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Back to school time is rolling ever closer, and if you have kids, you might be starting to think about what to put in their lunchboxes. Individually packaged servings of desserts and other foods are very convenient and are more popular than ever. Some kids, as one writer found out, even prefer the packaged stuff to homemade - at least in the case of chocolate pudding. So individual puddings were put to the test by a group of seventh graders to see which products would be good lunch box choices.
The winners were Hershey's, Swiss Miss and Handi-Snack, in that order. All three were judged to be smooth, sweet and chocolaty, with Swiss Miss and Handi-Snack garnering compliments for using the perfect amount of sugar and having a fudgy taste. Hershey's, the winner, was praised for tasting "like melted chocolate" and seemed to get bonus points for being packaged in a tube, like the popular Go-Gurts.
The main difference in store bought pudding versus homemade, aside from the packaging, is that store bought doesn't develop a "skin". Avoid a skin on homemade by placing plastic wrap directly on the surface of the pudding until it is cool. And you can even make your own tubes of pudding by following the instructions here. And if you want your kids to eat the homemade pudding instead of having to buy packaged, have them help you make it. They'll be so excited that they won't care about "skin" or packaging.
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8-12-2006 @5:57PM Mike said... No skin? That's heresy.
For dinner while we watched the final episode of Seinfeld I re-created George's Pudding Skin Singles for desert. There's a handy single serving of pudding for you.
I haven't tried any of then new crop of pre-made pudding, but I'm sure it's better than the "Shake a Puddn" we had when I was a kid. You added water to a dry mix and shook the heck of it. Eventually it sort of coagulated and would look like a grainy pudding with pockets of dry mix interspersed.
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8-12-2006 @8:42PM cybele said... I've always preferred the cooked pudding from a mix and I like to eat it hot.
But the snack packs were pretty dependable source of sugar as a child.
Instant pudding has always tasted fake to me.
I wonder if you could pop those Hershey's in the freezer and make your own pudding pops.
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8-12-2006 @10:22PM Laura said... One of my guilty pleasures is Kozy Shack Chocolate Pudding, right out of the tub. :P
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8-13-2006 @4:31AM Alex said... Surely an appropriate 'pudding' for a child's lunch box is a piece of fruit, rather than a high calorie, sugar and laden commercial chocolate pudding?
I wouldn't eat pudding every day and I also wouldn't wonder why a child that did was a bit on the heavy side!
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8-13-2006 @12:19PM Adriane said... I agree with Alex that kids do need to eat healthy (fruits and veggies!) but everyone needs a treat once in a while...and compared to other sweets like candy or cookies, puddings are the best route to go.
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