Am I the only one who doesn't like hamburger helper?

Question

I am not trying to sound mean or catty here,but I for the life of me,cannot understand why people love this product so much? I was over to my friend's house for dinner and she made this and just the smell alone made me feel queasy. When it came time to eating it,I swear that I felt like I was going to throw up from the taste of hamburger helper cheeseburger macaroni,eww!

I have had all of the different flavors of hamburger helper and again,the smell of it cooking is horrible,and then when I start eating it,I feel like I am going to toss my cookies right across the table. Does anyone find hamburger helper as putrid as I do? I mean just the sodium content alone is the same as if you were to eat about three or four dill pickles in one sitting. What does everyone else think about hamburger helper?

Answer 1

Wicked wicked stuff. Your feeling of wanting to toss your cookies is your body's natural reaction to unnatural ingredients.

From Associated Content, the People's Media Company: fter reading the ingredient panel on the side of the box of Hamburger Helper I was in shock. This product should be banned from the shelf and made illegal to serve to trusting children. It may be saving you time at the end of a busy day, but it is stealing years off of your life!

How Hamburger Helper is Killing You and Your Kids

The first ingredient listed on the Hamburger Helper box is Enriched Macaroni made from bleached Durum Flour. You might actually wonder what in the heck this is, I did. Basically they are saying they are using macaroni made out of bleached flour, that was purposely stripped of all nutritional value to make it more shelf stable. After it was depleted of any nutritional qualities others were added back (enriched). In an effort to make their product be able to sit on your shelf forever they have purposely stripped out any nutrients.

After a few more unrecognizable ingredients that my spell checker wouldn’t even know how to digest, you come to partially hydrogenated soybean oil. To break this down into English you are eating soybean oil that has had hydrogen added to extend its shelf life as well. In the battle to keep products lasting longer on the grocery store shelf and in your pantry food companies alter ingredients, making them unhealthy for you. Partially hydrogenated soybean oil clogs your arteries. It also clogs your children’s arteries, hardening them, guaranteeing they will have the required American heart attack by the time they are 50. The math is simple. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women and men. Eighty percent of it preventable.

A little further down the list you come to corn syrup. Yes, corn syrup. Sugar. Why is this in Hamburger Helper? Merely to feed the cravings of all of us sugar addicts out there. Ingredients like sugar keep us craving these foods. Ask McDonalds. They have sugar in almost every single product they sell at their stores. Even the French fries have sugar. Sugar keeps you craving their food, which keeps you buying it.

The whole point is that there are no nutritional ingredients in the entire box of Hamburger Helper. Instead you merely find chemically altered ingredients, ingredients meant to play to your cravings, and a whole list of unreadable and unnatural ingredients. There is no nutritional value in Hamburger Helper.

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My mother was no cook, believe me. I grew up eating fake food and McDonalds. 90% of the potatoes I ate came from a BOX. It's taken me years to retrain my taste buds to REAL food. Wake up America - our food is killing us! You know how scientists and researchers are always just stymied by how the French live longer, healthier lives with little heart disease despite diets rich in fat? The very simple answer is that the French eat REAL food (they also move a great deal more than we do here). Butter is far better for you than margarine.

Also, the author of the above cited article references corn syrup - I do believe that she's talking about HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, which is in EVERYTHING these days and is poison to the system. It effectively shunts the entire metabolic process and has led to the alarming increase in diabetes. AVOID AT ALL COST.

Answer 2

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Am I the only one who doesn't like hamburger helper?
I am not trying to sound mean or catty here,but I for the life of me,cannot understand why people love this product so much? I was over to my friend's house for dinner and she made this and just the smell alone made me feel queasy. When it came time to eating it,I swear that I felt like I was...

Answer 3

Hi Winnie,
I am with you. My husband did the grocery shopping a few weeks back and he came home with hamburger helper. So i was willing to give it a try again but still don't like it. It tastes very generic and high in sodium. I can't think that it is healthy for you. Blah. and i am 8 weeks pregnant right now...so the thought of it....BARF!

Answer 4

Hamburger Helper is YUCK.

But, surprisingly, the chicken helper ain't bad! My best friend and I made chicken fried rice w/ chicken helper and had some cheapo white zinfandel on a night in, and we both thought it was pretty good.

Now, I wouldn't serve it to your in-laws, but if you and your friends are chill and like to hang out in PJs watching some TV, chicken helper is the way to go. Boo hamburger helper.

Answer 5

I agree with you - I thought I was the only one!!!!
this is just as easy and way better -

HOMEMADE HAMBURGER HELPER

1 lb. ground beef or deer burger
1 box macaroni and cheese dinner
1 med. onion
1 tbsp. oregano (flakes or whole)
1 tbsp. parsley flakes
1 qt. tomato juice
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper

Brown ground beef or deer burger in skillet. Add box of macaroni and cheese dinner with all other ingredients. Simmer 10 to 15 minutes. Then serve. If it gets dry or needs more juice add a little water and catsup.

HAMBURGER HELPER - HOME STYLE

1 lb. ground beef
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1 tbsp. chopped onion
1 stalk celery, chopped
2 c. frozen or canned peas
2 c. fresh or canned tomatoes or juice
2 c. uncooked noodles
1/2 c. Velveeta cheese

Brown ground beef in a skillet. Add salt and pepper. Then add the onion, celery, peas and tomatoes. Cook until celery and peas are soft. Meanwhile, cook noodles in salted water. Drain and spread over meat mixture. Put cheese on top and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes to blend flavors. Serve from skillet.

RICE HAMBURGER HELPER

2 lbs. hamburger
1 med. onion
2 cans tomato sauce
1 c. rice
Salt and pepper (as taste)
1 tsp. lemon pepper
1 green bell pepper

Brown hamburger and onion. Add salt, pepper, lemon pepper and bell pepper. Drain hamburger. Add tomato sauce. Turn on medium heat until boiling. Simmer. Boil rice. Drain. Pour in rice with hamburger. Stir and serve. Enjoy.

Answer 6

I don't care for it myself. I would eat it when my mom occasionally made it in the past, but it's definitely not all it's hyped up to be. I am not sure how old you are, but I've always thought of this more of a kids' favorite. But even then, it wasn't a favorite!

I feel the same way as you towards Spaghettios! The smell, the taste, the fake tomato sauce. I hate this. It reminds me of vomit. I think part of it's psychological because my mom made it once when I was feeling ill. So, it can be a taste aversion thing. But my ex used to love this stuff -- ugh!

Answer 7

i really dont each now as much as i did when iwas younger but for some reason the smell of hamburger helper just doens't seem to be right

Answer 8

It is very salty and I'm not as big a fan as I used to be. I think most people like it because of the simplicity of it. I would prefer to make my own noodles with either ground beef or slices of skirt steak and mix them in cream of mushroom soup. Its very, very good. Same texture, but you can control the saltiness of it even though you put the canned soup in it. You can buy low sodium soup.

Answer 9

I'm not too fond of it. Like you - I've had almost every flavor. I've even had the Tuna Helpers as well.

I've stopped eatin meat and one day I actually tried it with my soy meat substitiute and thought I was literally going to DIE. I had the worst upset stomach and heart burn I've ever had in my life. I've not gone near it since.
That stuff is SO processed. I don't think it's fit for human consumption.

Answer 10

I think I've only had it a few times, and it isn't BAD, but it isn't great either. I like the one which is basically just macaroni and cheese. . . Then again, for $1 per box I have to imagine that's why people eat it.