Mac & Cheese Sales Spike

UPI:

Sales of boxed macaroni and cheese, a product category led by Northfield, Ill., based Kraft Foods, have experienced a significant rise.

The product, which debuted 70 years ago, posted 10 percent growth in 2007, due in part to soaring sales of single-serve microwaveable Easy Mac cups, which experienced a 50 percent rise in sales for the year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.

Harry Balzer, vice president of consumer research firm NPD Group, said about one-third of the U.S. population and half of the country's children will feast on macaroni and cheese at some point during the next two weeks. That number marks a significant increase from 1984, when about 30 percent of the U.S. population and 40 percent of children in the country would have snacked on the popular pasta dish in a two-week period.

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Comments

[KindAndThoughtful]

06:22 AM on 02/07/2008

Macaroni and cheese has always been one of my favorite meals. There is elegance in simplicity­.


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[almoguy]

02:03 PM on 02/06/2008

the worlds great cusines are based in poverty...­we should be in for some hot kitchen items....a­t least the obese have a lot of fat to burn...tha­t hunger is your body consuming itself...p­overty the ultimate diet!

[ClaudiaJean]

12:05 PM on 02/06/2008

When you can buy five boxes of this for a dollar at Wal-Mart, there's a reason families are stocking up on this. It's not lack of taste and it's not because they choose crappy food. It's what they can afford. This is not a coincidenc­e. Obesity among the poor is not a coincidenc­e either. Wake up people.

[JScott]

11:20 AM on 02/06/2008

And the classy gourmet and expensive version is called 'Fettucine Alfredo'.

[SEQUOIABISON]

10:02 AM on 02/06/2008

Junk Food For The Masses.

If you melt cows milk cheese on cardboard people would love it.

Then they wonder why their cholestero­l is soaring and their health is failing.

[aigeanta]

10:00 AM on 02/06/2008

LEAVE MAC N CHEESE ALOnE!!!!

[wadenelson1]

07:35 PM on 02/05/2008

It's the economy, stupid.

[mmckinl]

06:28 PM on 02/05/2008

With the price of cheese that's pretty fine dining , pretty fine ...