Food you prefer to make at home instead of getting ready made?

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Pasta sauce. Cannot believe how nice it tastes with a can of plum tomatoes, a clove of garlic and a few herbs.

I was going to say pasta sauce too - sounds like mine is similar to yours but I add a lump of butter for extra richness.

Muesli because the ones you can buy are mostly full of dates.

Most of them! The only exception I can think of is hummus. I am too used to shop-bought, although others love my hummus to me it just doesn't taste right.
Oh and crackers. I CAN make my own but the ready-made ones are just much more convenient and I don't find much fun in making those.

Yes pasta sauce with nearly going too soft tomatoes. Yes and a knob of butter.
Home made butter too.

Roast dinner
Steak

Have you tried the Lailas pantry seeded cracker recipe? Soo easy and tastes delicious!
i’m the same, cant really think of much I prefer to buy apart from hummus (and the chovi ailoi!)

Shortcrust pastry
Cakes
Biscuits
Soup
Mashed potatoes

Yes pasta sauce.
Coleslaw

Burgers

I am keto so can’t buy anything ready made as it’s full of wheat/grains and starches 😂

I make my own bearnaise sauce.

Sandwiches.
Lasagne.

Fish pie and paella. I love sword and monkfish, also huge prawns, cheesy mash and lots of fish stock and peppers in the paella.

Guacamole
Especially if you add blue cheese - oh my gooood, its utter heaven! drools in Homer Simpson

Tea. It's rare for me to have a decent cup of tea outside my own home. I love tea but rarely risk ordering it away from home.
Scrambled eggs - I make them exactly to my own taste. This also goes for soft-boiled eggs and poached eggs.

my husband makes his own muesli and cereal bars (with lots of fruit from the garden). W also use our own tomatoes (in season) to make pasta sauce. I never by the jars of ready made. When I run out I will do as the Op said and use tinned tomatoes 🍅 to make my own pasta sauce.

There are lots of things I've never bought ready made, so don't really know if they're better or not, but things like pasta sauce and curry, I don't know why you'd buy it. It's very quick and easy to make.

Yorkshire puddings are my other one. So easy and cheap to make. See also roast potatoes.

And cake. A simple one takes no time. I don't make one often because I try not to eat it too much, but I wouldn't buy one in a box.

Pizza

Homemade dough
Homemade sauce
Strong gouda
Mozzarella
Black pitted olives
Peppers
Mushrooms
Hungarian Gyulai

Pasta sauce - expecially a white sauce.
Guacamole
Cake
Biscuits
Soup
Sandwiches
Pancakes
I only stopped making shortcut pastry when DH needed to go lactose free - shop bought pastry doesn't use butter!

Probably loads more stuff I don't even think of as available - like the fish pie mentioned. Never contemplated buying - not sure I've ever seen one in the supermarket, so guess there is a whole aisle I skip through.

Edit: yorkshire pudding and roast potatoes as mentioned above

Definitely pasta and pasta sauce. I'd never eat pasta in a restaurant or get a pasta ready meal.

Roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. Though my yorkies often come out flat!

Soup and pasta sauce.
I don't eat cake these days but I much, much preferred to make my own when I did. Shop bought cake tastes nothing like home made.

Most pasta dishes. Scones. Poached eggs.

NB - Some restaurants make amazing pasta, but most regular restaurants aren't as good as I can make at home.

Lasagna
Moussaka
Steak
Soup
Dauphinoise spuds, ready meal ones are too watery.
Flatbreads

Granola.

My DS works in Costa and brought home some sort of breakfast sandwich with a beautiful runny poached egg in it. They buy them in readymade and heat in a microwave. How on earth do they do that? I dread to think!

Potato salad
Coleslaw
Tomato soup and tomato sauces. Just as well as we are over run with ripe tomatoes at the moment so filling the freezer !