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[quote=Anonymous]Casseroles are not trashy, what they are is casual. They are convenient meals containing a mixture of vegetables, protein. and carbs meant to feed a group that can be made ahead or cooked in one dish - not unlike sheet pan dinners, crockpot meals, soups and stews, curries, and stir fries.

These 1 dish/pan/pot entrees are not typically served at fine dining restaurants, but you could easily serve similar dishes in an individual ramekin or made in a terrine and suddenly it would be “classy” because of the presentation.

Recipes for the 1 dish entrees tend to appear in magazines, blogs, and cookbooks marketed to “busy moms” and often times recipes that are designed to be “quick and easy” may also be purposefully frugal. What makes a quiche at a French restaurant or a lasagna from a fancy Italian restaurant classy and a cheesy chicken macaroni bake at a church potluck trashy? Like an earlier poster stated, certain convenience or highly processed foods like condensed soup, cream cheese, velveeta, frozen tater tots or canned/frozen vegetables are considered trashy by some people because there is a perception that only poor people eat those foods.

Do people really worry about what others think of what they serve their kids on a weeknight, in their own home, when no guests are present? [/quote]

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