Amy’s Kitchen Mac n’ Cheese Kids Meal

Serving: 1 tray, 8oz.
Calories: 370 per serving
Fat: 20%, 13g
Saturated Fat: 35%, 7g
Trans Fat: 0g
Cholesterol: 12%, 35mg
Sodium: 26%, 620mg
Protein: 14g
Carbohydrates: 17%, 50g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 8g
Weight Watchers Points: 8 Points

Amy says: Mac n’ Cheese is a favorite with kids of all ages. We decided to offer it in our first “Kids Meals”. Macaroni with organic broccoli with cheese and a slice of focaccia bread. For dessert, there are two delicious “snacks” filled with honey-sweetened organic apples.

Stacey says: This being a kid’s meal I sought out the perspective of my 8 year old niece, Penny, making this a 4 cents review (her 2 cents and mine). This kid’s meal appeals to the one’s most basic need…the need for Mac n’ Cheese. Amy’s Kitchen does it right by combo-ing it with just-right accessories: broccoli, focaccia and little applesauce pies. The headliner of the show held it’s own with noodles that one could barely detect as “healthy” and a cheese sauce that tasted reasonably like what cheese sauce reasonably should taste like, though it could have been a bit less runny so as to stick to the noodles better. The genius of pairing a broccoli side with mac n’ cheese is that the runny sauce gets to do double duty as vegetable dressing as well, so no harm is done by food-touching, often a hot button issue for kids. Penny and I both would have liked a larger portion of broccoli.

Getting back to the food-touching issue, separating the little apple pie pillows into an inner removable tray shows the kind of attention to detail that makes all the difference in a successful kid meal. My preference would have been to have the focaccia bread also segmented into the removable tray, but Penny used her bread square as a sauce-mop so it was moot to her. The pies themselves were delightful; so tiny and charming the way anything miniature is instantly attractive. I felt the two tasty bites were a just right ending to a well planned meal, but Penny felt there should be more of them, she’d like 5 more, but the negotiator in her will settle for an increase of 2. As for the dénouement, Amy’s kids meals come with a spectacular prize - a temporary tattoo of a one-eyed dog, the wearing of which instantly makes you the coolest kid on the playground or in the conference room.

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