comfort food

16 Oct 2010

As the cold weather approaches.............actually its here in the north east. I am thinking of the food that gives us that warm glow. You sit with a plateful in front of the tv and eat regardless of calories, after all the skimpy clothes are packed away. For me its either mashed potato made with butter and milk with hot steaming tinned tomatoes or a wonderful steaming bowl of hot n sour noodles for when i do contemplate the calories...................whats yours ?

16 Oct 2010

Quote by I_am_joy
As the cold weather approaches.............actually its here in the north east. I am thinking of the food that gives us that warm glow. You sit with a plateful in front of the tv and eat regardless of calories, after all the skimpy clothes are packed away. For me its either mashed potato made with butter and milk with hot steaming tinned tomatoes or a wonderful steaming bowl of hot n sour noodles for when i do contemplate the calories...................whats yours ?

Stew and dumplings.
Liver and bacon.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

16 Oct 2010

Soup

16 Oct 2010

Custard. Loads of it, over a piping hot fruit crumble.

16 Oct 2010

A large potion of home made Chilli with a mountain of boiled rice. Chilli has to be hot enough to make your nose run :twisted:

16 Oct 2010

i agree there about the chilli and curry makes ya bottom warm the morning after

16 Oct 2010

Quote by tweeky
A large potion of home made Chilli with a mountain of boiled rice. Chilli has to be hot enough to make your nose run :twisted:

You must be a mind reader, exactly what I planned for this evening's meal biggrin

16 Oct 2010

Quote by kentswingers777
Stew and dumplings.
Liver and bacon.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Me too! I thought stew and dumps before i even opened the thread! I totally love bunging the lot in the slow cooker in the morning and leaving it for the day. The house smells devine when we come in and its all hot and ready! Yummmm
Liver tho - Ewwww No!

16 Oct 2010

Quote by vampanya

Stew and dumplings.
Liver and bacon.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Me too! I thought stew and dumps before i even opened the thread! I totally love bunging the lot in the slow cooker in the morning and leaving it for the day. The house smells devine when we come in and its all hot and ready! Yummmm
Liver tho - Ewwww No!
A nice squidgy chocolate sofa

16 Oct 2010

Mince and dumplings
Stew
Home made rice pudding :lickface: complete with skin

16 Oct 2010

Steak and kidney pie with thick gravy and mashed potatoes
Beef and ale caserole
A huge stew that lasts for about a week and gets better every day with enough dumplings to feed a rugby team
Sausage and mash with fried onions and onion gravy
Treacle pudding and custard
Home made thick rice pudding made with a touch of cream
Rhubarb and ginger crumble with clotted cream
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

16 Oct 2010

Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream.
Nyom, nyom, nyom.
kiss

LG. x

17 Oct 2010

A nice big buttery fluffy baked potato duvet

17 Oct 2010

Lost! Haha you do make me giggle out loud! Your talents are wasted you know! lol

17 Oct 2010

Hot muffin :P

17 Oct 2010

There are SO many things we like to eat in winter, it would be hard to pick a fave.
Lamb tagine with cous cous
beef n ale pie
proper sheperds pie (with chunky bits o lamb)
A decent home made curry with naan and pickles
bangers n mash
roasts of any kind!
I guess it has to include some kind of stewing meat, a nice thick sauce / gravy of some kind and a large quantity of starch!
A steaming mug of tea and a packet of choccy oaty biscuits is a damn good start though.
(Lets not even start on puddings shall we lol

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*Him*

3 Jan 2011

Its gotta be bangers and mash for me, with onion gravy mmmmmmmmm !!!!

3 Jan 2011

we've had toad in the hole quite a bit recently. I don't know how he does it - but Vills (Thevillians) makes the batter come up actually crunchy. And with pork and apple sausages it was lovely.

3 Jan 2011

Home made rice pudding. Made with fresh cream, baked, with a great big dollup of jam in the middle.......Mmmmm

3 Jan 2011

Gosh loads beef stew and dumplings, beef and ale pie ,apple crumble n custard,home made and potato pie yummy

4 Jan 2011

cant go far wrong with a breakfast fry up or for the afternoon a nice mixed grill smile

5 Jan 2011

A nice big bowl of Muesli and an apple (well thats what ive been told now i am on this after Christmas diet) :sad:

5 Jan 2011

Quote by dsfrancetoo
A nice big bowl of Muesli and an apple (well thats what ive been told now i am on this after Christmas diet) :sad:

If you're on a diet you should kick the meusli into touch. It's incedibly high in calories, packs loads into a bowl and is really hard to eat through. You can cut the calories by having the sugar-free version which tastes like it ought to be covering the bottom of a hamster cage.
A serving of Tesco's Swiss Style is 140 cal per serving. But the trouble is a serving is meant to be 40g, about an ounce and a half. About 2 tablespoons. That wouldn't cover the bottom of most bowls.
Try this, serve out the meusli you want (don't add the milk) and then weigh it. I bet it comes out as more like 150g than 40g. (5oz vs 1.5 oz)
You'd probably be better off having grilled bacon in a sandwich (no butter) with red or brown sauce. At least you'd enjoy it. LOL
You want a healthy breakfast? Porridge if you have time.

