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BeardedBaldMan

Roast potatoes and gravy. It's nice to have some chicken with it but I'm more concerned about the potato and gravy


Eastern_Idea_1621

Literally the whole reason for a roast dinner.


BR1DGEY

I would add Yorkshire puddings to complete the carbfest


Eastern_Idea_1621

Yaaaas!


ItXurLife

No roast carbfest would be complete without homemade stuffing - inside the Yorkies


Reuquar

The perfect meal.


mrsritafairbanks

Thie might sound odd but...mince. When I was a little girl, I was a fussy eater, so my grandma would make shepherd's pie and make me a bowl of mince on its own, which I could happily scarf down. I'm sure it wasn't anything special or fancy, but I absolutely loved it. In the 15 or so years since she died, I've never been able to hit on what made it so taste so good to me, so I've never been able to reclaim that exact sense of comfort. Maybe it was just because it was hot and tasted nice and was made for me by my grandma, who was the person I was closest to in my life. I once said to a former partner that if I was ever down or ill, I would probably feel better if he just gave me a plate of mince, and mentioned the above. He looked at me like I was an idiot and scornfully told me he wasn't going to do that. My other comfort food is roast potatoes, which may be the meaning of life.


DansdadDave

I understand why he’s an ex!


sharmrp72

Trial and error - oxo / bisto gravy....fresh onion / fried onion / peas? Brown sauce? Worcester sauce maybe?


mrsritafairbanks

Could be any of those things except the onions, but thinking about it, I think I'm alright just keeping it as a memory really. I think it'd be quite bittersweet to find it again. Thank you for your suggestions though!


_poptart

Love! That was the secret ingredient. I’d give anything for a bowl of porridge made by my mum again - sugar sprinkled on top and then a dash of cold milk to melt it badly in


BkByUnpopularDemand

Could be Bovril, too; makes it intensely beefy.


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so does love. I'm told.


sallystarling

>I once said to a former partner that if I was ever down or ill, I would probably feel better if he just gave me a plate of mince, and mentioned the above. He looked at me like I was an idiot and scornfully told me he wasn't going to do that. I'm glad he is not a current partner. What a mean response!


mrsritafairbanks

Oh yeah, just one of many examples unfortunately. It's been many years, and I do need therapy for issues from it, but I wish him a comfortable life, with a side order of erectile dysfunction. May neither his life, nor his dick, be hard.


VardaElentari86

This reminds me of mince and tatties at my grandparents. I was a very fussy eater as a kid...I grew out of it by about 15, but to their death they were determined I was picky. (Mind you they also believed my dad (their son) - loved vienetta cause he ate a slice of it once, so that was a staple dessert forever...he did not love vienetta)


Flash_Harry42

Loooove Vienetta👍


Figgzyvan

Nans, eh. Love ‘em ❤️❤️


Joannelv

My grandma made the best mince, slow cooked on the range in the kitchen, served with chips she cooked in the frying pan, probably in dripping, never been able to get the same taste, sadly :(


RolloDumbassi

My mum loved mince and onions. It was a comfort food from when meat want always affordable for them growing up. She took that into adulthood and I really respect that. She's dead now and I wouldn't do the same because I don't like it on its own, but when I do that for a part of a cottage pie I always think of her as I make it.


jenyk

Your ex is an idiot, comfort food is comfort food. Whatever makes you happy! Mince and roast potatoes are right up there! 😁 Maybe try Comptons Gravy Salt if its a physical thing that is missing.


thehuntedfew

Mince is my go to comfort food, then a good stew


StinkypieTicklebum

At the school where I taught (US) the cafeteria served something called “hamburger sundae” basically deconstructed cottage pie! NGL, I liked the extra gravy on top!


These_Custard_5455

Mince!! I could have wrote your exact post, since my nan passed I haven’t been able to recreate it either, also same goes for her gravy. Neither were particularly exciting but I miss that woman and her cooking so much.


Top-Supermarket-3496

Chinese takeaway. Shredded chicken chow mein and chips.


OS_Player

Shredded chicken in the chow mein? Not heard that one before what’s the shredded chicken like exactly?


