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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are comparing apples to oranges.  Or actually apples to chips.

[b]TJ's boxed mac and cheese isnt' made with three types of expensive cheese. 
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Apples aren't the same thing as chips.  Apples are a lot cheaper than the packaged apple chips.

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Well, you've got me there.  There are actually FOUR real cheeses (not processed cheese food like Velveeta) in the TJs frozen mac and cheese.

For all you mocking TJs as "crap," too processed, not real, equivalent to Velveeta or powdered Kraft--the ingredients list, direct from the box I made last night: cooked elbow macaroni, milk, cheddar cheese, havarti cheese, imported gouda cheese, imported swiss cheese, unbleached flour, butter, rice starch, salt, and spices.  (And for those of you who say, "but those cheeses still have sub-ingredients!" of course, you're right.  They are (combined, since most were the same): cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, rennet, enzymes, calcium chloride (another type of salt), annatto (color), and carotene (color) -- the exact same things you find in blocks of cheese at the grocery store. Not Velveeta.)

I make "fancy" homemade mac and cheese all the time (well, probably once a month) (http://www.cookistry.com/2011/03/crock-pot-mac-and-cheese.html ).  Yet I also make TJ's mac and cheese, sometimes as often as twice a week.  It is seriously good stuff, and way more convenient.  If you haven't tried it, you've got no business knocking it. (And since I *know* someone is going to ask me why I ever bother with homemade if I love TJs so much, it has a distinctly different flavor.  TJs is great for quick dinners with just me and my toddler.  Homemade is easier to cook for large groups and has a more gourmet flavor, and at that scale, it may well be cheaper.)[/quote]

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