On 7/23/2017 10:37 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/23/2017 9:34 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 7/23/2017 6:59 AM, Gary wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I love to cook but not so much after a long day at work then
>>> still chores at home to do.
>>>
>> Stouffer's makes some tasty frozen entrees The thing about these
>> dinner kits is you still have to do all the work: chop and cook the
>> veggies and the meat, add seasonings. The only real convenience is
>> someone put the *ingredients* in a box and sent it to you.
>>
>> Jill
>
>
> Right, no shopping, no thinking.
>
> Part of it is psychological. If I have to prep, I'm really cooking,
> therefore I'm a great housewife and mother. I'm superior to people just
> nuking a TV dinner.
>
That's exactly the way they portray it in the ads, Ed. Look! I'm
chopping vegetables! The kids can help! We're cooking! I guess they
don't know they really could have done the same thing without it being
delivered.

> When cake mixes first hit the grocery stores they did not sell well. The
> company reconfigured so you had to add an egg with the milk and they
> became acceptable since now you were really baking.

I'll have to take your word for that. My mother rarely baked cakes but
I'm 99% sure when she did she used a mix.

I've made cakes from scratch a couple of times (spice cake with maple
frosting comes to mind). Not recently, though. I'm not that interested
in cake. Or these meal kits.

Jill