The Campbell’s Company, home to Prego sauce, Pepperidge Farm cookies, and iconic soups, reported third quarter earnings Monday. The company said its net sales were down 4% from the same time a year ago. Campbell’s did note one thing in its favor: More people are cooking from scratch these days, or as the company put it, “semi-scratch.” That means they’re relying on Campbell’s products to get them part of the way there.Christine McDaniel grew up in the Midwest. When she got out of there, the last thing she wanted to do was make a casserole. But in the past year, she’s gotten really into them — specifically, ones made with cream of mushroom soup. “It's just kind of gotten to be a go-to for us,” she said.McDaniel, who now lives in northern Virginia, is doing a lot more cooking from scratch these days, for her kids and her dogs. She even makes her own horse treats — they actually sound pretty good: “Molasses, honey, oil, water, a little salt, and oats, a lot of oats,” she said.McDaniel is a senior trade economist at the World Bank, where she said she makes a fine wage but her income hasn’t kept pace with inflation. She’s been able to save by making things herself. “It's a good economical decision for me, personally,” she said. “My horse, for instance, is a pretty … big part of the monthly budget, and he is not going away. It's not something I can cut, so I look for other things that I can cut, and you know, food is sort of an easy one.”That tracks with consumer behavior at large, said Dave Chalk, head of insights and analytics at Campbell's.“When things get tight, and we're not talking just food, we're talking, broadly,” he said. “Consumers, the first thing we do to offset that is we move meals from out of home, in home, right?”That shift has benefitted certain products Campbell’s makes, such as broth, tomato sauce, and some condensed soupsAnother draw to cooking at home? Social media bragging rights.Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Diana Rosero-Pena said some people are doing it for the ‘gram.“There seems to be that pride … of showing what you made and for inspiration as well. So I would say this is a trend that's probably going to last a little while,” she said.The scratch cooking trend is a bright spot for Campbell’s. Two things that brought the company’s sales down? People bought fewer salty snacks last quarter and less of what the company calls “eating soups” — you know, the ones that don’t go in casseroles.