Passing pre made food off as your own

[Natsel84]

Lighthearted

Tonight I "cooked" for the family. I had gone to the supermarket earlier to do the weekly shop and for quickness I picked up a fresh family size lasagne .
Cooked it in the oven but added some extra cheese on top to make it look more " home made "
Served it up just before everyone returned home, after hiding all packaging in the bin and passed it off as my own.

It went down a treat not a mouthful left. Everyone said it was one of the nicest thing I made. Technically I did cook it, in the oven anyway...

Do I feel bad no 🤣

Anyone else passed off pre made food as homemade cooking ?

@Bubbletrouble43

Dp tells me Mil has more than once " made" pasties for visiting relatives ( we are in Cornwall) which involves sending her husband out to buy frozen uncooked pasties from the local bakery which she pops in the oven before they arrive. Apparently she puts an apron on and scatters flour over herself and her kitchen to make it a bit more convincing. She's great.

Thank you for seeing the funny side of my op your Mil sounds fun 😀

My perfectly squishy home baked brownies start life in a Costco box

@PyongyangKipperbang

I havent but I will now that I know that there is good one out there!

DS loves lasagne but it is such a PITA to make and is probably more expensive to make than to buy, so I am going to get the Tesco one and see what his reaction is. I will tell him afterwards (he takes the bin out so will see the packaging anyway!), and I am keeping everything crossed that he prefers the tesco one!

I love to cook lasagne it always goes down well. But its been pointed out it must be a shit lasagne that I make , for a shop one bought to taste great. Do I care , not in the slightest. I hope your ds likes it too , its less hassle for you then 😆

I'd feel a bit offended if my family thought a shop bought lasagne was the best thing I'd ever made!

@Bubbletrouble43

What's your problem, sarahandquack???

She doesn't find my jokes funny 🤷‍♀️

@Deadringer

Jesus the bitching on this thread.

Yeap .. was only meant to be lighthearted ..

One of my favourite scenes in Miranda is when her mum tries to get her to be a grown-up and host a dinner party, but she can’t cook to save her life and she goes to M&S in a flap to cheat
fb.watch/29ewMYYomg/

I'm another one for cake mix. I don't lie - but I also don't tell. If anyone asks I will tell them but I don't volunteer the information and nobody ever asks 😁. The exception was a most delicious orange cake I made the other day... (From a mix, obviously) we had had a tradesman in all week and I gave him a piece of cake with his cup of tea and he raved about how good it was, so I said I would give him the recipe, reached into the cupboard and gave him a packet of mix. He was most amused! I find Wright's cake mixes to be excellent, the chocolate cake is my go to mix but all the others are good too. I'm not a very good cake maker in real life but somehow I have become the 'official' birthday cake maker for the family so they must be good 😁😁😁😁

@RufustheSniggeringReindeer

I did a cake club with friends

It wasthe Christmas one and one friend made stollen

Best stollen ive ever tasted, i asked her for the recipe and she said she’d drop it through my door

Another friend asked her and she fessed up that it was waitrose 😯

What the hell was she going to pop through my door!!!

A waitrose stollen...🤣 sorry couldnt resist

@mena51

I went to a christmas party once with food that I had 'made' - went down a treat and I'd do it again!

Most if not all ready-made lasagne looks and tastes like cat food. My family would instantly know and not eat it. Sorry I hate ready meals sd they never taste quite right to me. Maybe it's my taste buds.
Lasagne isn't a faff to make though - maybe a bit time-consuming, but I quite enjoy cooking.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.

@CantStandMeow

We had the same lasagna this evening, I'm even more of a heathen than you. Ours was microwaved

Microwaved 🤔😯😳.... did you add extra cheese though ?

@Parker231

Some ready meals are equivalent to an excellent restaurant so much better than spending ages making your own which may not be as good. There is nothing wrong with supermarket meals and if you can pass it off as your own, have a good joke about it afterwards with your family.

Thank you .. indeed when I confess , my family will find it funny

@keeprocking

A male colleague had friends round for pasta and he did garlic bread, he sliced garlic and put it between sliced white bread, cold!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I may try this

@dottiedaisee

Why are you concerned about a family meal? Does it actually really matter who cooked the delicious meal ? What are you worrying about?

Nothing... the thread was lighthearted

If I tried to pass off a supermarket ready meal as my own I'd have to burn it in the oven for anyone to believe I'd made it myself

@ShaunaTheSheep

My perfectly squishy home baked brownies start life in a Costco box

I hope you dont get as much backlash as I have for adding cheese to a lasagne.

@CoolYourBeansMySon

If I tried to pass off a supermarket ready meal as my own I'd have to burn it in the oven for anyone to believe I'd made it myself

Thats cooking skills though 😉

It reminds me of the Birds Eye chicken pie adverts.

Most years I go to a christmas cookie exchange with 10 old friends. We each make enough cookies ,little pastries or sweets. We each go home with 1/2 dozen of each persons offering. I buy mine from a little bakery near my work & pass them off as my own. We've been doing it for around 15yrs

Whenever I am praised for takeaway food I served I always tell them that it was made and ordered with lots of love. I do do it sometimes though. Just add a bit of garnish, a bit more spices/salt etc to make it according my own taste. I also am a good baker but sometimes it's just easier to make a packet one when you are baking with a child. It still tastes homemade because I use milk and butter instead of water and oil.

No.

My grandmother would and she thought no one knew but we all did.

Charlie Bighams are on offer at Tesco atm so I bought a cottage pie and a lasagne to try. I cooked the pie yesterday and DH asked if it was a new recipe. Technically it was so when I said yes, I wasn't really lying...

With my Tesco order I always get 3 meals for £6.
The chicken and bacon pasta.
Then a red and a green this curry...
I can't even buy the ingredients for that price....

@Chanandlerbong01

My partner doesn’t like Nando’s, he tells me regularly he can’t stand it. He works late once a month and I always “make” lemon and herb chicken with spicy rice and coleslaw.... if only he knew next door let’s me put the takeaway wrappers in her bin!

It’s his favourite thing I make 🙄