Is your family is snobby when it comes to homemade dishes

I assume the veggie wellington comment relates to Christmas. I definitely wouldn't give a guest something from M&S on Christmas Day and would happily cook from scratch something that they could eat, so I guess I'm snobby too (although I wouldn't judge people who do buy ready items).

I can’t afford a microwave… it’s pot noodles and cold baked beans for us!

Yes. A lot of fastidious mumsnetters get their knickers in a twist about home baking.

I’m a bad cook who has become even worse since losing my sense of taste and smell (thank you long covid). My family all say no thank you if I offer to cook anything now! Sometimes there are very good reasons for preferring ready meals to homemade 😊

Definitely not snobby! I would say in our house 90% of what we eat is home made but I'm not averse to an M&S dine in when I'm not organised or just CBA and I definitely wouldn't judge anyone who prefers shop bought meals! I LOVE cooking and baking, and often have full days meal prepping so I've got stuff in the freezer for the family if I'm not around. Sauces etc are made from scratch as are soups, casseroles,, cakes and bakes, sourdough etc. Can't remember the last time I ate shop bought bread for instance (but I do buy it for my husband) People need to stop being judgy and get on with their own lives.

Home made cakes from stalls? Wasn’t there recently a thread where Mumsnetters were clutching their princess pearls at the very notion of buying or accepting food that had been hand-made ( outside the immediate family) in case it didn’t meet the strictest food and hygiene standards?

I agree with you by the way

Now that does sound weird. Armchair psychologists seem pretentious to me. That’s sort of snobbish

I assume you make your own spaghetti?

My family including aunts on either side always cooked from scratch as they were all short of money. The first time I went to my future ILs we had baked beans with a shop sausage roll. I had never tasted either. Even today (over 50 years later) I still prefer home cooked. I have made over 60 mince pies (in freezer to be cooked). I'm not a fan of shop ones as they have too much sugar.

It surely depends on how they approach it.
"We love cooking and prefer homemade stuff" is fine.

"Oh look at those poor children who are in a café having unhealthy food and shop bought cakes. Aren't you so thankful you have parents who care about you and have bought a packed lunch" is not.
Actually all it made me do is long to be like the children in the café, and hate pack meals. However I don't think my parents did it from snobbery; I think it was simply financial and they were trying to convince themselves as well as us, that a pack lunch was what we really wanted.

Make their own croissants?! 🥐 Unless M/FIL are a boulanger/e from Normandy, their homemade efforts simply will not match a decent bakery bought pastry! NEVER had a homemade croissant which is anywhere near Gail’s, for example. Life’s too short imo 🤷‍♀️ (I cook a lot from scratch and known to be a very decent home cook btw!)

I wouldn’t say i was snobby about it but I do prefer homemade and I’m really grateful when others do to the trouble of making homemade food.

it taste better and it’s healthier

I agree it depends on the skills of the cook.

I know I am blowing my own trumpet, but my home made cakes are much nicer than shop bought cakes.

You need better friends @Cardiganlgirl39

My family were like this - they associate shop-bought food with cheap supermarkets, so they think it's classier to eat homemade.

But I'm the opposite - I avoid homemade! People use cheap ingredients like marg instead of butter, leave out sugar/salt or add their own gross "twist" on a classic. I'd much rather have a lovely tin of biscuits from M&S or Waitrose thank you :)

I never bake anything to take to someone else's house, all my friends know I can't cook and wouldn't dream of shaming me or implying I don't have manners. We eat out if it's my turn!

Not all homemade things are more delicious, I have eaten a few cakes in my time that were less than yummy, especially with horrible butter cream icing. I have a friend who imagines everyone loves her homemade pasta dishes, they are not great, but it doesn't matter, I'm always happy if someone cooks for me.

Some homemade things are delicious, but not everything. I'm frequently a bit disappointed when eating out lately, by chefs who presumably do know how to cook, I went to one with a large taster menu recently and it was all a bit sickly and too much cream.

One friend of mine is an amazing cook though so anything homemade by her is at the top of my list.

They’re not “snobby.” You just have low standards.

Shop bought made food is full of goodness knows what. A cake from a supermarket will be made of a lot of ultra-processed ingredients. And heavily saturated with sugar and fat - far more than a proper home made cake.

The only insecure sounding person on this thread is you @Calgator

Unless you are a terrible cook homemade always tastes better.

When DD was in primary school I used to run the cake stall at school fairs. Some parents brought in shop bought cakes, but most brought home made.

The only bought cake that did sell was Battenburg, but generally people made a beeline for the home made first.

How?

I’m a cook from scratcher myself. But what really annoys me is the people who go on about how poor people could easily make delicious meals for a pound a week from a bag of beans and a turnip if only they were prepared to cook without taking into account all the other factors that make it difficult or impossible. I’m looking at you, mostly Tory politicians.

Well, this hasn't gone the way you wanted @OP. Merry Christmas!

Christ, you are rude.

My 🎄pudding is MUCH nicer than any shop version!

Sickly and also dry, often tasteless.

You and your parents sound snobbier, getting your starters from M&S and Waiterose, rather than Tesco and Aldi lol

Thanks. Good to know.