My expectations were already low based on the box’s physical size, but it still somehow managed to not even meet that
Family sized, if your a single parent with no kids 😂
It looks like each enchilada +cheese sauce is like 500+ calories (I would bet closer to 700). All it needs is a small side to make a meal.
Are you trying to feed your family on just enchiladas?
“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.
I can’t even.
You do realize this is to enchilada what Papa John’s is to pizza right?
Cool, serve some Great Value alfredo and peas next to it.
Brits don’t eat as much as Americans do because all their food is shit
Hope you manage to travel one day!
Lmao good retort
Naw, they have lots of good takeaway stuff. Hell, I’d almost kill for a decent fish-n-chips near me. Then they have those Indian takeaways… tandori? IDK now to spell it. Currys… hell yeah.
I imagine the Mexican food is shit and that’s probably 50% of my diet at this point.
Currys
*Curries unless you’re talking about the electronics retailer
those Indian takeaways… tandori?
If you’re just referring to the restaurants, I’d just call one of those restaurants an Indian (as in the cuisine) or maybe a curry house. Tandoori, Balti, etc. all relate to styles of cooking and may be used in restaurant names, but if I was referring to restaurants that serve Indian style curries in general, I would just call it an Indian.
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.”
A family size meal should have enough to at least be the entree for four people. With enchiladas that means two per person, not one. It’s a corn tortilla with stuff rolled in it, barely larger than a taquito, you need two for it to not look like a depression meal (we’re already cooking frozen enchiladas, we’re there already, it doesn’t need to be rubbed in).
I’ve noticed that sizes are shifting. Party size is now what used to be family size and can actually feed four, sometimes it’s called mega family size or some bullshit. Family size now means two adults and maybe a child <10 yrs. I remember a family size lasagna had leftovers when I was a kid.
Well okay, maybe I wasn’t clear. I agree with you that you certainly aren’t getting enough nourishment for an entire family - and in fact, even if you have enough food volume for an entire family, this crap wouldn’t count as nourishment anyway. And you’re probably paying this box of goopy shit dollars on the pennies it cost to make.
I was just pointing out that, like most things the agro industry puts on boxes, “family size” has no legal meaning and therefore is technically correct depending on how you interpret it.
Incidentally, another thing that means jack squat on your box of dubious food is “Now with more cheese”. If they started out with zero cheese (and no, the stuff with a cheesy taste used in ultra-processed food isn’t legally cheese) then adding a flake or two of real cheddar makes it technically possible to say “Now with more cheese”.
I wonder if it would be legal in America to print “No cyanide!” on the box to make people pick it over other stuff from the sea of frozen garbage.
I very much imagine it would be. It’s the same as when they put ‘gluten free’ on ridiculous stuff like raw meat, packaged raw vegetables, raw nuts, and the list goes on…
One of my personal favorites is seeing salt advertised as being non-GMO.
We just had a case here (Denmark) where 2 companies were putting a “No PFOA” labels on their frying pans. But they’ve been told by authorities that that’s illegal, because it’s misleading advertising since PFOA is illegal in EU.
Thy got off with a warning, but in case of repeat offenses they will be fined.But USA is much different, and many “confuse the consumer” strategies do not seem to be generally illegal “over there”.
No anti-consumer anything would ever be illegal in the US. It’s a corporatocracy.
As someone with celiac disease, and how much stuff gluten is in (some French fries, soy sauce, tomato soup, etc), I don’t care how ridiculous it seems, I appreciate when manufacturers make it known their shit is gluten free.
Yep - grated cheese is a good example. The stuff they put in to make it not stick together can contain gluten.
“No added sugars”
“No added salt”
“No added preservatives”
Yup, no cyanide would fit right in.
My favorite is:
“No added sugars”
“No added salt”
“No added preservatives”
It’s a bag of rice.
I recently bought buttermilk that had “no gluten” as an ingredient…
Yes. They definitely advertise rice and corn as gluten free.
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?
I’m old and I don’t think that’s true. Frozen entrees have ways been on the light side. And frozen dinners for one would be 3 oz of meat, and a couple of spoonfuls of boiled peas or something.
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”
The real term here is : Family size but you’re divorced and it’s not the week the kids are with you
Why call me out like this
“Family Size” has no meaning anymore
Never did.
It means more calories than we can justify for a meal in a 2000 calorie day.
Any phrasing that isn’t regulated is subject to abuse by marketing.
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.
IMHO, that orange liquid Kraftesque garbage doesn’t count as cheese anyway.
But it has more cheese
I’m afraid to ask how little it had before, because the amount i see are rookie numbers.
It’s got what families crave.
That’s what I’m saying! One more tooth with experience the delight of biting into food. I don’t see what’s wrong. 🤷♂️
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 :(
300 calorie main course
How’s life in 13th century Poland?
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!
“Latina Favorites” huh?
Cantina style
Could be Lantina
(Lantina isn’t a word, that was the joke)
Could be photoshopped
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 @[email protected] 's buttons, food packaging typography misunderstandings is a great option.
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What is this? A family size for ants???
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.
Queso caseoso I think
„Now with more cheese“ - so 0.1% instead of 0.09%?
Are you kidding. This is murica! Cheese is practically a waste product of our over subsidized dairy industry. Theres a reason that there’s 1.4 billion pounds of cheese in our strategic cheese reserves. Theres no reason those enchiladas couldn’t be 50% cheese product.
Yes there is: chemical cheese flavor is cheaper than cheese.
