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[quote=Anonymous]Well, I prefer to cook from scratch.  So I buy premise food for one of three reasons:

1. Meal kits/shelf stable ingredients: To keep on the shelf for when I’ve had no time to cook and have nothing I made frozen ahead in the freezer (hardly ever happens, since I batch cook)
2. Bars/snacks: for sending to school or taking to an activity, when being able to check the Ingredient list is required; premade sealed food is required!
3. Snacks/desserts: for parties, cookouts, and field trips, so that I don’t have to cook large quantities and keep most in the house; I cook healthier versions (desserts) for our use and freeze what won’t be eaten before spoiling.
4. Dairy: weekly, because I don’t have time, space or energy to keep up with household needs for kefir, yogurt, hard cheese, fresh mozzarella, cottage cheese, ricotta, etc.  Our dairy needs vary weekly, based on kids’ activities and our meal plan, but the amount of time I would need to spend would be insane, let alone the space requirements to ripen cheese...
5. Canned/frozen: when the produce is frozen at the peak of nutritional value and would have degraded by the time I could get it fresh (spinach), when the alternative to frozen is unripe fresh produce (berries), when canning helps the nutritional value (tomatoes), frozen is the alternative when produce is out of season in my area
6. Dry goods: because I don’t like to collect and dry my own beans, seaweed, rice, etc.  I also don’t like shelling my own nuts.

I love to cook.  There’s no judgement of others’ choices, just an explanation of when I buy different types of food.  FWIW, I do look for the following: no gluten or corn, no added sugar, normal to high fiber from appropriate sources, very little salt, no preservatives or additives, etc.[/quote]

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