Food that’s not worth the effort

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Crab…picked yourself
Unfilleted fish
globe artichoke all that finiking for some little bites

My daughter had to make a Baklava for school years ago.
what a faff ! Not worth the effort all.

Almost everything 😂

Crikey! The most we had to make was a rock bun or a fairy cake. Neither of which were worth the effort.

I made a Vegetable spiral quiche, there’s a few hours of my life that I can’t get back. Total waste of time and effort 😂
https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/spiral-vegie-quiche/d708b25d-cafa-42e1-8546-c4d8939d2262

I agree with all these except spaghetti. It’s so easy to cook in a pan of hot water. Am I missing something?

But it looks so pretty! And also kind of frightening.

I make scotch eggs and fish cakes and wonder if it's worth the faffing. But they are superior to bought ones and appreciate the effort when I'm eating them. But no to puff pastry, hot cross buns, ice cream, rice pudding and biscuits.

Making your own crumpets.

Exhausting and no better than shop bought

Perhaps they mean spaghetti from scratch so making your own pasta with flour and eggs? I did it once...utter waste of time.

I make excellent fish cakes.
Much better than my fake risotto.

I like making rice pudding but the Tesco's Finest clotted cream one is sublime.

I must be some kind of freak. Homemade: all our bread and baked goods, chapattis; halloumi, butter, mozzarella, herbed cream cheese; pasta, ravioli, lasagne, pizza bases, soups; pork pies, sausages, scotch eggs (yes, I mince the meat), chicken wings, spare ribs; pickles, chutneys, jams.
Yes, it's a load of work. Better quality, costs far less and no chemical additives. Best is I'm not dependent on the supermarket and don't have to pay their horrendous prices. Boursin is £18/kg and costs £2.40/kg to make at home.

Chicken wings. Too much effort for so little meat, too messy, too long spent picking food out my teeth afterwards!

I get frozen veg, frozen yorkies, shop bought gravy. It's my easiest meal.

The trick is to put them in the oven, then peel when cooked. A butternut can go in whole. Depending on the size of the pumpkin, half or quarter. When it's soft and cooked you can easily peel the skin off, cut into smaller chunks, scoop out the seeds.

Lol yes! I realised this just after I posted. I once made homemade jelly from scratch. NINE oranges, leaves of gelatine… really nice but SO much trouble and very expensive. I mean, how much would 9 oranges cost now?? 😱

Pistachio nuts, so yummy but eugh too much effort for me lol

Soup! Any homemade soup. My lot enjoy it and then want their meal. All that effort and they’re not fed.

Yes! You're basing making a meal twice/3 times . - the meat sauce, white sauce then having to assemble it all and cook it again. CBA!

Living on my own I can cook as infrequently as I want and can't often be rsed to do anything labour intensive. There are so many nice meals which take little to no effort in an air- fryer, combi microwave oven and grill, slow cooker and pie-maker, that I can eat well and nutritiously in minimal time without resorting to ready meals. I do also like quiche and veggie samosas plus microwave rice and M&S gluten free frozen cod fillets (10 mins in pan +@ butter with tenderstem broccoli) omelettes and baked potatoes.
The Aldi pie maker is great. Makes 9. I use filo or ready rolled shortcrust with a dob of jam topped with a packet sponge mixture and pastry lid or filled with chopped apple and drizzled with thin icing or icing sugar when baked. Takes about 10 minutes and looks fab.

I make an epic roast, from scratch apart from gravy. Can't be arsed to fuck about doing a trivot etc, I just buy the ready made pouches from whichever supermarket I am in.

Also curry, proper indian curry. I do a base from garlic, ginger, onion. Takes fecking hours and we have a gorgeous Indian just up the road.

How do you make your own Boursin? I love it.

In response to the OP - I think most things ARE worth the faff.

I thought gnocchi wasn't worth the faff but now I have experience and they come out well I have changed my mind.

Pigeon - not much meat on a pigeon.

Onion bhajis - mine tasted no better than shop bought.

I agree on lasagne as I hate making the white sauce. I don't like shop bought ones though, so I always hope friends will make it.

Bosh's Mushroom Wellington. Huge faff and I didn't like it at all.

I use shop-bought gravy sometimes because it is convenient, but it’s just brown sauce, in all honesty. It doesn’t even compare to home-made gravy - I mean, not even close.

Lasagna - worth it as shop bought is not good and probably got horse in it. 😂

Not worth it - Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, hot cross buns, bagels, crumpets- all of which I have made (can't get them where I live) but not worth it!

Definitely worth it as a faff but so much nicer than ready-made: custard, mayonnaise, pesto

Got married in 1963. Fast foods and ready made ingredients hardly existed. Now I'm 86 and live alone. I INTEND to make nutritious home made food, but practically never get around to it. No point, really.