I know for some of my students the stuff from the box is their meal. So I vote MAIN.

Side! As well as one of my favorite comfort foods :)

Side dish if it's from any box.

Great main dish with spiral pasta, Velveeta cheese, lots of ham, onions, and seasonings (sometimes I add peas). Now I want to make it again.

I think that you have to grow up with Spam to develop a taste for it.

Mac and Cheese is a side dish regardless of whether is comes from a box or his homemade.

I don't consider macaroni noodles with cheese, vegetables, and meat "Mac and Cheese".

Side

Ok, cuteASAbug and tld, how many votes need to come in before we know your question is answered? And who won? ;)

tld221 won

Depends on portion size and calories. :)

For example, Smart Ones' Mac n Cheese is more than a fistful of pasta is about 300 calories so that is a meal to me. I'd have a salad as the side.

I don't consider entrees with macaroni noodles to be "mac n cheese." If you put veggies, cheeses, and other cool stuff in it then that's a delicious pasta meal in the making.

no, i effin PWNED. thanks for playing everyone!

LOL, I kinda figured that might have been what your big red PWNED post was about.

Sorry, 'bug. :o

I know I'm a little late for dinner here, but I would go with MAIN.

.....Kelly :)

Side.

Maybe it's cause I'm still in college and I eat cheap food, but I'm going with MAIN DISH!

It depends - was that the first thing you picked off the menu, or did you take awhile to decide on that?;)

And if there's so much cheese on it, that you need bread to soak it up, and you're drinking a hard cider with it, what does that make it?

I always considered it a main dish but my ex-husband considered it a side. I still eat it as a main dish, especially at work for lunch.

(ETA: Fights over such things can lead to divorce, hence the ex-husband designation!!!!!!!!) ;)