot Noodle (chicken and mushroom) and a packet of Nice'n'Spicy NikNaks or Flaming Hot Monster Munch.

Egg in a cup (with torn up white bread mixed in and loads of butter)

Packet chicken noodle soup

Orange cinnamon toast (if I make that , DH will ask if I'm not feeling well)

Chicken pie, mash, peas and bisto finest gravy

My kids comfort food is tomato soup with buttery toast
Or cheesy beans
Or dippy eggs

@cookiecreammmpie what's wrong with Australian chocolate? It's not shit like American chocolate, it's nice.

I loved the boxes of Kraft mac and cheese, tried it as an adult and it's revolting. I could comfort eat my mums homemade shortbread though.