• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It…. Doesn’t help make hamburgers.

      Hamburger helper is a boxed spice mix, you also need ground meat, then you brown the meat and add the seasoning mix. You end up with sorta a taco meat (different flavor of course) that you can then eat, mix with pasta.

      It’s…. Fine? But it’s pretty depressing in this context.

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        it sounds depressing tbh but i never had it so take my opinion with a big bag of salt

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          It can be okay. I like to add peas and depending on the type beans. Just to make it a bit more nutritional

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          Have eaten it. It’s depressing. I think it’s like 1600 kCal for the mix and ~0.5kg of Lean Ground Beef.

          Edit: Big bag of salt included. You will feel bloated for days.

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      Hamburger Helper is a boxed pasta mix you add to ground beef to increase the volume and “make it go farther”.

      TBH, it’s not awful.

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      It’s because Americans on the whole think “ground beef” is “hamburger”. Like the lettuce is “salad” thing.

      They need an anthropomorphic glove to sell them on the idea of adding a protein to a carbohydrate so they can manage to feed their families.

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        I only eat greens cause if I don’t that green giant will go from jolly to angry and nobody wants that

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      It is a shelf, stable pasta and cheese mix that you are supposed to mix with a pound of ground beef to make an easy stove top meal. Tldr it’s kind of like Kraft dinner but different cheese.