Welcome to The Girl Next Door.

I'm Kelsey.

And I'm Erica.

In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends.

We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet.

Since we're heading into the cozy season, today we're talking about comfort foods.

We'll talk about comfort foods from our childhood and the ones we found as adults,

plus the foods we want when we're sick.

Warning, grab a snack because this episode will definitely make you hungry.

For friends of the show on Patreon, we'll each be sharing what we like to eat if we have a weekend to ourselves, which is a particular kind of comfort food.

That bonus answer is something that our Friends of the Show get for every episode, in addition to several full-length bonus episodes

and two live online hangouts each year. And we actually have our annual holiday hangout

for Friends of the Show coming up on Sunday, November 16th at 12 p.m. Eastern and 9 a.m. Pacific.

So please mark your calendars. On these holiday hangouts, we share our

holiday plans, how we'll make them festive, and how we're heading off holiday stress.

So join us for a cozy holiday hangout for Friends of the Show on Sunday, November 16th.

And there will be more details in Patreon. We hope to see you there.

Okay, let's talk about comfort food.

Looking back on your childhood, tell me about the comfort foods that you remember. Okay, my first one is very specifically grandma snacks. Grandma snacks. I love this. So I did not have a baking homemade from scratch kind of grandma.

I had a young grandma.

She was a single mom growing up, you know, with my dad and aunts growing up.

And she was a snack, grandma.

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