Pitiful pasta. (Food Porn).It's Pasta Anytime is a line of shelf-stable packages of cooked-pasta-plus-sauce that you pop in the microwave (apparently, that's what makes it "freshly cooked"). But Kraft manages to turn a fast pasta meal into the equivalent of a pair of untrimmed pork chops Pork Chop An arrangement on the floor of the NYSE whereby clerks cover the booth of a floor broker and accept orders, phone calls, and associated tasks. Notes: The clerks in charge of maintaining the booths are directly compensated by the floor brokers who own them. garnished with nearly a day's worth of salt. The original five varieties of It's Pasta Anytime are what you'd expect from tomato sauce plus pasta. A serving (that's the entire package) averages about 500 calories and nearly 1,000 milligrams of sodium, with six grams of fat (just one of them saturated saturated /sat·u·rat·ed/ (sach´ah-rat?ed) 1. denoting a chemical compound that has only single bonds and no double or triple bonds between atoms. 2. unable to hold in solution any more of a given substance. ). But guess what's different about the three new It's Pasta Anytimes? (Hint: Kraft is the nation's largest cheese maker.) Cheese (mostly cheddar) is what makes the Rotini with Three Cheese Sauce, the Rotini with Mild Cheddar Cheese Sauce, and the Fettuccine fet·tuc·ci·ne n. In both senses also called tagliatelle. 1. Pasta in narrow flat strips. 2. A dish made with such strips of pasta. [Italian, pl. with Roasted roast v. roast·ed, roast·ing, roasts v.tr. 1. To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals. 2. To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat. 3. Garlic Alfredo Sauce so "special." They average 600 calories, 15 grams of saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be (three-quarters of a day's worth), and 2,100 milligrams of sodium (only 300 mg shy of a full day's quota). "Ready when you are," boast the boxes. Ready for your very own episode of "ER," perhaps. Kraft: (800) 847-1997. |
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