![]() She stood speechless in the market isle when I asked her if she could figure out what the ingredients in the blue box were – complete with asking me what yellow 5 was. I wrote out the list of ingredients we use in ours and she can read every single ingredient. ![]() It was just as convenient as the box I remember growing up with, and while she would have been totally happy about eating it sans the yellow color, I decided to let her do a few shakes of turmeric to the pot to watch it magically turn yellow, and she was geeked.Īs Chloe has gotten older and noticed the blue boxes of mac n cheese at the store (with very targeted character shapes to her age might I add), I have spent some time showing her why I choose to make it the way we do at home – never underestimate what a 5 year old can understand. I had no clue what I was doing, but what I did know was that the blue box of mac n cheese was nothing more than noodles, cheese, butter, and milk… so why couldn’t I replicate that with real ingredients? That weekend we got out some real cheese, butter, a little raw milk and I showed her how to make it. She came home from preschool one day and told me that the little boy she was playing kitchen with at school made her “mac n cheese”, and she wanted to know what that was.
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