Of course I do my cooking “from scratch”. Just as I take a bath or shower “naked”, and drive a car “sitting upright”.
Flavored yogurt? Shrimp sauce? The failure of the United States is in its failure to develop a cuisine. Nobody knows how to cook or eat without realiance on packaged crap. Even the Mexicans eat better than we do.
We had a perfectly good cuisine. Look at cookbooks prior to about 1970.
What we did was quit teaching home-ec. And the moms that would have passed on that knowledge were too tired when they got home from work to cook. So the kids never learned how. Dinner was a TV dinner or pizza.
Now 20yr old girls can’t, largely, even boil water.