Boo-Flippin-Hoo!
When I was a kid, Mom used SAWDUST in our Hamburger Helper. And she topped it with Free Government Cheese! Did we complain? Well, not until the middle of the night, LOL! (Just kidding, of course!)
Silly New Yorkers! You can make your OWN ‘Hamburger Helper’ from scratch which is even CHEAPER, ya lazy bums! Hamburger Helper was a LUXURY food item for me back in the day when I had a family of SIX to feed - three of them being Teen Boys!
I hope all of these dopes that can’t feed themselves DO go hungry!
https://recipesbyclare.com/recipes/homemade-hamburger-helper
Beans and rice is easy and cheap, too!

You had sawdust? Sheer Luxury! We used to dream of sawdust for dinner, before our thrashing and then off to bed which 10 us shared.
the do-it-yourself homemade Hamburger Helper recipe i saw had only two ingredients: salt and ground cardboard ...