Comfort Foods

Some things about Comfort Foods:

• Comfort foods can help ease your stress during rough times

• While not considered “life sustaining” foods, they can considered “sanity-sustaining” foods. This is especially important if you have young children.

• A few normal foods or delicious snacks now and then can really help a difficult situation.

• The advice to use what you store, and store what you eat applies to comfort foods as well. Try a new thing each week or month to build up your stores of ideas for comfort items using food storage and then store the ingredients for them.

Ideas:
Home-made popcorn in a pot
Mashed potatoes with instant potatoes and GRAVY
Hard Candy
Chocolate
Pudding (made using dry milk)
Granola bars
Fruit snacks for children
Chicken noodle soup in a can (for if you get sick)
Kool-aid
Condiments (ketchup, mustard, bbq sauce, salsa, pickles - store a spare or two of each)
Spices (inventory what spices you use and store an extra one or two of each)
No-bake cookies ingredients
Rice Krispie Treats
Macaroni & cheese dinners
Chocolate and butterscotch baking chips for homemade cookies or snacking
Peppermint tea bags
Homemade cinnamon rolls