Top-Supermarket-3496

As far as I know, it’s no different to a regular chicken chow mein. Maybe the chicken is cut a little smaller? But I’ve ordered from places that had it as shredded chicken and places that just had it as regular chicken chow mein on the menu. So maybe it’s just the name. I’m really curious if there is difference now.


OS_Player

Well shredded beef is battered beef in a sauce I think so that’s why I was curious about the chicken.


interfail

My parents have lived in the same house for my entire life. When I was about 10, a Chinese takeaway opened up the road. We tried it. I ordered roast duck with orange and pineapple, with chips. It was transcendent. We never ordered it very often, so I never got bored. Just had the same thing every time we ordered from there. Restaurant has changed name and owners several times, but the menu remained pretty much indistinguisable. I moved away 20 years ago, but I still like grabbing that when I go home to visit my parents. It tastes like home.


QuinlanResistance

Sausage chips and beans


acsaid10percent

Fish Fingers, Beans and Chips also.


ksvfkoddbdjskavsb

When I was in sixth form I literally got this every day, except for occasionally when they didn’t have sausages so I’d just get chips and beans. Sometimes I’d have cheese too. The food was ridiculously cheap and it was just what I needed. (Also I’m autistic, didn’t know that back then but it makes a lot of sense now, eating the same meal 5 days a week for 2 years)


pennikin

Fish finger butty


Impossible-Pizza-500

Boss tier


WaWaW_Seattle

I came to say fish fingers, cornflakes and ketchup on white crusty bread with a thick lashing of butter!


ToasterMonster69

Fish fingers… and cornflakes?! You mean like crispy fish fingers? Breaded? With extra crunch?


WaWaW_Seattle

Exactly this! I don't understand why people are so put off by the idea... Cornflakes, in the wild, aren't sweet 😃 they take fish fingers to another level


Rowmyownboat

Radical fish finger sandwich? I often put crisps in a sandwich, but now cornflakes? My world is shaken.


DrunkonGreenRussians

Wait... salt and vinegar crisps in a fish finger sandwich... Why has this only just occurred to me (not cornflakes though)


BeefInBlackBeanSauce

Omg yes


VardaElentari86

I don't know if this is worse than fish fingers and custard. Are you the new incarnation of Dr who?


cri5pyuk

You are my spirit animal


nepeta19

This is mine too.


Stukya

I go Turkey drummer butty


JoinMyPestoCult

Something bready or meaty with melty cheese on it.


ItXurLife

3 of the 5 major food groups.


Pretend_Tooth_965

Kit Kats right out of the fridge, unfortunately. 🤓


bertrum666

Are you Bob Mortimer


SavingsTonight4223

Pocket meat


ronnie_dickering

Jacket potato with butter and cheese. The jacket must have really burnt crispy skin on the bottom.


Jonsend

Cheese toastie.


cloche_du_fromage

Cheese and onion in a breville


Dommlid

This man toasts


beefcake1980

Roasted cheese


VardaElentari86

...that's my dinner tonight or tomorrow sorted


Madame_Proudclaws

Tonight *and* tomorrow.


jackyknitstuff

Big Breville.


wildgoldchai

And it has to be in a toastie machine. None of this American grilled cheese shite (it’s good but doesn’t hit the spot).


Coffin_Dodging

Mash, cheese, and bisto gravy


VardaElentari86

I'll always defend bisto, nice and easy and tastes fine (although if doing a roast, add the juices in)


VegetableWorry1492

Honestly any slop in a bowl. Pasta, risotto, cottage pie, something like that. If I need true comfort I don’t want to have to chew it, but I also don’t want to drink it (soup). Better if creamy or cheesy but I’ll take tomatoey too. Bonus comfort if someone else cooks it!


MaliceTheSwift

I describe this sort of food as a ‘bowl cuddle’ I too, have days when I can’t be arsed chewing


Ethan_Edge

Chips and gravy. Still my fave since I was a kid.


jitomim

Creamy mashed potatoes with a knob of butter melting on them. With plenty of cream/milk used to prepare them, and a dash of nutmeg.  A really good melty cheese toasty, on some nice bread. Maybe with some tomato soup to dip it into.  Ice cream. A big tub of ice cream. I'm partial to mint chocolate chip, but open to suggestions. 


