My expectations were already low based on the box’s physical size, but it still somehow managed to not even meet that
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The real term here is : Family size but you’re divorced and it’s not the week the kids are with you
“Family size” simply means “can serve an entire family”. It doesn’t mean “Can stuff 4 American bellies full”. It’s hard to judge the size of the box in your photo, but I can see serving one of those enchiladas per family member, along with pasta and salad or something.
Enchilada and pasta. GTFO
Then OP goes and suggests mac and cheese as a side for it, that’s many levels worse.
Like poutine and tamales.
I’d fuck with tamale poutine.
Brits don’t eat as much as Americans do because all their food is shit
Hope you manage to travel one day!
Fair point, but here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides and if you wanted to go from satisfied to “stuffed full” then you could whip up a quick side of Mac and cheese or something
It’s 300 calories per serving (4 servings per box). If you’re on a 2000 calorie diet, a meal is 500 - 700 calories, so this would be a snack or a dish that requires a side. Or eat the whole box yourself and it’s about the same as a Big Mac combo.
here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides
American in his fifties here. No idea what you’re talking about. Family size has only ever meant “larger pack.” It has never meant “complete on its own with nothing accompanying it.”
Your 'Murican is showing, very clearly. Mac and cheese as a side to chicken enchiladas? How do you not realise the obesity mental illness level that is?
Mac and cheese with “cantina style”? Throw some Texas toast in there why don’t ya, and hit dairy queen after
Point being who looks at a random meal and says “let’s fill the gaps with Mac and cheese, that’s nutritionally sounds reasoning”
“Family Size” has no meaning anymore
Never did.
It means more calories than we can justify for a meal in a 2000 calorie day.
Family sized, if your a single parent with no kids 😂
There are 1200 calories in that tray. Yes, it’s a main course for a family of 3-4 people. Put the fork down, fatass.
1200 calories / 4 people is 300 calories per person. 300 calories times 3 meals per day is only 900 calories. According to the American Heart Association, that’s the recommended calorie intake for a 1 year old.
So unless your “family of 4” consists of 4 babies and no older children or adults, this is not a family size meal.
Add rice and beans. Done and done. Who expects to fill up on enchiladas alone? That’s like trying to get your 2000 calories from only eating steak.
Read the label on the package. The enchiladas are already full of rice and beans.
And you believe advertisements too? Make a real meal, stop being lazy FFS. The box is not your whole world, it’s supposed to be a part of the meal (which includes other ingredients).
I do make real meals all the time. I love cooking. The whole point of my comments is to show how crappy and low value these meals are.
Those enchiladas are “full” of nothing but sadness :(
Are you trying to feed your family on just enchiladas?
„Now with more cheese“ - so 0.1% instead of 0.09%?
Well, you are supposed to eat them with rice or some other side
If one must emphasize that the cheso is indeed cheesy, I would be suspicious.
“Cheesy queso” is there for a very specific reason: they can’t legally put “cheese” on the box because that has a legal definition, and there must be a minimum percentage of cheese in the product for the box to legally bear the word “cheese”.
“Cheesy queso” has no legal definition. So even if the product only has 0.1% cheese in it - or no cheese at all - it’s not illegal to write “cheesy queso”.
It does say “now with more cheese” so maybe it’s 0.2% even!
“More cheese than what???”
More cheese than … not cheese.
“Latina Favorites” huh?
How do you not see that’s not an “L”? It’s curved. And you ignore a whole word, which changes the meaning and makes it clear what the actual word is.
You’re incredibly stupid.
Note to self: If I ever need to push @M137@lemmy.world 's buttons, food packaging typography misunderstandings is a great option.
How do you translate “cheesy queso”? …queso quesoso?
I guess they write it like that because queso means nothing legally, and cheesy means “almost like cheese” to confuse customers while selling fake cheese.
Family of one
There’s 4 items in that package…wtf are u all talking about.
Somebody get this guy 4 grains of rice so he can feed his family!
