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On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:22:19 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, July 24, 2017 at 7:40:26 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:28:56 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On 7/24/2017 2:36 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:


>> >> When I was working I kept one of their meat sauce lasagna in the freezer
>> >> for days I did not take lunch with me. Sure, home made is better but it
>> >> was good as is.
>> >
>> >Yep, Stouffer's lasagna is good. I've made it many times from scratch
>> >(used to freeze it in single serve portions to take to work for lunch).
>> > But for when I don't feel like cooking all the ingredients and
>> >assembling lasagna, Stouffer's works.

>>
>> Ingredients
>>
>> Sauce: Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Water, Cooked Beef, Dry
>> Curd Cottage Cheese (Cultured Skim Milk, Enzymes), Modified
>> Cornstarch, Salt, Bleached Wheat Flour, Dehydrated Onions, Sugar
>> Spices, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Dehydrated Garlic, Soy Sauce (Water,
>> Soybeans, Wheat, Salt), Carrageenan, Dextrose, Soybean Oil. Cooked
>> Pasta: Water, Semolina. Cheese: Low-Moisture Part-Skim Mozzarella
>> Cheese (Pasteurized Part-Skim Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes),
>> Parmesan Cheese (Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes), Modified Cornstarch
>>
>> I don't know what kind of idiot bleaches wheat, but other than that
>> not bad.

>
>Bleached flour (wheat) is very common in the U.S. People have up
>until recently judged white baked goods as superior than brown
>baked goods, because only the rich could afford white flour.
>Unbleached flour is slightly beige; bleached flour is whiter.
>I leave it to the bakers and health nuts to weigh in on whether
>bleached flour is undesirable.


It's a dumb, unnecessary step, but maybe you find dumb, unnecessary
steps desirable.