Family refusing to eat shop bought now - your experiences?

juno

I find the opposite It seems every time my daddy knows I'm gonna use the slow cooker he comes home with a precooked chicken!

And if I make cakes he won't eat them, but then will bu lots of cakes/pies/eclairs etc

MATH

My lot don't turn any food away. HM or shop-bought they don't care. They don't chew it for long enough for them to tell one from the other IMO

I very often have a make double afternoon. The cunning plan being we eat half the curry or whatever and the rest goes to the freezer for those really busy nights. It's a complete waste of time - they just eat double.

Dusted off me breadmaker this afternoon and made a very nice white loaf for tomorrows lunch. After polishing off a huge dinner and pudding cries went up that the HM bread should be tested:rolleyes: I agreed on the understanding that it was ONE slice each cos it was really for tomorrow.

I'd like to chat longer but I've got to go and crank up the breadmaker AGAIN and find a loaf-sized hiding place:D

BrokeBrokeBroke

COLESLAW & POTATO SALAD!!!! Eugh!!! Just cannot stomach either of these if they're shop bought anymore. My husband thinks I'm trying to poison him if I put it out, so have stopped buying all together. He can have homemade when I have time, else he'll have to do without. ;-)

Smiley_Mum

I make home made things most days. If a quick tea, usually fish fingers or veggie fingers, chips and peas/corn etc. Otherwise I cook every day, Chillis, stews, casseroles, pasta dishes, roast dinners. The kids wouldn't like shop bought stuff, they can't have it because of candida problems. I made them quiche lorraine tonight for tea and they loved it. Put too much filling in and it spilled out a little bit onto the tray but they loved it and I did french pastry, without the sugar. I loved baking when I was a kid, was my favourite subject at school. I remember when we made christmas cakes and I smuggled in some sherry to put in the cake mix. Mine smelt different to everyone elses, I'm sure the teached twigged but said nothing. Was a damn good cake though. Got a sausage making machine I got from Tchibo which hasn't been out of the box yet, had it ages. Anyone got any sausage recipes they want to share, please?

Murtle

juno wrote:

I find the opposite It seems every time my daddy knows I'm gonna use the slow cooker he comes home with a precooked chicken!

And if I make cakes he won't eat them, but then will bu lots of cakes/pies/eclairs etc

naughty daddy

at least there should be more cakes for you and you can always cook the food in the slow cooker when the precooked chicken comes home, so that the following nights dinner is ready

Sarahsaver

My kids told me off in the nicest possible way today because I bought :rolleyes: a family size cherry pie - somerfield, 99p, they said 'nice Mum, but if you made one it would have been better. Aaah Bless 'em!
Usually now the most 'processed' thing we have is cornflakes, baked beans occasionally, and some of our bread is shop bought, everything else is homemade. If I'd have bought this weeks menu ready made I'd be overdrawn! Toad in the hole, lamb curry with naan bread, stuffed aubergines and focaccia, beans on toast (homemade toast) risotto tomorrow.

Rebob

My ds always says "Its OK. I like your....... better though" and dh hubby just says "yes" and nods!

Gingham_Ribbon

Resurrecting an old thread just to say, we have a new breadmaker and after only a few days, both my husband and son are refusing shop bought bread.

My son turned down toast at toddler group yesterday, which normally he wolfs down. And this morning, the loaf wasn't ready and my husband refused to make sandwiches out of what was left of the shop bought loaf in the freezer! For the first time in months, he's gone to work without a pack up. I'll just have to make sure we don't run out again!

kscour

But isn't it great that when we're all being lectured at what we should and shouldn't feed our kids by the powers that be that we can all sit back and be real smug about that fact that we are actually feeding our kids REAL food and the rubbish that they're getting is coming from schools!!! Also more to the point our families (children and adult alike are picking the HM stuff on the whole) In my case today DD brought home a leaflet telling me how they are going to raise the standards of school dinners and telling me what I should and shouldn't be feeding my kids - ahum I've never put turkey twizzlers on the menu in my house!!

angelatgraceland

BrokeBrokeBroke wrote:

COLESLAW & POTATO SALAD!!!! Eugh!!! Just cannot stomach either of these if they're shop bought anymore. My husband thinks I'm trying to poison him if I put it out, so have stopped buying all together. He can have homemade when I have time, else he'll have to do without. ;-)

My dd made potato salad last week at school-oh what a treat. I thought I didnt like potato salad-cos Id not had it homemade. So this is another one on my HM list. Pizzas, Yoghurt,toadin the hole and Spag Bog. Now the Spag bog I make is a veggy version made with vegimince instead of beef. I make a big batch every 2 weeks or so. works out at about 50p per portion and my kids will eat no other!