“A meal that’s so big, it just cannot be contained,” says Banquet’s website.

“That’s why we created Mega, featuring huge portions of your favorite foods, with even bigger portions of your favorite foods piled on top.”

Way to go, Conagra (Banquet’s corporate parent). With 70 percent of adults now overweight or obese, “huge” and “even bigger” portions are precisely what America needs!

And those “favorite foods” must also be favorites in Conagra’s bean-counting department. We’re talking deep-dish pot pies (mostly cheap white flour) stuffed with fillings like mac ’n cheese (more white flour).

The carb-heavy Mega Deep Dish Bacon Mac ‘N Cheese pot pie packs 1,000 calories—what you’d get in three Banquet non-mega chicken pot pies. And don’t forget its day’s worth of saturated fat (22 grams) and nearly three-quarters of a day’s sodium (1,660 milligrams).

The Buffalo-Style Chicken Mac ‘N Cheese (970 calories) and the pork-and-beef meatball, pepperoni, and cheese-stuffed Meat Lovers (960 calories) deep-dish pot pies aren’t far behind.

But don’t worry. When those extra calories “just cannot be contained” in our fat cells, we’ll simply build more!

Thanks so much for the megabites, Banquet.

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Photo: Jennifer Urban/CSPI.

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