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I'd like an option somewhere between cooking from scratch and buying everything pre-made. I don't buy entirely pre-made meals like Stouffer's Lasagna, but I use things like pre-chopped frozen green peppers and onions. I don't know if you'd consider that from scratch.
Oh and while I don't cook from scratch, I also don't buy everything premade.
Yeah, Mags, buying everything in a recipe when you're learning can certainly add up. I used to buy all the stuff before we had MissFR, but after you know what you're doing a bit you learn how to make the essence of the dish, without having to have everything a recipe calls for.
I work full time and cook mostly from scratch. I don't know about the economical part, because honestly it would be cheaper to feed them Spaghetti-Os.
Well...yeah, but how long can you keep going with spaghettis?
You would think that most people would eventually come to crave some sort of cooked meal involving a vegetable, meat, etc; so then they would have the option of a home-cooked meal (involves time and skill) or some store-bought frozen dinner. The latter is more expensive than the former - strictly in terms of money. Adding the time and the skill is another issue.
But isn't this supposed to be part of the "full-time job" of a stay-at-home mother? Allocate time for home-cooked meals from scratch - so you can maximize nutrition and minimize cost?.
Meals cooked from scratch can be BOTH economical and very nutritious - but of course somebody has to take the time to do it and must acquire the skill to do it.
Well...yeah, but how long can you keep going with spaghettis?
You would think that most people would eventually come to crave some sort of cooked meal involving a vegetable, meat, etc; so then they would have the option of a home-cooked meal (involves time and skill) or some store-bought frozen dinner. The latter is more expensive than the former - strictly in terms of money. Adding the time and the skill is another issue.
But isn't this supposed to be part of the "full-time job" of a stay-at-home mother? Allocate time for home-cooked meals from scratch - so you can maximize nutrition and minimize cost?.
Meals cooked from scratch can be BOTH economical and very nutritious - but of course somebody has to take the time to do it and must acquire the skill to do it.
THIS is why people didn't want to respond to your thread. Who gets to define what the job a SAHM is? you?
I stay at home and don't cook from scratch a lot. I'm teaching myself and I find many ingredients to be cost prohibitive.
In the case you signal I think the trick is NOT to let yourself drawn into a million crazy recipes with all sorts of exotic ingredients.
The talent of the uber-housewife used to be to cook well, with simple/handy ingredients. Make a lot with little, aka resourcefulness.
I see this in my MIL (she is 84 now). She was the quintessential 50's housewife. Incredible. When I go to her place her fridge is literally empty, there's NOTHING there. Yet before I know it, she sets the table and gets a steaming casserole and side vegetables and drinks and everything needed and I end up eating until I drop on the floor.
She is phenomenal at meal planning and she makes miraculous meals on a very low budget. Quite enviable I must say.
I am yet to meet a young SAHM today with such skills.
I am sure they are out there but I am yet to meet one myself.
I must confess that ALL I know personally ...not only do they NOT cook from scratch...they do not cook at all.
This is self-confessed -they said it. I didn't. They marvel and go "ooh and ah" when I tell them I have a full-time professional (heavy) career and i cook from scratch regularly.
A few sid their husbands (yes, working husbands) cook 2-3 times a week, the rest is store-bought pizzas, take outs, eating out, etc.
I stayed (past tense) at home and cooked from scratch.
It was a hell of a lot of work I don't mind telling you.
(And I'm a VERY good cook. )
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