Ok so by now most of you know that there is a dedicated recipe section for you all to upload your favourite recipes...

[Carmenere]

Well I am kind of in charge of keeping it tidy and have a few questions about it for you all.

How do you feel about recipes that include packet sauces/soups? I don't mean a jar of ragu but recipes that include mushroom soup or a pasta n sauce type thing or a sugar-free angels delight?

Whilst we are all time poor and every one needs a few shortcuts, I am just not too sure about the wisdom of recommending these types of preservative-filled convenience foods a part of the ingredients of a recipe.

Am I being elitist? Should I just get over it?
I feel that these foods, whilst they might be handy are nutritionally devoid of any goodness and not really a great help to busy mums trying to feed their families.

The section is here btw for any who haven't seen it yet. It is huge, it has over 2000 recipes on it and it is really easy to search.

Er well I am supposed to make sure that they are all fairly decent recipes and that is why I started this thread because I want to be fair and inclusive. If it was just up to me I would have been deleting like crazy

OMDB I know not all processed food is bad but forgive me my prejudice to pasta n sauce and angels delight please

lol

I keep meaning to add my recipes Carmenere, but how will I know you won't be deleting them?

Actually, I think I will add the recipes for my top-selling babyfoods, coz they are different and everyone loves them!

I'll allow those prejudices! I don't know what Angel's Delight is, but DS does have an unhealthy obsession with Heinz tomato soup, my own version just doesn't cut it!

No DON"T you want people to BUY them not learn how to do them themselves!!! how is it going btw?

Well that's why I've resisted posting so far!

Not so good actually. I have lost all enthusiasm in it. Doesn't look good. Actually, the easierst way to see how it's going is by seeing whether or not I'm on MN during the day. If I'm here, I'm not working, so it's bad. Oh well.

Oh dear, keep at it though, do you do cakes ect too? If you are health and safety registered to produce food commercially perhaps you could diversefy. Or what about getting a stall at a farmers market?

In fact that is a good idea as you could just plug a freezer in and sell your products frozen as well as fresh and the type to go to farmers markets is just the type of busy yet wealthy punter who cares about their families diet

Thanks Carm, have thought long and hard about it all, Farmer's Market would require an initil cash outlay, for freezer, plus a suitable vehicle to transport it all, and I have no cash to invest at the moment. It would would with a little more capital outlay, that's the annoying thing.

it would work, it was meant to say.

my heart is not in it anymore.

That is such a shame because it really would work Is there anyone who could perhaps give you a couple of hundred quid as an investment for a couple of weeks?

I'd include them, people can make their own choice as to whether they use the recipes or not. For some people, it might make the difference between having a meal that is part-home made, part convenience food rather than a take-away or a complete ready meal, so it could be a good thing in some ways. I'm anti-processed foods myself but then I love cooking and have a DH who shares the load. However, I do know people who NEVER cook and recipes which don't do everything from scratch might build their cooking confidence?