Have easy & cheap supermarket products destroyed the arts of home cooking ?!
I know that a lot of people still take pleasure in making home-made meals, as I do.
But the ingredients have become much more expensive than just picking up a ready made hot-pot, or even a loaf of bread.
I sometimes wonder that if the National Grid was to pack up, so the deliveries and supermarkets are shut down, would most folks know how to survive ?
I would crank up the produce from my allotment, and take my air-fifle out for duck, rabbit, pheasant etc
But of course in cities, this would be a riot waiting to happen.
OK I can live without all the fancy herbs & spices.
What do you reckon ?
Bob
Answers: Hi Folks,
I know that a lot of people still take pleasure in making home-made meals, as I do.
But the ingredients have become much more expensive than just picking up a ready made hot-pot, or even a loaf of bread.
I sometimes wonder that if the National Grid was to pack up, so the deliveries and supermarkets are shut down, would most folks know how to survive ?
I would crank up the produce from my allotment, and take my air-fifle out for duck, rabbit, pheasant etc
But of course in cities, this would be a riot waiting to happen.
OK I can live without all the fancy herbs & spices.
What do you reckon ?
Bob
I am with you.
I must admit I do buy the odd pre packed food for when we are in a rush but to me bothering to cook a good home made meal for the family shows I care. Nothing fancy just nourishing food and home made puddings. I only get complaints when I experiment they say just leave things as they are.
One great outcome is that both my sons are cooking well for their families and my grandson is also learning.
After over 40 years cooking they decided last night it was the best cheese and onion pie ever.
i know people (and you) will be looking for a type or specific food product. but no, it's the Microwave oven! so easy to just heat somethink up, and it kills the taste of any food. if it wasnt for the Microwave oven, maybe there wouldnt be any 'ready meals,' and people wouldnt have lost the will to COOK!
Hi,
i know what you mean,
you can go into the supermarket and buy the meals allready done for you.
Luckly in my house everyone prefers homemade cooking.
And it does taste a lot better,
at least i know what is going into my meals.
I could not live with out my food mixer (being disabled it helps a lot)
I know it is cheaper just to buy the meals off of the shelves,
but they lack all the goodness and most of them lack taste.
Bring back home cooking!!!!
I too am a big fan of home cooking firstly because it tastes so much better and secondly because i know exactly what is in it.
Good quality ingredients are getting harder to come by but i dont blame supermarkets for this i blame the public.
People have become lazy and forgotten how to cook.....supermarkets wouldnt stock so much pre-packed rubbish if people didnt buy it. The culture in the uk has become one of microwave meals and i think it is really really sad.
be that as it may..
it looks to me that becomming a personal chef might be very doable. i love to cook.
would the average person be willing to pay someone else to enter their home to bring back a home cooked meal?
It's not just the supermarkets to blame but also the education system. When i was at school we were taught basic cookery for a double lesson each week and anyone of us could make pies, cakes, bread, a roast dinner and evaluate the nutrition. Not everyone is a brainbox but we all need to eat and this basic cookery didn't create differences between the really brainy pupils and those who were better with their hands - in fact it gave them a good meeting ground as some of those less accademically inclined were better with practicalities. This has all flown out of the window now and what passes for domestic science is rubbish. Too many generations of girls have grown up without this knowledge until we have got to the point where very few of them can cook a meal from scratch. I was also taught by my mother and i have taught my three children who now have their own homes and cook proper food. I could not live without fresh herbs! It's so easy to have them growing on your window sill even in these gloomy days and they add a lovely smell to your home that is better and certainly much healthier than anything out of an airosol.
I still prefer home cooking. I like to know exactly what is in my food. I don't like supermarkets. I prefer to purchase from the local butchers, bakers and fruit and veg shop. Much fresher.
While convenience foods seem cheap the supermarkets make their money with a high mark up on other items like toiletries. I could survive with no herbs nothing wrong with just salt and pepper.
Yes, thank god. I live alone.
far from it .you can get items that you only saw on `posh` menus fresh/frozen and tinned to use in your `home` cooking.at reasonable prices
Yes I'm a home cook, if you look on the back of ready made sauces the main ingredient is water ..........Yeeeeuuk.
FRESH IS BEST - I don't even posses a freezer......!