I love to eat and, thus, I love to learn how to make things myself because I want to eat food made MY way. :) I don't like artificial, good grief who knows what that is -and why do they have to put it into a 2 or 3 ingredient recipe- "stuff", and enjoy my family eating simple, good food (not chemicals). For some reason Thanksgiving dinner comes easy for me to cook. As long as I have the ingredients without having to run out to get them I'm really not stressed at all. Oh my, its easy to pick this one. I wanted to make mashed potatoes. Simple right? But since I had just purchased a Vitamix Blender I thought -Why don't I try and blend the raw potato with the skin so the skin is mixed in really well and then cook the results. Well the results were a conglomeration of violently offensive smelling GREY mush that gave one a retch reflex when you opened the lid. Did I mention it smelled bad? The whole house received this smell and we shared it with the neighborhood when I put it in the trash. Probably NOT a keeper.