Is your family is snobby when it comes to homemade dishes

Eating homemade is simply taking care of yourself.

I think it's great they appreciate home made stuff and see effort and benefit. However a wee Indian selection is not a terrible thing

My daughter had a boyfriend when she was in her teens whose mother worked full time but cooked absolutely everything from scratch. They often go out for long family walks on a Sunday and his mum (yes his mum not the bf) would phone my dd to ask what she’d like in her sandwich and which cake.

It was very kind and would make me quite jealous (of the food!). But alas dd felt quite smothered in other ways and her and the boy parted company.

Sounds extremely healthy to me. I think it's the best way to live and something I am aiming to give more time to in 2026

Yeah, that makes sense!

Once you realise the flavour you’re tasting is synthetic additives and added salt, and not actual food, they taste gross.

Homemade food whether meals or cakes always fill you up more and do taste better. I’m also aware of hidden salt and sugar in bought stuff. I don’t have a problem the odd time eating shop bought at home but I do try to cook from scratch (and I hate cooking). If I went to friends’ houses to eat I really don’t mind what they serve me as I’m there for the company not particularly the food.

Tbh I buy a lot of frozen and prepackaged food ( there are lots of reasonably healthy options) but even I balk at the supermarket cakes. Have you tried reading the list of ingredients? They're horrible. There are options for non homemade cakes that are not complete junk.

@Cherrytree86 - how long do you think it takes to knock up a decent meal? There are lots of dinners I make that take under 20 minutes, and I wash up as I go so there's very little to clear up.

People who like to cook tend to have well stocked cupboards and can pull together meals from what they have to hand.

They look and smell gross, they are full of UPFs. They aren't healthy. Who would eat those over home made food? - generally only people who have already destroyed their taste buds or those who put TV ahead of their health.

Id be more than happy for someone to go to the effort of bringing a patisserie cake. But the person showing up with a last minute Asda trifle would definitely be getting eye rolls from me. If I’ve gone to the effort of making a full meal - that’s just lazy and rude.
If they can’t afford/ have something going on that means they can’t make, they should either pop to a proper bakery or just tell me and I’ll sort it myself.

Absolutely - it is a totally reasonable way to cook frozen peas. Great use of a microwave.

Ovens are quite commonly on a wall?

Have you never seen one like this?

https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/simply-better-you/is-a-double-wall-oven-worth-it/

If someone brought Sainsbury’s desserts when that’s all they’d been asked to do - they weren’t being snobby. You were being lazy and rude! I would have preferred you hadn’t bothered.

There are lots of snobs around then .I don' ever buy any ready made meals or desserts .I always make my own especially if I am having guests.I dont even like take aways .Home cooked food is just better

@Calgator , this is not ‘snobbishness’! There are a few things I buy ready made, bread and croissants among them but I am extremely picky about the ingredients used. We very rarely eat either in our house but as we have a houseful of people over Christmas I will get some. I cook everything from scratch because I’m concerned about UPFs. Honestly I think your attitude to this is a bit odd. Are you worried they judge your lack of culinary effort? Are you subconsciously trying to make them out as the strange ones so that you can avoid looking at your attitude to cooking?
In any case each to his own in my opinion, you do you and let them enjoy their dedication to the foodie arts.

Ok. Not sue I've ever seen an oven on the wall.

Microwave is a good and healthy way to cook some veg. It's not the devil people are making out on this thread.

I tried a large variety when my kitchen was being remodelled.

I lost a lot of weight because I disliked them all..

"Ready-made meals are unappetising and smell worse because the cheap ingredients, low quality fats and additives, preservatives, stabilisers and the way microwaves heats things up = bad smells."

This is just not true! I suspect you're letting your prejudice take over because you don't eat ready meals.
If the microwave itself causes a bad smell, then you'd have that bad smell also on home made food re-heated in the microwave.

" would find it odd and anti social though if someone brought their little processed food packet from the supermarket to a family dinner"

It's not anti-social when they have dietary requirements and they're trying not to impose them on the whole group. Would you find it polite to criticise the person for bringing that food?

No. The oven is on the wall.

Ironically the microwave is the thing they would use for some of the veg - TBH it would annoy them a lot more if I got in the way of the blitzing of the frozen peas and sweetcorn in the microwave

Ready-made meals are unappetising and smell worse because the cheap ingredients, low quality fats and additives, preservatives, stabilisers and the way microwaves heats things up = bad smells. I guess if you are used to food cooked form scratch anything that is prepared in a factory and packaged up to be microwaved would be unappealing. I'd personally rather have a toast and some cheese.

It’s not snobbish to notice or dislike bad smells or poor quality food it’s simply a personal preference, not a judgment about the people who eat it. I would find it odd and anti social though if someone brought their little processed food packet from the supermarket to a family dinner unless they have ARFID or a neuro diversity.

"I am not eating a microwave meal either way. Gross."

Have you tried microwave meals? They may not be very healthy, but they're not gross.

They don't use the stove to make a roast dinner? Isn't the oven in the stove/cooker? Don't they boil some of the veg on the stove?

Obviously I would flex this depending on what they are doing but if they are doing a roast, no, they don't use the stove.

I am not eating a microwave meal either way. Gross.

"But my home made cakes are way better than supermarkets."

Yours may be, but not everybody's!

That means you're using their stove while they're trying to cook dinner though, doesn't it? Something in the microwave would be less in the way I think.