Who grates cheese anymore?

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I accidentally got into a conversation with a woman I don’t know at work today and whilst regaling us with the fact that she never chops anything and buys all veg pre chopped, she seemed aghast that anyone bothers to grate cheese and why would you when you can buy it pre grated.

Maybe because it’s covered in potato starch, expensive and not great quality?

Am I the only cheese grater left?

frozen butternut squash

Hold the thread, where can i buy fbs????

I never buy grated cheese, or chopped vegetables or frozen yorkshire puddings or roast potatoes (I mean, just WHY!?)

Although I could have be persuaded to have a conversation about frozen butternut squash having made a Mary Berry soup that required me to peel and chop one of the fuckers BEFORE I roasted it.

Won't be doing that again.

I can't believe people buy blocks of cheese all ready prepared. I always milk my cow and make my own. So much fresher and superior. Of course I grow my own organic veg as well.

Butternut squash is a sod to peel and cut up (helps to part microwave first) it's still a faff though

I buy grated cheese and pre prepared veg

Don't really notice the difference in flavour and tbh I'm not particularly interested in food, it's just fuel, so I'd rather have something quick and less tasty than something that takes longer but tastes nicer!

I never buy grated cheese, or chopped vegetables or frozen yorkshire puddings or roast potatoes (I mean, just WHY!?)

What do you mean why? Which bit are you not getting?
you could prep a roast dinner inc cauli cheese in about 5 mins if all ready done, or you could peel and chop and whisk and grate for an hour if you prefer. If you have an hour, that is.
Why do you care if people who don't have a spare hour want to eat the food?

Me too fruitpastille. People are so lazy.

The range of frozen prepared vegetables has exploded recently (say a year or so). My big supermarket has two aisles for frozen, and frozen fruit and vegetables take up nearly half of one - not counting potato products.

Peppers are great - a handful of sliced mixed peppers to chuck into fajitas, maybe 20p as opposed to one pound bastard fifty for a couple of fresh peppers which shrivel to sad nothing by day two.

To demonstrate why pre prepared good is essential in my life - I do t gave the kids today, they're at their dads. I've just started a full time job which is a struggle with a chronic condition like M.E. I got home at 5.30. I went straight to bed. I slept till 8. I am still in bed as I don't have the energy to move. I haven't eaten since 7am (not too clever really as I'm also diabetic).

When I find the energy to get down to the kitchen, do you think I'll be able to stand there and chop veg and grate cheese? No, of course I bloody won't.

But obviously I'm just lazy

I chop, peel, grate. Even though I’m not as able bodied as I was. But I’m just as skint, so makes economical sense.

I'm too busy to be lazy

I buy grated - Morrisons 4 cheese grated mix is bloody lovely

I also buy not grated

I'm a bust rebel obviously

I don't grate cheese. I lived happily for 6 years without a grater. The only reason I finally bought a grater was when I got back into baking and needed to grate chocolate.
I do chop my own veg though
The laziness doesn't stretch that far

Bust rebel - while I like the sound of that sadly I am just a busy one

It’s been said several times on the thread @welshmaenad that of course it makes sense for people with mobility issues or whatever to buy things that make their lives easier.

I grate the cheese! Pre grated cheese is powdery

Sometimes it's okay to be lazy even when people don't have a reason... some nights it's an instant pizza and a movie and it's bloody brilliant!

Morrisons can make it on my behalf tonight...

It’s been said several times on the thread @welshmaenad that of course it makes sense for people with mobility issues or whatever to buy things that make their lives easier

It makes sense for anyone to buy things that make their lives easier, if they want to. They don't need a blue badge to gain your approval

Oh god I hate pre-grated cheese. It's either rubber or chalk. They do a beans and jacket potato option with cheese in the cafe at work and I find the cheese virtually inedible. Always grate here.

Grate here

And chop veg

Apart from swede and carrot (comes chopped up in a bag ready to steam and mash)

I always grate things myself. Why pay so much more for a tiny packet of stale cheddar, for instance, when you can pay less for a block of cheddar, which can be grated, sliced, and whatever?

I think we have at least 6 different graters in this house, and I have my eye on another one.....

I generally refer to my food processor as my parmesan cheese grater.

Pre-grated is terribly expensive, bad, and requires more packaging.

I grate cheese, and chop veg.

Not offering approval, only opinion @metacrisis. How weird that you think otherwise.

Anyone can buy whatever the hell they want obviously.

I just use a standard box grater...i'm hardly needing enough cheese to rebuild the pyramids of Egypt after all