Is your family is snobby when it comes to homemade dishes

They don’t sound snobby at all - clearly keen (and good) cooks who value good food.

Any insecurity is coming from you, I think.

I think it is very strange you view this as being snobby.

Maybe because all of the ultra processed crap is so bad for you. Good on them cooking from scratch.

I prefer homemade too.

It tastes better, is better quality, I know what's in it and I like cooking.

I'd be happy if someone turned up at the door with homemade bread too.

I don't see why that's 'snobby' though. I started when I was a single parent when my eldest was born 27 years ago because it was cheaper (then) and gave me something to do.

Honestly, some people on here will find anything to criticise others for!

It's only really an option for time rich households

Croissants I’d draw the line at though. For me, they cross over into ‘not worth the time, to make an inferior product, better off buying’ territory.

My family were like this and I went through a phase as a kid of wanting to buy really processed foods like angel layer cakes because all our cakes were home made. I have now reverted.

Processed foods/readymeals are in general full of poor quality ingredients, salt, sugar and other additives. If you eat well-made cooked at home from scratch meals mostly and then try ready-made meals and meals consisting of jars and packets of sauces, you can taste how awful most are.

I do eat processed food but really try to limit as I know it’s not the best choice but needs must. I think if someone enjoys cooking, food ingredients, recipes, etc and makes time to cook from scratch, it is nothing to be sneered at and it can all be very social. And once you have the recipes, ingredients and know how, it’s not all that time consuming. (Obviously takes longer than sticking something ready-made into the oven.). Each to their own.

I much prefer homemade food, so much tastier and healthier. Sadly, I don't currently have enough spare time to forgo the occasional time saving pre-prepared dish, but when I do I will home cook it all!

I would want to make an effort at Christmas, and make everything fresh. I wouldn't expect the veggie to have some UPF convenience food whilst everyone else was tucking into a delicious homemade feast!

My family aren't like this but I am a bit, not that I only eat homemade food but I do much prefer it, especially things like cakes.

That's not snobby...doesn't everyone love homemade food? Ready meals are always a poor substitute but often a necessity for people because of time.

I love the sound of how much they love good food. A Tesco cake would also stay untouched in my house if there was the option of any homemade one.

Sounds lovely. Where’s the snobbery?

What is snobby about that? It sounds like you are judging them. I much much prefer homemade food especially as i get older. I don't want to eat a load of processed junk.

My MIL believed that stuff you made was more unhealthy than bought stuff. She used to get very upset that I made things and then complained she couldn’t eat them as they would be so ‘rich’.

I don’t think snobby means whay you think it means op; are you just looking for a reason to have a go at them? They are good cooks, they prefer to cook, what on earth is wrong with that.

Since when did making food to eat become snobby.

Literally what the whole of humanity until 20/30 years did and much of the still world does.

This.

It's not snobbishness - it's a hobby, or an interest. In fact, it sounds as if you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it.

I think it's rather sweet - I would take an interest and ask all sorts of questions without having the least compunction about serving M&S (or ever Aldi) party snacks myself.😀

What happens when you have them over and give them shop-bought stuff? Do they turn their nose up, or do they just eat it and not mention it?

What on earth is ‘snobby’ about wanting to avoid the myriad health problems caused by eating processed foods? About wanting a healthy old age, not one ruined by diabetes? About wanting your kids to avoid early onset colon cancer? About not wanting to line the pockets of corporations that hijack our taste buds to hook us on profitable, processed junk?

I am really shocked by this framing of processed food not just as the norm- but as so essential that if you dare to deviate from it, you are ruled ‘snobby’.

The only people benefiting from processed food are the shareholders in the corporations that make it. And they’re certainly not eating it themselves.

I feel sorry for OP’s in-laws, having to put up with this level of brainwashed stupidity. Yes, cooking from scratch is difficult and exhausting, given the amount of work most of us need to do just to pay the bills. That’s a bad thing, a symptom of the sickness of untrammelled capitalism since the 1980s. It is not something to be celebrated & encouraged, lemming like, as the norm.

As others have said, homemade is usually much nicer and usually worth the effort.

As you say, “you’ve no idea”.

Perhaps if you think about things which are important to you, and to which you will make efforts more than average, can you say this is their version of that.

Lastly, as a homemade food person- I think it is most unlikely to come from a place of insecurity.

What’s snobby about preferring home made food?

I used Nigella's (or was it Hugh F-W's?) recipe one year and found it a massive faff with no discernable difference between the results and a bought pudding. I think the homemade/ shop bought difference is most stark when it comes to relatively delicate things with a limited shelf life (bread, pastry, sponge cake).

Whereas Christmas pudding could survive a nuclear holocaust unscathed, and give the cockroaches a festive treat.

We do make Christmas cake and mince pies though.

Snobby is definitely the wrong word.

my in-laws are the polar opposite, nothing is made from scratch ever, everything comes out of a packet or jar. I once made a cheesecake for a family gathering and it sat there untouched, eyed suspiciously, as they all tucked into the “gorgeous” 99p mandarin cheesecake from Farmfoods.

Homemade is snobby but Waitrose is chilled every day normal fare. Righty-ho.