I assume the package instructions still call for milk? I omit the milk, full portion of butter though.
I made macaroni and cheese from a box for Thanksgiving (I was in a rush, no time for home made), cooked it a bit al dente, layered it with shredded sharp cheddar, and baked till good and hot in a casserole dish. Everyone boo-hooed it wasn’t home made, but there was not one single elbo of macaroni left.
I’m still in mourning over the death of Golden Grain.
I start with Sharp Cheddar KD, add extra sour cream, cottage cheese, parmesan cheese, and broccoli and cubed, browned chicken breast. It’s one of my go-to easy, quick suppers.
I’m disappointed by all these sacrilegious variant recipes. You mix the box contents with copious amounts of butter and milk. Lick the powdered grease remains from the pouch while it’s cooking. Then eat it. 
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was.
Sacrelicious!
Yeah it said 2% milk. I’m not sure what that is so I just used, eh, milk.
If you don’t like gloppy, stay away from the Velveeta Shells & Cheese. On a gloppiness scale from 1 to 10, it goes up to 11.
I agree: it’s something unique and has nothing to do with a baked casserole-type dish. I like to add a bit of barbecue sauce to the orange stuff, but the white stuff I eat as-is.
It’s a food of nostalgia.
And damn good nostalgia at that. But I can’t imagine eating for the first time as an adult and liking it!
Yeah, I’m gonna go with nostalgia too. I think that it’s one of those foods that you have to grow up eating to really enjoy when you’re an adult. It’s STILL one of my husband’s comfort foods, unless I cook some broccoli with it. I cook frozen broccoli bits when I cook the pasta, and they get done about the same time. I drain the water off and add in the butter, powder, and milk. There’s plenty of sauce, but my husband sulks and says it’s not the same. No, it’s not. The difference is, if I cook the broccoli with the mac’n’cheese, he eats it. If I cook the broccoli separate, he won’t.
Lynn, ever tried these? My kiddo loves them, and they’re quite easy and quick to make. They reheat well the next day, too.
The new Kraft “homestyle” mac and cheese is quite a bit better than the orange powder version, but it comes at the cost of more dirty dishes. You put the cheese sauce together while the noodles cook, combine them, then put them in a casserole dish and top with bread crumbs (included) and shredded cheese (not included) and finish the dish in the oven.
I’m a bigger fan of the kind with the cheese sauce instead of powder. A pouch of tuna and a can of green beans, and I’ve got 2 or 3 meals (depending on how big of a pig I am) for around $3. And it’s deliiiiicious cold. (although I love almost any leftovers cold)
A dollop of Sriracha is also good with it.
Prepare your basic Kraft M&C, then throw in a can of Hormel’s chili - it’s a great go to meal when you don’t have a lot of time - and it’s pretty tasty for a quickie meal!
God, yes. I love that stuff. Even better, though, is Velveeta Shells and Cheese. I could eat that every day or until I look at the nutritional information, whichever comes first.
This is how I make it also. Add in canned tuna, garlic powder, and black pepper. Total comfort food.
Bingo. I’d imagine if I’d never had it before and was just trying it now I would find it godawful but like a great many other foodstuffs being something I grew up with and have fond memories of, it’s delicious!
I actually prefer the powder. You can mess with the proportions of ingredients to make it stronger like I do.
I haven’t tried that particular variety, but I’ve had good success with Knorr side dish pouches in general.
I like it as a comfort food when I’m really sick with the flu and haven’t eaten for a long time. It goes down easily.
ETA: Boy, that sure is an endorsement, isn’t it? 
I love it because it is so cheap. I buy two boxes and take the cheese powder out of one box and then toss the box and pasta and use two pouches for one batch. It’s pretty intesnse in it’s fakey-orangey-cheesiness.
Also most times I add in some kind of sausage.
Oh god yes. Need more KD. I bloody love the stuff. When I used to go stay with friends in another city, they liked that they could just make a batch of KD for supper and I’d be in heaven!
Add in some Cheez Whiz and hot dogs too!