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To eat cheese every day?

69 replies

Bumblebee1784 · 16/02/2020 16:19

I love cheese. I could quite happily live on cheese. I eat it every single day in some form. Love most cheese -- cheddar, brie, mozzarella, feta, Gouda, Wensleydale, etc.

Lunch most days consist of cheese and bread. The last two weeks, I've had cheddar and cucumber sandwiches, cheddar and tomato sandwich, cheese and pickle roll, cheese and chutney roll, cheese salad wrap, ham & cheese toasted sandwich, mozzarella/tomato/pesto toasted sandwich. For variety, I've also had pesto pasta with feta a couple of times, and cheese & crackers Grin

All of this is accompanied by salad or crudités, and fruit. I rarely eat meat, but have tuna or egg on occasion as well. In the winter, I have a lot of soup with cheese toasties and in summer, cheese salads. I absolutely adore cheese. Overall, my diet is quite balanced with nuts, oats, vegetables, olive oil, yoghurt, hummus, most food is homemade, blah blah blah. Few treats thrown in for good measure. However, I'm addicted to cheese, always have been. As a family, we go through a lot of cheese (DH takes cheese sandwiches to work every day, toddler and baby also have it most days for lunch). Easily spend £10-15 on cheese a week.

Having a debate with a friend and she's insistent that having cheese every day is wrong as it's fattening. For context, I'm 8 stone exactly. Friend only eats crappy plastic reduced fat cheese once or twice a week which is all kinds of wrong.
She also thinks it's boring. Cheese comes in so many lovely varieties and is so versatile.

Clearly I'm right and she's wrong?? 😇

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DesLynamsMoustache · 16/02/2020 16:19

YANBU. Cheese is amazing

Cupcakegirl13 · 16/02/2020 16:20

Another cheese fan here im with you !

puds11 · 16/02/2020 16:20

I recently learnt I am lactose intolerant and am devastated. You can eat my cheese for me.

GooodMythicalMorning · 16/02/2020 16:25

Eat what you like! It's not causing you any problems and not causing you to be overweight so I wouldn't worry about it.

I love cheese too. I probably have it most days. I'd rather have cheese than chocolate.

BuffaloCauliflower · 16/02/2020 16:25

Yeh I’m with you. We even had a cheese wedding cake. I probably eat some sort of cheese every day

Bagofworries · 16/02/2020 16:25

Doesnt sound like that much cheese if it's only costing you 10 - 15 pounds a week. I dont eat much cheese, and I spend about a fiver a week just on cheese for myself. I say crack on! Enjoy your cheese. YANBU!

ChikiTIKI · 16/02/2020 16:27

I eat a cheese sandwich at work every day. No health problems here!

SerenDippitty · 16/02/2020 16:28

Cheese is the food of the gods.

Newmetoday · 16/02/2020 16:30

I wouldn’t eat something so highly processed every day.

IHaveBrilloHair · 16/02/2020 16:30

I eat cheese pretty much every day too, if there's less than 5 types in my fridge, then you know something is wrong.
My health is terrible but I'm fairly sure cheese didn't cause brittle asthma, SVT, and certainly not severe osteoporosis!

IHaveBrilloHair · 16/02/2020 16:31

Oh, I'm underweight too!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 16/02/2020 16:32

I love cheese but my IBS hates it so I have to eat it sparingly.

GeraltOfRivia · 16/02/2020 16:34

Mmmmmmm. Cheese.

WalkingDeadTrainee · 16/02/2020 16:38

I have cheese every day too! At least 1 kind. It's a great bit of fat and protein into my salads.
I am also a big fan of cheese which smells like it should walk to the plate by itself😂 My DH not so much. So I have to make sure my aging brie (the one in the shop is NEVER matured enough. I buy nearest to sell by date and keep it for a while after) and romadurs are in proper boxes or jars.

Notimeforaname · 16/02/2020 16:42

Let's not forget halloumi cheese! Yum

IHaveBrilloHair · 16/02/2020 16:42

I currently have:
Bowland
Gorgonzola
Parmesan
White Stilton
Port wine derby
Seriously strong grated (don't judge, I'm lazy!)
Alistair
Emmenthal
Cathedral city minis, again, laziness.
Plastic cheese slices for burgers!

BarbaraofSeville · 16/02/2020 16:44

In what world is cheese highly processed?

Anyway, if you're slim while eating lots of cheese that kind of disproves the 'its soooo fattening' theory, doesn't it?

I too eat quite a lot of cheese and don't see what's wrong with that really.

IHaveBrilloHair · 16/02/2020 16:44

Wensleydale ffs.

What a weird autocorrect to AlistairConfused

WalkingDeadTrainee · 16/02/2020 16:44

Costco has pack of various minies. Perfect for lunch boxes!

Bumblebee1784 · 16/02/2020 16:44

puds11 sorry about your lactose intolerance, I'll happily let you live vicariously through me Grin

Buffalo cauliflower that sounds amazing. Where was my invite??

Newmetoday always one Hmm
Out of curiosity, what do you eat for lunch? Surely cheese is better than a greggs sausage roll and crisps every day 🤷

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LadyMonicaBaddingham · 16/02/2020 16:47

I know I do. Often more than once. My dentist credits the fact the I eat so much cheese with the fact that I still have two healthy milk teeth at the age of 42.

Figmentofmyimagination · 16/02/2020 16:56

We love cheese, but my DH has recently been diagnosed with essential hypertension (very high blood pressure) so the cheese has had to go, as it’s too tempting to snack on, straight from fridge with crackers etc. Forced to get my own cheese fix from non-snackable cheeses like mozzarella, grated Parmesan and halloumi.

He misses his cheese but to misquote Kate Moss, nothing tastes as good as not having a heart attack feels.

DesLynamsMoustache · 16/02/2020 18:06

Properly creased at Alistair GrinGrin

AtleastitsnotMonday · 16/02/2020 18:11

I’m really not bothered about cheese, in fact can’t remember the last time I had it but if you enjoy it, eat other things too and are healthy on it, crack on! Some people spend far to long analysing what others eat (probably as a distraction from they own poor or utterly boring diet.)

WalkingDeadTrainee · 16/02/2020 18:17

I’m really not bothered about cheese, in fact can’t remember the last time I had it

To eat cheese every day?