# Do you like Hamburger Helper? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223 "2015-09-22T17:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223/61 "2015-09-23T19:25:37Z")
I used to love the cheeseburger macaroni, but they changed it and now it’s awful. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223/62 "2015-09-23T20:52:57Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I think I may have bought it once or twice back in my college days, but quickly realized I could make my own. Cook up some taco meat, cook up a box of mac and cheese, dump the taco meat in the mac and cheese. I don’t even buy boxed mac and cheese anymore now that I’ve discovered you can buy the vivid orange “cheese” on Amazon! You guys are making me hungry for ground beef and noodles, too bad it’s cochinita pibil for dinner tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223/63 "2015-09-23T20:59:15Z")
There are a few varieties I keep on hand; Potato Stroganoff is handy and nonperishable until prepared. Chili Mac, on the other hand, I never saw much use for, considering you can do the same thing cheaper with a can of chili (or ground beef and chili powder) and a box of mac and cheese. There are several varieties like this, and I never understood why anyone with any idea of how to cook would buy them. A thing I am more apt to do is to prepare a box of Rice-A-Roni and then add cooked ground beef. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223/64 "2015-09-24T03:42:51Z")
Never tried it. I add my own (lower-sodium) seasonings to ground meat. Why should I pay for someone else’s seasonings that I may not like? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223/65 "2015-09-24T04:47:18Z")
Far too much sodium. No, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223/66 "2015-09-24T14:49:44Z")
No. I’m much too hoity-toity for Hamburger Helper. To me it’s the food equivalent of wearing Crocs. I gaze scornfully down at your revulsive plebeian foodstuffs from high atop my majestic steed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223.md?page=3)