Is your family is snobby when it comes to homemade dishes

I have a friend like this. I find it a little pretentious. Even the best chefs buy in puff pastry etc when they’re cooking at home. I suppose for me it makes complete sense if it’s cheaper/ quicker/ nicer/ better quality, but it would rarely hit a balance of those criteria to make it worth it.

You’re obviously not alone otherwise the queue to collect Christmas food from m&s wouldn’t be out the door every year!

I think the only food I am 'snobby' about is roast potatoes! The frozen ready made ones just do not compare. I know from scratch ones can be a bit of a faff if you're pushed for time and up to your eyes in cooking everything else but IMO homemade ones are SO worth the effort.

Sounds like the appreciate food and like to know where what they eat comes from. Snobby is such an odd word to use in this scenario. I do eat shop bought food but I make as much as I can from scratch and definitely appreciate homemade food more. It tastes better, I know where it came from, and I have the added comfort of knowing someone spent their time making it for me.

@Franpie

how boring though! Each to their own, but I’d rather have the headspace for other stuff

Was your other SIL talking about your insecurity? Because that's how your posts are coming across to me.

"Snobby" is an interesting word to apply to your in-laws. Synonyms of 'snobby' - snooty, haughty, pretentious, arrogant, superior, condescending, and pompous. Do any of these really apply to them? Well some of them do - but to you. You're definitely being condescending, I can practically see you looking down your nose at them (" I just find it amusing tbh! "). And yes to snooty and superior, possible to pretentious and pompous.

The only reason I can see for your hostility to your in-laws love of cooking good food is the "place of insecurity". But you're projecting it onto them when it is you who is insecure, with your shop-bought cake. Can you cook? At all? Your in-laws sound lovely, expressing love for each other by cooking especially for each other. You sound, frankly, envious.

@Solentsolo

Ok, so scones is one example….

I dont enjoy cooking, it's a chore, but it doesn't take long to knock something fresh up. The worst part is constantly having to think what to cook for tea.

Also to add to that, if you’re a foodie (like my DH) I think you’re always thinking about food so you are always a few steps ahead of those who aren’t foodies. My DH is always thinking about his next few meals. So there’s always something marinating in the fridge, or he’s nurturing his sourdough starter, or he always has the ingredients in for fresh pesto etc. nothing is really left to the last minute because he loves thinking about food all the bloody time!

You're the odd one here.

If you buy the ingredients for scones, they last for ages. Making scones takes less time than it takes to pick scones from a supermarket shelf and take them to the till.

Add to the fact that scones are incredibly easy to make, and supermarket scones are a total and utter abomination. Utterly disgusting.

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Sounds like they enjoy good food and feeding people as to make a vegetarian wellington for one person is a huge effort and unlikely to be something they do for brownie points!

Very good cooks can throw a meal together in next to no time.

I look in the fridge and get overwhelmed. DH on the other hand can manage to throw together a really lovely meal from a pretty bare fridge and store cupboard without breaking a sweat in under 30 mins plus enjoy the process.

@RenatasHouse

is she supposed to just renounce her beliefs and eat meat in that situation in your book?

All of you people who make ‘everything’ homemade from scratch- where do you get the time?? To buy all the different ingredients, make it all, cook it,clear up etc? Do you have time to do other stuff that contributes to good health as well such as going to the gym?

I am veggie so take my own ready meal which goes in the microwave and is always delicious but I get treated like an outcast and a total moron!

Well...

The problem is as well if you like cooking I even find that restaurant meals out seem poor value for money and often not anything that different that I couldn’t do myself - I fully admit I cheat and several nights a week use the simply cook kits and I can guarantee each and every time my H will say - blimey that’s better than most restaurant meals -

Sounds more like they just appreciated good old home cooked food. Foodies can come across as snobby because they are henerally good at cooking so have a lot of opinions and advice!

OP I think we might be in the same family!
Seriously my in-laws are a blooming nightmare, especially at Christmas around home cooked food.
Every year they spend hours preparing a meal that always has to be the best meal anyone has ever had (always better than the previous year) and they go on and on about it and everyone has to tell them how wonderful it is a million times over, it is blooming exhausting!
I am veggie so take my own ready meal which goes in the microwave and is always delicious but I get treated like an outcast and a total moron!
Apparently ready meals are the work of the devil!

I do a lovely veggie meal (potatoes, onions, apples layered with very weak marmite and small amount of water, topped with cheese and just put in oven till potatoes are cooked) that goes beautifully with gammon, pork or most other meats. Easy to cater for veggies as I do other stuff that most (meat/fish eating) people like.

Exactly this. home made food nearly always tastes better, isn’t full of weird additives, hasn’t been churned out in some factory where you can only hope that they have kept to food standard regulations, and most of all shows someone cares about what they eat and what their guests eat.

If all that is snobby then crown me Queen Snobby. How sad that it is now seen as snobby to be able to cook.

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I agree. 'Snobby' is a silly word is a silly word in this context.

I'd decline any shop bough cake. Yuck.

Well it's not the same standard of food and lifestyle is it?

They’re just foodies!