Walmart's Great Value Brand Vanilla Instant Pudding
Decorating By diane706 Updated 15 Oct 2009 , 4:55am by chilz822
Has anyone tried it? Just a heads up to let you know that it was VERY lumpy when I mixed it in my usual cake recipe. I had to run my mixer on the highest setting (I thought it would jump off the counter) in order to get most of the lumps out and mix in properly. And I'm still not convinced that it's thoroughly mixed up. (still kinda looked lumpy). The cake's in the oven. Stay tuned...I'll let you know. Me thinks next time I'll go back to spending the extra .30 for the Jell-O brand.
I've used it and had no problems with it.
I sift ALL of my dry ingredients before adding the liquids. I mix the dry ingredients together with a fork or a whisk and then add the wet. No lumps, ever.
You're not acutally making the pudding and then adding it to the cake batter, are you???
Rae
Maybe it was just a fluke with the batch you got? I use the GV brand pudding all the time - Vanilla and French Vanilla mostly. I just used some in a cake batter and to make whipped frosting last night. (I also use it to make regular pudding treats of course!) 
I use GV brand too and never had problems. Like Blake I sift it in with my dry ingredients before I add the wet. The chocolate GV pudding also makes an excellent base for cream pie.
For the most part I buy the GV version if it's available. Wal-mart has really stepped up the overall quality of their house label in the past year, not just re-packaged their old stuff.
I've used it and had no problems with it.
I sift ALL of my dry ingredients before adding the liquids. I mix the dry ingredients together with a fork or a whisk and then add the wet. No lumps, ever.
You're not acutally making the pudding and then adding it to the cake batter, are you???
Rae
LOL, now that WOULD be a mess! No, I mix up and add everything exactly the way you described. This is the first time it's ever happened to me so I figured it was the pudding mix. Hmmmmm.... I'm glad to find out otherwise because I got about 10 of them!
As far as the Great Value brand in general, my 16 year old son cracks up when we go shopping because my cart is filled with nothing but GV stuff. Me: "Oh look, Jake, this comes in the GV brand!!"... 
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