Do you eat childhood comfort food…

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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?

Proper homemade mac & cheese is a huge comfort for me 🤤 Also chicken super noodles, although they don't taste as good as they used to.

I could have written that! No longer in the UK too and your ‘shopping list’ could be mine! And the sweet valley high books… we can get uk stuff from a local book shop but its a limited selection and prices are sky high! But you can’t beat the feeling, so worth every penny!

All I can comment on is the Australian Cadburys and to me it tasted nothing like our version, a lot more bland and tasteless.

I grew up abroad, in the '60s, my top comfort food is chicken soup with 'fairy' veg ie finely chopped celery, carrot and onions and a scant handful of rice. Lemon squeezed in just before serving.

DH who doesn't seem to have any nostalgia around childhood food, agrees that it cures just about anything. As a child, I always wanted there to be more rice and have experimented with a risotto approach but have to agree the small amount of rice does work better in the flavoursome stock

My on the mend but still a bit poorly treat would be soup made with split red lentils, onion, carrot and a pinch of curry powder. Fresh parsley scattered on top

It's probably just watered down dhal.

When I'm well I love spicy food and would use fresh coriander but when poorly I revert to a pinch of curry powder.

And the absolute top treat was a Cadbury's crunchie bar. We would long for visitors from 'home' who were usually tipped off to bring crunchies. We tried to make them ourselves. The honeycomb was easy, but the chocolate covering had to be Dairy Milk.

I would thank you for that kind of chocolate as an adult but gosh I used to long for it.

Yeah, but thankfully mine doesn't involve extra shopping. Egg yolks whisked with icing sugar until white. Incredibly sophisticated.

Tinned salmon with vinegar
Digestive Biscuits with butter
Madeira cake

All remind me if my gran

Ohhhhh and angel delight!!

Rice pudding with raisins/Sultanas and skin on top served with a dollop of jam

Where do you live op?

I’m like this with beans on toast

Yes, I'm currently undergoing chemo and my cravings have been for my early childhood foods from America, cinnamon toast and dry cinnamon cereal, cereal licorice confits, chewy sweets, etc.

@eviltwinsmum @cookiecreammmpie I haven't seen any Marbles in there but I've tried some Aussie chocolate and it wasn't bad! I'll have a look next time I'm in there and see if it lives up to the Marble bars of my youth 😁

Only read the first two pages but all these foods are hideous! Definitely not comfort food to me 😟

Proper chips, made in the chip pan in lard. Maybe twice a year

not comfort food from childhood because mine was shitty. But as soon as I lived alone aged 16 I would always have beans on toast for comfort & still do. I also taught myself to make proper hot chocolate & that’s also go to

This was the experience of my closest friends too. Lots of love to you @EdinaMonsoon

I'm stealing the grated cheese idea, genius.

Was talking about Farley's rusks to my DD today! Comfort food Heinz Tomato Soup with bread and butter and a little milk or cream in it. Also love a jacket potato with cheese dipped into the soup

They've definitely brought out Marble again in Australia.

Potato Smiles, beans with a little sprinkled cheese and chicken dippers on the side. Waffles are also appreciated in the same vein. If I miss my mum I have a junk food feast which includes a chicken and mushroom pot noodle, a packet of Walkers cheese and onion, a custard slice and either a Bueno or a Bassets nougat. It fixes something somehow 😊

No but when I lived in Oz I would always bring back chocolate from home (theirs is gross 🤢) and get orders from others for butterscotch angel delight

Atora dumplings in gravy. Just that. But my mum used to put herbs/magic in them so they were aromatic and fluffy. Mine are like greasy cannonballs but still eat them!

Nah, not food as such, but when I last had teeth out to watch a touch of frost, per day, some episodes which must be 20 years+ but I don't know, some of them give me comfort as I remember gran alive for some of the very early repeats after it would have appeared on national tv first time round.

They sell marble bars in B&M, have done for a while now. They were my favourite as a child too so totally understand this, I was over the moon when I first saw them in B&M last year and bought two even though they’re £2.99!

I do buy childhood foods occasionally. I tried crispy pancakes again a few years ago but felt a bit disappointed.

Scampi, chips and peas. Red sauce
Fishfingers, chips and beans.
Egg, chips and beans.

Randomly quite healthy but a bowl of mash with tonnes of veg (peas, broccoli, sprouts, cabbage) drowned in gravy.

Spaghetti with butter, black pepper and parmesan
especially when hungover

I made teen DD a chicken super noodle sandwich - thick white bread, loads of butter, grated cheese - when she was on her period last month.

She wasn’t convinced until she’d taken her first bite, then looked at me like I was some sort of Angel. I told her to thank Grandad, as that’s what he used to make for me when I was having a crappy period.

I don’t eat them now, because IBD, but I do still have Pickled Onion Space Raiders, fizzy Ribena/Vimto, and seafood sticks (I know, I know) on the odd occasion that I do have a period.