Walmart is 100% out of cream cheese?

bpetrosky

WinoGelato wrote: »

My husbands family uses cream cheese in mashed potatoes, along with a ton of butter and sour cream and bakes them in a Pyrex baking dish. They are actually quite delicious, but certainly not what most people would assume a shortage of cream cheese would be used for.

Bagel topping, cheesecakes and dips, both sweet and savory, are probably far more common uses.

There's so many uses for cream cheese. What is carrot cake without the cream cheese frosting? Carrot bread sadness, that's what it is! Dips, cheese cakes, pie filling appetizers (bacon wrapped sausage jalapeno poppers!), and on and on.

Mashed potatoes would be pretty far down the list for many people's idea for a use for cream cheese, though. I wonder why the OP thinks her one and only use for it is the same as everyone else's. Especially when "bagels and cream cheese" are pretty such a breakfast staple that chain restaurants are built around it. Just because she doesn't care for it doesn't mean nobody does it.

ETA: I'm planning on making guava and cream cheese pastries for the office christmas potluck.

laurenebargar

Im going to assume all of the desserts is what caused this, pumpkin rolls, cheesecakes, etc.

Lounmoun

I live in a small town and have learned that you don't wait to buy things you need the week of the holiday. The one local store will be out of something. I started getting stuff for Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago.

Substitute for Cream cheese
Equal parts of cottage cheese, drained, blended with half-and-half or cream + a little butter
8 oz lower fat cottage cheese 1/4 cup margarine
Equal amts.. of lower fat (Neufchatel) cream cheese
Equal parts of ricotta cheese plus plain yogurt

from GourmetSleuth.com: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/ingredients/detail/cream-cheese#ixzz4zAgFCQdq

pinuplove

PAV8888 wrote: »

Is there something special about cream cheese? Our Walmart(s) are often out of random items you would think they would never run out off. Various kinds of yogurts (yoplait 0% flavoured, Oikos 0% greek plain), 1L carton of egg whites, refrigerated jello puddings, Silk unsweetened vanilla cashew flavoured, and on one occasion any kind of Häagen-Dazs ice cream are all items that I've tried to buy at various times and couldn't due to lack of stock.

I always assume a truck somewhere got delayed or it's sitting in the back waiting for someone to have a chance to re-stock it. My Wal-Mart was completely out of cream of tartar last week. I can only assume everyone is making meringue for Thanksgiving.

GottaBurnEmAll

My Shop Rite is smart. They always fill an end cap with cream cheese at Thanksgiving. I was there this morning and they had loads of the stuff.

This is the first year in a while my family didn't want a cheesecake for dessert, so I wasn't buying any, though.

mamadon

Our family makes a chili/cream cheese dip every holiday. You take two cans of chili with no beans and heat it up with two packages of cream cheese. Dip with tortilla chips or frito scoops. So yummy!

snickerscharlie

#firstworldproblems

snickerscharlie

canadjineh wrote: »

A nice little slice of full fat cream cheese to tuck inside your Genoa salami slice before you roll it up and eat it like a little cheese & meat burrito.

I do the same with prosciutto. Yum!

lemurcat12

My sister uses cream cheese on bagels regularly. I rarely buy it -- only if I am going to make cheesecake. I would not put it in mashed potatoes (although maybe it's worth a try, dunno). There is a vegetable dish involving broccoli and cauliflower and cheese that my sister normally makes for Thanksgiving that has cream cheese -- I bet lots and lots of Thanksgiving dishes use more cream cheese than people normally do.

Never food shopped (or really shopped at all) in a Walmart, the only Walmarts near me are the small Walmart Express things and inferior to a grocery store. The weird seasonal shortage I notice around here is that they are often out of black-eyed peas on New Year's Eve (which is of course when I think about buying them).

CarolPre

I bought two 8 oz boxes last week at Walmart to make a cheeseball for tomorrow,

ccruz985

I've never put cream cheese in my mash. Cream cheese frosting for cinnamon rolls and red velvet cake, pumpkin roll filling, my alfredo dip (all kinds of dips actually), cheesecake.

WilmaValley

Great ideas!!!!

Packerjohn

Surprising around the holidays. Say what you want about Wal-Mart, but their logistics, knowing what is selling at each store. etc is brick and mortar industry leading.

GaleHawkins

Slice and eat it for dessert works for me or just low on energy but short on time.

ktekc

MrsVerge wrote: »

The best is no bake cheesecake.

2 blocks of light philly
2 tubs low fat cool whip
graham crackers
butter
salt

You mix just enough melted butter with graham crackers and a dash of salt to make them moist then pack it into a 13/9 pan. Cream the cream cheese until smooth and soft, I like to use an electric hand mixer. Fold 1 1/2 tubs of cool whip and mix with a spatula until well blended and smooth. Taste! Add more cool whip if you want it less cream cheesy and more sweet. (My mom likes to use 1:1 ratio of CS to CW but I like 2:1.5) When it's at its yummiest, spread over the graham cracker and refrigerate for at least two hours.

You can leave it like this and have random toppings on the table for people to choose their own - Smucker's ice cream sundae toppings work great - or use pie filling on top (blueberry is especially tasty). The best, though, is to take a bottle of Smucker's seedless strawberry jam and nuke it until it's bubbly, stir it a bit, then pour gently over the top. The heat will melt the cheesecake in random places and make channels of strawberry goodness, plus a sticky smooth yummy top.

i do about the same recipe but i use 1 and 1 of the cool whip and cream cheese 1/4 cup sugar (or substitute) 1 teaspoon lemon juice and put it in a premade graham cracker crust. usually the reduced calorie one. sometimes i add peanut butter powder or cocoa powder if i do i nix the lemon juice.

ktekc

snickerscharlie wrote: »

canadjineh wrote: »

A nice little slice of full fat cream cheese to tuck inside your Genoa salami slice before you roll it up and eat it like a little cheese & meat burrito.

I do the same with prosciutto. Yum!

i do with ham and a slice of pickle

grinning_chick

It wasn't just cream cheese. I had to go to six stores between two towns/cities on Tuesday - including a Walmart that was out of stock - before I found the brand of local-ish 100% whipping cream (no carrageenan) I buy.

Freaking holidays.

That'll learn me when it comes to shopping for Christmas this year after not doing so for either holiday for the past ten of 'em. Quickly remembering why I farmed these meals out in the first place so long ago. 0_o

Wynterbourne

No mention of spinach artichoke dip? I'm aghast. Hehe

Anotherone8

Honestly the tastiest ( but most fattening) mashed potatoes are made with cream cheese and sour cream. Seriously decadent!

laur357

canadjineh wrote: »

A nice little slice of full fat cream cheese to tuck inside your Genoa salami slice before you roll it up and eat it like a little cheese & meat burrito.

We 100% had this at thanksgiving. Also, cream-cheese stuffed celery.