to think frozen mashed potatoes are perfectly reasonable?

[MrsKeithRichards]

Busy day, casserole slow cooking all day so we could just come home and eat. I bought some frozen mash the other week for the first time so thought that would compliment the casserole for a quick and easy dinner.

Dh came home and you'd have thought I'd suggested eating mashed worms, the face he pulled. He declined, on the grounds it would be rank and made himself some chips to go with his casserole instead.

Ds's and I ate the mash, it was lovely and creamy, and not the food of the devil as he'd implied. He wouldn't even try it!

My frozen veg has only included peas and corn on the cob until now. But for 80p a bag (of which we only needed half of) and 5 minutes in the microwave I declare frozen mash is the future.

Aibu?

25-30 mins is a huge amount of time when you get in from school / nursery / work and have laundry, bedtime, reading to deal with.

sugarice

Country I get Aunt Bessies for £1. So doesn't cost much at all and does me and the toddler for a while

I can't be arsed when I can zap it in 5 mins and spend 25 mins doing something interesting

But cooking should be interesting! Even something as simple as mash potato.

As Mr Ramsey always said. "Make love to it, don't fuck it!"

Country if you are going to be so sanctimonious you should try to be a bit better informed. Cheese doesn't always have a list of ingredients, neither does Greek yoghurt it does what it says on the tin. Likewise frozen peas and onions.

CK If you are absolutely fanatical about using fresh food only that's great. But why are you so aggressive to people who take some short cuts? Debate it with them by all means but sniping, name calling and criticising is not necessary.

I think frozen roast potatoes are disgusting. I am getting very tempted to but frozen mash though, this thread is really selling it to me.
HWBU, not to try it!

Not read the whole thread (shoot me) but, if you work in catering you'll know that most pub/restaurant places use frozen mash pellets. It's nice, nothing like smash.

hope it's not that grated stuff SPsFanjoTheBigStickyHaribo on your frozen mash

I like cooking, but I like cooking for occasions and elaborate baking. Not cooking dinner every night, that doesn't deserve hours of effort

^^ this - exactly - we are having frozen baked spuds tonight - I am currently sat in the sofa cuddling DD2 - much nicer than cooking tea

I think, for some people, their time is worth more to them than the additional cost of frozen mash over driving out to a farm and buying muddy potatoes in bulk. I don't really understand why that would upset anyone.

Anyway: frozen onions. Can you fry them off properly? Or do they kind of steam boil in the pan due to their initially frozen state? If they work perfectly, I might get some.

Note to those who think deciding I have better things to do with my time than chop onions requires and excuse: I do have arthritis. And standing in the kitchen for long periods of time aggravates it, as does loads of chopping. But even if that weren't the case, I don't see what difference it makes if you chopped the onion yourself. You didn't grow it yourself either.

I have no excuse for using frozen mash apart from being a lazy fuck.

I love frozen mash. 2 bags for £1.50 in Morrisons, much nicer than the lumpy discoloured mush that I usually produce.

I made a lovely fish pie at the weekend with left over mash from Christmas day that I'd bunged in the freezer.

Christmas Day 2011 . It worked really well though.

The subject of a different thread perhaps but those who buy potatoes in bulk can you tell me how you store them to make them last. My potatoes always start sprouting after a few days.

So if cheese is not 'made' of ingredients and is not comprised of milk, rennet, salt etc then what exactly is it wishihadabs? The same would apply for yoghurt....

2 bags of morrisons frozen mash is £1.50, feeds 4 people per bag, I wouldnt buy a big sack of potatoes as i don't have anywhere to store them and probably wouldn't get through them very quickly as we don't eat them that often, so I dont find frozen mash a rip off financially at all! I cook lots from scratch but use cheat products as well, my children are all healthy and well nourished, and i'm not lazy, just choosing how to spend my time.not

We keep our spuds in a dark corner of the boot room where they seem to last pretty well as it's coolish in there and I think they are better out of the light. Dogs keep nicking them though which is an ongoing issue....!

I bet cheese is made in a FACTORY as well and we all know they are evil ...apparently

I'm not arguing over the frozen mash thing any more so no need for people to get all arsey and defensive - just accepting that other people live very different lives.

And I was thinking of making mash for supper tonight too!

Isn't it about the dish you're making too.

I'm making cheese and onion pie for tea which means I have to chop fresh onions for the filling as the recipe wouldn't work with the frozen ones. I'm also preparing a chicken casserole which I'm bunging frozen onions, garlic , chilli and mixed grill veg into, It'll taste fab and it makes cooking easier and more pleasurable.

countrykitten wow! Carry on having your little paddy in the corner! If using frozen chopped onions makes me a 'lazy fuck' in your eyes, then so be it. You are entitled to your opinion, but IME, it's all about how you voice it. Neither you nor I are right, but your vociferous manner and nasty tones says a lot more about YOU than your opinion.
You sound very angry as if something is really eating away at you. Try and address it before it destroys you.

gordy - factories are not coming out of the current food crisis too well are they? Don't you really care how your food is produced? Where it comes from? What's in it?

LayMizzRarb - whatever.