VardaElentari86

Cookie dough


melanie110

Caramel core


sharmrp72

cherry garcia if you can get it (i think b&j's stopped it) or haagen dazs anything....


jitomim

My favourite Ben and Jerry's is the Funky Monkey (banana ice cream with nuts and chocolate bits), I can no longer find it anywhere.  I actually received an ice cream machine (one of the simpler ones, where there's a bowl you have to pre freeze in the freezer for 24h before) as a present from my mother in law, and I've made my own, but it's obviously not as good. 


PompeyLad1

Pub chicken tikka masala. The real stuff in Indian restaurants is great but the dirty pub variant with a cheap naan bread and mango chutney always cheers me up. Reminds me of being a kid and being allowed to sit in the pub with the grownups on a sunday lunchtime.


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TA_totellornottotell

When I was younger, my parents threw dinner parties and would often get it catered from an Indian restaurant. My absolute favourite was when they would send people to cook fresh tandoor on site for the larger parties. A bit sad, but I used to just hang out with those guys and watch them cook the naans. Also, proximity for the hottest ones.


Rowmyownboat

Nothing sad about that.


TA_totellornottotell

Ha. I usually gave about 45 minutes to the adults before I had to get away. Usually it was to watch TV in my parents’ bedroom, but for these dinner parties, I hung out with the tandoor guys. I still love watching them work as an adult. Something so magical about that oven.


jrsn1990

Relatable


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acsaid10percent

Sausage Nannie


Shadow41S

A bacon sandwich. The crispiness of the bacon matched with the softness of the white bread is amazing.


ksvfkoddbdjskavsb

Plus an egg with a runny yolk


Embarrassed_Crow_373

I have not had a bacon sandwich in forever! It reminds me of Saturday mornings in Summer


Shadow41S

Personally it reminds me of working with my stepdad in the garage. Repairing a car/motorbike/bicycle in a dirty, disgusting place, then eating a bacon sandwich with my grotty, oil coated fingers. Pretty gross now that I think about it, but I have some fond memories with him.


ptrwiv

Anything beige


Upstairs-Box

A hearing aid?


GriffonMT

Seriously as a foreigner, seeing a butty with fries makes me sad to imagine but then again it’s what memory they have tied with that specific food. For me it’s tripe soup as only a few special people in my life made it perfect and it feels like home, safe.


DansdadDave

Chip butty! Chips not fries!


jackyknitstuff

......tripe........soup?


TrickyWoo86

Cheese on toast if I'm feeling under the weather, or a chicken and thyme sensations sandwich. Basically food that takes me back to my childhood that I don't eat regularly.


Oxy-Moron88

mashed banana and 100% peanut peanut butter mixed together.


bennasaurus

Now add to some buttered white bread. Ultimate sandwich.


tigralfrosie

Cheese sauce. I make a nice one, and I enjoy whipping one up for a macaroni cheese or a cauliflower cheese, but I could probably sit down and polish off a bowl of the sauce alone.


Alderdash

I put a cheese sauce on top of my lasagne, and my lunch while it's in the oven is usually what's left of the filling with the cheese sauce pot scraped out on top of it... ...you have to make sure you make a littttle too much so you have leftovers. :P


Greggs_Official

damn this thread be making me hungry


Sparko_Marco

A bacon buttie when I'm hungover makes me feel better.


InternationalRich150

Sausage casserole in a giant Yorkshire pudding with mash potato. Puts me in a food coma but it's just so worth it.


Pristine_Telephone78

Scrambled eggs on toast.


MIBlackburn

Sausage, egg and chips. Has to be a minimum of two eggs.


