For one thing, using bouillon that you have to reconstitute is more effort than opening a can/box of broth or stock. Furthermore, you can buy your veggies pre-chopped (probably with preservatives to keep them looking pretty), or chop them yourself.
Okay, anyone who buys pre-chopped veggies for soup automatically forfeits the right to call that product 'homemade'.
You can buy precooked meat, or you can cook it yourself (in the soup or before).
Anyone who buys pre-cooked meat for soup (as opposed to raw or cooked but leftover from a previous meal) also forfeits any right to titling that soup 'homemade'
I said effort initially but really for each of these decisions, one way lets you have more control over what's actually going into the soup and how much of it than the other. So even with something as simple as soup there is a continuum of what would qualify as "homemade" IMO.
Well, now, in my reply to Celia I express that same point, so we have some common ground here. I said it still qualifies as homemade when the convenience isn't sacrificing any meaningful control on the final product.
A sandwich isn't homemade because it was made in your kitchen, but if you baked the bread yourself, then it is.
And surely bread isn't the only factor determining whether a sandwich counts as homemade or not. Processed lunchmeat vs. meat you cooked, premade nut butter/jelly vs. one you make yourself, etc. would all have to factor into that determination I would think 
No, not the only factor, merely an example, and of course in a case like the one I cited, one should properly be saying 'Here's some sandwiches, the bread is homemade' or the jelly is homemade, I mean it's really about citing the most by-scratch item in the product. 'This is home-churned butter' or 'I grew these in the garden'. That sort of thing.
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King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
/survey about "Home made" food.
- 09/03/2010 02:49:05 PM
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You didn't make the bouillon, but you made the soup.
- 09/03/2010 02:57:44 PM
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I'm actually gonna say no
- 09/03/2010 04:27:16 PM
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- 09/03/2010 04:39:56 PM
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- 09/03/2010 04:39:56 PM
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probably depends on how you define homemade
- 09/03/2010 04:48:00 PM
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That's why I like her 'limbo state'
- 09/03/2010 05:19:49 PM
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Re: That's why I like her 'limbo state'
- 09/03/2010 05:30:15 PM
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I think there are more than three levels.
- 09/03/2010 04:53:12 PM
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I disagree
- 09/03/2010 05:31:03 PM
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Yay common ground
- 09/03/2010 05:42:54 PM
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- 09/03/2010 05:42:54 PM
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Yes, your soup is a lie
- 09/03/2010 05:59:52 PM
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Get back in the kitchen and "homemake" me a pie and I might lean your way. *NM*
- 09/03/2010 05:02:50 PM
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