Can and do. However, if someone just gives me bags of mini carrots, I will cook them too. Of course, now my neighbor is keeping stuff since I told her how easy it was to use it. Like the milk and yogurt. It's usually only a couple cups of yogurt and a half gallon of milk, but combined and voila, you have a half gallon of perfectly fine yogurt. I really don't much care for drinking milk and love yogurt. So, one day looking at all that milk I suddenly realized that the yogurt contained active culture and wouldn't it just convert all that milk to yogurt if mixed and set out. Yes, it did. However, the fruit juice is sweetened so unless I'm going to make some homemade hooch I don't see much use for it. The sweet bread is coated with sugar and so I can't eat that without getting sick.