To Make or to Buy? That is the question

Having reached a certain proficiency as a home cook, there is little I can’t or at some point, haven’t made. But just because I can make them at home doesn’t mean that what I produce is always better, much as it pains me to admit it! If you weigh the time and effort it takes to make the food against the ease and cost of simply buying an equal or superior product, it makes no sense to go to all that trouble. There are some things, the three that stand out for me are mayonnaise, pasta sauce and hot cross buns, that I can buy for less than it costs to make them and many of them taste better. I like knowing that I can make them, but feel comfortable buying them.

The point of this website is to find great products, and provide links to find them. But if I have yet to find something better than I make at home, I’ll provide a recipe. I’ll keep hunting for products and update as I find them. Just to keep things fair, they’ll even be a few blind taste tests, coming soon.