What are your go-to comfort foods?

I chop up a potato and throw it in a bowl with water and microwave it for 10 min. Then, I fry them in a pan with either butter or olive oil. When they're almost done, I crack open 2 eggs on top and mix it all together.

Top with ketchup. So good.

Peanut butter. Just peanut butter. Normally I’ll have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch but when I’m stressed I might forget the jelly and bread

It’s probably a step up that it’s no longer all carbs or all sweets. It’s also used to be Kraft Mac and cheese, but I can no longer go back from real Mac and cheese

Pad Thai and Panang Curry Chicken, ★★★.

A ground beef & refried bean burrito smothered in cheese and genuine New Mexican red chile sauce.

I totally agree with you. I am all about those bean burritos. French fries. I will often enjoy mac n cheese, buldak, pizza, biryani, and chicken tikka masala. Not at the same time, though.

Collard greens and bacon.

This is a perfect recipe, but I just fry up some bacon instead of using a turkey leg (though I'm sure that would be great too).

Eggy in a basket. Many may know of it from V For Vendetta, and as much as I'd like to show off: I saw it on there first as well (all those years ago), but my gosh is it satisfying!

Butter one side of thick-sliced bread, use a small glass to cut a hole in the middle, plop some butter into a pan, put the un-buttered side down and crack an egg into the middle, and once it's cooked enough flip it for a bit and then serve.
\ It takes practise to get the timing, of when to flip, right but once you do it's just buttery and eggy and definitely comforts me well.

Any vegetable i like fried in a pan, deglazed with any liquid (wine, broth, cream, water), some things to thicken the sauce (cheese, starch, flour), with a bit of any seasoning, and this goes on either pasta, rice or couscous. Very bad for the carbs part though, i admit.

Another option i recently found is kidney beans mashed with a fork, with some onions/garlic/green stuff in tiny pieces, maybe a bit of flour/starch and some seasoning (spices, soy sauce), fried in a layer of oil in a pan, makes very good patties that we really enjoy.

Doubt I’ll be much help here if you’re worried about carbs. My main comfort food is pasta. Piles of pasta. I like just about any sauce or topping.

Only advice I’ve got is to think back to your childhood and see if you can think of anything that might scratch a nostalgia itch. That usually helps me too.

Pizza

Tuna mayo jacket potato always goes down a treat for me

Maruchan chicken flavor Ramen (it's carby and full of sodium, I'm sorry).

Plain comfort food would usually be something like home made chicken fried rice. That bland, carb, hug with a bit of umami to lift it.

That or any nostalgic food. Stuff my mum used to cook when we were kids (but not some of the stuff we had because it was the 70s!). Like fried egg and chips. We were pretty poor at that stage but two eggs and one large potato per kid was affordable. Cheap and tasty. But my mum was a pretty great cook so she also used to do curries and goulash and paprikash and fish pie and steak and kidney pudding... any these, if cooked just the way she cooked them, are comforting to me.

Any sort of shrimp makes me happy. Sounds expensive, but 2lbs. is cheaper than a fast food meal around here.

Easy? Bagel or English muffins with cheese, any sort, and powedered pepper and green onion tops.