what's the grossest packaged food you've seen? - Page 2

[flutemandolin]

Lunchables...and they're not cheap either! Now they have some dessert thing in them that changes color...Bleccchhh!

Those rubber "fruit" snacks....

Turkey bacon-ends up dry and tough as leather, tastes like smoke flavoring. The dog likes it though.

[Super_Mom]

Lunchables are HIGH on my list of Icky Food. Especially the pizza ones, I saw a friends child eating on the other day, even the smell of cold pizza sauce, Cheese SAUCE and a hard cold pita just made me sick. But the most disgusting thing I Have seen lately is Blue applesauce! Supposedly its blue clues, How sick is that!

[darlindeliasmom]

The only gross food item that has made it inside this house is the purple ketchup. What can I say? DH is a pushover and clueless. DD ALWAYS wets the bed after their trips to 7 Eleven to get Slurpees (I swear that dye overloads her system).
So now we have a bottle of this glop in the fridge that she used once or twice (on her tofu "fish sticks", for heavens' sake) and now is reserved for her science experiments!

I love to look at those Lunchables; they are sOO disgusting! Better check out the frozen food aisle for the goofy fries.

[Ms. Mom]

I'm just proud that my ds thinks anything by Nestle is "Gross, because they kill babies"

[AdinaL]

EEWWWW...just looked at the website for the Uncrustables (okay the name sounds gross too - like underwear that won't get crusty after you wear three or four days in a row - sorry - that is what it made me think of:-p)
But anyway - THEY ARE POPTARTS!!!! why buy something different - just buy six boxes of poptarts. at least those come in better flavors. ( i love poptarts i am ashamed to admit - haven't eaten them in a long while.)

I think I am with the folks on the fries. ICK.
And also the prepackaged sugar cookie dough. it tastes NASTY!.

[flutemandolin]

SuperMom-
Dh bought the blue applesauce for the kids once. The blue coloring turned dd's poop bright green!

[Mama Katrina]

I am with you with the f fries, ketcup, lunchables, and blue apple sauce...

Okay... You know what an MRE is??? Dh military, "Meals Ready to Eat". They come in a brown plastic air tight bag, and all the seperate things are in seperate plastic bags and everything will clog your system up for days (I have had them before!!!) But to make matters worse, dh was overseas in the war and said that he opened one up and it had a Nutra Grain bar in it's ORGINAL PACKAGING... MREs have a self live of 10+ YEARS!!!! Won't catch me eating those now!!!!

Oh, what about those crackers and cheese dip??? YUCK (don't know about taste, dairy allergy)

Keep them coming!!! This is a great topic!!!

[Elphaba]

mama katrina, one of our fellow army buddies had an mre that had m&ms in it, WITH THE 1984 OLYMPICS LOGO ON IT! this was during the gulf war!!!!!

[Jish]

I have to echo my disgust for the CHOCOLATE FLAVORED FRENCH FRIES (as well as the other disgusting flavors.) I just happened to walk by a big display of them at the store the other day and when I saw what they were I said "oh, gross" -- evidentally I said it really loud since everyone near that aisle turned and looked at me. Just looking at the package made my physically gag. I was afraid I was going to heave, so I hightailed it to the checkout line.

Sheepishly, I will admit that my boys love the honey nut cheerio milk and cereal bars. They are a pretty special treat to them.

I will also sheepishly admit that I love fruit roll ups, although I don't buy them. My mom buys them for the boys and justifies it by saying that they have "real fruit juice and vitamin C" in them. Whatever!!! Then I am "forced" to eat them so my boys don't get their hands on them.:LOL

[nernie]

mama katrina - I secretly love MRE's - my grama used to get them in bags of Government groceries for low income elderly people. So they are a gross but good childhood memory.
But this is a facinating thread - I was actually going to start it because I saw blue french fries for the first time today, but someone beat me to it. I guess I'm out of the convienience food loop. Re the school lunch thing, that's one of the reasons we pulled ds out of pubschool, (not a big one, but just a contrib.) the GRODY lunches fuled entirely by nutritionally void food. The scary thing is there are children out there that have probably never eaten a whole, unprocessed food! And then we wonder why our children have behavioral problems! It's so hard to keep your kids away from that stuff, esp. if they go to friends' houses, but it's pretty important, to me anyway. Even when dd comes home from Grama's house and says, "Guess what we had for snack, mommy? PINK POWERPUFF GIRL PUDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Thanks so much, mom. MIL feeds them sqweezie "yogurt" in a tube, with twice as much sugar as a Snickers bar in each one. GAG ME WITH A FORK!

