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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default "$200 a month on groceries for a family of 4 is impossible"

On 7/15/2014 10:07 PM, jmcquown wrote:

> Hamburger helper doesn't come in cans.
>
>> for when one doesn't feel like cooking and/or hasn't the
>> time.

>
> How is this a time saver? The same amount of time goes into it than
> making something similar from scratch. You still have to cook the
> noodles. You still have to brown the beef. You're still going to be
> making a simple sauce to simmer and cook the mixture down in. The time
> savings is insignificant. The benefit is the sauce won't consist of a
> chemical-laden artificial ingredients powdered packet.
>
> Jill


Grandson makes it a couple of times a month. Easy to do, no looking for
ingredients, no thinking about anything.