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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?? 😇

OP posts:
andyjusthangingaround · 16/02/2020 18:30

Cheese! 🥰
I love cheese, but cheese don’t really love me back so I have to be careful or pay the price (tummy cramps)
Could easily have smoked cheddar for main course! Yummy!

Go for it OP!

Grumpbum123 · 16/02/2020 18:31

I love cheese

timeforawine · 16/02/2020 18:36

I don't as much as you OP but i bloody love cheese. Toasties, on crackers, cheese and pickle sandwiches, or just a pile of sliced cheese 😄

Mrstwiddle · 16/02/2020 18:37

I love cheese but have noticed if I eat a lot, I get really bad hormonal acne :(

firstimemamma · 16/02/2020 18:42

Yanbu, cheese is nutritious and I eat it every day. I love cheese Grin

To an extent though your friend is right - it is fattening and eating too much of it (like loads every day) is bad for you. Even if slim people eat lots of fattening food it can cause unseen damage internally. I've got a size 6-8 friend who doesn't eat healthily (lots of fried food etc) and just because she's slim doesn't mean it's not harming her health.

Oysterbabe · 16/02/2020 18:42

Yanbu. There are few things that aren't improved with the addition of some cheese.

GoodDogBellaBoo · 16/02/2020 18:52

I made baked pimento olive cheese-balls for the freezer today, our family could probably happily not eat anything else for a long time if we had to...Grin

Montgomerystubercles · 16/02/2020 19:39

One of my favourite holidays was to Hungary where cheese also featured for breakfast (a soft ricotta type cheese and sultana strudel) and even in a chocolate bar... amazing. I managed cheese for every meal while I was there. I'm now allergic to dairy however, and currently suffering my second day of an itchy, bleeding head, face and chest after a glass of red wine (who knew wine could be clarified with milk proteins) so those days are long gone Sad

L0bstersLass · 16/02/2020 19:39

Cheese is the best thing ever. YANBU.

MotherOfAllNameChanges · 16/02/2020 19:41

YANBU

ChilliMayo · 16/02/2020 19:43

Cheese glorious cheese....

KidCaneGoat · 16/02/2020 19:43

Yum yum yum. Everyday. Except fucking Wensleydale which is disgusting.

lljkk · 16/02/2020 19:46

Cheese is the original marmite. Except, for the record, blue cheese (yick)

Jeezoh · 16/02/2020 19:47

Please tell me you have baked Camembert occasionally too? My very favourite cheese, either baked whole in the tub or wrapped in breadcrumbs and served with cranberry sauce. I eat some form of cheese most days too Smile

AmazingGreats · 16/02/2020 19:53

Yes cheese is amazing. I eat it every day more or less. It has been part of my weight gain I'm sure, but only because I was combining it with the wrong foods and overdoing the portion. Now I am losing weight eating cheese. Sometimes I eat 3 or 4 servings in one day, but the servings are smaller. I don't believe in low fat cheese, I would rather have 20g or full fat cheddar than 40g or reduced fat cheddar, for instance. I think sugar is a much bigger issue for most people (and it's cousin processed white flour). There's a big difference between eating pizza and cheese burgers every day, and having a feta salad, Parmesan on your pasta dish or a slice or cheese on toast as part of a healthy balanced diet. That's what a healthy balanced diet is, one containing all the main food groups. One of the four main food groups being cheese itself of course. If a 1/4 of your diet isn't cheese are you even trying?

Heygirlheyboy · 16/02/2020 19:55

Mmmmm baked camembert! I think your diet sounds fab, love those foods and once your cheese portions aren't massive, it's surely fine. Like you I probably have a type of cheese each day; I credit cheese for increasing my greens/salad leaves by 100% so that has to be a good thing!

MiniMum97 · 16/02/2020 19:56

@puds11 hard cheese is low in lactose. For soft cheeses you could take some lactase enzyme.

puds11 · 16/02/2020 20:04

@MiniMum97 thank you. Life without Saint Agur is difficult!

literategiraffe · 16/02/2020 20:06

YANBU
I'd eat cheese at every meal if it was available

hibiscuslightening · 16/02/2020 20:09

@puds11 quite a lot of cheese is lactofree... as well as the branded/labelled lactofree cheeses, you can look at the nutritional information and if there is 0% carbohydrate then it is lactosefree. For practical purposes I find thst anything that has O.1% lactose or less is fine ( for me- everyone has their own threshold) and that I can tolerate up to 0.2 on occasion.

It’s been a revelation. Most mature cheddar, emmenthal and aged hard cheeses are ok.

NurseButtercup · 16/02/2020 20:12

I love cheese, I would give up alcohol, chocolate, cake and sweets before I stop eating cheese. I eat cheese at every opportunity that I can: salad, curry, jacket potato and pasta dishes.

I used to eat cheese on toast everyday, but something has happened to my digestive system when I turned 40. I can no longer tolerate bread more than once per week. I so so miss cheese on toast.

I get my cheese fix with oatcakes & cheese instead, but it's not the same as cheese on toast.

Ouchaheadinmybehind · 16/02/2020 20:12

Not affecting your weight is great but........

Cheese is a great source of protein and calcium but is often high in saturated fat and salt. This means eating too much could lead to high cholesterol and high blood pressure, increasing your risk of cardiovascular disease

www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/nutrition/cheese

thenightsky · 16/02/2020 20:19

I made baked pimento olive cheese-balls for the freezer today

YABU to post that sentence with the recipe attached, you do know that?

Angry Grin

thenightsky · 16/02/2020 20:20

*WITHOUT the recipe attached, obv.

SorryDidISayThatOutLoud · 16/02/2020 20:20

She's wrong.

As the fabulous Stephen Fry says:

"Cheese is real".

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