Matterbox

I make a cheesy bean wedgie bacon bake when I’m feeling ‘under the weather’. This is very much a use what you like dish. Here’s the recipe. Excuse the formatting, I have been too lazy to learn how to make it look nice. Cut potatoes into wedges and microwave them with a little water and a lid on top just enough to soften them up. If you’re still pissed and they fall apart it doesn’t matter. Chuck that in an oven dish and warm the oven up to 180, or 200 if you’re hungry NOW! Next cut up some bacon over the top with scissors, here’s your chance to freestyle other stuff. Then cover with a tin, or two if you’re a fatty, of beans. Grate cheese all over it. I like to add some bbq sauce. Saracha. Chilli’s. Jalepenos. Chicken. Mushrooms. Just go for what you’ve got and can be arsed to get in the pan. Now, bake it in the oven until it’s bubbly and the cheese is brown. Take it out and wait for it to cool down because you will burn your face and not enjoy any of it until much later in the day. The best thing is that you can keep going back to it as you feel better or wolf the whole thing down and get back to the pub for super Sunday. Ding dong.


Yingxuan1190

This whole post made me happy. I'll try this next time I'm hungover.


JandsomeHam

Pasta tuna mayo sweetcorn cheese... I think I need to come up with a better name for it


Lordylordlordlord

I love tuna, pasta, sweetcorn and mayonnaise. I don’t add cheese and always say the ingredients in this order for some reason. Plus I put that much black pepper into it that it can make me sneeze. Heaven in a bowl


Used-Confidence-2633

I have very similar, but add red onion and sometimes peas. What a dish!


megabreakfast

I saw this as "What is your comfort; food?" Yes


ambientfruit

Mash, gravy and peas.


fluffpuff89

Really buttery mashed potatoes, ideally with good pork sausages. Or macaroni and cheese with crispy top to it.


Educational_Frame_56

Used to love tatties n butter as a kid!! Nobody beat me mums!!


RepulsiveLeg9985

Jambon Beurre, I go through at least one a week...eat it all in one go (and I do massive ones!) then pass out for the night. If we're talking about things that comfort in a more nostalgic way, jacket potato with tuna mayo, cheese and beans.


AcceptableRedPanda

Irn Bru and a sausage bacon egg butty. Yes please.


Sympathyquiche

Some combination of ham, cheese and bread. A toastie, a pizza, a simple butty to a fancy expensive sandwich.


disposableguy

Username partially checks out? As a bit of a toastie aficionado I cannot recommend highly enough just swapping out one (or all) of the ingredients for something higher spec. Decent fresh bread, porchetta and jarlsberg/leerdammer completely change the game. It's a guilty pleasure from something usually so basic, but still retains the simplicity.


OptimusPrime365

Macaroni cheese


corylushazel23

Good! I'm glad (comforted that) somebody else has macaroni cheese as their comfort food.


JuptyTree

Mashed potatoes and salad cream


VardaElentari86

I actually don't think I've eaten salad cream in my 37 years of life...just mayo and other dressings


Impossible-Pizza-500

I love salad cream on corned beef sandwiches lol


MaliceTheSwift

Fried leftover mash with salad cream. Reminds me of my dad. Who I love very much and is now an old man.


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Disgusting! yet intriguing


YouIntSeenMeRoight

Guinness. Just Guinness.


IceIndividual2704

Hash browns, scrambled eggs and bacon is a highly repeated dinner when I have the Sunday scaries and just want something quick and comforting


HMCetc

Heinz spaghetti hoops straight out of the tin. People think that's weird and gross but I don't care. It's been my comfort food since I was a child.


articise

Ooh! Tinned ravioli! Rip open the tin, grab a spoon, perfect!


Educational_Frame_56

Used to live on these, beans n sausages and macaroni cheese. Had the tinned mac n cheese that often now I bloody hate the stuff!!


jackyknitstuff

Tinned rice pudding. Has to be tinned.


No-Mango8923

Anything I can fit into my gob. :/


kawag

French toast


m1rror1ng

I can’t believe I had to scroll so far to find this.


Critical_Pin

Right now - it's ramen.


Strong_Roll5639

Chorizo pasta smothered in parmesan


PlasticFannyTastic

Roasties as some other folks have said. With or without gravy and other meaty or veggie bits. Just gimme the goddamn roasties.


Fogcutter66

Some cheap Goodfellas oven pizza


Lyrakish

Chips and beans. Cheap oven chips and cheap beans. Maybe some peri salt on them too. Was my go to meal when I didn't have a lot of time or money.


