What extras do you add to premade foods like hamburger helper, mac&cheese, oatmeal, etc?!
Answers: Tonight I added an onion to my hamburger helper, but was wondering what things other people do to packaged dinners and things like that that are pre-made and don't really need anything added to them. How can I spice these up?
Although I'm not a fan of these products on a regular basis, we've all had them and I always do add something to them.
Hamburger Helper: Mushrooms, onions, garlic, peppers, sourcream, diced tomatoes, any leftover fresh veggies, use that bag of frozen veggies in your freezer that is not enough for a dinner dish
Mac&Cheese: Tomatoes, onions, peppers, ham, cappicola, bacon, hot dogs, leftover cheese, heavy cream,milk, french onion dip, Marinara Sauce, Ground beef, chili, Condensed Tomato soup.
Oatmeal: Any and all fresh fruit, brown, white or powdered sugar, raisins, butter (any fruit flavor), jelly, milk, honey, maple syrup and any leftover nuts that you have in the house.
I hope these help you to make an ordinary dinner into something extraordinary and all your own!!!!!!!!!!
I add a drained can of tuna and some cream of mushroom soup to prepared mac and cheese.
Mac & Cheese is great with salsa stirred in. Hamburger Helper becomes a complete meal if you put in frozen veggies before it is done.
I won't touch hamburger helper, but I have put ground hamburger in my mac & cheese along with sauted mushrooms. Oatmeal I like raisins or cranraisins and brown sugar with just a little bit of low fat milk.
Nothing. I make my own macaroni cheese and do not buy premixed foods. They are mostly salt anyway.
i sometimes add ketchup and garlic to my hamburger helper lasagna and i add shredded cheese and butter to my mac and cheese. I bet mac and cheese would be really good with some chicken breast and mozzarella cheese maybe some Cheddar!?
i like to add some spicy sausage like chorizo to my hamberger helper it makes it a bit spicy or if you dont like spicy with italian sausage.
I can make scratch hamburger helper with a can of cream soup and it is better for you. Vegetables can be added if you do it this way. For mac and cheese, try adding tuna or salmon or if you prefer chicken or turkey and a can of peas. You can add pre-fried hamburger and tomatoe sauce to make a old fashioned easy meal. Try a few of your own with left overs. I am sure you could turn it into a mexican meal with salsa and chicken, beef or pork and if daring fish.
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These are a waste of money, they're mostly flour & salt.
I add chopped onions to almost everything I cook.
You can add chopped celery, sweet peppers, zucchini,
broccoli, carrots, peas, corn, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc.
Hambuger Helper Stroganoff I like to add peas the beef taco one I like to add corn