Am I the only one who doesn't like hamburger helper?!
Am I the only one who doesn't like hamburger helper?
I am not trying to sound mean or catty here,but I for the life of me,cannot understand why people love this product so much? I was over to my friend's house for dinner and she made this and just the smell alone made me feel queasy. When it came time to eating it,I swear that I felt like I was going to throw up from the taste of hamburger helper cheeseburger macaroni,eww!
I have had all of the different flavors of hamburger helper and again,the smell of it cooking is horrible,and then when I start eating it,I feel like I am going to toss my cookies right across the table. Does anyone find hamburger helper as putrid as I do? I mean just the sodium content alone is the same as if you were to eat about three or four dill pickles in one sitting. What does everyone else think about hamburger helper?
Answers:
Wicked wicked stuff. Your feeling of wanting to toss your cookies is your body's natural reaction to unnatural ingredients.
From Associated Content, the People's Media Company: fter reading the ingredient panel on the side of the box of Hamburger Helper I was in shock. This product should be banned from the shelf and made illegal to serve to trusting children. It may be saving you time at the end of a busy day, but it is stealing years off of your life!
How Hamburger Helper is Killing You and Your Kids
The first ingredient listed on the Hamburger Helper box is Enriched Macaroni made from bleached Durum Flour. You might actually wonder what in the heck this is, I did. Basically they are saying they are using macaroni made out of bleached flour, that was purposely stripped of all nutritional value to make it more shelf stable. After it was depleted of any nutritional qualities others were added back (enriched). In an effort to make their product be able to sit on your shelf forever they have purposely stripped out any nutrients.
After a few more unrecognizable ingredients that my spell checker wouldn’t even know how to digest, you come to partially hydrogenated soybean oil. To break this down into English you are eating soybean oil that has had hydrogen added to extend its shelf life as well. In the battle to keep products lasting longer on the grocery store shelf and in your pantry food companies alter ingredients, making them unhealthy for you. Partially hydrogenated soybean oil clogs your arteries. It also clogs your children’s arteries, hardening them, guaranteeing they will have the required American heart attack by the time they are 50. The math is simple. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women and men. Eighty percent of it preventable.
A little further down the list you come to corn syrup. Yes, corn syrup. Sugar. Why is this in Hamburger Helper? Merely to feed the cravings of all of us sugar addicts out there. Ingredients like sugar keep us craving these foods. Ask McDonalds. They have sugar in almost every single product they sell at their stores. Even the French fries have sugar. Sugar keeps you craving their food, which keeps you buying it.
The whole point is that there are no nutritional ingredients in the entire box of Hamburger Helper. Instead you merely find chemically altered ingredients, ingredients meant to play to your cravings, and a whole list of unreadable and unnatural ingredients. There is no nutritional value in Hamburger Helper.
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My mother was no cook, believe me. I grew up eating fake food and McDonalds. 90% of the potatoes I ate came from a BOX. It's taken me years to retrain my taste buds to REAL food. Wake up America - our food is killing us! You know how scientists and researchers are always just stymied by how the French live longer, healthier lives with little heart disease despite diets rich in fat? The very simple answer is that the French eat REAL food (they also move a great deal more than we do here). Butter is far better for you than margarine.
Also, the author of the above cited article references corn syrup - I do believe that she's talking about HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, which is in EVERYTHING these days and is poison to the system. It effectively shunts the entire metabolic process and has led to the alarming increase in diabetes. AVOID AT ALL COST.