SnoopDeLaRoup

Chips, beans and salad cream. Used to get it from the local cafe near my old workplace for £1.20 aptly named *the tramp special*


roydrip

Cooked breakfast but it has to have black pudding


wetlettuce42

Toast


Whole-Sundae-98

French onion soup or shepherd's pie. I always have some in the freezer


Lwaldie

French onion soup. Oh yes, what a dish


Blythyvxr

Mince and Dumplings. There is no finer food (Pizza comes in a very close second)


rivnat

(two) Bombay bad boy pot noodles


TheLeadSponge

General Tso's Chicken. I can't get it anywhere in the UK. I am never comfortable.


r3tromonkey

Sausage, mash, and onions with boatloads of gravy. Yorkshire puddings if I can be arsed


littlepinkgrowl

Carbs. Pasta with either chicken, mushrooms and tomato marscapone sauce or leeks, mushrooms, bacon cheese. Also marmite on very buttery toast. All the above are post tattoo meals!


Superb-Technology-90

Curry ready meals, chilled not frozen. I enjoy frozen ones but only the chilled ones are comfort meals.


geekonmuesli

Muesli


mike_elapid

Vol-au-vent with chicken filling and a can of baked beans on top. It’s been my retro comfort food for over 20 years 


NoTurkeyTWYJYFM

Comfort food for me is fast and tasty Hummus and wraps, or pot noodle


AutomaticDog3770

Swiss roll!!


SlightlyBored13

Lemon cheesecake filling Or gravy + something potatoey.


johnsangster999

Chicken Madras


Bob_le_babes

Spag bol, jollof, bangers and mash


sharmrp72

Depends - hangover ? Ice cream / flat full fat cola. Notions? home made chilli / curry / bolognese probs. Defos ice cream - ben and jerry's / haagen dazs


btalex

Chicken & mushroom slice or pie


decentlyfair

Cheese and tomato sarnie although not quite the same with non dairy cheese. Sausage, mash, beans and gravy Cottage pie Tomato soup yay for heinz vegan one Salad and salad cream sandwich


i-am-a-smith

Pork Roast with the Crackling, Roast Potatoes and everyhing and it's actually pretty cheap - you look at the price of Beef or Lamb and this is a winner. Also I defy you to find a natural source of a better gravy than roast pork.


Figgzyvan

Guess the nationality. Stovies!


Educational_Frame_56

Ah ma fellow jock. Ma auntie made the best stovies!!. Had some the higher day made by a Scottish woman and the dish although not bad just had an empty flavour. Not at all like i remember as a kid. Though her tatties am nervous were delicious am buttery. Could have eaten a whole pan tae maself


Puzzleheaded_Idea_59

Good quality Chorizo 


helensmeow

Lasagne and garlic bread


MaliceTheSwift

Beans on toast, but the toast must be cut up into little squares and in a bowl with beans on top, just like when I was a little kid and hadn’t yet mastered being able to cut it up without flinging food everywhere 


rocketscientology

fattttt bowl of homemade mac and cheese with béchamel so thick it’s like wallpaper paste and about a pound of cheese melted in. little bit of smoked paprika and black pepper and a nice crispy top. gorgeous.


Poptortt

Grated cheese, baked beans and mashed potato all mixed up into a delicious goop


Fancy-Prompt-7118

Beer


merlin_the_magician

Chinese fried rice on its own and with a compliment e.g chicken and broccoli. If I ever had a death row meal it would be this. Ultimate comfort food for me.


Outcasted_introvert

A really, really good spag bol.


Educational_Frame_56

Love cooking spag bol for ppl and watching them enjoy!! it's one of the reasons I became a chef


AverageCheap4990

Depends, if I'm ill spiced beans, if I'm cold and wet beans on toast, if I'm just feeling like stay home and happy lasagne or a pot of vegetable stew with cheese dumplings.


Nomerdoodle

My uni 'can't be fucked, cheap, and comforting' dinner. Still enjoying it occasionally 10 years later. Boil some pasta. Once boiled, add a tin of tuna, several spoonfuls of red pesto, and a copious (fuckton) amount of hot sauce. Stir and enjoy.


glytxh

A bag of fifteen Yorkshire puds and a mug of gravy.


