Welcome to FoodFake aka FoodymcFooderson.

The net has tons of food blogs describing taste, texture, and ingredients. We can also read about the fact that 1/3rd of the food produced is wasted, or how we pump growth hormones into food to keep up with the growing population. Or the many who go hungry night after night around the world. These are some serious issues for serious blogs, but this isn't one of them. All I care about here is ..

DOES IT LOOK LIKE THE PICTURE?

Truth in advertising people...truth in advertising...

*All food has been prepared busing box directions and photographed in normal light with no photoshop to make it look better or worse.
Up first we will go to Trader Joes (Aldi's hipster little brother) and check out the Guilt Free (really, feeling guilty about eating something. Just shut up and eat already) Mac & Cheese.

I give it 3 out of 5 Julia Childs (JC from now on.)
ON THE BOX: you get a great shot of all these tiny lovely individual macs all having a nice little bowl party. The cheese looks fresh and the world seems to be united.
IN REALITY: It comes out kinda like a clump of yellow alien pasta. Not as good looking as on the box, so in that sense it's like a profile pic on Match.com vs the real person. close but no cigar.

Next up we have Lean Cuisine's Craveables Chicken, Spinach & Mushroom Panini.

ON THE BOX: Nice photo of this sandwich (not sure what food school teaches the word Panini, but I didn't';t go there) where it is stacked up and all the things in between the bread come jumping out at ya. Looks so damn good doesn't it?
IN REALITY: Well, pretty close. 3.5 out of 5 JC's. Looks close enough to the box. The bread is almost as fluffy, and besides missing a tad bit of color, the thing comes out pretty good. Job well done on this one Lean Cuisine.

And last but not least for now we have here this thingy called Shrimp Soft Tacos again from T-Joes. On a side note Tacos may just be my favorite food group.

ON THE BOX you have shrimp taco perfection. You can just taste the colors.

IN REALITY: Well just look at it, would you put that in your mouth??1.5 out of 5 JC's.

I spent over 3 hours searching the box for all those items that seem to be on the box version of the tacos. 3 hours I say!!!! After heating them up they come out looking like a soft tortilla shell wrapped around some alien snot. Enough said. Shame. Shame.