Manufactured vs homemade version?
You may have eaten in the best restaurants world-wide yet still prefer the lasagna you grew up on---frozen Stouffer's.! Has a prepackaged dish burn its way into your taste memory so that every other version just doesn't measure up? Boxed Kraft mac & cheese? Bisquick biscuits? I enjoy cookies, homemade "will do", but I'm partial to Oreos with a glass of cold milk.
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17 Comments:
Yes, exactly! I love my 5 star meals and the best quality ingredients when cooking at home, but every once in a while... I want that fix of Ellio's frozen pizza, Kraft Mac & Cheese and even a fix of Encore frozen veal parmagian!
I feel so asshamed....
jonfoxx at 9:03PM on 05/21/07
Stouffer's mac and cheese mixed with cooked frozen peas. YUM!!
ChristineB at 11:27PM on 05/21/07
Little Debbie oatmeal pies(God the humillation)
I still like process american cheese slices on a grill cheese when I am sick with Mrs Grass soup mix.
Kozy Shack rice pudding.
JerzeeTomato at 12:53AM on 05/22/07
Hey, there's nothing wrong with Kozy Shack rice pudding! I can't make rice pudding that good-- almost, but not quite.
One convenience food that I will always love is Stouffer's French bread pizza, preferably the "extra" cheese variety, but pepperoni is easier to find and still amazingly good. I've tried making French bread pizzas, but it never turns out right, not even close.
Another thing is the Best Foods/Hellman's mayonnaise. I can make perfectly good mayo, but I still prefer theirs to mine.
Calichef at 2:49AM on 05/22/07
Yumm... Kraft Mac & Cheese. It's the cheesiest. Kraft singles too. Oh ya, and don't forget Hot Pockets.
jsholar at 7:20AM on 05/22/07
Last September we stayed at my BIL's cottage on Walpole Island in the north end of Lake St. Clair between the Detroit area and Canada. As the island is part of Ontario, and we had a family reunion that Sunday, we took two 5-lb tubs of Stouffer's mac-n-cheese to the cottage, cooked them Sunday morning, wrapped them in bath towels and drove them roughly 100 miles to Millington, Michigan ... only to discover we were 2 hours late, and everybody was gone! We ate mac-n-cheese for a week, and still love it.
LunaPierCook at 7:44AM on 05/22/07
campbell's tomato soup. and spinach souffle. im most ashamed of the spinach souffle- but it's just so good and salty and comforting.
Stacy at 8:58AM on 05/22/07
I'm a sucker for Rotel dip. Southerners will know what I'm talking about. It's melted Velveeta mixed with Rotel tomatoes. Serve with Fritos. I fix it once a year during the Christmas holidays. Don't know Rotel? Then you don't know what you're missing!
http://www.texmex.net/Rotel/main.htm
Library Lady at 9:55AM on 05/22/07
ROTEL!!!!!!!!! Oh my god, I had it for the first time this past weekend. It was AMAZING. Nice and spicey! I would highly recommend anyone to try it. I was going to try to replicate it this coming weekend. I believe this is what we had.... http://www.texmex.net/Rotel/sausgdip.htm My mouth is watering just thinking about it!! :)
skigil at 10:40AM on 05/22/07
Ok, so now for my comment on the actual post:
I am a strong believer in childhood memory induced food. It is a really powerful thing. This is why most of us eat the way we do. I still eat Kraft Mac & Cheese on a regular basis. There is a large part of our brains that connect those kinds of foods to happy memories. Happy memeories will sway your purchasing much more than marketing. If you helped out as a kid making that Mac & Cheese, then I'm sure your hooked for life. I always helped out making sandwiches, and boy 'o boy, I have sandwiches all the time. I'm also a sucker for catfish because of the same reasons. So if you have kids, get them in the kitchen and get some happy , lasting memories in their heads about the nutritious foods you eat. It will really pay off in the long run :)
skigil at 10:45AM on 05/22/07
Stouffer's spinach souffle, topped with cheese. Yum.
Lilla at 1:09PM on 05/22/07
Ritz crackers. Even though I have moved on from Campbell's tomato soup I still have to have the Ritz crackers in my organic creamy tomato soup from TJ's
ThatGirl153 at 1:56PM on 05/22/07
Ro-Tel! My cupboard would scream in agony if there were no cans of Ro-Tel within! My favorite omelet: 3 eggs, a couple of spoonfuls of Ro-Tel tomatoes w/chilis, some Feta cheese......Mmmmmmmm!
1stmakearoux at 2:23PM on 05/22/07
I am a sucker for Campbells' tomato soup cooked with vitamin D milk.... And a grilled cheese made with Kraft American singles. Oh the humanity....
sheldel at 3:25PM on 05/22/07
I once tried making ketchup at home and it was the biggest waste of time - if it's not Heinz, it's completely pointless!
caley at 7:38AM on 05/23/07
When my son was smaller he didn't want to eat my homemade mac n cheese. He didn't think it tasted good and clamored for Kraft's version. I refused to buy it and forced him to eat what I made. Eventually he came to love the homemade kind and asked for it over the blue box.
Now that he's older and I've gotten lazy the blue box has been a guilty staple in my cupboard. He made a box for himself last night with leftover grilled hot dogs stirred in. I like to add peas and either smoked sausage or tuna to jazz it up a bit and ease my guilt....
AuntJone at 9:09AM on 05/23/07
My mom always made her scalloped potatoes with mushroom soup. I grew up on it, it's comfort food for me.
Lilartist at 9:12AM on 05/23/07