I read recently that your tastebuds change thoughout childhood so bitter things really DO taste more bitter, etc. It explains kids so often hating broccoli and adults losing much of the taste for candy.

Any kid I'm with I explain that to, "This is science. Your mouth changes. Every time you're served something you should take at least one bite to see if you like it now." They always do. One of them likes broccoli stems now (though not the 'trees').

And I LOVE Kraft Dinner to this day. Annie's tastes like grown-ups trying to get something over on me.

Oh, I love any kind of mac & cheese -- I'm an indiscriminate mac & cheese whore. It's like pizza that way. Or beer. Or coffee.

My favorite is when I make it homemade, from elbow noodles with melted velveeta and then baked in the oven.

Velveeta+onions+ground beef=heaven

Velveeta+onions+ground beef=heaven

With macaroni? Or just by itself? (Cause that sounds kinda good, too.)

Leif and I made homemade pizza this weekend, we made two wheat crust pizzas. One was a large pepperoni and the other was a medium thick crust, pepperoni, onion, green pepper and mushroom. It was yum.

I saw Annie's mac n cheese at Albertson's and I kinda wanted to try it, but my big splurge was Kasha Go Lean crunch. Annie's was close to $3/box. I ended up getting Kraft mac and cheese instead (20 boxes/$10)-- I didn't get 20 boxes.

Also they had very small red and yellow peppers 3/$1 so I got a bunch of those.

REALLY late to the party, and I skipped so if it's been said, I apologize. (Bad bad bad migraine on Friday, hangover from it Saturday. Damn thing woke me out of a dead sleep at 3a, Friday monrning. I was sobbing.) I digress.

phrases that you remember from the old articles, or things that remind you of Jilli?

I remember her article on the rules of clubgoing. Maybe those printed on a t-shirt? No lit cigarettes on the dance floor, no drinks in glass containers. Be aware of flailing limbs lest you whap someone in the face.

With macaroni? Or just by itself? (Cause that sounds kinda good, too.)

Maybe take the Velveeta/onions/ground beef mix, combine it with a package of southern style hashbrowns, a can of Rotello, and some good hot sauce.

Now I want mac and cheese.

white bread (I rolled it up into dense balls--ick!),

Hah! I did that too.

One of them likes broccoli stems now (though not the 'trees').

I would only eat the trees, and only raw.

When I was in the worst my veggie-hating phase, my mom would put a bowl of frozen peas on the table for me in lieu of whatever actual vegetable she'd cooked. Right out of the bag, not thawed. Probably my only vegetable nourishment to speak of for years.