I was gifted a bunch of Kraft Mac & Cheese and now I have to use them but want the meals to be as healthy as possible.

Drop your most nutritional version of Mac & Cheese.

add broccoli
>/thread

>>21451679 (OP)
add tuna and peas

>>21451705
this but corn instead of peas

>>21451705
this.
add canned chicken and ketchup or bbq sauce
add chili and beans

24 versions. Take your pick. They're all good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qlgn6hKn9g

>>21451705
I'll have to try this.

>>21451811
another good one if you're just in a carb/meat/cheese mood is to simply add ground beef to it, but if you want it to be healthier be sure to drain the fat out

Just use portion control and make the mac and cheese no more than a fourth of any meal you eat and you don't need to make it "healthy" (pasta and cheese are perfectly healthy in reasonable amounts). Half your plate should always be vegetables/fruits, a 1/4th should be protein and the last 1/4th is for your starch.

>>21451819
I mean you could just add less/no butter instead of wasting the beef fat

>>21451819
There is nothing "unhealthy" about the fat.
That comes from the weird view today that

>High in calories = unhealthy (somehow...)

Apparently in the little dream world of of the health journalists the human body works with lettuce and water.
And the whole fear of animal fats specifically comes from the whole cholesterol hoax, all that bullshit that Ancel Keys hammered into peoples' heads a few decades ago. Exactly how it is done with sugar nowadays btw.

If you want it to be actually FILLING and satiating OP, you should keep the fat. if it's that good and filling eat a bit less per meal.

>And the whole fear of animal fats specifically comes from the whole cholesterol hoax, all that bullshit that Ancel Keys hammered into peoples' heads a few decades

Because there hasn't been ANY studies since then linking saturated fats with high cholesterol and multiple diseases? Is this the the hidden knowledge your doctor doesn't want you to know about?

>>21451909
Most important of all there is basically no connection between cholesterol in food and in the blood.
That substance is so essential for the body that it does not rely on food intake for it but produces it on its own. If you eat more and hit the maximmum capacity of intestinal resorption the liver produces less correspondingly.
What you eat cannot have an effect on cholesterol (even if you are convinced cholesterol itself has adverse effects) because it does not affect the cholesterol levels in the first place.

>>21451679 (OP)
Just use one box a week. It’s a dry good and shelf stable.

>>21451926

>>21451951
You’ve just repeated what the other anon is criticizing.
Can you ask the robot for a source or studies?

>>21451951
I rather listen to "Mr. Cholesterol" Keys himself, as he said in 1997 in an interview:

“There's no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food and cholesterol in blood. And we've known that all along. Cholesterol in the diet doesn't matter at all unless you happen to be a chicken or a rabbit.”

>>21451960
>>21451991
Since you can't read, the focus is less on dietary cholesterol and more the saturated fats causing your own body to overproducd cholesterol.

Just throw out the seasoning packet and you have plain noodles.

>>21451679 (OP)
>want the meals to be as healthy as possible
eating is healthy.
not eating is not healthy.
you're fucking weird for thinking it means anything else.
probably think the news tells the truth.

>>21451811

>>21451679 (OP)
Make pesto but blend in a bunch of chard. Like too much chard. The pesto will hide it better than you think, mix it into the macaroni. Then add bell peppers and grilled chicken to it.

>>21452658
Presto?

>>21451951
>ai answer
lol NPC

>>21451926
>Most important of all there is basically no connection between cholesterol in food and in the blood.
.. according to "research" funded by Big Egg.

>>21451705
why do white people do this

>>21453612
>no answer

lol retard

Who gifts somebody a crate of Mac and cheese

>>21453823
Because it tastes good, why do non-whites seethe about white people every ten seconds?

>>21451679 (OP)
Nigga it already has a splash of milk
What more do you want
Eat the fucking buttered noodles

>>21451706
This but ham instead of tuna and peas instead of corn

>>21451679 (OP)
Gifted is not a verb.

>>21453953
>he doesn't have anyone in his life to gift him boxes of macaroni

>make my 1000 calorie meal healthier by adding 200 calories worth of random shit

>>21454072
You're a verb. And a chud. Zoomer boomer faggot.

