what are your 'never fail, even if they're really not well at all' meals?

[AitchTwoOh]

dd's are pasta, pesto and peas, roast chicken and roast potatoes, and white fish poached in milk and a baked potato (both with broccoli).
funnily enough, the latter two were what my mum used to cook me when i was ill.

i'd be interested to know what everyone else's comfort foods are. cheers

Beef casserole with mashed potatoes and peas.
Scrambled eggs on toast.
Boiled eggs with toast soldiers.
Fried rice with chicken, peppers, mushrooms, peas and bacon.

spaghetti bolognase
morrocan chicken
tomato soup
egg sandwich
cowboy casserole and mashed potato

pancakes with applesauce

Pasta and pesto, pasta and cheese, tomato soup and crusty bread, sausages and beans with toast on the side. Hmm, not a lot of veg going on

LOL pinotmum.

i'm obviously going to need recipes for moroccan chook and cowboy stew. the rest i can make already but am now adding to my list of comfort foods.

pesto pasta here too and baked beans.

pasta with philadephia sauce

(as in: philadelphia warmed and used as a pasta sauce)

he practically goes on a hunger strike when he has a cold, but will eat snacks - you know those Organix rice cakes and corn snacks - cheeky monkey !

oh and lots of fruit juice which at least i know gives him lots of vit C - i do the fruit juice in my juicer

cowboy casserole is very easy - tin of tomatoes, tin of beans, packet of good quality sausages - I normally slow mine for about 6 hours but would only take about 1 hours in the oven.

Morrocan chicken is with apricots sultanas and cinamon. Makes the chicken nice soft and sweet which is why it alsways goes down well. Would have to look out the recipe to give more details. Will post later!

sausage, pasta, pesto, peas.

Pink fish (salmon), potatoes and some sort of greenery.

roast chicken, roast potatoes etc.

Whats Cowboy casserole?

woops! thanks!

knorr packet vegetable soup on the settee covered in a quilt with a little table which has tissues, a sick bag, and medication to hand ( mine are older re the medication thing)

i love my little 'poorly table', that's what dh makes for me when i'm ill (or used to, pre-baby). although you forgot the remote control...

Pasta mixed with tin of baked beans and frozen peas
(student days leftovers...surprisingly nice!)

eggy soldiers
scrambled eggs

ready brek and rice cakes

she's a terrible eater so there is no dinner she'll eat for definite, even if she's not sick.

for ds his eyes light up when he sees spinach of all things!

those are for the dds not me!

pasta and pesto is always a winner!

If genuinely ill, none of mine eat to be honest, but if just a little off colour, homemade veg soup for the older two, soft boiled eggs and soldiers for all of them, toast and marmite, Weetabix, hot milk and yoghurt.

Usually good eaters so its a decent indication of how sick (ie do they need to stay home from school!) if they refuse food

Db & I used to get egg-in-a-cup when we were poorly and thought it was a big treat .

It was just a boiled egg mashed up with butter and served...in a cup. No idea why we prefered it to a plain ol boiled egg but it would still comfort me now.

Homemade soup and toast
Tuna and potato souffle
Tuna, tomato and bean pasta
Poached egg on toast
Stir-fry- esp. noodles, turkey, peas and sweetcorn
Winter Warmer (minced beef, onion, gravy, carrot, mushrooms and crusty bread to dip)
Eggy Bread
Sardines on toast

dd pasta with tom based sauce with cheese.

For everyone chicken stew with herb dumplings.

for me tin of tapioca or rice pudding.

chicken soup

shonaspurtle, we used to get egg-in-a-cup too... a huge treat. i think it was the big wodge of butter that made the difference.