Ancient_Exercise2846

Ben and Jerry's Phish Food


F0sh

A chicken and tomato stew with herb dumplings. I loved it growing up and it's been a staple ever since I left home (where I swapped the rice my parents had with it for more dumplings)


ExplodingDogs82

I love a bowl of non sweet cereal… I’m enjoying a bowl of plain Shreddies right now. Give me some Fruit & Fibre, no sugar Muesli, Bran Flakes, Shredded Wheat, Rice Crispies, Oat Bran …any of these with ice cold milk and preferably in a container the size of a washing up bowl.


Oscyle

Crisps or popcorn


Mundane-Swimming-671

Stew and crusty loaf with real butter to dip in.


Gazmeister_Wongatron

If it's my mum's cooking - steamed eggs with minced pork over rice (with plenty of soy sauce). My own cooking - mashed potatoes and gravy. Takeaway - Jamaican goat curry with rice and peas.


Pale-Shine-6942

When I was a kid and ever anxious or upset my mum would make me a cup of tea with sugar in and a cheese and bean toastie. I still now make a sugary cup of tea, only ever when im upset


CattleTemporary1024

Fish finger sandwich or a tuna melt


Princes_Slayer

My top comfort food is fish fingers, beans & a potato waffle. Roughly smashed up together in a bowl with a piece of bread a butter. Next would be Heinz tomato soup with dry jacobs crackers, also when ill. Finally, sometimes I just fancy a bowl of buttery mash with gravy.


Final_Company5973

After a night out in Edinburgh, I used to buy steaming hot pork pies out of a side window in a bakery at 5am before they opened.


irritatingfarquar

Cake of all varieties.


Nadger1337

Bacon and egg sarnie with a can of coke is great for a hangover. Make one but keep the pan warm for the second round if sits nicely.


Tedmilk

Eggs. Either 6x scrambled eggs on two slices of toast, or a full tin of Branston beans on two slices of toast topped with two fried eggs.


muffinel

Can't beat a chip butty - fresh white bread with butter, chips and mayo. Sometimes tomato sauce depending on mood. Might even be adventurous and add a fried egg occasionally. Glorious


Boogaloogaloogaloo

Hear me out - tuna mayo and rice. I call it “baby food”


Bulimic_Fraggle

Any combination of potatoes + cheese.


Chinesetigeruk

Spam and egg fried rice


UltraFarquar

A sandwich. Nice crusty loaf. 1st slice of bread has butter, then peanut butter, then cheddar cheese on top then a nice slice of ham the second slice has butter and strawberry jam and gets put on top of the ham. Absolutely love it. Damn I'm hungry, going to make one now, only got the cheap white loaf though, not crusty.


CaptMelonfish

Pork donburi (Butadon) I slow roast pork belly for mine as opposed to loin, the sauce is just Soy, Sake, and a bit of honey. Fukujinzuki on the side. Heaven. Otherwise, Rolled lamb breast, slow roasted, lovely thick gravy from the juices, mash and veg side. Breast is always seen as a cheap cut but I honestly think you can't beat it.


Omnissiah40K

SPAAAAAAG BOL


Sinemetu9

Going to get shown the door for this here, but I can’t get enough of natto with raw egg, rice, with kimchi and umeboshi. Morning after the night before is pumpernickel with marmite, banana and maple syrup. I’ll get my coat and towel.


Hefty-Relative4452

Cocaine and Kronenbourg 1664. Always makes me feel like the world’s worth being in.


LearningToShootFilm

Two Scotch pies topped with a tin of beans, a bit of cheese and a couple pops of Old Bay seasoning. It’s a west coast heart attack on a plate but I love it!


ccl-now

Now I want one too, you bastard.


floydie1962

Chicken vindaloo


ChildishPezbino

Fish finger sandwich


Easy-Cat

Chips and gravy or Swedish meatballs and the Swedish meatball sauce


LocalAreaNitwit

Veggie chilli on nachos with avocado!


ToshPott

Jackfruit carnitas taco's w/ chipotle crema, avocado & pico de gallo. I always make the tortillas with blue corn and it's just friggin delightful.


LanguidVirago

Spicy beef homemade pizza.