But I’m not really talking about that level of comfort eating here. What I’m talking about here, is what
sort of foods you find comforting when you’ve had a bad day. I mean what things do you prefer to
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Normally, I’m quite adventurous with food – I eat most things and I like trying new things. But I
notice that for me, if I’m very tired, or I’m feeling ill, or occasionally I’ve had a day which hasn’t gone
very well for some reason and I’m feeling sorry for myself, there are
certain foods that I find
‘comforting’. More so than other foods. I notice that I find comfort in food that is pretty much the
same now as when I ate it as a child. When I was a child, our family ate a very traditional British diet.
Now of course, we eat food from all around the world, as most people in the UK do.
I talk about this specific topic of food in our Course One, of course. But if I’m feeling ill or I’ve had a
bad day, or I’m really tired, the things I like to eat particularly are mashed potato with cheese,
casseroles, crumpets, fish fingers or Heinz tomato soup. These are all things which I ate as a child –
and they’ve not changed – they taste exactly the same now as they did then. Mashed potato, that’s
‘M-A-S-H-E-D’ from the verb ‘to mash’ – that means potatoes which are boiled in water and crushed
up, with butter and cheese, salt and pepper. A casserole, C-A-S-S-E-R-O-L-E is a dish which contains
all kinds of things.
You put them in a big pot and cook them inside the oven. Typically it has meat or fish, potatoes and
vegetables, all cooked together in a liquid stock for a long time. Crumpets
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Crumpet
are a lovely thing – they’re C-R-U-M-P-E-T-S and they’re round and bready, with holes
in the top. You toast them – and put butter on, which disappears into the holes. Fish fingers, you
may be familiar with them – sticks of white fish, covered with orange ‘bread crumbs’, the sort of food
which children like to eat. And lastly, Heinz Tomato Soup, which is in a tin and it’s bright orange,
sweet tomato soup, exactly the same now, as it was when I was a child.
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