5 Jan 2011

Chocolate.. at all times of year!! And bread. Need to do something to shift this christmas bulge. I'm not bothered about the weight so much, just this crappy lethargic feeling I get when I've done nothing but eat crap lol

5 Jan 2011

Quote by mrs-bmw
Steak and kidney pie with thick gravy and mashed potatoes
Beef and ale caserole
A huge stew that lasts for about a week and gets better every day with enough dumplings to feed a rugby team
Sausage and mash with fried onions and onion gravy
Treacle pudding and custard
Home made thick rice pudding made with a touch of cream
Rhubarb and ginger crumble with clotted cream
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Well we don't know who you are but you have our tastes in food! How about a joint of brisket slowly cooked in Mackeson?

5 Jan 2011

Quote by dsfrancetoo
A nice big bowl of Muesli and an apple (well thats what ive been told now i am on this after Christmas diet) :sad:

Diets! God they make a fuss about them controlling this and that blah etc. I couldn't be arsed with that so I did a little reading and made up my own :twisted: Simple limit yourself to 1500 calories a day which is 1000 less than your daily recommended alowance. That will shift some weight for sure and if it slows down after a while just limit Carbohydrates and increase protein for a while. Doing both of those is easy you just add up the calories from the back of packet food or look up on the net what other stuff i.e. one chicken breast. Dont be anal about though your eating less calories than you should anyway so it wont hurt if your 100 out. If you do need to lower carbs again thats easy just look on the back of packets and lower portions of things like rice and pasta. I did this and I pissed weight off in no time and wasn't hungry sat eating tea with two sausages bacon beans eggs etc lol

Not saying its healthy Ive no idea but it looses weight fairly fast and I didnt feel like I was suffering.

5 Jan 2011

Quote by tweeky
A nice big bowl of Muesli and an apple (well thats what ive been told now i am on this after Christmas diet) :sad:

Diets! God they make a fuss about them controlling this and that blah etc. I couldn't be arsed with that so I did a little reading and made up my own :twisted: Simple limit yourself to 1500 calories a day which is 1000 less than your daily recommended alowance. That will shift some weight for sure and if it slows down after a while just limit Carbohydrates and increase protein for a while. Doing both of those is easy you just add up the calories from the back of packet food or look up on the net what other stuff i.e. one chicken breast. Dont be anal about though your eating less calories than you should anyway so it wont hurt if your 100 out. If you do need to lower carbs again thats easy just look on the back of packets and lower portions of things like rice and pasta. I did this and I pissed weight off in no time and wasn't hungry sat eating tea with two sausages bacon beans eggs etc lol

Not saying its healthy Ive no idea but it looses weight fairly fast and I didnt feel like I was suffering.
I have a really lazy diet. I just switch almost all my carbs for veg and keep the protein about the same. It includes starchy veg like parsnips anyway so I get enough carbs to keep going, but the weight falls off me. it's really hard to add fat to a meal if you take the potatoes, bread, pasta and rice out of it. biggrin

7 Jan 2011

Thanks for that foxy and tweek i am beginning to think bollocks to the diet, eat normal and just do a few extra kms on the pushbike.
The hardest thing though, is keeping off the wine with the price of it here lol

7 Jan 2011

Quote by dsfrancetoo
Thanks for that foxy and tweek i am beginning to think bollocks to the diet, eat normal and just do a few extra kms on the pushbike.
The hardest thing though, is keeping off the wine with the price of it here

I know what you mean, alcohol is too easy to top up those cals. biggrin

That might need a change of view - seeing a really good wine as a treat and savouring it more slowly. :D
As for teh bike? I'd rather do without food than do exercise. Having said that I use a whole load of cals in the garden/allotment. The exercise is secondary to the food production so I can bear it. :D

8 Jan 2011

Quote by dsfrancetoo
Thanks for that foxy and tweek i am beginning to think bollocks to the diet, eat normal and just do a few extra kms on the pushbike.
The hardest thing though, is keeping off the wine with the price of it here

Alcohol :cry: What I did whilst trying to loose weight was delay the time at which I start drinking even if its only by an hour. Then I cut down my portions so to speak. As I drink spirits that maybe easier than with wine as I still filled the glass up with coke.