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QOTH: Tuesday
Another foodie post:
What are some of your comfort foods that you had as a kid that you can't give up as an adult? Not something you get once a year rather once a month or every other month.
Warning: may cause cravings!!
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For me: Kraft mac and cheese - it has to be the blue box blues - I will never outgrow it and even though it's not "healthy" I'm always going to find a way to have it.
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While I wouldn't really call it a comfort food, my mom used to put black olives in EVERYTHING. When they weren't in a meal, we ate them as a snack (come on - you know you stuck them at the ends of your fingers and ate them off one by one), and I still eat them as often as I can - even though I know that they are awful for me. I love a nice calamata olive, but really there is nothing that brings me back to childhood more than a jumbo black olive out of a can. Even when I am dieting (like now) I have to put them on my salad, I cook with them when DH is away (he HATES olives - boo) and generally have cans and cans of them on hand at all times.
Cream of mushroom soup chicken.
It's chicken tenders breaded and sauteed in an electric frying pan and then coated with cream of mushroom soup (preferably condensed).
My mom makes it best. Except for one time she went "all natural" on me and used homemade cream of mushroom soup and it tasted likeass. She learned her lesson after that. lol
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Whenever I'm sick (or whenever it's cold out), I have to have Lipton Noodle Soup. Not the one with the gross chicken in it either, but the Extra Noodle variety. I had it just last weekend!
Incidentally, it was Velveeta mac & cheese for me (orange goo, not orange powder), but since DH grew up with Kraft and won't touch Velveeta with a ten-foot pole, I've since transitioned. ::pout::
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Macaroni and cheese. My mom used to make it, and now I use her recipe (spruced up a little--it's awesome). I actually remember making it on 9/11, it's that comforting to me.
And, obviously, chocolate. If I'm doing emotional eating, it's usually chocolate in some form.
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savory: grilled cheese, spaghetti & meatballs, and mac & cheese for sure. homemade is my favorite now but i like the kraft spirals once in awhile. and ditto MrsSstrug, other brands are not the same.
sweet: brownies or chocolate chip cookies, preferably freshly baked
Grilled cheese and tomato soup.
And, for dessert it would definitely be Coconut Cake. My grandmother made the best cakes and she always had one waiting when we arrived.
Hot chocolate, cookies, basically anything sweet. My mom used to make a dessert every weekend for the family so I have quite the sweet tooth.
TBH, I don't really like most of the savory foods I used to like as a kid, but sweet stuff has definitely stuck around.
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Roast chicken and mashed potatoes. That was one of my mom's best meals and one I still make very often.
I don't usually have the ingredients on hand, but if I did I would make cream cheese and green olive sandwiches everyday.
I was going to say the exact same thing! Actually, now I get the kind with "whole grain blend" to make myself feel a bit better about it health-wise (although I know it's still junk food).
I also love McDonalds chicken McNuggets and fries. Many times I order it as a Happy Meal. I usually have this at least once every two months.
Cereal. The unhealthy kid kind. My favorites being Honeycomb, Apple Jacks, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Lucky Charms. I have always loved cereal, and it's totally a comfort food for me. I occasionally eat healthy cereal, but if I want comfort it's gotta be one of the unhealthy sugary ones.
And definitely Kraft Mac & Cheese from the blue box. It's the only kind.
Sweet stuff - chocolate chip cookies and/or brownies, freshly baked.
i also great a big McD craving every once in a while. i know it is so bad but sometimes a four piece nugget and a small cheese burger is just the perfect thing!
Progresso Chickarina Soup. So delicious with it's little pasta dots and meatballs. As a kid we would pile the pasta and meatballs on saltine crackers and call it pizza. Good times.
Homemade pizza. I still make it every Friday night. So does my mom. And a few of my brothers. Family traditions die hard.
Campbell's chicken noodle soup (the small can that you have to add a can of water to), grilled cheese sandwich, and Stoffer's mac and cheese are really the only comfort foods I eat now, that I used to eat as a child.
i feel this way about cocoa krispies and peanut butter cap'n crunch. i only have them a few times a year but i loooove them.
My mom's meatloaf is something that I make at least once a month and have always loved. But other than that, I can't really think of much in the way of comfort food. My mom was a really healthy cook...we had at least 2 vegetables with every dinner (and she often found ways to work in more). And my sister and I were allergic to milk until we were in our early teens, so we didn't have yummy, cheesy, creamy comfort foods that I am addicted to these days ;-)
we didn't have a lot of comfort foods growing up. we were strict vegetarians who ate seafood. when i say strict, i mean we didn't eat anything with animal products other than dairy and egg. so if it was made with lard (hello pudding, marshmallows, etc.), pork (baked beans, many soups, etc.) we didn't eat it.
we also ate really healthy foods in general.
when i visited friends' homes, i always asked for kraft mac n cheese. i'd have to say this is a comfort food. as an adult, i will sometimes buy a box and then eat half the pot with the wooden spoon i used to mix it.
often while sitting on the couch having a pity party for 1.
My mom's homemade wedding soup- my favorite meal ever. I don't have it often though- only about once a year. I've attempted other recipes, but not my mom's. I don't know that I could do it justice.
Other comfort foods I liked as a child and still eat are chili, and any kind of roast, potatoes, and carrots. I also like grilled cheese and tomato soup and Kraft mac and cheese now, but didn't eat them as a child. I didn't know what I was missing!
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Me too! I can put a whole box away like nobody's business. I also feel as though I have mastered the butter : powder sauce : milk ratio to make it the perfect consistency. DH rolls his eyes at me whenever he sees me preparing a box and says, "It's one of those days, huh?" Yes, it is one of those days.