Christmas dinner for the under-tens, solved. Inside this bag are teddy bears, bicycles and trains in pasta form, plus the cheddar cheese mix, so the whole thing is milk, butter and about ten minutes of your evening. It is the meal that gets eaten without negotiation on the one night of the year when nobody has time to negotiate.

Twelve ounces is family size, four to six servings printed right on the bag, which covers a table of cousins or two nights of leftovers. The shapes hold their edges through the boil because Pastabilities makes them from durum wheat, so what comes out of the pot still looks like a teddy bear rather than a rumour of one. Put it on the table Christmas Eve, or put it in a stocking.

Ingredients: Enriched Durum Wheat Flour (Contains Niacin, Riboflavin, Thiamin, Iron, Folic Acid), Tomato Powder, Beet Powder, Cheese Mix {Whey, Enriched Wheat Flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Salt, Cheddar Cheese* (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Food Starch-modified (Corn), Contains 2% or Less of: Silicon Dioxide to Reduce Caking, Citric Acid, Soybean Oil to Reduce Dusting, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Butter*, Sodium Phosphate, Non-fat Dry Milk, Sodium Caseinate. *dehydrated) Allergen information: Contains Wheat and Milk. Pastabilities also notes that its mac and cheese and seasoning mixes are made in a separate facility that processes other allergens.