Are you a food snob?

Question

Do you usually have homemade from scratch meals, fresh bread, real mashed potatoes, salads that didn't come out of a bag - or packaged food - KD and Tv dinners, recipes for things that include a can of condensed soup????
Do you open a real cookbook and plan a meal ... or throw a frozen pizza in the oven , and wash it down with chocolate milk?

Answer 1

I'm a food snob with guilty secrets. :-) We normally cook from scratch, with fresh ingredients if possible. For example, I used thawed frozen chicken breasts last night, but fresh shiitake mushrooms, ginger and onions to make chicken donburi for the family; and when I make spaghetti sauce, I use canned tomatoes because the crap that passes for "tomatoes" in the grocery store aren't worth throwing at a bad actor. And even mac and cheese in our house starts with bechamel (made from real butter, flour and milk) before adding grated or cubed cheddar cheese (I like a white Irish cheddar, but my kids prefer Tillamook, and since the dairy is only about 50 miles away, it still counts as fresh, local produce. :-)

And yet... I have been known to make Tater Tot Casserole for the family. It takes five minutes to throw together (including, yes, a can of condensed soup), cooks in the oven for 40-45 minutes, and the kids love it. It's one of my wife's childhood recipes, something her mom made for them when they were kids.

And on a dark night, when nobody's watching, I will slink out to the kitchen, open a box of Cheez-Its, and spread them with peanut butter. Oh, the shame...

But I will not stoop to tuna-noodle casserole. If only because neither my son nor I will eat tuna after it has been spoiled by the application of heat. "Give it to us raw and wriggling, and keep nasssty chips" is our motto -- maybe with a little soy sauce and a finger of cold steamed rice.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I like having the choice of both; sometimes I'm in a hurry, sometimes I have time to really cook.

If I do go frozen or pre-packaged, I try to go for the better brands (Healthy Choice has some nice stuff).

There are some foods that, once you learn how to do them right, you'll never go back to the cheap stuff again. For example, coffee, beer, salsa, real cream, real butter, free-range eggs, bakery bread without preservatives, fresh-squeezed juices.... With those things, yeah, I am a snob, but the quality (and ultimately the healthiness) is so much better, and I'm worth it!

Answer 4

Well, I have eaten frozen pizza.

I cook for my husband every night. I never make him pre-packaged meals. I cut up all the fesh veggies and garlic,I use real potatoes. I dont make him frozen or boxed meals,except as a rarity if the time really didnt allow. When he's not working we'll go out or I cook but if he does work I like to make him real food because he's a perfect provider and a wonderful husband and daddy.

Answer 5

If I had the time EVERY dinner that I made would consist of a salad (it could come out of a bag) with cucumber slices, a nice cut of meat like a black angus beef roast, or a pork roast, or roast chicken, REAL mashed potatoes-mashed with my own hard work and butter and milk, and a good veggie, like green beans or acorn squash-made with butter and brown sugar. Sometimes I make dinner rolls but they're not a necessity.

I HATE cooking out of a box unless I absolutely have to.

I love to make baked pork chops with cream of celery soup. I also like round steak made with condensed soup in the crock pot. So many recipes call for cream of mushroom but I don't like mushrooms so I substitute.

Answer 6

Essentially. my greatest concern has been the health and survival of my pets. I want my animals to be as healthy as possible, and searching for food is key to their health. The first thing to understand is that food vs. health isn't one on one. My parents have a cat ,whom is currently 18 years old with no health problems (although we think he might be going blind). This cat has lived with Friskies (one of the cheapest brands you can buy) his entire life. He has always had a rather low weight, but has not had a single health problem his entire life, purchased at a pound with all four claws declawed too. On the other hand, I purchase my cat one of the top brands in bulk online. She is almost a year old, and already is starting to get a bit large. She has severe halitosis, and her teeth are yellowing. We are looking into the problem with my cat, by changing the food type. We are thinking maybe it is time to pull her off kitten food. Anyway, the best advice for people is to use what they feel works. There are literally millions of cat owners who feed their cats grocery store brands, and you don't see cats keiling over at age 5. Furthermore, fast food is horrible for humans, and essentially has a ridiculous amount of health problems, that wont stop people from eating Mcdonald's three times a week. Watch Supersize me and you will vow never to ear fast food again, until your next mac attack. If people are not concerned too much about their own health, how concerned can you get them about an animals. I have noticed one thing, my cat is fairly energetic, my parents cat has never been. This may be age, then again, it could be food, who knows? Sorry, I can't provide much more on the evils of eating grocery store pet food. There are far worst things a cat can eat, and I assure you that they have much less healthy food in the wild than they ever faced in an unaware cat owners house.

Answer 7

I prefer to cook from scratch so I know I am not eating a load of junk all the time, however I am not averse to the odd TV dinner or frozen chip. I do not follow recipes, I prefer decent quality foods and am willing to pay more for good meat etc. I don't think that makes me a snob, more of a discerning cook.

Answer 8

I do not consider myself a food snob, however I would rather eat meals made with love than a box in the oven. I have been known to do a fly by the seat of my pants before. If I just have to cook for me alone than I will do something very easy.

Answer 9

Pizza, definitely Pizza, but beer not chocolate milk. Have been know to try of late to do the whole cooking from scratch with the help of Delia, she's great.

Answer 10

I would love to cook from scratch all the time, but usually I only have time on the weekends.
I have to admit to a bit of snobbery, though, these ready-made crock pot meals floor me. This has got to be the height of laziness! Look, we can use a crock-pot liner, too! If we use plastic bowls and utensils we won't have to do a thing (except maybe die from all the preservatives and sodium in this crap!)