I decided this year that I should cook myself a meal on Thursday nights. I am usually up well past midnight and because I eat a meal roughly every five hours in the day I thought it should help me to stay alert and not-hungry. When I was last in the supermarket a new product caught my eye, and I had to try it.

Kraft "Deluxe" macaroni may be advertised as the premium macaroni on the macaroni on the market but my experience proves differently. This appears to be the ugly cousin of Easy-Mac, probably the worst macaroni product to hit the shelves since... well... it's just the worst; we'll leave it at that.

The packaging looks impressive and the picture of the meal looks promising so for advertising they get an A+. There are instructions on the box for those who can't understand the concept of boiling water. I immediately threw out the instructions without looking at them and proceeded to prepare the pasta.

The noodles appeared to cook nicely but when they came out of the pot things changed. Many of the noodles were ripped to tiny shreds from cooking. Evidently these are some low quality noodles. The pasta gets a C.

The cheese sauce came in a foil package completely creeped me out. I'm not sure about you, but squeezing a foil package of cheese sauce simply feels wrong. There was something seriously gross about it. Determined not to let that get to me I emptied the sauce over the pasta and mixed it destroying even more shells in the process. The pasta's grade goes down to a D.

Now, for the tasting. Arguably this is the most important part. I lifted the fork to my mouth and cringed. Something was rotten in the state of Sean's mouth. Firstly, Velveeta is a crummy cheese to use on pasta, it should stay to being tiny cubes served on platters.

Secondly, the sauce tasted of preservatives more than cheese. It had this horrible chemical taste that makes an Army MRE seem healthy for you and prone to spoilage. The cheese gets a D.

But did it work. I am fairly certain that this meal helped me a bit. I did not experience severe hunger at 2 in the morning like usual, however the cheese sauce did bring on a feeling of malaise.

Overall I'd give this product a C. I am going to eat a can of chunky soup this week. At least I know it will be fairly good.