What convenience foods do you regularly buy?

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Granola bars, chips, crackers, cake mixes & frosting... I actually buy a lot of convenience foods, not so much meal type things, but easy snack food for the kids. Easy breakfast stuff too, we are up early.
 

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Sometimes breakfast cereal, granola bars. Tortilla chips, spaghetti sauce occasionally. Not too much, actually. My kids LOVE processed food, much to my despair, but they get very little of it.
 

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I make most things from scratch and buy very little convenience food because it doesn't fit my criteria for no gluten, artificial flavors or colors, and preservatives. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen so I love when I find a convenience food I can use.
I buy gluten-free waffles, gf cereal, snack bars, refried beans, tortilla chips, mayonnaise, mustard and BQ sauce.
 

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miss_thenorth said:
keljonma said:
Coffee, tea, coffee creamer for dh, peanut butter, canned olives.
Other than the coffee creamer, I would consider these things staples. Interesting.... Other than the olives--we don't eat olives.

So next question--what do you consider convenience foods?
TO me, convenience foods are those that are part prepared already - those bags of rice with the spices added, and dried mashed potatoes. Frozen dinners, frozen french fries etc.
 

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I don't know whether you're considering convenience food to include crackers or peanutbutter or my husband's favorite brand of insanely expensive marmalade that tastes exactly like the marmalade that *I* make but that he won't eat harrumph :)P). Or ketchup or worcestershire sauce or store-boughten ice cream?

The only things I can think of that *I'd* call convenience foods are:

I do use Ragu spaghetti sauce (I add spices and veggies and stuff) on a regular basis when my own canned tomatoes and tomato sauce runs out, which doesn't usually take very long. Also we use a can of campbell's cream of mushroom soup here and there, and I have this totally unjustifiable fondness for the occasional box of Rice A Roni (fried rice flavor only) or Zatarain's dirty rice mix. There, now you know my secret vice :p

But that's pretty much it.

Pat
 

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Breakfast cereals, and pasta sauces. Granola bars for my son. I tried making my own and he turned up his nose.
I did make my own pasta sauce from canned tomatoes from the store tonight. Much tastier.
I recently stopped buying coffee creamer (the dry kind) when Myth Busters showed how flammable it is. That cured my addiction to it right there! LOL
 

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Henrietta23 said:
Breakfast cereals, and pasta sauces. Granola bars for my son. I tried making my own and he turned up his nose.
I did make my own pasta sauce from canned tomatoes from the store tonight. Much tastier.
I recently stopped buying coffee creamer (the dry kind) when Myth Busters showed how flammable it is. That cured my addiction to it right there! LOL
It's flammable? :th
 

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Quail_Antwerp said:
Henrietta23 said:
Breakfast cereals, and pasta sauces. Granola bars for my son. I tried making my own and he turned up his nose.
I did make my own pasta sauce from canned tomatoes from the store tonight. Much tastier.
I recently stopped buying coffee creamer (the dry kind) when Myth Busters showed how flammable it is. That cured my addiction to it right there! LOL
It's flammable? :th
Is it b/c it is oil based? Or something else?????? Inquiring minds want to know.....!
 

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I'm not sure. I'll try to find a link to the episode. It was really scary. I'll check back in a bit. don't mean to leave you all in suspence honest!
Here you go. What would we do without YouTube?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc
I can't remember if they talked about WHY it did that.
 

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Cereals, loaf bread (I can't get mine good enough for sandwiches), condiments, mac & cheese and rice mixes (DS's best friends don't eat alot of veggies), some soups. I'm sure there are more but I don't want to tell all my nasty secrets.

I've given up cake mixes, frostings, cookies, frozen biscuits/rolls, canned biscuits & frozen french fries.
 
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