to feel I've been conned and cheese strings are not this miracle health food

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Hi,

We've recently as a family been gowing through some diet changes.

The most recent is reducing dairy for the past two weeks. This means no milk in morning and ds doesn't have a cheese string in his lunch box.

Just this change has made such a big difference to ds, nose is not so snotty and skin is much clearer as is mine and dh. Ive been giving cheese strings for years is I believed they were healthy and a great thing for a lunch box. The more I look into it the more I feel conned and they weren't cheap either!

I'm not sure I ever thought cheese strings are healthy - they're a very processed food aren't they?

I'll happily eat cheese though :D

Just goes to show you need to look behind the advertising. Yes, it says it's real cheese but have you ever thought what processes they put it through to make it behave that way?

I never thought they were a health food though.

I thought they were just cheese, I buy them occasionally but never really looked into them so don't feel conned, everything in moderation!

Why did you think cheese strings were healthy? They're a processed food, and it even says that on the pack.

I've always thought they were an occasional only type of food, I.e. Not healthy.

Weird, cheese strings most definitely look processed and rubbery, do people actually believe they're healthy?

Quit cheese altogether. Cheese should be used in meals or on sandwiches, not in pieces on their own.

I always tell my self that the brighter the packaging to lure kids in the worse the contents of the package, saying that my ds eats loads of babybels and I have never looked at them thoroughly either!

How on earth did you ever think that cheese strings were healthy!!

Reducing dairy will do that. Health much better all round since doing so.

However you are replacing it with something aren't you?

Cheese strings are not remotely healthy far to processed however unlikely to be the cause of everything you describe unless on top of a lot of milk already.

Afraid you bought into the "good for kids" crap. The sane crap that insists children don't eat proper food and need it orange :o

I thought this was going to be a sarcastic thread! Who In the world thinks cheese strings are anything but incredibly unhealthy?

Cheese strings are like those rubbery cheese slices you get for burgers but in a different shape (and twice the cost) aren't they?

My son doesn't get cheese strings at all but get all the symptoms you describe from dairy (any dairy) if he has more than one portion a day over several days.

It is not the cheese strings, it is dairy in general if you have dairy intolerance running in the family.