If Potatoes Were A Person...What Are Your Comfort Foods?

[onebravegirl]

If Potatoes were a person, then I would hug them everyday. Potatoes are were my comfort food all through my healing process. Bake 'em, fry 'em, mash 'em, or barbeque 'em they were always of comfort to me. Sometimes when I would feel overwhelmed with my CPTSD one healthy way to manage was the warm, quiet fullness that "Spuds" provided. In an effort to help one another to think of what comforts them in a healthy way, please share what your comfort foods are. Or for that matter anything that comforts you on your harder days.
Best wishes of Hope and love, O

 

[gdf]

Hey there O,

What a creative thought--I needed to hear this question today. I find warm, creamy drinks very comforting. A flavored cup of coffee with half and half; the occasional hot chocolate with some whipped cream on top; a cup of hot tea laced with some Irish Cream. The tea is ironic because that's how my whole abuse story started. I spilled a scalding hot cup of tea into my lap which burned me and sent me to the hospital and things when south from there. Funny, I haven't been able to say that out loud outside of therapy until now. Oddly enough hot tea in a cup is not a trigger for me--it conjures up fond memories of my parents in the kitchen making us something good and sweet and of them breaking ice cicles (sp??) off the eave spouts in the winter to stir the tea with to cool it down. That was a novelty for us and fun. The ultimate spoon requiring no clean up!

I think it is the warmth of something in my hands--the tangibility of a solid mug and a warm, soothing connection to being alive. I breath in the sweet steam it produces and feel the world is right for a little while. I come home to my little house where I am warm and safe and brew up something hot and satisfying and relish my quiet and solitude after a long day of people, people and more people.

Thanks for making me think of a good thing today. Hummmmm.

I have this craving for mashed potatoes all of a sudden...

Gina

 

[wattle]

I'm not fussy, just give me food when I need comforting....lots of it. Food plays a very big part in my life, there was never enough when I was a kid, Mum had a padlock on the fridge and cupboards to keeps children out. Usually I can keep my food cravings at bay by cooking food, being creative in the kitchen comforts me a lot, my children always say that I put a lot of love into my cooking, I don't think they realize just how true that is.

Chocolate is my down fall, yeh it can lift me up, but then the guilt sets in afterwards.

 

[bonnecanyon]

Great thread O.

Just give me carbs! Crusty bread, rich and creamy macaroni and cheese, fried polenta, sticky rice, soba noodles, cornbread stuffing. . . .

BC

 

[ghost]

Good luck squeezing through your front door Bonne!

ghost

 

[Monarch]

I love sushi with tuna, spicy rolls and crispy wahoo. Fried shrimp and hushpuppies my mom makes and sometimes I just like frozen chicken nuggets and kraft mac & cheese. French fries dipped in mayo (which I gave up in college) and pizza with french dressing on it. I am getting hungry.

 

[goingonhope]

Well when I seek food and drink for comfort I look for it, and delightfully find it, in two bowls of mini-wheats, a bowl of fish chowder, chicken-kabob subs and salads, or hot-peppered w/ heaps of pickles on tuna subs or salads, my husband's marinated octopus, and bowls of buttered/salted popcorn.

Find all of the above listed, very comforting. For drinks, prefer gingerail, chocolate milk, but most especially Icee's.


Other comforts: planned-out/structured day trips with my kids, gardening/ landscaping, walking, bowling. None of which I been able to do lately. No wonder I'm a wreck.

 

[Deleted member 541]

For me, it's...CHOCOLATE, and then there is chocolate, and then of course I can always fall back on my favorite, chocolate.......If Heaven or hell isn't made out of chocolate, I think I might have a problem when I get there...... My biggest problem right now.....I tried to give up sweets, including chocolate. I can't do it, so I allow myself to cheat one day a week, and have 1 thing....It's working so far..

 

[gdf]

Hell made out of chocolate...kind of redefines the term "hot" chocholate, doesn't it??

 

[Grama-Herc]

Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. That says it all.

She Cat is trying to get me hooked on one of her comfort chocolate items but I am resisting. All I need is to get another chocolate monkey on my back. LOL But we all know I will give in. After all, it IS chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 541]

Nutella and peanut butter on toast...OMG!!!!! Now that is a comfort food......Taste just like a Reeses Peanut butter cup too.....Really Herc, it was a Christmas gift, I sent with love, so just open it.....hehehehehehehh

 

[maria]

Pasta with homemade sauce or at least doctored store bought. With meatball, with meatballs and Italian sausage. Yeah!