This shit will raise your cholesterol like nothing else.
I mean, I can’t digest beef, so chicken and pork hotdogs would be an alternative. Dunno how it’d taste tho lmao
I mean, hotdogs in Mac n cheese is pretty ok.
Try it with Ramen instead of hot dogs for even cheaper calories /s
Weiner cheese helper
Weiner Mac.
Because HH is really just Mac n Cheese and you add beef to make Beef Mac or go a step further and make Chili Mac.
Weiner cheese
Now there’s a visual…
More of an olfactory
Tasty
Hamburger helper is bullshit. They give you some dry noodles and a “spice” pack of dubious powder, you have to provide the beef and milk. That’s not helping very much.
for real, and it’s not even enough noodles. So you end up adding more noodles too… at that point you’re paying for a box with some “spice” in it.
But by the time you add enough beef and noodles to it, there’s not enough spice and it’s all bland. So you gotta add extra spice. May as well just cook.
Thats why I make 2 of them.
How… Does this help in making a hamburger? I have never had a noodleburger, are they good?
I think the “helper” might have more of a “helping” meaning, as in a helping of hamburger.
Although idk if a noodle burger would be all that bad with the right kind of bread
i think the intent is if you have meat for hamburger it helps stretch it into more meals
It’s the equivalent of: “I got rolling papers, any body got any weed?”
True slacker energy.
It’s not for a hamburger. It’s basically to make a noodle and ground beef meal that you eat with a fork.
“hamburger” or “hamburger meat” is what many people in the US call ground beef. Just as in other places they might call it “mince.”
The product proposes to help make one pound of hamburger meat fill a family of 4. It’s not as nourishing or effective as adding a bunch of vegetables and spices but it’s shelf-stable and quickly prepared.
Yeah it’s basically in the same category as spam and other great depression or great depression derived foods. It’s more or less filling the role thin soup once filled.
I remember in college they had an “instant” hamburger helper where you just added water and it had dehydrated bits of hamburger in it. It probably wasn’t actually hamburger… Probably for the best to add the meat yourself.
For me, it’s just too salty.
Grab some mac n cheese and put some hotdogs in it. If you are wealthy*, you can add ground beef instead and toss in some green chilies and some Italian seasoning. (It’s really good. Go ham on the seasoning.)
- ground beef is freaking expensive nowadays 😩
\* to not add a bullet point
Give yourself so much hypertension that the inevitable heart attack is so quick you won’t need to worry about paying medical bills
Now you’re speaking my language!
Edit: But hot dogs got what bodies crave. It’s got Nitrates.
This shit taste good. I once microwaved and ate this on a plate. My ex looked at me and said that I eat puke like dog. I didn’t flinch I was happy eating that like a dog eating puke indeed
Mac n cheese with hot dogs. What’s the big deal?
The US is currently run by the world’s most notorious pedophile whose actions directly made beef more expensive to the point that the Hamburger Helper brand is now basically becoming the Hot Dog Helper brand
Money aside, beef has a horrible environmental impact. Pork (as found in hot dogs) is way better.
Why is it “pig meat” instead of pork?! That seems suspiciously hot dog specific…
Yeah, I think the total land used for cattle equals the entire landmass of north america too.
I love beef, I love hamburgers, but it’s pretty clearly unsustainable.
I suspect beef prices are only going to go up and they’ll never come down ever again.
Is this one of those, “if farmers gave their cows kelp tablets once per day to reduce methane farts, it would reduce it by 50%” deals? I find it hard to believe raising cattle produces more GHG emissions than a similar weight pig.
It is the special kind of metabolism of cows that causes their high emission of methane
I heard that ground beef isnt all that bad in the total. Considering people eat tons og steaks etc. ground beef is literally jusg leftovers after all the good stuff.
If you have to eat meat, eat ground beef instead of cuts.
Weird that Soy isn’t on the list, unless it’s so low it isn’t even on the same scale?
Turns out you can choose what’s on the chart. Soy isn’t there, but there’s a Soy Milk and Other Vegetables category.
Edit: Woops, the one above is a different chart. I found the protein one, but the categories are different, and I don’t see anything close to soy. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore
Both charts are interesting, thank you for adding this one!
Edit: tofu is soy-based and can be added
Thanks for the link! I just learned something new, dark chocolate is almost 2x worse than beef! Only heard about the injustices towards the ppl growing cacao beans, now i know one more reason not to buy it…
You don’t usually buy chocolate to get your protein dose though. Per kilo, dark chocolate is half the impact of beef. And a serving of chocolate is not the same mass as a serving of meat.
But… yeah. It’s not nothing.
A waste of money.
Box of elbow macaroni, 1/4 block of velvita and a single hot dog is WAY less than that box
Hey, you selling loose dawgs over there? Or where you gettin’ 'em from 1 at a time?
If there’s a need, i’ll start a side hustle.
At the moment, I’m perfectly happy to freeze the other 7
You need a better dawg guy.
hot dog bun companies hate this person
Try with dog food!
American food is insane
I mean pasta with meat in it isn’t that weird. Other than macaroni the only other thing in the box is the powder you make the sauce with. Is that the insane part?
Some of y’all never had Helper and it shows.
“Want to eat at my house? My mom’s making Helper.”
“You mean like Hamburger Helper?”
“Yeah but without the hamburger.”
Being too poor to afford hamburger is not exactly a new condition.
Hamburger Helper without the Hamburger still slaps.
I don’t know if this is actually true or not, because I didn’t grow up eating a lot of hamburger helper, but I think it’s the fact that they’re advertising it for the cheaper meat that’s a recession indicator.
