10 Comfort foods that we have to have in our cabinets

Cabinet comfort food isn’t your average comfort foods, and what I mean by ‘your average comfort food’ is, the comfort food that takes a few hours to put together.

Cabinet comfort food is usually our go to meal ideas for a variety of reasons, but for some reason they make us feel warm all over, cozy even. Essentially, they make us feel comfortable, hence their name.

Common comfort foods in the realm of ones that take hours of prep time are for me: Chicken Parmesan, Cordon Bleu, Shepherd’s Pie, my wife’s Chow Mein and my Ma’s Cabbage Lasagna…just to name a few. But who said that comfort food can’t come in a box, or a can?

In this piece, we’ll take a look at 10 comfort foods we’ve just gotta have on hand at all times, and we’ll look into why we crave them

In a study conducted at Kitchen Cabinet Kings, I read why we crave comfort foods, the specific reasons why we go to the same foods over and over, and the reasons are actually vey interesting.

According to the study, we often go to our comfort foods when we’re stressed. That’s the number one reason. The number two reason is because of fatigue, and the third is because of happiness, which would seem odd, but hey, people are different. Cats don’t often have the same color fur, right?

Another interesting note on why people go to comfort foods from the study is: when they’ve accomplished something. I found that one interesting, as I always get a craving for a nice big cheeseburger when I finish an article (especially when I’m writing about them—cheeseburgers).

And did you know that studies show that women and men crave comfort foods for totally opposite reasons? Men apparently crave them when they’re happy and women when they’re stressed. For other cool facts about comfort food, check out the article here: kitchencabinetkings.com.

10. Chips

These are certainly dangerous. There are many out there that can put a bag of these away in one sitting, depending on the flavor. I’d say regular is the one flavor that can satisfy most cravings when it comes to chips, with good old BBQ a very close second, especially sweet BBQ, if you ask me.

9. Licorice

This is one treat for those sweets lovers out there, although licorice isn’t all that sweet. Let’s be honest…there are sweeter brands of candy out there, as we’ll see in the next entry. So essentially, as Rizzo said in Grease: “There are worse things I could do…”

For me, black licorice takes the cake, but I might only have a few friends in that department as red licorice whips definitely are favored by most. According to an episode of Friends, even the late great Charlton Heston.

8. Hard Candy

I can remember my grandmother’s house on winter days. There wasn’t much to do there when my sister and I were children, but if a good movie was on TV, you were good to go as the tomato sauce bubbled on the stove. I didn’t see my grandparents all that much, and when she passed in 2015, it was the bowl of hard candy she kept on her coffee table I thought about in the days that followed her wake.

The bowl was always full of mint, fruity, alcoholic, and taffy brands, and…