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Hamberger Helper sales and cardboard box production are flashing warning signs for the U.S. economy.
Urban Living
Hamburger Helper I am definitely a foodie. My mother was a food columnist and my grandmother was one of the first women to cook on television. Both aunts were food stylists for major magazines as well as the Betty Crocker label, and my uncle and his wife had a very famous chefs store in NYC that catered to folks like Julia Child and James Beard.
I grew up cooking, but in college I was poor and ate 10-cent ramen and 40-cent boxes of Hamburger Helper. Yeah, the meat cost extra, but ground turkey had become a thing and was super cheap to add as a protein.
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