Goodbye, Cheddar Cheese

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  • RockstarWilson
    RockstarWilson Posts: 836 Member
    CaliforniaRower wrote: »
    Yeah, well, I bought 9 ounces and I ate 8 of them in just 10 days! That seems unbalanced to me.

    I just ate 2.1 ounces in one meal, with more on tap for tonight. You are eating ONE serving a day. So if you eat ONE apple a day for 8 days, is that unbalanced?
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    edited March 2015
    hmmm, I have a couple of kilos of different cheeses in my fridge. A very important part of my maintenance plan. Some days I have none and get my fats from avocados & nuts, and other days I eat 150 grams. Sodium I don't worry about.

    Your problem might be the combination with tortillas and natchos... fwiw.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    this makes no sense…

    so you ate an ounce of cheese a day and now are giving it up, because "unbalanced"?

    was cheese putting you over on calories for the day?
    were you not hitting your macro/micro targets?
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    1/2 head of cauliflower (about 70 cal.), 2 cups of chicken broth (about 40 cal.) + 3 oz. of sharp cheddar (about 330 cal.) makes 2 dinner-sized servings of a creamy cheese soup for all of 220 cal. each. I ain't givin' up my cheddar for nobody!
  • Heartisalonelyhunter
    Heartisalonelyhunter Posts: 786 Member
    Gah! Are you talking about real Cheddar cheese (from The Cheddar Gorge in England and surrounding West Country counties) or the crappy imitations made around the world and sold under the name? It annoys me that Cheddar doesn't have a PDO. The real thing is amazing.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,596 Member
    I can't believe how much further it goes when I grate it! I 25g piece is a couple of bites, but 25g shredded I can pick at for half an episode of TV. Doesn't work so well with pre-shredded as it's thicker.
  • CaliforniaRower
    CaliforniaRower Posts: 187 Member
    I didn't think my playful post would attract so many comments, especially so many in defense of cheese! Ha ha! The kind I buy DOES seem very calorie dense, and so is peanut butter. But I can easily moderate my peanut butter intake to 2 T per serving. Whereas cheddar cheese beckons to me. It whispers my name from behind the refrigerator door, saying, "I think you have some tortillas, don't you? And some salsa. Mmhmmm. Come 'n get it, baby!"

    It's a personal thing, obviously. And it's the only cheese that does that. I have low fat Swiss in my fridge right now. No idea why it's true, it just is. I'm sure we all have things that are hard to resist. I'm not condemning anyone who eats Cheddar! I'm just playing around and saying that for me, I will need to be careful about bringing it home - as in not until I reach my goal.
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