Things That Make You Say Hmmmmmmm?

I don't think you're alone, Marilyn.

Everybody, and I mean _everybody_, uses convenience items at one time or another. Just some people aren't willing to admit it.

Remember what I said above, though: A convenience product "should save you significant time, or energy, or in some other way truly benefit your lifestyle."

Apparently, the ones you buy are fulfilling those requirements. But I notice you did _not_ include Crockpot Classics in your list. :>)

That said, however, if you want I can show you how to have the best of both worlds: great, home-cooked meals with the convenience of take-out. We do it all the time here.

 
I used quite a bit of grated cheese so I buy hunks and pre-grate a small piece

and store it in a small plastic containter in the fridge so that it is handy to use but is never more than a few days old.

 
Aajay, don't you find it clumps up and sticks together if you pre-grate it?

I don't mean the hard cheezes like Pamesan and Asiago. But the semi-hards, like cheddar and jack and mozzerella.

 
Another pet peeve is Alfredo sauce in a jar. Just how hard is it to melt butter in hot cream and

add cheese, for pete's sake. It probably takes longer to open the jar. And the additives! Just had a whole discussion about this with the lady at Trader Joes.

 
And talking about graters, just about every Box Grater that I have ever tried ends up bent . . .

around the bottom. I was in a store the other day and saw a conical style grater that looks as if it would be much sturdier as I would not be folding in one of the sides when I grated.

I might buy the cone grater just 'cuz it looks, cool but I think I will continue to use my variety of heavy-duty flat graters that I got in antique stores, as I have all sorts of grater-hole sizes. I can grate from very fine strants (great for parmesan shreds) to very thick (great for hash-brown potatoes).

 
Don't feel toooo bad, there are more than a few things you can buy prepared in a grocery store. . .

That are good, but you really need to pick carefully.

And it sounds as if you are doing that.

 
I have ATTEMPTED to make alfredo this and that several times at home and what comes out "sucks". . .

If you can pardon my language! And I mean it is pretty awful. I don't know how something with a ****load of butter and cream and cheese could be awful, but it was!

The two times I have tried a prepared alfredo sauce, it came out pretty good.

But of course I doctored the suckers, extra butter, cream and cheese, so it probably was BETTER than the straight jarred sauce. . . Wait, I know it was better than the jarred sauce!

Do you have a good, easy, creamy recipe for Alfredo that I could try?

 
I found one of those funky Tupperware graters for the cabin, and it works surprisingly well.

 
Joe, I use the pre-grated for fast taco dinner etc. Give me my block of sharp white cheddar and a

box grater and I'll grate you a beautiful pile of lusciousness and then make the yummy white cheddar and green onion puffs on EPI. (extra protein from the finger may be included though, ewwww)

 
Nope, you're not alone

there's nothing wrong with convenience items from the grocery store if that's what it takes to get a meal on the table.

it's threads like this, that have a faint whiff of food snobbery, that drove me away from Gail's years ago...

 
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