>>21451877
You shouldn't be adding butter to begin with, how fat are you?

>>21454194
it's on the instructions of the box retard
you're supposed to add some margarine or butter

>>21454194
it's in the instructions listed on the box retard
you're supposed to add some butter or margarine

>>21454194
It doesn't taste right without it. The cheese powder is just dust, adding butter gives it a proper richness and cream. You can just use milk, any dairy works like you could probably get away with using a little bit of sour cream, but butter isn't rich, and cheese is, the powder is just a base that's meant to be added to butter to create the flavor

>>21454194
"kraft dinner is made with love and butter" - canada

>>21451902
Post body

add peppers to it

>>21451679 (OP)
40ish posts(I did skim) and nobody has even questioned the 'gifting' of mac & cheese? Is that how low the level of analytical thinking that it's got to nowadays? I shouldn't disparage. I'd fucking rule with ease over these mental midgets

>>21455445
Post reason why calories are "unhealthy".
That's like saying you should not fill your car up with gas too often because it's "unhealthy" for it.

>>21455491
It's more like saying you shouldn't throw a full can of gasoline onto a bonfire.

>>21455479
what's to question?
friends are moving
parents got a bunch from Sam's Club and are sick of it
nanna died
work somewhere where it was getting thrown out
1000 other equally likely scenarios

>>21455526
Dunno what this is? Is it "ode to be gifted mac and cheese"?

>>21454194
You’re supposed to add butter, it’s literally in the instructions. The cheese powder contains whey, milk proteins, and emulsifying salts like sodium phosphate, and these bind to fat and water and help emulsify the sauce. Plus it tastes good and adds richness.

Just don't eat them. The only good K&D is a dead K&D

>>21455445

>>21455803
wrong-o, velveeta guy

Kraft macken cheese isn't saucy enough to be adding stuff directly to it. Normally tossing some chicken, broccoli, pæs, etc into a creamy or cheesy pasta is a great idea, but it doesn't work in this case.

You should just have some chicken and steamed vegetables with macken cheese on the side.

>>21457541
smirking and shaking my pudgy head at you right now. don’t you know? while your cooked mac is sitting in the strainer, you dump several different dairy products into your pot, heat and stir until it becomes a cheese sauce. then you add the mac (and whatever other shit to nutritionally fortify it)

>>21458365
I'm talking about the Kraft variety only. It's not saucy enough, there isn't enough flavor to go around you can't fortify it.

You can however stack it :]

>>21451679 (OP)
Throw out the disgusting instant noodles and use real pasta with the cheese powder instead. Don't throw the shite noodles out, but feed it to ducks in the park.

>>21458375
cook it first don't feed animals dry posta

>>21457541
>>21458367
Just add more milk

>>21451902
sure dude

>>21458365
>>21458383
That would be much like your dad, anon. IT DOESN'T WORK

>>21458376
acknowledged

>>21458375
>throw out the best part and use the hyper-processed slop powder with real pasta
?????????????????

>>21457541
It's literally customizable

You want it saucy, you add more milk, you want it thick, you add just a little butter, you want it creamy and rich, you add milk and generous butter, you want it extra cheesey, you throw some shredded cheddar into it

i don't believe any of you fuckers even cook real meals when you haven't mastered "i only kinda cook" 101

>>21451679 (OP)
If it's blue box then just eat it as per box instructions, with some extra butter and milk. Save putting actual ingredients in actual mac and cheese, the blue box is for when you're drunk or fucking tired coming home.

>>21458579
>be wagie
>come home after working all day
>exhausted just as you are every day
>throw a netflix original on the TV
>have a few beers
>look in the kitchen for something to eat
>settle on some blue box slop
>go back to the couch while it cooks
>pass out
>house burns down
>do it all again the next day
WHAT A LIFE

>>21458906
>falls asleep while cooking
Do you have dementia?

I had a medical appointment today and went to the grocery store after where the white cheddar Kraft was on managers special for 24¢/box so I bought four.
My family and I don't usually eat instafood like that but for that price, it's worth it. I should've gotten more, actually. Wonder if the powder is any good on popcorn or if it's shit like how the tomato Knorr powder is great on the stuff but the Maggi once is garbage because of all the added starch.

