Cheese

dante8993
dante8993 Posts: 38 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone know of any low calorie cheese? I’m desperate, I’m such a cheese junkie!
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  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    Laughing Cow cheese wedges are 35 calories
  • LizV32
    LizV32 Posts: 127 Member
    I like laughing cow!
  • ambonds
    ambonds Posts: 96 Member
    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
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    I love nutritional yeast sprinkled on veggies or air popped corn.
  • jcf123456
    jcf123456 Posts: 22 Member
    Trader joe's light string cheese has like 60 calories
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    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
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    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
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    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.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    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
    RaeBeeBaby Posts: 4,246 Member
    I <3 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
    vingogly Posts: 1,785 Member
    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
    spenceramcleod Posts: 9 Member
    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
    RachelElser Posts: 1,049 Member
    mozzarella is pretty low calorie
  • Sharon_C
    Sharon_C Posts: 2,132 Member
    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
    mlinci Posts: 402 Member
    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
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
    edited November 2017
    Bleu cheeses work well too. Just a few crumbles give a lot of flavor for few calories.
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    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.
  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    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
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    Parmesan is 20 cals/TBSP. I add to it zoodles, pasta, all cauliflower, pop corn, etc.
  • sksk1026
    sksk1026 Posts: 215 Member
    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
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    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).

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