Why Cooking from Scratch isn’t Complicated
Cooking from scratch. It sounds intimidating and overwhelming. We live in a very fast paced world that causes us to think that we can’t do the things that our grandmas did. But let me just tell y’all…. that is totally not true!
Cooking your food from scratch is a much simpler process than you think. You will usually save money, use less ingredients, and you will get quicker with practice!
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1) Uses less ingredients
There are multiple reasons that using less ingredients is a good thing. Here’s three to start with
healthier for you
spend less money
simpler to make the food
If you look into food history at all, many times you will realize that the most popular foods in the world actually use the simplest ingredients to make. For example, pasta is just made from eggs and flour. Or even just water and flour, depending where you are in the world.
When you use less ingredients, that is where technique becomes so important and creates the ending outcome. Think of making bread. Every bread recipe uses virtually the same ingredients. It is how these ingredients are combined and baked that makes biggest difference in the breads.
2) Save money
When you use less ingredients, you can can save money. You aren’t spending your money on the complicated additions, but rather the essentials. Usually with these products you get more bang for your buck, meaning you can get a lot more product for that price than when you buy a bunch of different ingredients.
Essential ingredients like flour, eggs, and milk are such versatile ingredients. Check out my post: What to do when you only have eggs, flour, and milk.
3) Gets easier with practice
Cooking from scratch looks so complicated when you eat the finished product. But many times, like we said before, the food is made from the simplest ingredients and a specific technique.
For example, if you grew up like me, you watched your grandma make biscuits, fried pies, and chicken and dumplins. Those things tasted so good and you knew your grandma had to have taken forever to make it. When you compliment her, she responds, “oh, it only took me about an hour.”
Well if you didn’t know, all three of those things use the same dough to make.
And since grandma has made this meal 100,000 times, (maybe an exaggeration, but you get the picture) she did it in no time flat.
One thing you are gonna learn as you start cooking from scratch is that the recipe won’t turn out perfect (like grandma’s) the first time. It takes practice. The more you make these recipes over and over, the faster you get and the better they taste.
