Comfort food. It's a great thing. From mashed potatoes, polenta, grilled cheese, burgers, these are foods that tend to be inexpensive, uncomplicated, and easy to prepare. I've experience an array of comfort foods, from the crappy prepackaged, to the completely homemade from scratch. The extent of my kids prepackaged food has been Annie's Organic Mac and Cheese. So when I heard of this Latin dish, Picadillo, I was excited at the prospect of having my kids experience something close to the comforting aspects of Hamburger Helper. Why not just buy Hamburger Helper you ask. I mean, at $2.79 a box (which doesn't include the beef), it's a deal right? I am always up for a deal, but to an extent. Well, there are a lot of obsessive reasons. But they are actually very simple. I think in our busy lives we want simplicity and quick meals.
Making our Picadillo mostly organic and with grass fed beef.
My Picadilla recipe (with pasta added), costs about $10.00, makes about 7 cups and the added benefit of knowing EXACTLY what is in it.
• more than half the amount of sodium
• hormone and GMO free
• lower fat
• less empty nutrients
• the pride of making healthy food for your family
• tastes rockin good
**We make ours with Rice pasta elbows which contain 1 ingredient, rice. Gluten-Free/Casein Diet, which we try to mostly follow for many reasons, here are a couple:
reason 1
reason 2
Hamburger Helper, costs about $5.50 (including the beef), makes about 4 cups
Both end up being about $1.40 a serving.
"The perfect break from a tough day"
Picadillo List:
BEEF
TOMATOES
GREEN OLIVES
SALT
GARLIC
CURRANTS
CINNAMON
GRANNY SMITH APPLES
ONIONS
RICE PASTA (RICE)
Hamburger Helper Ingredients List:
BEEF
ENRICHED MACARONI (DURUM SEMOLINA, DURUM FLOUR, NIACIN , FERROUS SULFATE (IRON),
THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID)
CORN STARCH
SALT
ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID) SUGAR
RICOTTA CHEESE (DRIED) (WHEY, MILKFAT, LACTIC ACID, SALT)
ONION (DRIED)
TOMATO (DRIED)
MALTODEXTRIN
MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG)
DEXTROSE
GARLIC (DRIED)
CITRIC ACID
PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL
MODIFIED CORN STARCH
PAPRIKA
MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES
NATURAL FLAVOR
COLOR (YELLOW LAKES 5 & 6, YELLOWS 5 & 6)
AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT
SOY FLOUR
EGG
