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I'm not sure I understand. Most foods I buy at stores and prepare them for eating. Whether it's TV dinners or cheese. Are you talking, perhaps of baking? I rarely bake anything from scratch--bread, cookies, cakes. I'd rather buy it already made--since it's done by someone who knows how.
Know what it means when the smoke detector goes off in my home? Dinner's ready!
We make microwave popcorn in a brown paper lunch bag. Costs about 5 cents a bag versus 50cents for the generic prepackaged microwave popcorn. Also no chemical crap in the popcorn. Just butter and salt.
Flour tortillas. We make a fresh batch every couple of days.
TKramar, I mean anything you could make at home relatively easily: cookies, bread, any meals, juice, marinara/alfredo sauce, etc.
bulldogdad answered it pretty well.
The first thing that came to my mind is that I make my own enchilada sauce. If time permitted, I would make more condiments from scratch, like ketchup and ranch.
I buy pretty much everything premade. Heat and eat.
Except pizza, for those I use tortillas, meat, cheese, olives, and mushrooms. I don't grow any vegetables at home, though I've tried. Just didn't work out for me. Tried growing tomatoes and orange bell peppers.
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We buy a lot of pasta sauce premade in jars but we're looking to change that and just boil/simmer diced tomatoes, with seasoning, in a pan starting next time. (Saw an easy recipe here and it sounded perfect.)
We buy frozen pizza and doctor it up with mushrooms and olives, but we sometimes make it from scratch (including making the dough in the breadmaker). We plan on making it from scratch more often now, seeing as we just bought a pizza stone. We'll still go out for pizza, though, because we really like a local pizza joint here and nothing that we could make would compare to it.
Sadly, most other things are always bought premade -- there's just no time (or desire, really) to make it, but I see us getting better about it about some things.
I almost always do. I like making it once in awhile, but usually it's too much trouble - and there are some respectable ones out there.
I almost never buy the frozen dinner/"TV dinner" things. Expensive, generally even the priciest are only OK taste-wise, and generally not exactly the healthiest things in the whole wide world (check Marie Callendar's stats sometime - yikes). I esp don't get buying pre-made stuff like simple pasta meals (eg spaghetti) when it so much cheaper and better - and barely much harder - to make yourself, but to each their own.
I never make pizzas either. Tried it a few times. It was fine but not really cheaper and not as good as a good pizza (this does NOT include the chain pizza garbage).
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I like making it once in awhile, but usually it's too much trouble - and there are some respectable ones out there.
