Yes, they changed. No, it doesn’t affect me, as it means they have made the poison react more slowly, but I don’t eat it.

Yes, they changed from artificial ingredients to natural, but they are still so heavily processed that it is no healthier.

I eat boxed mac & cheese about 3 times a year, and Kraft about every 2 years. So the change is trivial for me.

But I just came in to say that using yogurt instead of milk is an easy way to make the boxed stuff 200% better.

If they could make a low sodium mac and cheese that still tasted like something [good], THEN they’d have a revolutionary product!

@ibstubro Good point about the sodium. I have a couple of alternatives on hand and I looked up Kraft.

Sodium per 1 cup serving:

Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner 570mg
Trader Joe’s Organic Shells & White Cheddar 570mg
Annie’s Whole Wheat Shells & White Cheddar 570mg

I can’t eat a lot of sodium. So about 3 times a year looks about right for me.

Vani Hari aka The Food Babe, is a nutjob. There was no reason to change the ingredients. Kraft removed the artificial dyes (yellow 5 and 6) and replaced them with paprika, annatto, and turmeric to maintain the product’s signature, eerily-bright orange colour and it has also removed artificial preservatives. It does bring the product in line with standards here in Europe, though.

I was introduced to Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner in college. When I was a kid, we ate simple, and we ate cheap, but there was a line that wasn’t crossed – Kraft M&C was on the wrong side of those tracks.

Kraft M&C was a meal about the time I ate so cheaply that froze milk in ice cube trays to make a box of toxic yellow. It’s sort of the American ramen noodle – fast, filling, cheap and salty.

Why on God’s Green Earth would anyone expect it to be free of artificial ingredients, and why would they care. It’s Depression Era gut-waddin that was embraced by the fab 50’s and sustained the baby-boomers.

In all honestly, I don’t recall owning a box since the 80’s, and have no plans to change that.

Kraft Changed Its Mac and Cheese and Nobody Noticed

@jaytkay Thank you for the suggestion. My grandkids noticed it was better!

Hi, @YARNLADY, long time no see! Howdy! They might like yogurt & cereal, too, instead of milk.

I am on a yogurt kick. I made it in the oven when I was a teenager. I think I have to try that again.

@jaytkay Thanks, it won’t work on cereal because they would see me put it on. They refuse to eat anything they arent’ used to.