Depression Food: Encore

Mood disorders - particular those of a unipolar nature - often produce cravings for comfort foods. For me, this means chocolate, sugar, and carbs in general.

Today, while perusing my usual food blogs, I saw on Girlichef's blog a recipe for chocolate & peanut butter chip cookies in which a cake mix had the starring role. I've seen recipes for cookies using cake mixes quite a bit in the food blog world, but I've never gotten around to making any, until now.

The recipe is here. As Girlichef says, the brown sugar didn't seem necessary to her, so I didn't add it and I didn't feel these cookies lacked a thing because of that omission.

I loved these! They were simple and quick, which was perfect for me in my current frame of mind. There was near-instant satisfaction. The cookies were also delicious, cakey, and fudgey, and the peanut butter chips were fantastic. It doesn't get much better than chocolate & peanut butter combined.

Thanks Girlichef!

Ah, Meal Kits...

When one is unwell, sometimes it really pays to get a meal kit. It's easy, it's quick, it's usually satisfying. More importantly, it's brainless. Yes, indeed, recently meal kits have been rocking my kasbah.

I love the Simply Asia line of noodles & sauce products, and I buy them when I can find them on sale. I was in luck last week. Just add meat & veggies and the contents of the kit and there you go - nice, reasonably decent, tasty meal in about 15 minutes.
I also found a great rice kit on sale, too, made by A Taste of Thai. I had the garlic basil rice and it was really good. It had a bit of a kick to it, and was very flavourful. I also found wild chum salmon portions (frozen) on sale and I had some nice salmon & rice meals that were quite delish, healthy, and very easy for me to make.
Then of course, there is the ubiquitous taco kit. Man, sometimes a taco kit is just the ticket.
Actually, all in all, I'm not eating that terribly during this episode. I've certainly eaten worse.

Depression Food

Although I had a junk-out the other day, I have eaten decently during this episode, which is a change.

My brother and SIL had me over for dinner one night this week, and we had Shan's French Onion Soup and BBQ striploins.

I made Eggs in Purgatory one night.

For Cinco de Mayo, I made shrimp quesadillas.

Tonight I made myself a tuna melt & some fingerling fries.

Depression Kit