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aggie49

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home made or prepackaged
« on: September 29, 2014, 03:30:30 pm »
do you make home made foods or use pre packaged foods we make most homemade foods we use prepackaged foods only if we are in a hurry

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2014, 04:10:43 pm »
I make both, depends on the type of food I'm hungry for! :)
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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2014, 05:57:25 pm »
I use both...it all depends on what it is I'm cooking and how long I wanna be in the kitchen.....you can take a can and hook it up and no one will know but you.....

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2014, 06:59:18 pm »
I don't like to admit it, but pretty much all of it is prepackaged. :-\ I'm hoping to change that in the near future though. It would be nice to learn how to prepare dishes instead of just sticking things in the microwave all the time.

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2014, 08:13:36 pm »
I prefer homemade but never have time so we do prepackaged a lot.

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2014, 08:15:05 pm »
I make both, depending on time and the food item

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2014, 08:21:16 pm »
i dont know how to really cook so i use prepackaged foods

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2014, 09:15:28 pm »
I do both, and it just depends on how much time is there is cook dinner.

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2014, 08:26:15 am »
i think prepacked food is not healthy, so we eat homemade food as far much as possible

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2014, 10:28:14 am »
This depends both on what time I have and what I make.  I made an all-in-one chicken & dressing dish Sunday.  Cooked up the chicken and onions myself--even cut up the onions--but used two boxes of stovetop-type stuffing in the dish. 

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2014, 11:32:03 am »
It depends. Sometimes I'll combine both for the same meal. Sometimes it's about just using what I have.
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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2014, 04:35:47 pm »
Depends on who's cooking, my husband does a lot of homemade, I don't have much patience for that route, so it's cans and packages here :)

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2014, 04:54:32 pm »
It's kinda both for us. We buy things that might already be mostly "put together" and we have finish it by either adding in the missing ingredients or finishing it by cooking it. We don't buy much ready-to-eat from the package stuff if we can avoid it. Most of what we eat requires at least cooking on the stove top, using the toaster oven or baking in the oven. But yes, we do still eat things (probably too many of them) that can be 'cooked' in the microwave.

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2014, 05:31:22 pm »
i prefer home made but sometimes i dont have time to cook so i grab whatever i think is good that is already prepackaged so i can just mix together and heat up.

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Re: home made or prepackaged
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2014, 08:03:36 pm »
More homemade these days.  I cook meals on Sundays and eat them throughout the week.

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