Homemade or store bought?

hbrekkaas

I cook! We buy the little things, spaghetti/pizza sauce, the rare can of soup (we don't really eat it) condiments, cereal and crackers. I make all our lunches/dinner. No pre-packaged lunchables for the kids or frozen dinners/pizzas for us. I make our own pizza shells, all baked items and except for a rare fast food meal, I make all our dinners from scratch.

I do have to admit that if my kids didn't have allergies,we would probably eat a bit more store bought stuff. Especially things like waffles and cookies. But as fate had it, they do have allergies and I learned to make pretty much everything myself so that everyone can have some.

Uk_Yogini

I like cooking and cook everything from scratch. Right now being it's so hot outside, I am not doing much cooking at all as I will eat salads and as much raw as I can, but that will change once it's cold again.

aanddplusoanda

I do homemade most of the time...sometimes semi-homemade and sometimes store bought for when we are in a hurry and want something hot to eat.

baisleac

I love cooking and have had such fun coming up with new healthy recipes and modifying old ones and finding that a lot of my regular recipes were already healthy... that I started a blog. (psst... it's in my sig)

SusanRenee35

I def love to cook but need those fast things at hand as well for when I am rushed & hungry!

ShannonWinger

I like to cook. I don't like to cook things that are very complicated and take forever but I like simple, fast things. This year we grew a garden so I'm having so much fun cooking with what I grew.

aippolito1

I LOVE to cook. My grandparents were chefs & I like to think I have some of the talent in my blood. Tonight I'm having baked tilapia & broccoli with steamed white rice. I love coming up with new sauces for rice or pasta and mixing it with chicken and spinach or whatever vegetable I'm craving.

ShellyLee

I like cooking, LOVE baking... which really makes this whole reduced calorie thing really hard lol. I do frozen meals a couple times week and have only eaten out once this week. It's easier to justify cooking an entire meal when my husband is home, but he's deployed for six months and I'm only good at eating leftovers like once... so finding things to make that aren't like 4+ servings is hard now. I will never be one of those people who makes all their meals for the week ahead of time lol. I will do things like roast two sweet potatoes, one to have with dinner that night and usually eat the second one at lunch the next day with a sandwich. I'll buy two steak and veggie kabobs and make both.. eat one that night and the other one the next day for lunch.. so I try to make it work out.

Marsha_S

I love cooking and have had such fun coming up with new healthy recipes and modifying old ones and finding that a lot of my regular recipes were already healthy... that I started a blog. (psst... it's in my sig)

Thank you, will look at your blog as I'm always after new recipes!

Marsha_S

I love too cook, in fact my major was culinary arts ( a fact that got me here lol). I'm having a blast figuring out new low calorie recipes and love the recipes on eatingwell.com. Do you have any place you get your recipes? I'm always looking for new things.

After growing up in the caribbean, I still cook a lot of caribbean meals (my British hubby LOVES when I cook it), but now I make more of an effort to keep the fat/sodium levels down in my meals.

Recipes...I own a few recipe books, but I also search online a lot, like BBC Good Food. I also downloaded cooking apps on my iPhone so I'm always hunting for something different.

I'm not a good baker really, but I'd love to make my own bread. Need to get some recipes for that! I'd love it if you'd share some recipes with me?!??

Marsha_S

What's funny is that until somewhat recently, I despised cooking. I am a baker, I can mix some delicious flavors together to get something new, but as far as cooking spices and what goes with what; I'm at a complete loss.

But recently, with money being tighter around here, we've taken to cooking more at home, and since I don't work, I'm taking more responsibility for our meals. (hubby was the cook mostly) I don't LOVE it, but I'm learning to like it.

The thing I find most difficult is finding new ways to use up the food that we already have in the house instead of buying different stuff. We have a lot of fish products that we got from Angel Food, and since we don't typically like fish, I have no idea what to do with it. Mostly, it's breaded fish wedges, fish sticks, and breaded/fried stuff like that...so, really not up our alley.

But, I'd rather make something that I know exactly what the ingredients are versus buying a pre-packaged meal with ingredients that you can't even pronounce....

I'm happy to share recipes with you if you'd like....can you please share your baking recipes with me? I'm hopeless at baking! i think I knead the dough too much or something cause it always comes out stiff...so I've given up:sad: :brokenheart: .