Opinion on Hamburger/Chicken Helper? I'll admit I typically just make it when I'm feeling lazy

I know who ulillillia is, you dumb assshole. I was just saying.

>Opinion on Hamburger/Chicken Helper? I'll admit I typically just make it when I'm feeling lazy.
With a coupon and a BOGO sale, they can be nearly free. If you are buying it though, ehh, get a bit less lazy and buy regular ingredients instead. The pastas in those boxes is ultra-thin and kind of floppy and because they are cooked in the pan they just lack the flavor differences that make a nice creamy dinner so satisfying.

Buy pasta, whether barilla shapes, big egg noodles, fresh pasta dumplings or other. Brown you hamburger or chicken chunks in butter or oil, roux the drippings, pour in your milk to make your own bechamel...all this while noodles are boiling, fold in cheese of choice and set aside. Add drained noodles, and top with something good, whether fried onions, parsley, cilantro, sour cream, crushed garlic croutons, rice or asian egg noodle toppings, or more cheese, or just a dose of paprika. If you want to actually make it lovely, pour that into a baking dish, top with breadcrumbs and dots of butter or cheese, and park it 30 minutes to get bubbly good. Clean up kitchen. Make a garlic bread or salad or just steam-in-bag peas.

To the guy who said the Stronganoff is godly...seriously? Brown some steak or hamburger with a pint of mushrooms, garlic cloves, chopped bell pepper and about 15 frozen pearl onions or bell pepper stir fry mix. Stir 1 tsp flour and paprika into 1/2 cup of sour cream, and add to browned meat and mushrooms in pan. Serve over egg noodles. Top with parsley.

there's always that guy.

$.79 cents compared to $10 or more for every 3 people or so. Spend $2.50 to feed a family of 9 or spend $30 per meal? 20 minutes of basically sitting around or 30 minutes of constant work making it your way? This thread isn't about making your own. It's about hamburger helper. See how there's a photo of it in the OPs post? Hamburger Helper. Not JIMMY TELLS YOU YOU CAN MAKE IT FROM SCRATCH HELPER

This. Everyone knows you can make it better with better ingredients, no one is impressed that you finally realized that.

I guess if you want to ignore the first paragraph, then we can not only make fun of your math where you exclude the price of meat and dairy from the box price, or just address the fact that an opinion was asked about the product. It's crap. The product is crap. What is most crap about it, is that it is not 79 cents, but rather $3.50, and unless you did get that bogo and coupon, however pasta is 2/$1, and that tsp of flour and half a jar of spices and powdered cheese in a packet isn't worth the $3. It is crap that you spend about the same to do better if you do not mind dirtying two pots.

When someone, probably you, states their stroganoff is worth the price, they aren't using a good recipe for comparison.