But who does REALLY cook from scratch.... everything...

[velcrobott]

I know we seem to have \link{http://mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=4&threadid=218847&stamp=060925221510\millions) of hard working mumsnetters who "all" cook from scratch but does that include making your own bread, ice cream, (fruit) yoghourts, cakes, biscuits, etc

I do all the above but not fruit yoghourts - though am about to start....

In a dream life I would love to be a domestic goddess... sad I know.....

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I cook from scratch about 80% of what the children eat (the rest is mostly sarnies etc bought while out, the odd restaurant meal)

I cook about 80% of what dh eats too - we have the odd takeaway/meal out.

I cook about 50% of what I eat - I tend to rely quite heavily on fresh fruit and low-fat cup-a-soups, because I am a fattie.

I genuinely love cooking though, it's not some sort of stupid martyr complex. I do think healthy eating is important, but I wouldn't cook everything myself if I didn't enjoy it.

Hunker, how does bread from a local bakers (made on the premises) compare? I refuse to buy supermarket bread, but like to support the local bakers, thinking the bread there is better and probably less additive laden. But am I wrong in thinking this? If so I will consider getting a bread maker.

I cook most main meals from scratch, although occasionally we eat out. I also don't use jars of sauce etc, always make my own, as jarred ones taste really artificial IMO.

We don't have ice cream much, but if we do I buy better quality ones such as Green & Blacks. Do buy yoghurt though, and occasionally bought cakes, although we don't eat many, and I sometimes make my own (although then I tend to eat too many!)

Pretty much everything here.

Make my own bread, not with breadmaker.

Make my own yoghurt, in a flask - although I do sometimes buy Yeo Valley.

Ice cream I make in a Philips Delizia maker, yummy. Although again, the Green & Blacks ice cream is gorgeous, a very rare treat.

Pasta I make very occasionally, otherwise I buy it.

who makes their own sausages?
and yogurt?

Things I buy
Bread (we eat it so rarely it wouldn't be worth making)
Pasta and noodles
Yoghurt
Ice cream (again rarely eat it)
Digestive biscuits (only for ds and he can't eat them anymore)
Oven chips (for emergencies)
Pizza (for emergencies)
Stock cubes (when don't have time to make own)
Smash - only for emergencies honest.

Everything else I make from scratch. Especially sauces - can't stand the packet ones.

ok yes and I buy sausages - make own burgers/meatballs etc though

lol a does anyone make their own sausages!

What about pesto then?

Do breadmakers and ice-cream makers count as cooking from scratch?

btw I do not make bread or ice-cream

Things I buy:

sausages
ice-cream
ice-lollies (really should make my own - dead easy)
pasta
garlic bread
pesto (usually)
hummus
bread
yoghurt
tinned soup (sometimes)
oven chips (but only eat rarely)
onion rings (ditto)

Things I cook from scratch that people often don't:
Biscuits (occasionally but don't buy)
Cakes/buns (occasionally but don't buy)
Shortcrust pastry
Pizza
Beefburgers

Things we don't have that people often have in:
fishfingers

im stunned poeple ues packets and jars tbh
idle sods
they must belogn to the workign class

Glad to see a nice rounded discussion rather than sweeping generalizations of people...

Mercy, you can buy a sausage machine but it's a slightly disturbing process - it all feels a bit pervy (or am I just a prude?)

I make our own bread
WE do handmake pasta well ds does, but usually dried or fresh does the job.
I do make yoghurt but with easiyo yoghurt maker.
I do bake a lot as well
ice cream I do not like so it's not an issue

texasrose I am sniggering at that comment - have many rude images in my head right now

Mercy - Why wouldn't you consider aking ice cream or bread with machines from scratch... it is as you are using nasic ingredients... nothing processed.
I do make my own pesto on the summer.

Compared my cooking habits to a friend of mine, whose cooking habits consist of dialling for a take-away or cooking frozen chicken pieces in the sames of barbie etc, and my once-a-week-microwavable-potato does not seem that bad!

we cook about half of our food form scratch (including bread in the breadmaker).

But we buy things like pies, sausages, icecream, biscuits.

Most meals are a mixture of bought and home-made - but I guess the bought stuff if generally not as processed as say a ready meal.

we make our own pizza (breadmaker for the dough) - they knock spots of any bought ones - and you get what you want on it .

I work full time and find it impossible to cook all from scratch. Would buy the odd pre-prepared meals for DS if I belived they were free from all the nasties.

Buy items like bread, yoghurt and unfortunetly I don't have the space for my own dairy cow and a flock of chickens

I never buy jars, packets, ready meals. I make ice cream, biscuits, meals from scratch (good local produce!). I'd quite like a breadmaker.

Don't have the cow yet, but we do have chickens - lovely eggs!