Welcome to the (non)Official spice up normal foods thread Dignan! 
Kids in the Hall sketch… another quote from it:
Hi. I’m a scientist, I’m with the Loser Research Foundation, and we’ve been watching you guys with a lot of interest. And according to our studies, with the amount of macaroni and cheese and catsup you’ve consumed, you’ve probably got tapeworms about THIS big.
(thanks to kithfan.org for the transcript)
Awesome! Thanks El Cheapo!
I am going to try M&C with hot sauce and one with chili tomorrow, should be good.
I asked someone about M&C recipes, she recommended heated sour cream with M&C. Another person recommended tuna & peas.
I don’t eat boxed mac & cheese myself, but my husband will. His preferred doctoring is to add half of a small onion, finely diced, and a can of (vegetarian) baked beans to the completed pasta.
Mac and beans and cheese. Oy. Eat At Your Own Risk.
Ok, I tried macaroni & cheese today. I tried it 3 ways
plain
with hot sauce
with chili
with chili and sour cream
plain was ok
hot sauce was bad
chili was pretty good
chili and sour cream together was good and bad at the same time. In moderation i think sour cream & chili tasted the best.
If you include plain its 4 ways
Macaroni cheese comes in a box? 
Please enlighten this Brit. If I want macaroni cheese, I stick some pasta in a pan of water and while it’s cooking up I melt some butter in another pan, stir in some flour, then add milk to make a white sauce. Then I chuck in some good stong cheddar cheese, a bit of mustard, some salt, plenty of pepper, and some worcestershire sauce.
Then i drain the pasta and pour the sauce over the top. I like to eat it like this, but my girlfriend insists that it then needs to have some cheese put on the top and get baked in the oven for a while.
Where do boxes come into it? Don’t tell me you can get instant macaroni cheese :eek:
Colophon: It is a blue box that has noodles and a packet of dried cheese. You just boil the noodles, drain them, mix together the dried powdered cheese with milk in a pan (with some butter), and put them all together. Not so bad if you do it right.
I am a fan of Mac 'n Cheese with a can of original baked beans. The sweetness matches the cheese just right for some reason. Put it on a hotdog and you are good to go! (I love America…)
Also, why did you waste two bucks?!
http://www.mealexchange.com/media/images/cheese.jpg
I dont know if you’re being satirical or not but yeah you can get instant macaroni and cheese. I don’t understand how Kaotic Newtral spent $2 on a box of macaroni and cheese. Store brand macaroni & cheese is 0.33, even Kraft usually doesn’t top .50 a box.
I wasn’t being satirical… just puzzled by the concept. Some kind of all-in-one space-age just-add-water mac-cheese I could understand. But this stuff, you have to boil the pasta separately, and add milk and butter… er, how is this any quicker than making it from scratch? As far as I can see, all you’re cutting out is the separate flour/butter roux and cheese steps, which doesn’t really add any more time than it takes to boil the pasta anyway.
Inconvenience food… a new one on me 
It’s basically poor student food. Most poor students don’t have flour, and couldn’t make a sauce if their lives depended on it. The new version comes with a foil packet of Velveeta instead of the powdered cheese. It was this version that Kaotic Newtral was extolling the virtues of. The new version is pretty stoner-proof (meaning you can make it easily while in an “altered” state.)
No matter what version you make, it always tastes better reheated the next day.
Make the macaroni & cheese. Brown and season some ground beef - or sausage - or both. In a casserole dish layer the macs and then the meat, add a layer of cottage cheese (ricotta if ya gotta); more macs; spoon over any prepared tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes; bake til hot, whattayagot? Mock lasange. mmmmmmm
Come to think of it, when I was a poor student, I ate this stuff (bottom pic), which I guess is kind of similar.
Well, the $2 was my guesstimate on a box of the fancy Velveeta shells Mac-n-Cheese.
Wesley Clark
Did you try that test with the Double cheese?
My brother always mixes his with applesauce
Sometimes, I wonder if I’m really related to him…
we used to mix in cream of mushroom soup (undiluted) and sliced weiners (fried first).
Yep, that’s about how to make it. But some folks over on this side of the pond eat the shit that comes in a box.
Colophon, it’s better you’ve never heard of it. Utter crap.
Velveeta cheese is one of the worst things that has ever happen to humans.
Okay. I’ve had my say, now you can all pile on. But at the end of the day, you’ll still be eating bright orange erzatz gook with more salt than flavor, and I will have the real thing. Your choice. Free country and all…
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Rrrrr! Ketchup bad! Salsa good! Mmm!
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Just which brands of baked beans are made of meat?