Home Made or Scratch
By Kimberley
@mom210 (9041)
United States
January 30, 2016 9:08am CST
I have learned something. I always thought home made meant, from scratch, but I have come to realize that home made these days simply means, it was made at home. This has confused me for a while now. I was chatting with another mom that said she made a home made pasta dish last night. I was interested, and asked what she made and how she did it. She explained how she bought a bag of noodles and a jar of pasta. um, cool. But ,not really what I call home made. So, I guess what I really mean is scratch right? Well, when I look up a recipe I get really frustrated, I type in chocolate cake and wind up with "open a cake mix" box. No, I want to make it from scratch. Do we even cook from scratch anymore? I have no problem with people opening boxes, just not what I was thinking of as home made or scratch.
My daughters were suppose to make home made cookies one night in Girls in Action and the leader brought in a tube of cookie dough. My girls had never made cookies like that before and were very confused. The leader asked me afterward "Your girls have never made cookies before?" Yes they have, but not from a tube.
The picture is a cake my 13 year old son made, not from a box & decorated by him.
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38 responses
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
30 Jan 16
lol which is why I don't buy baked goods from a bake sale unless I know the baker!! Yes I do scratch cooking and baking. However my grandsons love my daughter's secret recipe spaghetti sauce (Ragu) lol I have taught the older ones how to make scratch baked mac and cheese and they love it.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 Jan 16
@just4him I like the crusty pieces around the edge!!
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
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30 Jan 16
I've never made them from a tub either lol. I guess it's easier but are they the same as if you maybe them fresh.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
1 Feb 16
Hmmm... Well, I would try a piece of his cake, Kim! LOL! If I could pry it out of your hands, that is! 
I've been running into that same kind of thinking for the last few years! I have no idea where people got the idea that opening a mix and using it is homemade! It isn't what my mom called homemade and it certainly isn't what I mean when I say homemade, either!
I've been running into that same kind of thinking for the last few years! I have no idea where people got the idea that opening a mix and using it is homemade! It isn't what my mom called homemade and it certainly isn't what I mean when I say homemade, either!2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
1 Feb 16
@paigea Yeah, but that is understandable, especially with small children added into the mix! Life happens to all of us!
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@mom210 (9041)
• United States
1 Feb 16
Oh and it was a very good cake too, my son made it and did the decorations. I think boys & girls need to know how to cook. When I started teaching him, he really enjoyed the dessert part. It has kind of become his job to make the birthday cakes in the family. I am glad you are running into the same thing, and I am not the only one.
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@Marilynda1225 (80212)
• United States
1 Feb 16
Your son looks like a talented baker and I always thought that homemade was from scratch too.
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@just4him (308832)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
30 Jan 16
It's very hard to find recipes from scratch today. You need to go to the thrift stores and look for the older cookbooks. It's sad really. My mother made everything from scratch. Home made was definitely home made.
That's a very nice looking cake your son made.
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@Margielynn (693)
• United States
29 Mar 16
@mom210 I love cookbooks, read them like a magazine! I have way too many, I have bought at thrift stores or garage sales. I just cannot pass it by and not grab it!
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
31 Dec 16
I agree, from scratch, should mean that we may buy the ingredients and put it together ourselves. Let's say that I made a pie from scratch, it should mean that made the dough and cut the apples, etc. 
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@mom210 (9041)
• United States
16 Sep 16
Oh yes, he loves to cook, in fact I have to kick him out of the kitchen sometimes, because he kills my food budget, he will decide to make this, and now that, oh and how about this when I am done. Sometimes all I can see is $$$, go play son.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
2 Feb 16
We make everything we can from scratch-not boxes, cans, etc...but we can't grow tea, have not conquered some herbs, etc. Happily there are some in the area who can grow most of what we can't.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Jan 16
I know someone on Facebook who posts her dinner menu daily and she puts:
homemade pasta
homemade ham
Now I know darn well she isn't making pasta from scratch or curing a ham! LOL I would like to correct her but she has a mouth like a truck driver and she'd ream me into the ground!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
3 Feb 16
@mom210 I've read how she talks to people who don't agree with her..baddddd stuff.
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@mom210 (9041)
• United States
5 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill It is a shame a lady would feel the need to talk like that.
@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
1 Feb 16
I make some stuff from scratch, like cookies, but other times I use a box. Kind of depends on what I'm making and how much time I have. When I say homemade I mean anything from home, from a box or scratch. If I only want from scratch that's what I'll say.
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@Margielynn (693)
• United States
29 Mar 16
I would personally say I made something homemade that I made from scratch.I seldom hear anyone use the word scratch anymore! I guess homemade has a different definition for this Grannie!
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@mom210 (9041)
• United States
5 Apr 16
@Margielynn that is great while they are little they want to learn, I allow mine to just go in and have free reign. The rule is, they have to clean up when they are done
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@Margielynn (693)
• United States
30 Mar 16
@mom210 yes me too, I cook with love and taught all five of my grandkids to cook since they were little.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
27 Feb 16
my beans on toast today was home made - I opened the tin in the house, warmed up the beans and put them on the shop bought sliced bread - all in the house so home made
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@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
14 May 16
Yeh, typically I would associate "home made" with "made from scratch" too, but came to view them as distinct when I actually started "making" things at home...um, I'm not very good at it;)
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@grandbrix (81)
• Philippines
31 Jan 16
so does homemade means original or organic ..not taken from recipes? you need to be creative like your son. His cake looks good and toothsome.
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@grandbrix (81)
• Philippines
4 Feb 16
@mom210 it began in a little way until he hit the bigtime...it could be his passion, which will make it easier and interesting for him
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