Both my daughter and wife about gagged on the original variety from Annie’s. As long as we get the white cheddar or aged cheddar varieties everything is kosher. Much like my epic saga of toilet paper substitution, my wife was the harder sell but she has come to see the light. If a person does not recognize the ingredient should the person eat the food? Or is it food like product?įor the most part, my daughter has no issue with the Annie’s macaroni and cheese taking the place of the venerable blue box. What is milk protein concentrate? What is sodium tripolyphosphate? Yellow dye number 5 and 6? Isn’t cheddar cheese naturally colored? Oh wait, this is cheese sauce mix. Sort of like Taco Bell does not really sell you ground beef. For Annie’s again it is simple-cheddar cheese with the ingredients in the cheese listed. Why not just leave things alone in the first place. Take all of the nutrition out of the ingredients by refining the flour into a tasteless white mash and then add vitamins back in to make health claims. Why do we feel the need to enrich everything with industrially sourced nutrients? When will we get away from the fact that nutrition is about eating whole foods and not just the right molecules?
I am assuming that the recipe is unleavened dough of durum wheat and water. For Annie’s it is organic pasta from durum wheat. I am guessing that this is because the Kraft version calls out half a stick of butter and 2% milk. It is interesting to note that the two products are quite similar from a nutrition perspective as boxed, but differ quite a bit when prepared. On the right is the same information for a box of traditional Kraft Mac n’ Cheese. The additives, the bloggers say, are tasteless and potentially dangerous. On the right is the nutritional information and ingredients for a box of Annie’s Natural White Cheddar and Shells. Two mothers are circulating a popular petition calling on Kraft Foods to remove artificial dyes, specifically yellow dyes 5 and 6, from its Macaroni & Cheese products. Why? Take a look at the two labels below: The quandary comes when trying to pick what kind of box dinner to make: On those nights when we let her pick dinner the answer is inevitably, “Mac and cheese with peas!” Since the ratio is about one to one peas to pasta I have no problem with this being her favorite dinner. The combination of dairy products and starch just strikes her fancy.
It can be homemade from four kinds of cheese with a béchamel sauce or straight out of the box. My four year old daughter loves macaroni and cheese.