Cheese

dante8993

Does anyone know of any low calorie cheese? I’m desperate, I’m such a cheese junkie!

rheddmobile

Feta is only 35 calories an ounce.

sbrown6

I love those little babybel cheeses. They’re 70 cals each. I think they have a light version that’s like 40 cals but I haven’t tried it and can’t speak to how good it is. Laughing cow makes a lighter cheese too.

bbell1985

Laughing Cow cheese wedges are 35 calories

LizV32

I like laughing cow!

singingflutelady

Low fat cheese is sad

sardelsa

Another vote for Laughing Cow

SolotoCEO

Cheese is about 100 calories an ounce - most people can fit that into their daily calorie count. Like you, I'm a cheese lover - I just make sure to plan for the calories.

rayzerwolf

I find a sharper cheese will satisfy my cheese craving with put going too cheese crazy

dwilliamca

I love cheese and "make it fit" usually by cutting back quantities. I never use over an ounce and sometimes less. I buy the extra thin cheeses for sandwiches or cheese and crackers and it fools my simple mind. I do use 1/3 less fat cream cheese and it isn't too bad. Some of the Mexican soft cheeses use skim milk and have only 70-80 calories/ounce.

ambonds

Cheese is one of my food vices! I don't give a hoot about sweets, but my cheese and crackers and wine are problematic. Following post for tips!

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

I love nutritional yeast sprinkled on veggies or air popped corn.

jcf123456

Trader joe's light string cheese has like 60 calories

TavistockToad

singingflutelady wrote: »

Low fat cheese is sad

I don't mind it... as long as you don't have any normal cheese to compare it to!! :laugh:

Jruzer

I find I do better if I pick a smaller quantity of very good cheese. Sometimes I'll get a few higher end cheeses and make myself a mini cheese plate along with an evening malted beverage.

MelanieCN77

A Laughing Cow wedge on two rye crisps or rice cakes is under 100 cals and a decent snack.
Some parmesan is surprisingly low in cals, or the grated kind I am getting goes further and I don't notice?
I think which cheese is recommended depends on what you are doing with it.

HeidiCooksSupper

I used to eat light cheese but I don't anymore. Light feta from Trader Joe's is almost indistinguishable from the real deal and light string cheese is okay but I've found happiness now going in the other direction. I'm eating good, strong cheeses one ounce at a time. Real parmigiano reggiano. Good pecorino romano. Applewood smoked gruyere. 28 grams (1 ounce) goes a long way.

Start by getting a microplane and a chunk of good parmigiano reggiano -- not the wedge of parmesan in the grocery store but the hard stuff with a rind. It seems ridiculous at first to spend that much on it but it lasts MUCH longer than the soft parmesan. Grate off a fluffy pile of it with the microplane and weigh it. One ounce is more than enough to put on a dish for a strong, cheesy flavor.

Full-fat dairy is very satisfying to me. In fact, I'm about to head into the kitchen to make the breakfast that sets me up for a day without irresistable hunger pangs: 2 eggs microwave-scrambled with 15 grams (1 tablespoon) of heavy cream and 28 grams (1 ounce) of smoked cheese. Yummy!

AnnPT77

rheddmobile wrote: »

Feta is only 35 calories an ounce.

Which feta? The lowfat/no fat? Standard feta is somewhere close to 100 IME, details depending on goat/cow/sheep, brand, etc.

RaeBeeBaby

I cheese, as well! No way would I give it up and I'm super glad I'm not lactose intolerant.

Several yummy and lower fat options:

Athenos reduced-fat feta (not the fat-free kind) is delicious and 50 calories for a 1/4 cup. It's good melted in eggs or used like cojita cheese in Mexican dishes like tacos. I eat some on a salad nearly every day.

Jarlsberg lite swiss cheese is 70 calories an ounce.

Lucerne light string cheese is 50 calories per piece. I actually like them better than the whole milk kind.

