While I really can't stand her, her show, or the kind of "food" she creates, I do think she gets more heat than sometimes deserved. Sandra Lee is a symptom of our poor food system in this country, not a cause. Here, on this site, we tend to spend a lot of time bashing convience foods, and pre made products, but let's face facts, many, if not most Americans rely heavily on these products. There are many reasons, laziness, less time to spend at home, both parents working, and the most insidious reason of all-because these items are so much cheaper than preparing food from scratch. It is well documented that poor and lower middle class families often rely on convience foods because they are significantly cheaper. Boxed Mac & Cheese, canned tuna, frozen burritos, Kool-aid, Hamburger Helper, Ramen noodles; all these (and hundreds more) are so much cheaper than trying to buy food to prepare "from scratch" meals. I am in no way condoning this or Sandra Lee, but let's face it, what she is pushing sells (the tight sweaters probably also help). Until the whole system changes there will always be a place for the Sandra Lees of the world to teach us how to turn hamburger and a bag of Doritos into a lovely Enchilada Pie and how to create a sublime mousse from Coolwhip and Jello.