[snailmama]

i think those gerber(i think) diced carrots just look gross, I saw some at the ghetto mart. (BRL).

[darlindeliasmom]

About the school lunch thing...whenever you say, why do they ONLY serve junk food in the schools? The answer you get is, but the kids don't eat them (healthy foods). Well, my kid will!
And no one at the local schools controls what the kids eat; if they go through the cafeteria line and buy only a candy bar every day for a year, no one will question them! I don't get it.
Whenever she goes over my mainstream sisters' homes and is offered their version of her usual food, she's so grossed out. After eating real organic yogurt, to eat that Trix yogurt with all the emulsifiers... They all think the poor kid never eats!!! I feel sad; I know my one sis buys this stuff for her son hoping that that way he WILL eat something healthy (he lives on Chik'n nuggets and fries!). Instead, he's getting dye and sugar and who knows what else--and no active yogurt cultures, of course.
Marketing!!!

[onehipmomma]

I was once at an American grocery store and saw mini hotdogs in some kind of liquid in the baby food section.

We don't have anything like that in Canada *yet*

YUCK!!!!! Who feeds that to their babies??????

[Super_Mom]

Yogurt in a tube?! Now I've seen it all. UGH I have seen on the commercial, the jello in a tube, another nasty conveinece food, Oatmeal pies so disgusting. I'm very satisfied with the lunches at my daughters school (its not public, its sort of like a charter school) They actually have real food, Compared the so called nutrious slop i used to get in school. I think last week they had a set up similiar to subway, where you could build your own sub, Daughter reported they had a vegan selection! About Gerbers foods, Not too long ago i read a post, and I think it was here actually that somebody had gotten in an e-mail from gerber, Outlineing what the average 2yr old should eat, The list was a total joke, My Child does'nt eat that much in a week hardly, and suprise nearly everything on the list was made by gerber.

[member]

Any kind of luchsmeat crammed into a tiny package
Treet - generic Spam
Chocolate French frizes
Frozen hamburgers
Frozen shrimp
Picked eggs
Picked pig's feet
Funonions

[mamachiquita]

Any kind of processed meat product grosses me out. Vienna sausages in a can...bleh! I can't believe people buy that stuff. What really bugs me is when food manufacturers try to market their totally over-processed food as being healthy...like "all-natural" Capri Sun (just corn syrup if you ask me) and the cereal bars,etc. "made with real fruit", but we all know that they are loaded with crap, too. No offense to those of you who buy these on occasion, but some people hear this stuff and consider these to be among the healthiest foods that they eat. Very sad for the up and coming generations of kids being raised on this stuff.

[Jish]

Don't feel bad mentioning the mainstream stuff that some of us occasionally feed our kids. It's because of all of you here at MDC that many of us are trying to eat much more naturally. Perhaps we all can use the occasional reminder that convenience doesn't replace good health and good eating.

My kids (and dh's) absolute favorite snack is Mother's Peanut Butter Bumpers. They beg for them. I would never have tried them if it wasn't for you gals here.

[velveeta]

I like to buy everything in as natural a state as possible, but sometimes even I eat Doritos. It is weird, too b/c that taste does not exist in nature. Hmmmm. Maybe Doritos are from my home planet and they remind me of the good old days! :LOL

I am really grossed out by spaghetti-os, but loved them as a child.

Jean

[AmyG]

I think that the worse part about the Kraft Rip-ums mentioned much earlier in the thread is the commercial. There's a commercial where mom is driving two sons around in a minivan, and she gives them both Rip-ums so that they'll stop slugging each other for a few minutes and rip the cheese instead. : I'm still expecting my first, but I truely hope I never get to the point where I feed my kids cheese to get them to stop beating each other up.

[windsong]

Basically, everything in the supermarket

I can't understand why they need to add food coloring to that stuff - it should be glowing neon green with all the chemicals and preservatives in it.

I admit, I eat organic, so most of it freaks me out (I can't even read the labels or think about ingredients when we sneak in a childhood favorite). The big food corps. should be sued for mislabeling, and corn syrup should DEFINITELY NOT be allowed to be labelled ALL NATURAL.

Any kind of extruded meat makes me gag. I'm having flashbacks to a Jennie-O Turkey Loaf episode that I thought I blocked out years ago...

How hypocritical of a school to teach nutrition, and 5 minutes later send your kids to the cafeteria for mystery meat, mushy veggies, and a carton of milk. That stuff makes the vending machine a godsend! At least the Hershey bar is only chocolate, sugar and milk!

Keep asking for healthier food at your grocers - they seem to be more willing to supply healthy/organic foods than they used to.