All that, and no real food. Oy.

I don't see how you can possibly claim that a 2-lb block of Tilamook Cheddar isn't real food. ;)

Thanks for the support, though i'd claim that some of the other stuff (milk, bread) is pretty clearly food as well :)

Yeah! What about the cheese?

And most people would consider Raisin Bran to be real food, it's not like i'm getting Lucky Charms or something.

Hot dogs are debateable, but _bread_ is certainly real food, especially wheat bread.

And what's wrong with milk and yogurt?!?

And last i heard you were supposed to eat a certain number of servings a day of fruit, how is pineapple any worse than apples or oranges or whatever?

Nutrigrain bars are fairly healthy, but you're right, they're not real food, nor is mac and cheese or airheads, or ketchup and A1 sauce (aren't i allowed to put stuff on the real food though? =P) or rice pudding or energy drinks.

So what in your mind is "real" food?

I make broad lines for breakfast (and periodically lunch) food, but dinner (or whichever is the main meal of the day) should be more than "pour contents of box into boiling water." [This isn't England, you know ;) ]

If you grated the cheese, then mixed it with macaroni noodles and added some milk and butter on top so the cheese doesn't burn, then baked it for about half an hour at 350, that would be real food. Still macaroni and cheese, but without the artificial processed powdered cheese product.

Pineapple's fine; canned fruit keeps longer than fresh. But you live in Califonia! Fresh fruit should be plentiful and cheap! I got 5 kiwis for a dollar at Berkeley Bowl in June. (Mmm, kiwis.) Also, I recall no vegetables.

Milk doesn't count as food, because it's either something you drink or something you mix with other things (cereal, artificial processed cheese powder product, etc.) And yogurt is food, but it's not something I'd call dinner. Condiments don't count.

I guess it boils down to real food being a) not ridiculously processed and b) something I'd eat for my main meal. I guess I'm turning into a food snob.

At least you didn't get any of those lunchables abominations. Yuck.

Um, for me breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all kind of interchangeable. It's only now that i have anything even remotely breakfast-like.

My main meal is whatever i have for lunch half the time :)

The real question of course is, is the above food (plus tofu, which i don't want to buy in large quantities, and peanut butter which they didn't have) better than cup of noodles every night for dinner, which is the alternative? :)