Op I would like most of your menu but wouldn't enjoy the artichoke soup as it's not a vegetable I love the taste of. Same with aubergine. Celery I just can't abide but I eat all other veg. My kids and DH are a tad on the fussy side and DH seems to lack taste buds so would want chilli on everything, so it wouldn't go down a treat with them.
I sort of know what you're saying about properly cooked home made stuff with nice ingredients being more enjoyable. eg DH and the teens like takeaway pizza but I don't enjoy it at all really, it's floppy by the time it gets here and always has an odd underlying taste to me (of cardboard box?!) They also happily eat supermarket pizza whereas for me it's just a convenience mid-week thing. It tastes ok. Whereas last nigth DH did his home-made pizza. So bread from scratch, tomato sauce from scratch, plenty of toppings and nice cheese. They are fantastic and delicious and like nothing else.
Tonight he's cooking curry, from scratch. (And not some other people's opinion of cooking a curry from scratch which seems to be opening a jar of curry sauce.). If cooking at the weekend and have more time we use a Madhur Jaffrey book which is really good, proper authentic recipes (not Anglicised takeaway versions of curries). If cooking a curry midweek we'll often use some Patak's spice paste from a jar rather than grind our own spices etc (this is different from the jarred curry sauces). If using the ready made spice paste mid-week then we still add garlic, chillies, fresh coriander etc with the tomatoes (tinned chopped as they taste better than UK anaemic tomatoes from supermarkets) or coconut milk.
At the weekend we often have home made bread too, it IS delicious and much nicer than shop bought bread, you're right.
But you don't acknowledge convenience and cost at all. Dh usually works 60 plus hours a week, and comes in at odd times like 10pm. He will do a pot noodle for himself as that's all he feels like at that time. Sometimes he will CHOOSE it for liunch at the weekend even if he has more time. That's the difference between us as I would never eat that shit out of choice. But it's his choice. If he likes it, fair enough. I can't even stand the smell of it and have to leave the room.
I do find it odd that he can appreciate lovely home made tasty food but still enjoy a pot noodle, but it's up to him. If I was hungry but short on time I'd make a quick omelette and salad, or beans on toast (NOT tinned spaghetti on toast- yuck)
So I see what you mean in some ways. BUT I will buy and eat some things for convenience mid week eg fresh pasta sauce and tortellini rom the chiller. SOME ready meals like Charley Bingham's fish pie (as the other 3 don't like it and I'm not cooking a fish pie just for me). We all like chicken kievs, but I will only buy the breasts not the fully processed shaped and formed stuff. When we had less money we bought and ate the processed stuff instead which was fine. Sometimes had fish fingers as they were cheap. I would eat them now if they were given to me in someone else's house but they could never be classed as fine dining or cooking from scratch. But fresh fish can be very expensive in comparison so I fully understand why people buy and eat them. And they are easy to cook.
You sound a bit unaware of how normal people live, or WHY they might choose to cook certain things. And you don't acknowledge that they might simply LIKE some of the crap stuff. LIke my DH likes his pot noodles.
In short, perhaps they don't need educating by people like you at all.