Posted on 09/20/2025 2:37:42 PM PDT by Trump20162020
In the 1970s, Hamburger Helper became a staple on American dinner tables as families, strained by inflation and soaring beef prices, looked to turn a pound of ground beef into an entire meal.
These days, those same pressures are why the flavored pasta mix is coming to the rescue again.
While most food companies are seeing declines in consumer demand for their products, sales of Hamburger Helper are up 14.5 percent in the year through August, getting an extra bump from its appearance on an episode of “The Bear” in June, according to the company that owns the brand, Eagle Foods.
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Forget HH. Only buy the food in the grocery stores that are on the outer sides of the store not in the aisles.
My wife fixed Tuna Helper one time. I said it smelled like Baked Cat Food.
She did not like that comment.
Folks, it’s not hard to DIY...
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a38530384/homemade-hamburger-helper-recipe/
We need to bring back Home Ec in publik skrewls.
For both sexes.
I can’t eat processed soup. Too dang salty.
I looked up Campbell’s Condensed Beefy Mushroom Soup. 840 mg of sodium. 37% RDA of sodium.
“””””was a child his family was so poor his mother fed the family bread slices with butter, salt and pepper when they couldn’t afford meat.”””””
When there was no food, my mother would make a pan of cornbread for us three boys, for supper, usually for those nights she would have picked up a quart of milk so that we could put the cornbread in a glass of milk.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll get a few extra shares now!
Seventy cents a can is an impressive price though.
And after my shopping trip today, I don’t see that hamburger will help stretch a dollar. Almost $8/lb. at Walmart near Knoxville.
Hardly anyone is mentioning the price of groceries.
Perfect for many kinds of beef/pork casseroles.
“Hamburger Helper”
Nowadays, it’s called an inheritance.
It’s even better when you add hamburger, Clark
I love corn bread. Haven’t had any in a long time.
My grandmother used to make a good one. She grew up on a farm. Lived with us after my grandfather died when I was just over one year old.
When I was 13 we used to watch our mutual favorite show The Untouchables together. Happy memory.
I’m eating fine, whatever I want whenever I want it. I do what I want, travel where I want and enjoy the hell out of retirement. You either plan or you don’t.
“”And after my shopping trip today, I don’t see that hamburger will help stretch a dollar. Almost $8/lb. at Walmart near Knoxville.
Hardly anyone is mentioning the price of groceries.””
Yeah, and funny how food is never figured into that COLA calculation. Go figure.
I get ground beef at Walmart for $4.50-5.00 lb. There is a Joe V Smart Shop store that has good/low prices but I have yet to get over there. Maybe next week...
It sure feels like the good ole days of being able to afford buying steak and filet mignons (the full-time job working days) are gone and over. But then my spidey sense tells me that ‘these’ are the good ole days now, so appreciate, enjoy and don’t waste it. Oh well...
Yuppers...
That’s when the SHTF!
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Her recipe is an expensive meal, instead of just hamburger
and a box of Hamburger Helper her version calls for
additional ingredients, expensive stuff.
Bacon
beef broth
1 (15-oz.) can tomato sauce
3/4 cup heavy cream
8 oz. shredded mild cheddar cheese
1/4 lb. yellow American cheese slices
Chopped green onion or parsley, to serve
RE: so you do not have fresh food going bad...
Since my dear wife died three years ago I still have not been able to adjust for fresh food expiring. Few things are made to be for a single person. Even the plastic organic salad greens and plain Greek yogurt reach the end dates. Since I’m always trying to lose weight I don’t want to stuff myself to avoid waste.
It is a pretty lean supper when that is it, and only one pan of it.
We are having friends over for dinner in a few nights. The last time we got together I had mentioned that I wanted to make hamburger stroganoff sometime soon. They said, that sounds great! I don’t cut corners. I use good quality ground beef, fresh mushrooms, etc. It’s a homemade masterpiece of comfort.
I have never had Hamburger Helper, so I guess that’s a good thing.
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