So has anyone actually tried Duggars Tater Tot Casserole?

[Talking Hands]

Since I am allergic to dairy I make my own cream sauce with flour, earth balance, and soy milk and add mushrooms, celery and onions. We substitute crumbles for the meat and use soy cheese. Tater tots go on top so they get crispy. Comes out pretty good but is very doctored from the original

 

[rascalmom]

My mom used to make this when I was growing up back in the late 60s/70s, so the Duggars certainly didn't invent it.

I liked it as a kid, but I think we all try to eat a little healthier now. I try not to use canned foods that have unpronounceable ingredients in them. I will used canned tomatoes and canned beans for some things though.

 

[Poohforyou]

No and honestly I'd go hungry before eating that. I HATE cream of whatever soup and cheese.

 

[pigletgirl]

This horrid dish reminds of the days I had to go to the nanny during the summer and she'd make this at least twice a week. I can remember the smell and its making me light headed. I have forever been scarred for life.

 

[mjkacmom]

Ew, how can you NOT notice soup in a pot roast? I hate any recipe with canned, creamed soup in it. I'm more of a purist. I like my food fresh. And, just calling that recipe, the 'Duggar' anything, would keep me away from it. I think the Duggars are possessed by some strange entitiy and it's NOT God.

I'm here - I've actually tried to get my kids to eat recipes with soup/velveeta/fake stuff, but I started too late. I once made hamburger helper, and they were grossed out. Forget about the mac and cheese I made with velveeta last week, or the time I served a stouffers lasagna! Heck, I don't like that stuff, but I thought I could at least get the kids to eat it! However, I cook from scratch (fresh herbs in the summer), and they're used to that.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

My mom never made it, she was a 'make stuff from scratch mom'. However dh's mom would make it. Not sure of the recipe though.

I do find it icky that people think the Duggars invented it though.

Just like Disturbed wrote "Land of Confusion" and Glee wrote "Bohemian Rhapody".

 

[disykat]

I do find it icky that people think the Duggars invented it though.

People seem to think the Duggar's invented a lot of stuff!

 

[Pigeon]

Absolutely disgusting.

 

[dakcp2001]

I tried it. It was just meh. I made it with he cheddar cheese soup instead of the cream soup. It tasted like Hamburger helper, which is all my mother in law cooks, so my husband liked it. I don't think I will make it again. It was heavy, like good for a crowd in a snowstorm type of thing. A little too heavy for me.

 

[MrsPete]

Yeah, we ate this while we were growing up -- long before it was Duggar-anything. It's okay, nothing special. I put it in the same category as Hamburger Helper. Its claim to fame is that it's cheap and quick. It's not disgusting, and if my husband made it on a Tuesday night i'd eat it and be glad I didn't have to cook. But I'd not ask for seconds, and I'd never serve it on a weekend or to company.

I almost never use soup as a sauce in anything. Making a homemade white sauce is cheaper and takes all of a few minutes -- without all the chemicals that're in canned soup. No matter what the commercials say, soup IS NOT good food.

Of course there are people who don't like it. I made something like this years ago. While I won't go out and say that it "tasted bad", it's obviously something that is so processed and so not good for you. These dishes remind of things that people make in order to make a lot of food for a lot of people that's filling and can stretch their dollar--but horrible for you.

Two thoughts:

1. So many people today can't cook. At all. So when they follow a simple, monkey-could-co-it recipe like this, they're amazed at their culinary feat.

2. When the main ingredient is tater tots, one shouldn't expect a healthy outcome!

 

[luvdzny]

I've not made the Dugger version but I have made one with cheddar cheese soup instead of the cream soups. Really good & now I'm craving it.

I have to try this!!!

 

[beaucoup]

Have only heard of this dish online. Have never seen it in person or know anyone who makes it or at least admits it. Guess it is not a New England staple.

 

[luvsJack]

You throw it in the crockpot. Beef, potatoes, carrots, celery, packet of Lipton beefy onion soup mix and cream of mushroom soup. 8 hour later you have yummy potroast.

I am going to try the ground beef with onions, garlic, and green peppers. I am going to top that with the cheddar cheese soup, then the tots, then I will bake. I'll let you all know how it turns out. We are in a recipe rut, I am looking for a few new things to add to the rotation.

My biggest issue with the recipe sites is the reviews are crazy, people change the entire recipe and then say they didn't like the original that they in no way followed. And the Duggar tot recipe has a million great reviews, which seems unreal, there has to be someone that did not like it. That is why I asked here, people are more honest.

Try your pot roast with Golden Mushroom soup and French Onion Soup. REALLY good. Golden Mushroom is hard to find though, so I have used the French Onion and Cream of Mushroom. Still good.

 

[LuvsDragonflies]

We do it with cheddar cheese soup and frozen hash browns on top. Yum. Certainly not good for you, but real comfort food.

 

[gator75]

I have never tried it and i hate tator tots so i never will try it , but i saw an episode a few weeks back and they where having company a couple they met in the nicu anyway they where going to have this hot dish and just a little head up if you go to the duggars you may be expected to make the meal, but anyway she was showing this girl they had over how to make it and it looked positively awful. Watching them use a mixer to mix the soups and whatnot made me want to crawl out of my skin.

 

[scrapquitler]

This recipe is not at all appealing to me, and I've watched them prepare and rave about it on the show. I wouldn't ever make it for my family because the only casserole type dish that anyone in my family will ever eat is lasagna I have three people in my house (not including me) who won't eat foods that touch other foods, so casseroles are a problem. Personally I don't do casseroles because I ate way too many of them consisting of a combination of whatever happened to be in the fridge, regardless of it 'going' together while I was growing up. As a teenager I told myself that I would NOT eat casseroles any more, and I don't.

 

[Kellydelly]

I am a casserole lover, but this one isn't that great. I like everything in it, but it doesn't really work for me. I only cooked it one time for my family. My husband will eat anything, so he probably liked it.