AIBU to be annoyed that supermarkets are adding cheese to everything?

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Why is it that supermarkets have decided to put cheese in bloody everything? Once upon a time, a salmon en croute was just in a white wine sauce; now you can't find one without cheese in the sauce.

Sainsbury's added cheese to several ready meals, such as chicken arrabbiata, so had to switch to Tesco for when I wanted that and a couple of other ready meals for when I don't have time to cook or I've run out of batch cooked stuff.

Today, I really fancied a chicken arrabbiata having been in a car accident last night, aching all over, tired and grumpy, and really don't want to cook tonight. Guess what? Tesco have also now added cheese to it.

Bad enough being lactose intolerant without supermarkets making things even more difficult. And some people just don't like cheese at all, or don't like melted cheese (I mean, cottage pie with cheese on top??).

Why not leave things as they were? If you want cheese, you can just sprinkle it on yourself.

YANBU, even though I like cheese.

I feel your pain because I feel exactly the same about them dumping bloody mint all over lamb.

I feel the same about ham/bacon in chicken dishes.

This is definitely the most problematic take I've seen on this site.

Could u have beans on toast instead

Yeah I’m lactose intolerant tolerant and it’s in so, so many things where it really doesn’t need to be

See this as a fantastic opportunity to break the habit of buying ready meals ever again..

You are welcome.

I'm lactose intolerant too and struggle with this, not in supermarket ready meals but in other areas of food life.

It's really not necessary to use milk for steak crisps' flavouring, for example. Or in margarine. Mussels - the only way I can buy them in a 15 mile radius is prepackaged in a sauce, and all the sauces contain dairy.

And there's one pub near us where none of the hamburgers are available without cheese - apparently they come from the wholesaler like this.

Oh, and the other horror I experienced was a Disney cruise. A choice of five dishes each night on a five night cruise and out of the 25 possible main courses just three were dairy free. Every single vegetable came buttered, as did many of the potato sides; that's before the sauces on the centrepiece itself.

This. And there is very little that can't be improved with a bit of cheese!!!

YABU. Cheese is life.

Omg yes. So many meals ruined by bloody cheese.

I hate cheese. I mean really hate it so I totally agree. When people find out I hate cheese they look at me like I have two heads!!

I agree with the first sentence of this.

For me, I loathe chilli, and it seems to be unnecessarily in so many things! Away with the chilli 🌶️ 🤢

It drives me insane too.

It triggers 5 day migraines in me. Restaurants the same, afternoon tea 3 mixed cheese sandwiches and carrot cake (cheese frosting) and cheesecake. Also intolerant to mushrooms so cant chance any plant based stuff. Positive is cant eat ready meals beans on toast probably healthier

That sounds like a total pain in the bum and certainly explains the calorie count on a lot of these things (i dont really buy them
except as a treat from M&S, I also noticed cheese on shepherd's pie)

Something I can tell you though, as somebody who does add cheese - cheese doesn't melt properly anymore. That may be something to do with why they are doing it?

I appreciate that's a real pain if you're lactose intolerant

Probably most importantly, I am very sorry to hear that you were in a car accident last night... I'm going to assume that you are okay because you're posting about cheese ... safe assumption? 💐

Lovely with cheese on top

Let me assure you it's similar with flour (I'm gluten intolerant). Equally many things have unnecessary wheat in them (e.g. sauces are best thickened with cornflour anyway). And yes, it's really frustrating.

This is why everyone is so fat..... Sorry, but so much additional stuff in ready meals, really isn't necessary. Even home made meals.... Lasagna shouldn't have cheddar in it, just saying.

My biggest issue, I'm with you OP, is cheese with fish. Just why? Why put cheese in the middle of a fish cake, what's wrong with just fish in a fish cake. The clue is in the name. Melting middles just make me want to puke.

I love cheese, but cheese on it's own, to savour after a meal. Appreciate it with some fresh bread or crackers.

Cheese in or on things (parmesan aside), is just not nice.

I agree i like chesse
But my Dh hates it and its i in everything

Last time I looked they were putting cream cheese in guacamole. Completely incomprehensible to me.

I feel the same about them sneaking sweeteners into everything.

It is really frustrating.

I went to a bakery once to try to buy a sandwich and every sandwich that was something and salad (cheese, ham, turkey etc and salad).. the salad included sliced hard boiled egg!! WTF. Horrible egg ruining every sandwich. I think it was a regional thing wherever I was at the time. Awful. I think about this a lot to this day. Horrified.

Could be worse could be chilli 🌶️ cheese🧀 sauce!
I agree with you OP, if people want cheese they can add in themselves ditto for blooming chillies which seem to be in fashion again like the late 90s when everything seemed to have chillies added.

I do like a boiled egg in a ham salad sandwich
I live in Greater Manchester .