Green snowmen and cream snowflakes, and the cheddar cheese mix is already in the bag. Milk, butter, ten minutes, and there is a hot bowl of something on the table on the kind of afternoon when everybody came in cold and nobody wants to wait.

Twelve ounces, four to six servings printed on the bag, which makes it a full family dinner rather than a novelty side. It carries through the whole season without belonging to any one holiday, so it works on a snow day in January just as well as it does the week before Christmas. The snowflakes come out of the pot with all their points still on.

Ingredients: Enriched Durum Wheat Flour (Contains Niacin, Riboflavin, Thiamin, Iron, Folic Acid), Spinach 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.