Easy Mac Diet
brewerfan13
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Eat 2 servings of Easy Mac a day and any other foods to stay within you caloric goal. Day 3 almost in the books. Feeling great.
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Day 4 complete. Actually look forward to the Mac. Added some cayenne pepper in tonight's portion3
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Huh...
No thanks, I love variety.
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It isn't the only thing I eat. Just 2 servings daily of the Mac.2
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What are the benefits to eating the mac.?2
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1) I'm not 5 years old.
2) I like normal poops.
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What is easy mac?0
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i think like anything, you may get a bit bored-but if it works for you then who am I to judge?2
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So it's diet mac and cheese for 2 meals and you pick your meal for the third.
Well I guess it sounds better than the cabbage soup one but why not find a variety of low cal meals instead5 -
One of those American foods that seems like it should be in the Simpsons not in real life - like Koolaid and hamburger helper and pop tartslivingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
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I eat enough "servings" of ANY foods I like to stay within my calorie goal. Never felt better!4
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pebble4321 wrote: »
One of those American foods that seems like it should be in the Simpsons not in real life - like Koolaid and hamburger helper and pop tartslivingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
This American has never heard of it.
Anyway, what Therealobi1 said!0 -
Therealobi1 wrote: »So it's diet mac and cheese for 2 meals and you pick your meal for the third.
Well I guess it sounds better than the cabbage soup one but why not find a variety of low cal meals instead
Not diet mac and cheese just simple kraft brand easy Mac. I buy from Amazon as it is like 23 cents per serving and shipped free if you are a Prime Member.2 -
Since this thread is in the Food and Nutrition section of the board, have you checked out the actual nutrition components of Kraft Easy Mac 'n' Cheese?
Not something I'd want to have as the mainstay of my daily intake.
What foods are you eating besides this twice per day? And what made you choose this in the first place? Was it simply because it's cheap?11 -
brewerfan13 wrote: »Therealobi1 wrote: »So it's diet mac and cheese for 2 meals and you pick your meal for the third.
Well I guess it sounds better than the cabbage soup one but why not find a variety of low cal meals instead
Not diet mac and cheese just simple kraft brand easy Mac. I buy from Amazon as it is like 23 cents per serving and shipped free if you are a Prime Member.
Easy Mac - low protein & low fiber
220 calories 41 carbs 3 fat 6 protein 1 fiber
Even pork & beans have a better profile
221 calories 43 carbs 2 fat 9 protein 11 fiber
Do you like eggs? Super easy to cook.....really good stats. Keep looking because Easy Mac shouldn't be 2 meals. Low protein and weight loss is not a good combination. Plus fiber is filling....Easy Mac's not it.6 -
True story:
When I left home at 16 with my dog in tow, I had *very* little money to feed either of us on.
Kraft Dinner was on sale for 17 cents a box. (This was in in late '60's!) So I gathered every dime I could and bought a freaking case of it. 48 boxes.
Figured that my dog and I could split a box of it between us for dinner every night and at least neither of us would starve to death.
Problem was, I couldn't afford the milk or the butter that you're supposed to use to make the powdered cheese sauce decent. So I just boiled the noodles and added water to the powder to make the sauce. It was pretty gross, but it's all we had.
After about two weeks of having this as our only meal of the day, I made up the usual batch, and put half of it into my dog's dish. She walked over to it, sniffed it, and then looked up at me with a look that clearly said, "I just can't do this." When my freaking dog turned it down, I knew we were in trouble! LOL
To this day - almost fifty years later - just the smell of Kraft dinner makes me gag.
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Heavily refined, packaged "noodles" and "cheese" as the base of a diet? (They don't even call them noodles, btw)
ummm, no.
Out of curiosity, what DO you eat otherwise?
Are you doing it because it's cheap? Soups, beans, frozen burritos would even be better. All the same sort of sodium bomb, but still better.
Please reconsider, and FUEL your body with nutrient dense, whole foods.
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snickerscharlie wrote: »True story:
When I left home at 16 with my dog in tow, I had *very* little money to feed either of us on.
Kraft Dinner was on sale for 17 cents a box. (This was in in late '60's!) So I gathered every dime I could and bought a freaking case of it. 48 boxes.
Figured that my dog and I could split a box of it between us for dinner every night and at least neither of us would starve to death.
Problem was, I couldn't afford the milk or the butter that you're supposed to use to make the powdered cheese sauce decent. So I just boiled the noodles and added water to the powder to make the sauce. It was pretty gross, but it's all we had.
After about two weeks of having this as our only meal of the day, I made up the usual batch, and put half of it into my dog's dish. She walked over to it, sniffed it, and then looked up at me with a look that clearly said, "I just can't do this." When my freaking dog turned it down, I knew we were in trouble! LOL
To this day - almost fifty years later - just the smell of Kraft dinner makes me gag.
Growing up poor we ate a lot of boxed generic mac and cheese made with water. To this day the thought of eating boxed mac and cheese makes me sick to my stomach
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AngInCanada wrote: ».....This post can't be real! Please say it ain't so.
The op has been in many other threads boasting of his fabulous easy mac diet attempting to convert the masses. Maybe he works in marketing for Kraft and ours his job to save the easy mac product line because that stuff tastes awful and I actually like normal Kraft mac and cheese.12 -
That sounds like just about the least nutritious diet of the new year12
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I love mac and cheese. Good mac and cheese. That I make myself. From scratch.
This is a terrible diet plan, void of vital nutritional content.14 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
I think it's the single serving cups of mac and cheese (the "kraft dinner" type) that cooks in the microwave.
This diet sounds like slim fast without the added micronutrients.8 -
Slept till 1115 so going straight to lunch. Easy Mac, toasted Turkey sandwich on Ezekiel bread (yum), Clausen pickles and a sparkling ice. The turkey sandwich has a dallup of Kallas honey mustard and the Easy Mac garnished with BBQ rub hand crafted by Rick. The Easy Mac diet is flexible if you sleep thru breakfast.5
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^^copy paste from my Facebook1
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I removed several posts from this discussion. There are lots of people constructively asking questions and offering guidance or sharing their Mac & Cheese stories (all good), please avoid mocking the OP or coming here just to troll.5
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I removed several posts from this discussion. There are lots of people constructively asking questions and offering guidance or sharing their Mac & Cheese stories (all good), please avoid mocking the OP or coming here just to troll.
And if I suspect the OP is trolling us all? Because really.. come on now.. (I'm giving my screen the same look I give my 9 year old when she tries to tell me she hates a food she devoured last week.) Or perhaps this could just go down in a ball of irony not unlike a bird shaped marshmallow purification method... *sips tea*14 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
I think it's the single serving cups of mac and cheese (the "kraft dinner" type) that cooks in the microwave.
Yup! And it's nasty!
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snickerscharlie wrote: »PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
I think it's the single serving cups of mac and cheese (the "kraft dinner" type) that cooks in the microwave.
Yup! And it's nasty!
I don't think they even call it easy mac anymore. Mine just says Kraft macaroni & cheese. I do buy it as a quick lunch sometimes, though I prefer the velveeta shells & cheese version if I'm going with the processed cheese product.2 -
At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.9
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At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
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PrizePopple wrote: »At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
Yeah I have no idea. I eat more sodium than that daily for sure.1
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