"Daddy Noodles" are code for Top Ramen. Hubby, as he claims, made it through many years of college sustained by cheap bags of ramen. He introduced the kids to Top Ramen once while I was away, and just like disgusting school burritos, Top Ramen made an everlasting impression in the culinary hearts of my two young sons.
Following my belief that parents should be accommodating to their children (within reason of course) regarding food, I set out to find a Ramen that is Daily Diner/Eat Your Roots acceptable. Thank God for Whole Foods.
Here is your standard cheap, ramen that is basically fake food in a bag. Maybe I should say that it's food-like....or how about pseudo food.
Ingredients (for just the noodles): Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrite, RiboFlavin, Folic Acid) Vegetable Oil ( Contains one or more of the following: Canola Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Palm Oil) Preserved by Tocopherol and/or TBHQ and/or Ascorbyl Palmitate, Contains less than 2% of salt, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, sodium alginate.
I think I am going to rephrase that as POISON IN A BAG.... or how about just plain ol' junk in a bag?
Note: The so-called seasoning mix is equally offensive and disgusting. So gross.
Moving along.
These are Chinese Noodles, otherwise known as Ramen noodles. I found them at Whole Foods.
Ingredients: Wheat Flour, Salt and Water.
That's it. 3 ingredients. Season them up however you would like.
Now which one would you rather eat?
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Funny that you say this -- I just started getting readdicted to "daddy noodles". I've been buying the plain, 3-ingredient ones at the Japanese supermarket down the street.
Those instant ramen noodle pack sure don't sound too good.
Can't blame the mother-in-law for that one!!! Not my fault! He discovered it on his own!
It's true. Ramen is the devil. It totally pays to buy the Chinese noodles and put them in your own homemade stock!
That said, "Daddy Noodles" makes for a great story...
I love ramen, but don't like all the salt and MSG and other garbage that leaves me with a stomach ache after eating them. Thanks so much for this find! (Now if only there was a Whole Foods nearby.....)
Can you recommend what broth you used for these noodles?
Mellissa, I use homemade stock (or store bought prepared stock from a decent brand) and a little added organic Better Than Boullion. It tastes just the same as the junky version....at least my kids can't tell the difference.
http://www.superiortouch.com/btb.htm
After living off them in grad school when I didn't budget oh so well, I won't go near them again. but they do serve a purpose for poor grad students - at 25 cents a pack, and with no real kitchen, sometimes you have no other choice.
I'm wondering what the nutritional content of the whole foods noodles are? Are they deep-fried, too, or baked? Do they have the consistency of regular ramen noodles?
Hi Jenny. Thanks for the question. The nutritional content of ramen is ZERO! I would give the nutritional content of most pasta a zero (even the "enriched" pasta. All pasta, including ramen, is highly refined. That doesn't mean a don't like pasta, but it should be consumed in strict moderation (once a week).
I don't know if these noodles are baked or fried, it doesn't say on the package. However there is no oil listed as an ingrdient so I am assuming they were not fried.
I like these noodles not for their nutritional content, but as a happy compromise between food concious mom and picky kids who want to eat like their friends.
And yes they taste exactly the same--we did a taste test and the kids could not tell the difference.
We're a wheat-free household, most of the time :) . However every once in a while I'll buy a couple of bags of "Ramen" brand noodles found at Sac Food Coop for my teenagers. They're about $1.20 a bag and seem to satisfy their craving for junky food. Decent ingredients.
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