How do you console yourself with food?

Food doesn't console me, never has, so I never eat to console myself. You know, I honestly can't think of anything that works to console me when I'm feeling lousy, which is pretty lame, since I could really use a consoling device sometimes.

I find browsing photos of gorgeous woods to be nice, but even that doesn't help when I'm feeling really down. Meh.

Hot baths feel really nice, and I remember crying my eyes out during a recent one, so I might take up those as a consoling device, wasteful as they are.

AH...yes...I do have one consoling device. Buying books. I haven't been as chronically depressed lately because I've been distracting myself buying books. But that can go only so far. I can hardly be buying books forever!

So...books are my comfort food. Jeez I am lame.

Soup. I make killer soup.

tehuti88 said:

AH...yes...I do have one consoling device. Buying books. I haven't been as chronically depressed lately because I've been distracting myself buying books. But that can go only so far. I can hardly be buying books forever!

So...books are my comfort food. Jeez I am lame.

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I do that, too. Now I've run out of money.

Saskatoonistan said:

A&W, Hires or Mug?

(I am a Hires RB lover.)

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A&W, and I will do brutal things to those who prefer something else.

Although I will settle for Barqs if A&W isn't available.

Saskatoonistan said:

I don't know why, but I sometimes console myself with chili dogs when I think my writing sucks. You?

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Chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate.

Chocolate. Dark.

*sigh* a bowl of cereal, Rice chex mixed in with Corn flakes and Special K, filled to the brim with milk and let it sit for a while 'till its soggy...

Oh, definitely I go for a mounded plate of nachos with spicy queso and LOTS of jalapenos (the hotter the better).

*I like to burn the self-pity right out of my system*

When I need consolation, food doesn't do it for me. I buy a pack of cigs.

Eating makes me feel guilty. I'm at this period where I've been uber-skinny for most of my life and have never worried about my weight; until I started putting on a bit. Now, I don't know how to get rid of it.

This is what media influence does to teenage girls. /slightly off-topic>

So, instead, I just try to surround myself with as much positive energy as possible, if that makes sense.

I make bread. Cause i get to beat the snot out of it latter. lol snotty bread, i haz allergees. But any way, yea, bread.

Is it strange that I cook when upset, Instead of eat. I sure hope my family doesn't learn that, otherwise I'm in for misery, cause i cook good when upset.

Anything from cheese sandwiches to Annie's Mac & Cheese (Shells and White Cheddar ftw!) to brownies to pickles to cream soda to strawberries to cheesecake. It depends.

d&f.

My comfort snack is usually salty popcorn or, now that it's Easter time, those cadbury creme eggs. If I'm really struggling, it's a BLT from Jersey Boyz and a cold Diet Coke. The only problem is that Jersey Boyz is right next door to my favorite pub, and I sometimes end up wandering over there, even if it's just for a bottle of wine to bring home.

When I get down in the dumps. It's a pint of Ice cream for me. Haagen Daaz Sticky toffee Pudding or Mayfield Birthday cake. Or, if it's cheaper, chocolate.

Chocolate covered pretzels and ginger ale.

I eat what I feel like eating when I feel like eating it. I don't console myself with food.