>>21451679 (OP)
Buy bags of mixed frozen vegetables. Heat the vegetables and mix in a much smaller amount of mac & cheese. Like >>21451705 but with much more vegetables (adding the tuna is fine as well).

Much healthier, very inexpensive, very low effort required.

>>21453953
>go on date to the cheesecake factory
>she orders mac and cheese for some fucking reason
>want to impress her
>go to a restaurant supply depot
>buy an industrial sized box of kraft mac and cheese pouches
>drop them off at her door with a note saying "it ain't easy being this cheesy"
>?????
>profit

>>21451705
>>21451811
>>21453823
it's kinda like tuna casserole.
i am also going to try it, but fuck these "mac and CHEESE" box dinners that have you throwing half a stick of butter in.
i buy pic related, obviously more expensive because you are paying for the cheese sauce. requires no additional ingredients.

I like mixing mine with sauteed chicken, onions and broccoli. Make it with Kraft deluxe, and give it a little squirt of dijon mustard and black pepper.

Kraft blue box is fucking amazing just by itself
Perfect buttery creamy savory noodles
"Real" mac and cheese sucks

>>21459340
So instead of butter you want a packet of canola oil

>>21452658
this guy fucks

>>21453604
Underrated post

>>21455526
>fabricating implausible narratives to justify my idiocy
You're a fucking lemon

>>21451679 (OP)
>not just throwing random shit you have on hand into it
if you're going to eat like a poorfag then at least act like one

>>21460390
That's not healthy though.

>>21451679 (OP)
add ketchup for nutrition

Throw out the macaroni noodles, use a blend of frozen vegetables, mix it with some rice.

that looks good
i get them all the time for free from food bank
i save the cheese packets for when i want to make a cheese sauce like for scalloped potatoes
i use the mac noodles for chicken soups i cook because i always have way too many mac and cheese boxes

>ctrl-f "sausage"
>0 results

I am disappoint

>>21462564
Who eats berry sauce with his pasta?

>>21454053
this but hot dogs instead of ham and green beans instead of peas

>>21451679 (OP)
>I was gifted a bunch of Kraft Mac & Cheese
who does that

>>21459330
my dads friend died this way, except he was making chips and burned down half an apartment complex and several other people with him. dont cook while drunk and tired anons.

>>21465088
It's an Italian thing.

>>21451679 (OP)
>I was gifted
you have horrible friends and family

>>21453823
Because you're a fucking nigger.

>>21451679 (OP)
Just add half the amount of sugar you'd normally use.

>>21451679 (OP)
Use both the milk and the butter when you make it. Add two cans of Santa Fe green chiles and 8oz shredded chicken breats. Wa la.

>>21453953
I gifted my wife a crate of Mac and Cheese because I love her

>>21451951
>oyyyyyyyyyyy veyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy stop eating real food right nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww eat seed oil IMMEDIATELY and IGNORE THE CONSEQUENCES ON YOUR SOCIETY

>>21466173
You know we notice how you communist homos cry in every junk food thread OTHER than ramen which has way less nutrients than even the crappiest American convenience foid. It's painfully obvious who you faggots are

>>21468563
Nooo it's Russia see all the kiev threads?

>>21468692
No

>>21451679 (OP)
>I was gifted a bunch of Kraft Mac & Cheese
Oh fuck off

>>21469625
Why are you angry about this out of everything in the thread, anon

>>21469667
I'm not angry - I expressed disbelief, not a strong feeling of displeasure. Who gets 'gifted' a shitload of mac n cheese? It's a highly improbable situation. Not impossible, however not likely. I didn't actually read the whole thread, do you want to point out the posts that I should get angry about?

>>21469625
>>21469684
He got it from a food pantry and doesn't want to admit it

>>21469687
No he won them all by winning a game of tiddlywinks against a leprechaun. The griffin and chimera cheered for hours

>>21469684
Is it really that hard for you to believe that someone could be given a case of Kraft mac n cheese?
>hurr this thread is a kraft ad!!!