Comfort Food

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Searching4Truth

Searching4Truth

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Woke up from a dream not to long ago. I was at my Gramma's house doing whatever, and she was napping. Later on, I go check up on her and she wasn't breathing. In the dream I wanted to get mad, but I couldn't. This feeling of sorrow flooded in me. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't. I felt paralyzed within my own body, drowning in my misery. I woke up with my heart racing, distraught. Then I had think about it... My elders are going one by one. It's just a matter of time when she'll be the next to leave my family.
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The above is my current facebook status. I still wasn't feeling like myself after 10 minutes. So, I decided to make a small pot of soup to get my worried mind off of it. Needless to say, it worked.

Do any of you eat to make yourself feel better after feeling down? If so, what do you like to have? If not, do you have any sort of ritual or habit to take your mind away from the recent "turmoil"?
 
For me its anything sweet (which is one reason why I can't seem to lose weight).

Weird thing is that I bought a small 99 cent bag of jelly belly™ jelly beans and a 99 cent bag of no-name peanut butter cups this morning for no real reason and then around lunch time a need for comfort food arose and there it was..

(and I still have some left :))
 
One must be careful with comfort food as it can turn into the enemy....meaning too many calories in all the wrong places. Eating too much and using food as a comfort has become one of my biggest sins. This is a cautionary warning by one who put comfort food in a place called idol and is battling with God's help to avoid these foods of comfort.

Learning to turn God into my place of comfort instead of the food. That being said..... Foods that have been used to sooth....sorrow, happy times, disappointment, anger, love, laughter, tears.......

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes, chili, corn bread with lots of butter and jelly (homemade of course), cake, potato chips bags of them, turkey with all the trimmings, chicken and dumplings.......gaining weight with each and every thought....

Just a note of hope to add to this comfort food thread.....

God loves You that's right You..... so when you are reaching for this food of comfort hold onto that thought and realize that God cares about every detail of your life and the food you are about to put into your mouth is really only there to help keep you alive it does not care about you, it is to serve a purpose and that is to sustain your life not to save you like Jesus has given His life to save you. I struggle every day to get back to the purpose food has in life and not to over indulge in any of it so choose wisely and remember your life is not your own that we have been bought with a price and that we now belong to God/Jesus/Holy Spirit.

Learn to make healthy choices and to give God the glory for your life and seek Him for the comfort that you need instead of food.
 
My comfort food? *anything sweet like food with chocolate *ice cream *cookies *beef stew (nilagang baka) *fish stew (nilagang isda)

Aside from that, I pray, sleep and write a lot.
 
Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, pizza, chicken pot pie, cheese omelets.
 
Anything that isn't nailed down.

And if it is, I bring my own hammer.

(You can have it if it's goulash though... Ghoul-ash... yuck.)
 
I got into comforting myself with food. Now I am struggling to get out of it. I have lost and regained so many times. But now I believe I can get free of this. Pray for me.
 
Fried taters. Not tater wedges from a convenience store, diced and pan-fried taters. No matter how high we pile them up in the skillet, there's never enough at the supper table.

If it's not too close to bedtime, dark chocolate. As in, really dark chocolate. As in, 85% cocoa. Moser Roth preferably.

A slice of homemade, whole wheat sourdough bread with butter and apricot preserves.
 
A foot-long of tuna sub toasted with cheese, extra lettuce, tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, 2 pickles per 6" and extra olives. Sauces will be south-west, honey mustard and a bit of mayo (I miss Ranch).

Spaghetti Bolognese with 1/2 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese.

One 'Brownie shocker' from Sandy's the Chocolate Laboratory. It is crumbs of brownies mixed in a beaker-full of frothy chocolate. H.E.A.V.E.N.L.Y.

A quarter-pound rare tenderloin steak with mushroom sauce, mashed potatoes and vegetables.

Chicken liver sautéed with garlic, ginger and some onion. (My mom's specialty)

Chicken/mutton biryani.

Fish/beef/mutton cutlets.


(You don't think a foodie would have a small list, do you?)
 
When I'm not feeling well I usually want either Mac&cheese or chili.
 
One of my brothers used to put ketchup on his Mac&Cheese and I thought THAT was bad enough! :D
 
Can you even begin to imagine what this would do to my OCD tendencies! :D
 
Now I want Mac&cheese.... I had strawberry Poptarts for dinner. Because I'm a grown-up. And I can. :D
 
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