Homemade Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding

Reader Contribution by Corinne Gompf and Heritage Harvest Farm
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Without a catchy intro, I’ll get straight to the point: Those four-pack puddings smell and taste nasty, like rancid milk with a sickly, tangy aftertaste. You know the ones I’m talking about, those pudding packs meant for snacking (wink, wink). Now, I don’t think I’m necessarily a food snob, and these pudding packs are deemed perfectly safe to eat, but prepared foods like this make me grumpy.

It’s the quality of the prepackaged foods that is so frustrating. It’s like those fancy food companies just keep adding more and more sugar and salt to carrageenan, hydrogenated oil, and wood pulp and wrap it up in a brightly colored bag or box, and we’re just supposed to eat it. And if they slap the words “natural” or “farm fresh” on it, then kudos to them because it means more consumers think that these items are healthy or were actually harvested yesterday or some such nonsense.

Sigh… The sad fact is, many of us do eat these items. And like so many of my peers and those in the younger generations, we have no idea what the original versions of these heavily marketed convenience foods taste like. It’s kinda soul-crushing when I think of my kids’ friends (and probably their parents) and the likelihood that they’ve never eaten anything truly homemade. And no, making a mix from a box doesn’t count.

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