Another vote for laughing cow wedges! One of them spread on two corn thins is my favorite snack.

vingogly

Sap Sago or Schabziger is a hard Swiss cheese made with an herb - virtually fat free. It's grated and used kind of like parmesan for flavoring rather than eaten as slices. I used to see it in grocery stores all the time when I was younger but only see it online these days. Here's a source for it:

http://www.homesteadmarket.com/Sap-Sago-Cheese--3-oz-cone_p_55.html

spenceramcleod

I eat 70-100 cals of goat cheese every single day. I have it allocated to put on the salad I make for lunch.... but generally I shove a little bit of it in my face before it ever makes it to the salad.

RachelElser

mozzarella is pretty low calorie

Sharon_C

Babybell! Its high in protein, no carbs, low in fat. I eat at least 2 of them a day and they fit my macros perfectly. I eat the red ones. Haven't tried the lower calorie ones or the different flavors.

Laughing Cow is good too. I've tried many flavors of those.

mlinci

I find it easier to eat small quantities of full flavoured sharp cheeses than trying to eat low fat cheese, which is often a disappointment.
For example, I will sprinkle a tiny amount of Parmesan over my scrambled eggs - just like 2-3 grams is enough to give it flavour. Shavings of Parmesan in salad are also great - and a little of it goes a long way.

laur357

Bleu cheeses work well too. Just a few crumbles give a lot of flavor for few calories.

toxikon

I work regularly cheese into my daily goal, I love it too much to avoid it or choose lower-fat alternatives.

I love aged cheddar, so when I buy it I really savour it and enjoy it in small quantities every day with some fruit or salami. Mmmmm.

HeidiCooksSupper

I've been thinking about my relationship with cheese and how it's changing. I used to be a cheese junkie. I'd eat great wads of it irrespective of quality. I am becoming a cheese aficionado. I savor small amounts of really good cheese.

nooshi713

Laughing cow is good. Sadly, I have had to eliminate most cheese since it is too calorie dense. I dont like low fat cheese in general so I would rather have a half ounce of full fat cheese than one ounce of low fat. I do use a little mozzarella to make pizza at home, occasional small amount of cheddar on eggs or tacos, and pinch of parmesan on Italian dishes.

aeloine

Parmesan is 20 cals/TBSP. I add to it zoodles, pasta, all cauliflower, pop corn, etc.

sksk1026

I adore cheese, too. But I make room for the real thing because it tastes better. 1oz of real cheese is usually 100 calories. I'd rather cut carbs to allow for more fat. Lunch is often a salad with 1 oz of blue cheese and a balsamic dressing. Or an open ham sandwich (low carb bread) topped with 1 oz melted Swiss. Blue cheese and an apple is a yum late night snack. I use reduced fat cheddar on chilli because the other flavours are so strong I don't notice the difference. It would be a sad world without cheese!

AnnPT77

I can't really accept that cheese, at roughly 100 calories per ounce, is too calorie expensive to eat regularly. I've eaten some nearly every day throughout weight loss and maintenance, often more than one serving.

It's really just a question of priorities, and we've all got some. I've looked at diaries of people who were mourning cheese, and have seen things I would cheerfully have traded for cheese, in terms of nutritional profile vs. calories . (I'm not questioning their food choices; we all have to know our own tastiness and satiation needs, not to mention food triggers.) It's just food, it has macros, and there's nutritional value (calcium, protein, etc.).

I sometimes wonder if cheese is one of those foods some people give up almost as a religious principle of "dieting": If you're cutting calories, you shouldn't be eating cheese, chocolate, beer/wine, ice cream, white foods, pasta - whatever.

+1 to strongly flavored cheeses as a good choice if one needs to moderate, and nutritional yeast as as flavoring in some cases.

Also, a suggestion to cut or reduce it, perhaps gradually, to open-mindedly find the best threshold level of cheese happiness in your foods - especially in things where it's not that visible (melted in).