<p>This idea prompted by the homemade granola I just took out of the oven - to be eaten soon over whole milk plain yogurt and topped with fresh strawberries!!</p>
<p>So granola is something I almost always make from scratch. Also, guacamole - the only guacamole I like from the store is an outrageous price cause THEY make it fresh. </p>
<p>Do you bake your own bread??
Milk your own cow for milk?
Churn your own butter???! ;)</p>
<p>Or just make something ALWAYS from scratch???</p>
<p>I make homemade dog biscuits</p>
<p>That is REALLY cool! Do you have a recipe for the dog biscuits?</p>
<p>Dumplings (make both dough and filling from scratch).
Chicken broth for soups (and soups).</p>
<p>Hummus, whipped cream (too much sugar in canned variety), toll house cookies, pancakes (Alton Brown recipe), applesauce (again with the sugar)</p>
<p>Oh gee - you name it, I make it from scratch. I make my own hamburger buns and loaves of bread, I can lots of stuff I grow, pancakes, applesauce, cookies, cakes, spaghetti sauce. Except for cereal I can’t think of anything we eat that comes from a box. </p>
<p>whipped cream, mashed potatoes, pizza</p>
<p>ETA: spaghetti meat sauce, mashed potatoes, chicken stock (I cheat w/ boxed variety if I don’t have a rotisserie chicken carcass on hand).</p>
<p>Toll house cookies, mashed potatoes, some soups.</p>
<p>salad dressing—I spend way too much time and money at places like “Oil and Vinegar” and “The Olive Tap” buying flavored balsamic vinegars and olive oil
chex mix—a family favorite, so we don’t buy bagged snacks or chips…and I pretend it’s healthier (even though I know it probably isn’t)
cookies—because store-bought cookies taste like sugary cardboard
I try to make bread once or twice a week, too, but I haven’t been doing that lately because I’ve been lazy.</p>
<p>In other words, a lot of the things that you eat because they taste good not because they’re good for you.</p>
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<p>I don’t cook much but Mashed potatoes. I always mix sauteed onions in and use Yukon gold potatoes, much better than anything you can get from a pack, and not that hard to cook. By scratch, I mean I still buy the ingredients from the store, I don’t grow potatoes or onions.</p>
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<p>This I’ve never gotten. I can’t figure out how to make half-way decent (let alone better) pizza than you can get from a pizza place, for cheaper than a pizza place. Whenever I’ve tried it’s always just come out not very good, at a worse price for the ingredients than you’d get at a pizza place. Unless by scratch, you mean you make the dough and sauce (whenever I’ve tried I buy them from the store). </p>
<p>I love making things from scratch! Some of the most common ones for me are: pizza, bread, ice cream, chicken stock, dog food, and desserts of all kinds.</p>
<p>@Vladenschlutte …my homemade foods are rarely cheaper than store bought. They are, however, tastier so I think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>I’m with you on pizza…my dough is inconsistent. Sometimes delish, the next time, meh. Humidity plays a big role in yeast doughs, and I am not talented enough to get it right. </p>
<p>I always make brownies and chocolate chip cookies from scratch, as well as many other desserts. Also, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce and almost everything else at Thanksgiving dinner. I prefer making a lot of things myself because I know exactly what’s in them, and it’s most definitely not all those additives with weird names!</p>
<p>We make a lot of from scratch pizza that I think is just as good as from a pizza place, though it’s different. It’s not the same. If you really prefer that pizza shop taste and texture, you might not ever like a homemade pizza as much. My homemade pizza is crisper on the bottom and chewier in the middle than pizza place pizza, and less greasy, which is what I like about it. I make my own dough from scratch but I buy contadina pizza sauce, admittedly. I’d make my own sauce but haven’t tried it yet. If I do a store bought crust, we like the freschetta one baked on a pizza stone prepped with cornmeal or whatever that stuff you use is… I forget. It’s really pretty good, but the pizza stone and cornmeal really is a different level than just baking it on the rack or on a baking sheet. </p>
<p>I do a lot of from scratch bread, and almost all desserts. With the dairy allergy, I have no choice if I want dessert most of the time. You can buy vegan desserts at health food stores but they are expensive and frequently taste weird. For a while we exclusively ate bread from scratch but I don’t have time to make it anymore and we don’t eat very much bread at all so it’s not worth it. I buy a loaf and keep it in the freezer and it takes me months to finish it.</p>
<p>We like to bake potato chips at home, especially sweet potato chips. We do a lot of that in the summer. I make dairy free cheese from scratch all the time for various recipes, the best is a baked macaroni and cheese that is TO DIE FOR even if you are accustomed to regular cheese. I feed it to family all the time and they don’t know it’s not real cheese. </p>
<p>I want to learn to make a lot more, but I still have pretty limited experience in the kitchen and am still learning. My fiance does not have a very sophisticated palate either, getting him to eat home baked potato chips is even a stretch. He’d eat nothing but tyson chicken nuggets and ore ida tater tots if I didn’t insist otherwise. I just got a kitchenaid artisan mixer as a wedding gift and cant wait to dig in. 
The manual came with a recipe for pizza dough that I’m going to try.</p>
<p>I often make homemade hummus and like it best. But since we eat a lot, I still cave in and buy the already made sometimes.</p>
<p>Cheese sauce for mac & cheese. I despise the insipid powdered nonsense that Kraft makes. Besides which, you have to do something while you wait for the macaroni to cook. You might as well make a good sauce!</p>
<p>I’d love to see the ingredients you use for that Mac and cheese!!!</p>
<p>I am enjoying this thread.
I make my own salad dressing, granola,mashed potatoes, whipped cream, Alfredo sauce (once a year at most), pesto. We eat a lot of Mexican style food and I make my own pico de gallo and mango salsa and guacamole. I do have bottled hot sauces in the frig for H who puts it on almost everything.I also make my own seasoning mix for tacos and fajitas. Once a year I fry hard shell tacos from store bought corn tortillas.
I do most of my cooking from fresh ingredients. We just don’t eat processed food. I do use some staple items to save time. I buy dried pasta and jarred sauce. I am particular about brand and only buy Silver Palate pasta sauce. I prefer it to what I can make on my own. I also buy canned beans. Also guilty of using canned enchilada sauce. We use very little bread so I have never attempted bread making. If I want cookies I will make them but we rarely eat them. I buy pizza dough at Trader Joes and add my own topping. It isn’t the same as going out but it is our go to Sunday night meal in summer.
I grew up in a home where nothing was homemade. Frozen banquet chicken, mashed potato flakes, boxed Mac and cheese and minute rice. My Mom was one of the first in our neighborhood to buy a microwave. It was huge and my parents loved to cook in it. I still remember the horrors of microwaved scrambled eggs. </p>
<p>Ugh…microwave food. Although I used to nuke an egg in a greased ramekin for homemade egg mc muffins. My kids thought they were good. I didn’t care for them, but it got them out the door with a hot meal in their tummies in less than 5 minutes.</p>