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Home cooking here, mostly by the O.H., but we do join in, and even take over occassionally (two or three times per week) ;)

Three Cheers for all the home made meals.  I live alone but I still like to prepare and cook all my food and my Sunday roast is the highlight of my week with loads of fresh veggies.  I do make use of the freezer though when I make a larger quantity and put away for a rainy day. Casserole, curries and steak and kidney pies are pretty good frozen at home and you know what is in them and no e-numbers or "multyglucoeimitation flavours"

Keep up the good work and enjoy the wonderful taste of a home cooked meal.

with you all the way rosebud and manics,its how i was brought up and how i wish to continue,how else are you gonna use all your home grown veggies!OH has become more and more interested in cooking over the ten years we have been together,so thats great.now im a poor student we dont treat ourselves to delivery indian anymore,but cooked up a mega curry last night in the kitchen last night,so much more fun and a fraction of the cost.
as someone else said,fish and chips have to be from the takeaway,i dont have deep fried capability in our kitchen
i also think homecooked food doesnt have to take too much time,a gorgeous stir fry takes the same time(or less) as going and buying a ready meal,for example,not to mention pasta dishes etc
rach
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home cooked all the way, ready meals are just nasty,  but as the others have said you can make your own ready meals and freeze them
lbb

never buy pre packed or ready meals everything home cooked.
also
make own burgers, sausages, mincemeat,pies pasties,bread,pasta, hoping to grow 80% of veg this year, eggs from our own free range hens.
kids 4 girls being taught how to make all the above, they are good they wont eat prepacked anyhow.
mrs getting better at cooking (not being nasty her mum didnt teach her how to do anything, prefering to do it all herself).

Home cooked for us BUT i have students in and they wont eat a nice home cooked meal but give them chicken nuggets, burgers and pizza and the clear the lot !!!!
Both hubby and i are chefs so our food is pretty good and we have tried every kind of food going, at the moment i have 3 Chinese students in and if the meal doesnt have rice they dont eat it  :(

My Tony spent most of his young life in the country and lived on a farm. Everything was home made or home reared. His mom was a great cook and I learned so much from her. Now we have the allotment its great cos I only have to think of what meat would go with the veg instead of vice versa. I do like to know what goes into my food so we very rarely eat out except when on holiday. When the kids were little everything they ate was mostly home made. Bread,, Cordial ,Yoghurt , etc. Now they are grown and have kiddies they give them junk food. I do have a nag at em but I don't think they take much notice of me.

I hope you have a big house with lots of room as i think the biggest majority of us men would appreciate a good home cooked meal every day, Enough said i think we are all ready to move in.

I have 4 brothers and 3 sisters and ever since the age of about 4 years old (1960 ) I always remember a home cooked dinner on the table at lunch time, that was after a good breakfast in the morning and a plate full of sandwiches at tea time and once i was allowed to stay up later at night ( after 7 at night at about 9 years old ) we had supper as well. None of us grew up to be obese, it was always good home made cooking from my mother and I look back now and admire her for how she brought such a big family up.

the answer to your question Mary is NO you are not old fashioned.

We are home cooks as well.

We live out in the sticks, apart from a chippie van parking up in the village for two hours on a Wednesday evening, the nearest is about five miles away.

The pubs in the village (all six of them) don't employ chefs, they employ a chief defroster (Brakes ready meals) so going out for a meal is not a treat/option.

I agree with other posters, when you've cooked it yourself you know what has gone into the meal.  It is not full of E-numbers.

And of course, there is always that added ingredient TASTE, ;D

valmarg

we're a'ping' free zone all from scratch daily !!!wouldn't have it anyother way ! I work full time just needs a little organisation LOL ;D ;D

And another vote here for home cooking. Even though we both work full time and sometimes don't get home til quite late, it doesn't take that long to rustle up a meal from scratch or, as others have suggested, use something from the freezer from when I have made double just for that purpose. The occasional take away is quite enjoyable but nothing beats a meal that you know exactly what has gone into it (and hopefully grown most of it yourself!)

For me there is nothing to debate here - I wouldn't have it any other way!

I think you can rest your case Rosebud.

Home made beats supermarket E numbers every day of the week. ;D ;D

valmarg

Quote from: lolabelle on January 18, 2009, 17:08:52
we're a'ping' free

Don't knock the microwave. I have just got a microwave bed, a real timesaver. We have just had eight hours sleep in ten minutes ;D

Yep home cooking all of the way here too and its my absolute pleasure to do so, even though both I and hubby work full time and not home until late some evenings, I still enjoy to get a lovely fresh meal on the table, I have had plenty of practice to get it all done in 20-40 mins depending on what prep there is and what we are having.

I even make gravy from scratch which if that ever comes up in discussion so many people don't have a clue ???
I only ever tasted bisto once in my life, it was almost 30 years ago when I was 19 years old and my boyfriends parents invited me around for a Sunday roast, his Mum covered it in Bisto, ugggghhh, I struggled so hard to eat my dinner and the next time I went I had to ask for no gravy ... lol Thats the one time in my life I ever tasted it, never again  :-X

  Hi ellie 2 cats, are your cats twins ?

  lovely pic  --   Innocent as they look, bet they are full of mischief !

  Well done you for making the effort to eat good wholesome food , despite cooking for one ....

   but two very well fed cats !   ;D

   floss x

 

Home cooked for majority of the week here.  Only exception is maybe once or twice a week when the kids are allowed sausages or pizza and some chips.  I only ever seem to use my microwave to defrost stuff or to zap a quick baked spud if i'm in a rush.