Comfort Food After a L o n g Shift

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I find myself craving certain meals after an exceptionally long/stressful shift. None of it is ever healthy!! Tonight was one of those nights. It got me thinking... what comfort food do you crave after a difficult shift?

I'll go first.

I LOVE anything with syrup-- pancakes (especially with chocolate chips!!), waffles, and french toast. That syrup melts away all the stress of the day! My other big-time comfort meal is bacon, eggs, and fried tomatoes. I'm not quite sure why it's all breakfast food...:rolleyes:

Baileys in my coffee, homemade egg mcmuffin, or nachos....

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Specializes in CCU,ICU,ER retired.

It used to be 2-3 sixpacks of really cold beer. But since I started going to AA, it is Eggos smeared with peanut butter and blackberry jelly and a big can of V-8

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

Since I have yet to get my AA card, it is 2-3 glasses of wine and mac-n-cheese, or cheese and crackers. Yumn, ready for it now!

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.
Sharing a box of wine with my other ICU ladies, and hashbrown casserole from Cracker Barrel.

Ahhh I love wine mornings with the crew. Have a friend and we play runescape together in the morning with a cold one after work.

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Every once in awhile I get a Frosty and fries from Wendy's, and then eat the frosty with the french fries. So good.

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ice cream with chicharon toppings

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Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.

Einstein's Nova Lox Bagel, no onions and a hot chocolate. (However Einstein's recently changed their salmon from something heavenly to something that tastes like it came from a grocery store).

Tait

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Specializes in School Nursing.

I used to love Einsteins after a hard night shift too. They had a spinach and cheese omlet on whole wheat bagel that was too die for!

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Specializes in Psych, EMS.

Bagel bites and a wine spritzer

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Pasta with tomato sauce or perhaps pizza...

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Specializes in Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.

Gotta crunch on something. Peanuts, usually with hummus, crackers and cheese. Then I don't want to go to bed on a full stomach so I end up on allnurses and fall asleep in front of the computer!

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Specializes in Mom/Baby.

Wine or bud light...whichever we have and peanut butter toast...lol.

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