What has happened to Kraft Dinner????

plus now you are paying an arm and a leg for it! i remember when it was a cheap staple around the house, but not now...its about a buck for a box (or rather a loonie :-)!! these days we tend just to make our own mac and cheese with noodles and cheez whiz.

My husband agrees with you completely! He says there is no cheese flavor to make and cheese anymore he even accused me of buying some cheap brand once cause it tasted so bad and I had to show him the box. I do think it has lost alot of its cheese flavor too and went up in price.

It's also a staple food in our house. The Kraft Mac and Cheese sold here in Manila tastes the same as before. Just quite expensive. It's still my all time favorite. It comes in different flavors now but I love the spiral because the flavor sticks to the pasta more. Maybe the makers are different per country distributed that is why it tastes different?

they taste the same to me - maybe its the Canadian mac & cheese from Kraft?

Hahahaha... Kraft mac & cheese used to be some of my favorite junk food! Not too long ago I was doing an extended fast... I was shooting for 28 days, but my daughter came up to get some work done on her car (the mechanics up here are much cheaper and more honest then down where she lives). She brought Kraft mac & cheese to eat while she was here thinking that it would be the least tempting to me... little did she know! When she cooked it I had to go get in the shower and stay there for as long as I possibly could, hoping that she would be finished eating it by the time I got out. And she was, the only problem was there were leftovers. They sat in that pot on the stove calling to me. I couldn't concentrate on the scrabble game we were trying to play and finally broke down and ate the phucking stuff. I hadn't eaten anything in 21 days, I had only been drinking water, so I was concerned that I was going to get hit with a big dose of diarrhea. I felt soooo fortunate when I didn't, but what happened instead was it apparently glued my intestines together, hehehe, because I ended up constipated for 2 or 3 weeks!!! I haven't eaten it since, and I probably never will again!

I think it might be you, all though I don't care for it either and used to love it when I was younger. I think we just grow up and loose our taste for it. Or maybe I am wrong and they do make it different now. All I can tell you for sure is that I don't like it anymore either, and I don't eat it or buy it anymore.

I haven't bought Kraft Mac n Cheese for a long time because I'm watching my pennies. I used to really like it though. Guess I won't try it again - I buy a cheaper brand and it never tasted as good as Kraft, but it hasn't got any worse!

I know what you are saying. I am only twenty six and I have noticed the same thing. I remember when Grandma would make a big meal, and a sidedish would always be Kraft Dinner. It used to be really good, but nowadays it has only memories of a cheese taste. Now I'm married to a gourmet chef, and he makes me real pasta with any kind of cheese sauce I want. He makes the best cheese sauce in the world, so I don't have to think about kraft dinner.

No Whywiki, you're not the only one. For a while there I thought that I might be the only one who had forgotten how to cook this stuff properly. LOL. But one would think I knew how to add water. In any case, it's become pretty tasteless to me too. Shame really. Or maybe our taste buds just grew up too.

Hi whywiki, I had the same experience a little while ago. They say extra cheese, but come on boys - you don't mess with perfection. They say Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner than anyone else and I know I loved it. Is the taste of real Kraft Dinner going to just another memory? I'm just hoping that Kraft will see their mistake and go back to the "real thing". Blessings.

No, I thought it was just me. It doesn't taste like it did when I was a kid. I don't know what happened to it either. I had tried it throughout the years and everytime I did I wondered what was wrong with it. I have given up buying it. My boyfriend buys the store brand from time to time because he loves mac and cheese. He doesn't seem to mind eating it but, the again he eats alot of things that I wouldn't touch! I guess the days of the Kraft mac and cheese are gone forever! The memories will live on.

The KD that we all know and love is what is found in the USA. They changed the formula in Canada for some STUPID reason!!! I have a relative send me up Kraft Macaroni and Cheese every few months from the states. That is the ORIGINAL which we all remember. If you compare the cheese mix ingredients, they are different for sure....