What don’t you make from scratch these days?

Yorkshire puddings and shepherds pie! So much easier especially now I mainly just cook for one!

Pastry,
Tomato ketchup,
Baked beans,

I never make these now - and rarely make ice cream. I never grind my own wheat for flour and rarely make my own bean or nut burgers (though I'm not really interested in them as made them for "the children").

I don't tend to make yogurt- but do still make kefir.

Allira

Charlie Bigham' s lasagne this evening.

I used to make it from scratch but not tonight!

Must say lasagne is one thing I’m never going to make from scratch again. Such a faff, and TBH just very recently the Gdcs much preferred the cottage pie I’d made the previous week.

Witzend

Allira

Charlie Bigham' s lasagne this evening.

I used to make it from scratch but not tonight!

Must say lasagne is one thing I’m never going to make from scratch again. Such a faff, and TBH just very recently the Gdcs much preferred the cottage pie I’d made the previous week.

I did ask DH to bring back a ready meal for last night, one with chicken.
He brought back beef lasagne.

Mashed potatoes and oven chips.

Buy a MASHA from Lakeland. Easy to clean (dishwasher safe), no effort required.
Perfectly smooth potatoes (not gloopy) and other veggies. Comes complete with an attachment to whip cream or beat eggs.
I wouldn’t be without mine.

Oh Croissants!
I don't make those anymore either!

Vintagegirl

Mashed potatoes and oven chips.

Chips! Yes, except occasionally for the Gdcs we rarely have even oven chips, but there’s no way I’d ever make them at home, and TBH I can’t remember if I ever did.

Having said that, I do enjoy good chips made by someone else, so a pub meal for me will often be fish and chips.

20+ different curries,all from scratch !

Pastry, life's to short to make pastry. Now I just buy it and roll it out.

I don’t make puff pastry but also buy ready made short crust when baking for GC as they can’t eat dairy. So quick and easy!

Sorry - what DON’T I make from scratch -
Pastry
Cakes

Yorkshire puddings. Mine are never successful.
Meringue. Ditto.

Life's too short to stuff a mushroom ...

Yorkshire pudding, puff pastry, beer (thank heavens, home brew was awful), dog food, bread. Why waste time making things that are better pre-made! Most things I still do from scratch though.

It would have to be the supermarket takeaway, or the meal prepared at the local pub/restaurant.

Puff pastry and to my shame I buy dumpling mix just for quickness.

Mashed potatoes, I try not to eat potatoes due to diabetes, so I buy frozen for my husband as arthritis in my hands makes it painful to hold and peel the potatoes

Custard.
Occasionally supermarket fruit pies.
Fishcakes sometimes, but we all prefer my homemade ones.

Virtually anything l can buy chilled or frozen. Not in great health. Difficulties in moving and using hands and arms

Life's to short to stuff a mushroom.

Enjoy your food folks.
😻
Xxx

Puff pastry, baked beans and sometimes mayonnaise.

Don’t make my own mince pies, Christmas cake anymore or puff pastry. Buy pasta and pesto but make my own sauces even for a stir fry but might add a Thai sauce for a curry. Life is too short to faff around but almost everything else is from scratch ! Himself does the mash👍

NotSpaghetti

Oh Croissants!
I don't make those anymore either!

Croissants.

Our GC like croissants, we don't eat croissants, I purchase.

Allira

I've made chutneys, jams, passata etc but there are such good readymade ones now why would I slave over the hob?

Same here, though I'll consider marmalade again next year as I've gone back to using my pressure cooker.
I'd certainly rather have readymade Italian passata, you can't often get good Italian tomatoes at a reasonable price. Bought puff pastry is a no-brainer.
I do occasionally make baked egg custard but for everyday runny custard the bought stuff is fine.
One thing I don't often buy is a crumble, they're so quick to make, you can avoid margerine and oils and just use butter. But the M&S Mixed Berry crumble is delicious!
I also make my own meat sauce for spaghetti, it's so quick in a pressure cooker. However I always buy the Loyd Grossman Puttanesca Sauce, much better than mine.

Harris27

Puff pastry and to my shame I buy dumpling mix just for quickness.

Even my ancient Good Housekeeping cookery book (published around 1970) said it wasn’t worth bothering to make puff pastry when what you can buy is almost certainly better than what you and your rolling pin can produce.