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Originally Posted by Joan.of.the.Arch
...So enough of my pointing out that 1) not all poor people eat crap yet indulge in luxury foods with foodstamps, and 2) some people still do cook from scratch. "You" aren't the only one.
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I agree that most people on food stamps don't indulge in luxury foods but this is one of those topics that splits a room down the middle. I have been in rooms where the topic comes up and I assure you, it always turns into a feisty argument.
As to "You" not being the only one cooking from scratch, in my world, I knew and still know no one who cooked even most things from scratch (and my family was one of the poorer families aka working poor I know so that is a wide range of incomes that weren't cooking from scratch). That isn't saying no one in the US knows how but it does mean I had a lot to learn when I started cooking from scratch. I wish I knew someone else who cooked from scratch, I would love to raid their recipes.
Personally, I felt like an idiot the day I realized that one could make tortillas at home because it had never occurred to me that you could (it wouldn't and didn't occur to anyone else I knew either). I have had to reexamine a lot of foods to figure out what can and can not be made at home. My family when I was growing up bought tons of mixes for cornbread muffins, cakes, brownies, etc. We made food at home but nothing was ever really from scratch. We even bought batter mix because we didn't know how to make it. Frankly, I think the internet is heaven sent for allowing me to learn how to do all of these things.