Kraft Alfredo Easy Mac

March 3, 2008 | Reviewer: Abi

Kraft Alfredo Easy Mac Price: 79¢ at Target
Serving: 1 cup, 2.05oz. (+ water)
Calories: 220
Fat: 7%, 4.5g
Cholesterol: 2%, 5mg
Sodium: 25%, 590mg
Protein: 7g
Carbohydrates: 13%, 39g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 6g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Points

Kraft says: Made with Kraft cheese, garlic and other spices

Abi says: I sincerely enjoy Kraft’s Easy Mac microwave cups. I know that they create waste and cost too much, but they are the perfect amount of salty, cheesy macaroni product. I like them so much that even though I had multiple other varieties of the cups in my cupboard, I kept buying the Three Cheese version and ignoring the Regular, Alfredo and Bacon varieties. Yes, Bacon.

I finally told myself that I couldn’t buy another cup of Kraft Mac and Cheese (even if they were on sale) until I tried the other types. And now I know why I should trust my instincts and stop making arbitrary rules for myself.

This cup featured flavorless, slimy noodles in a sauce that so closely resembled a certain bodily fluid that I didn’t want to go near it. The noodles are similar to the pseudo-egg noodles one finds in a box of Pasta-Roni; about 1.5 inches long, a bit wavy and quite thin. These noodles are difficult to stab with a fork and thus I had to scoop them up, which is not my preferred pasta-eating method.

I know, this sounds really nit-picky, but think about how you eat noodles. When using a fork do you stab or do you scoop? Comments welcome.

The sauce lacked the robust flavor I’ve come to enjoy in other Kraft products and couldn’t be helped even with a liberal application of Italian herbs, garlic and parmesan cheese. And when you’re adding cheese to macaroni and cheese you’ve got a problem. Plus, the cheese and spices needed a good base to rest on and flavor. If you start with bad it doesn’t matter how many herbs and spices you add, you’ll still end up with an awful sauce.

Buying this product is like throwing a dollar in the trash.

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14 Responses to “Kraft Alfredo Easy Mac”

Corey V. on March 3rd, 2008

Forks are made for stabbing. Duh.
Joshua Lane on March 3rd, 2008

I don’t stab or scoop… I twist!

And I had no idea Kraft made Alfredo! Definitely will be picking one of these up during my next trip to the grocery store.
rob on March 3rd, 2008

“This cup featured flavorless, slimy noodles in a sauce that so closely resembled a certain bodily fluid that I didn’t want to go near it.”

Food porn is the next big thing.
cybele on March 3rd, 2008

Convenience food means that you don’t have to add anything else, certainly not a major element like FLAVOR.

It looks absolutely horrid. (I’m a stabber.)
Lisa on March 3rd, 2008

First I stab, then I scoop. I find that the stabbed macaronies create a nice base to pile other macaronies on top of. I like to get as much cheesy noodle goodness in my mouth as I can at one time. That’s probably why I am kind of fat. But it doesn’t matter. The cheesy noodle goodness loves me no matter how big my jeans are.
Mike on March 4th, 2008

Wait, so they reminded you of mucus or semen? Personally I wouldn’t touch any kraft mac and cheese product with a ten foot pole. No pun intended.
Alisson on March 4th, 2008

…a certain bodily fluid - I nearly snorted my coffee when I read that.
Nicole on March 4th, 2008

Forks are for stabbing and importantly, also for scraping. When you have no more meat but some gravy left, you scrape. If you have little un-stabbable bits of macaroni left floating in cheese sauce, you scrape. Once scraping has lost it’s effectiveness, you move onto directly licking the food tray.

Of course this behavior requires a delicious frozen meal or a very hungry convenience food eater. I used scraping with dinner last night - Stouffer’s “Class” Meals Salisbury Steak with Mac ‘n’ Cheese. It was both yummy and small, so the scraping was dual-purpose.
Maywither Dragon on March 4th, 2008

Ew! I always stab, but it looks like stabbing that mess of bodily fluids wouldn’t do anything at all. Except make you sick.
Trashy Eats on March 4th, 2008

This food “that so closely resembled a certain bodily fluid” is definitely a trashy eat!
Shann on March 4th, 2008

I ate this once and it tasted funny.
Amber on March 4th, 2008

hmmm…I can’t wait for the bacon mac and cheese review.

(I tend to scoop macaroni, unless I’m getting full and only want one noodle at a time–then I stab.)
Rose on March 6th, 2008

I like alfredo sauce. I don’t like…fake alfredo sauce. because that makes me gag a little. recently I ate..90% of a glass baking dish full of chicken fettucini alfredo over the course of three days. it wasn’t good. but it wasn’t bad.

kraft mac and cheese is such a dissapointment, I liked it when I was a kid, sure, I knew nothing else. my mother was cheap and she still is. but I like velveeta. mm. seriously, I will even eat Michelinas frozen crappy mac and cheese. idk, kraft, even in a little cup, just doesn’t do it for me anymore.
jenni on March 14th, 2008

never tried the Alfredo …. and prob will not be anytime soon … thanks for the heads up on the semen ……