Staple food PowerHouseCreatives Contest

This is my entry for he powerhouse creatives contest on staple food. But also I think: comfort food

My first image shows toast with marmalade which I used to eat every morning before I moved on to porridge. In the UK bread is one of the staple foods although it's most usually used for snack food or sandwiches for work.

These last two years I've mainly had porridge for breakfast which is made from oats. I put a spoonful of honey and milk on the top and then mix it in well and then turn on the computer and answer my emails while I'm eating it.

There's many types of porridge and many types of topping, but oats is the most usual in the UK.

I usually have a second breakfast a few hours later when I'm feeling peckish and mostly I have and egg or two on fresh bread or toast with fried potatoes. Sometimes there's bacon in the house so I had that too.

This image shows a cheese and onion flat pasty that I have as a filler in between meals if I'm feeling hungry. It's a comfort food mainly and tastes great, in fact I most often eat it before I get back to the house, it's best when hot.

This next one is baked spuds with homus, coleslaw and broccoli. When the spuds have been baked in the over for around 40 minutes, new spuds and small are best, then I take them out and cut them in half and put butter on them with some thin cheese sliced and layered over them. Then I put the homus and coleslaw on and eat before it gets cold.

This is one of my favourite meals and I have it about once every ten days or so. It's also very easy to make and doesn't cost much. This too is a comfort food.

This one I get from the local shop. It's a chicken and rice dish and reminds me of when I was in Thailand and would eat rice with every meal and loved it too. I usually have spuds with it as they are a staple in the UK, and I usually have broccoli too as it's really good for you.

This last one is a spaghetti dish with bacon and sauce from a pack, with broccoli and new potatoes. Sometimes I put butter on the spuds.

There are lots of other meals that I have but these are some of my favourite comfort foods.

All images are mine but I've submitted two of them to pixabay.