Mac 'n' cheese, 3 minutes, $1

Here is how I made dinner. I couldn't be bothered to spend 12 minutes making real pasta. SPOILER ALERT! That wasn't an especially smart decision.

1. Buy pot of Kraft instant mac 'n' cheese from your local grocery store for $1 (normal price ~$1.50 - score!)

2. Stare at pot incredulously, do not read ingredients before attempting to eat. Feel happier because the pot has a smiley macaroni face on.

3. Peel off yellow lid. Fill pot with water up the line, microwave for 3 minutes.

4. Whilst microwaving, begin to feel anxious about nutritional value in dinner and chop up pepper and mushrooms for real food.

5. Take pot from microwave. Worry about amount of water left in pot.

6. Add luminous powder. Stir. Decide powder could have been more luminous. Try and relax.

7. Leave sauce to thicken (aka congeal) as per instructions on happy pasta pot.

Step by step instant mac 'n' cheese guide

8. Enjoy whilst hot. Do not allow to cool to tasting temperature under any circumstances!

9. Abandon mac 'n' cheese pot once it is no longer napalm hot. Eat backup veggies. Feel smug about not buying 10 pots of mac 'n' cheese, then remember that you were going to, but wise friend who happened to be accompanying you to superarket suggested caution (Thanks Ann!)

Furrowed brow says it all.

Total calories in one pot: 220 (probably only ate 150 though)

Number of yellow colours required: 3 (yellow 5, 6 and apocaratenol)

High fructose corn syrup? No, just regular corn syrup!

Forest destroying palm oil? Check!

Worst sounding ingredient: Medium chain triglycerides, which appear twice!

Review: Get the mac 'n' cheese soup from Au Bon Pain on the way home instead. No ingredients list, so could even be made with real cheese. Do not buy this again, Lizzie!

PS The Superbowl was very exciting, I'll talk about it in the future. Dinner malaise is apparently a generic Monday malaise.