Thanks so much for sharing your favorite 'comfort' foods! It all sounds so delicious! I love to hear about food traditions in families. With the nasty Winter lots of us have had gone thru these foods truly were 'comforting' I grew up eating the rolled out flat type dumpling dropped in rich ham or chicken broth. That was a very tradtional food here in WV. Mom alo picked berries or cherries and made what she called a 'puddin'. She poured a very simple cake type batter over the fruit and baked till golden around the edges. We poured milk over this. Memories of country cooking.

I've never used a delivery service -- thankfully haven't needed to. But I did just look at the web page of a locally owned grocery store that advertises delivery service. They have a $30 minimum order, plus $6.95 to take it to you. (I didn't look at the delivery area, probably it's within a certain mile radius?) You have to choose a two-hour window to receive the delivery, and a responsible party has to be there to accept it or they take it back and there's a $20 restocking fee. There's other fine print about final cost may differ due to substitutions, etc. So, my advice -- take it easy, take advantage of it, but see if you can find your store on line and read the fine print. Hope your recovery goes well :-)

I'm kind of the opposite of some of you. I've got issues with apples and rice, and minor issues with eggs and beans unless they're in combination with some other things; eggs are fine if have a lot of salt or fruit (e.g. pineapple) added. Soup isn't comfort food for me (and I'm really not sure if I could survive on it alone for very long—at least with much energy and feeling of wellbeing); same for legumes, unless maybe they're peanuts, black-eyed peas, or in the form of something like chili or burritos. I'd say the following could be restorative foods for me (most of them are ingredients rather than dishes, but I did list at least a couple dishes): White mulberries (they're pretty healthy, IMO—at least in moderation; they have a lot of health benefits) Chives and/or green onions and/or to a lesser extend regular onions Home-grown produce Watermelon Baked, seasoned vegetables (ideally with meat in the middle) Cabbage Frozen corn (cooked so it's no longer frozen) Raw zucchini (and other squash, whether or not they're raw, particularly if they're prepared how I like them) Armenian cucumbers Homemade biscuits (with oil—not butter, lard, etc.) Cornbread (just corn for the grains; baked in a cast-iron frying pan) Tomatoes (Yes, I'm one of those people who thinks they're actually good for you unless you're allergic or something) Mushrooms (these have a lot of nutrition, and flavor) Garlic and/or garlic chives Peppers (hot and sweet; hot peppers are great for making a person feel better, in some circumstances) Millet (millet biscuits and stuff taste really good, and it doesn't give me the issues that rice gives me) Raw sorrel (I find that it seems to strengthen my teeth) Lacto-fermented vegetables, chile sauce, etc. (these are quite nutritious and important) Pickling/canning salt (Yes, I'm one of those people who thinks that sodium can actually be good for you—especially if you have adrenal fatigue or something; pickling/canning salt feels especially healthy to me, however; I'm not partial to unrefined sea salt) Cranberries (they're good for your bladder) Ground cherries Organic oranges Milk thistle (leaves or seeds) Food grade diatomaceous earth (this isn't really food, but it's helpful for me, in moderation, from a nutritional standpoint, and improves the flavor of some foods) Milk (maybe not the least toxic thing out there if you don't have your own cow, but the nutrients in it seem very helpful nonetheless; it definitely helps me to sleep, too—and it doesn't have to be warm) Raw rhubarb (full of vitamin K; the oxalic acid is supposed to be less healthy when rhubarb is cooked, but when raw, it's said to help purify your blood and stuff) Vinegar (yes, it seems healthy to me for some reason; maybe not everyone agrees) Pineapple Coarsely ground grains (they feel so much more energizing than finely ground grains; don't ask me why) Carbonation (in moderation; I'm not advocating corn syrup, phosphoric acid, etc.; you can carbonate your own stuff with dry ice if you need to avoid sugar or processed drinks) Milk porridge (in moderation) Pickles Curry Natural brown cane sugar (in combination with other things; it seems to produce a vapor that seems to be absent in both white sugar and molasses, for unexplained reasons, and this vapor seems to have several benefits; it's great in milk porridge, baked goods, baked goods that use baking soda instead of baking powder wherein the brown sugar is to neutralize the baking soda taste, etc.) Radishes Gelatin desserts / fruit gels (I'm trying to avoid using trademarks here. :))

If I’m sick, I want Campbell’s tomato soup, Nabisco saltine crackers, and a real Coke. Other than that, if I’m needing comfort almost anything creamy will do. 🙋🏻‍♀️ Another La Madeleine lover here! When I can calorically afford it, my favorite lunch is a chicken salad croissant with Strawberries Romanov for dessert. Ten or more years ago, they had a wonderful breakfast/brunch dish that was like potatoes au gratin with ham in it. It also had a large clove of garlic baked in the middle. I always just ate around the garlic. I took DD and a couple of her sorority sisters there for breakfast before they hit the road back to school. One of the girls ate the garlic in her dish. What a surprise!