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OK so what is wrong with Cheesestrings?

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SpeckledHen · 09/10/2006 19:31

They have a bad reputation i THINK BUT APART FROM A BIT OF COLOURING AND THE FACT THEYARE PROCESSED SURELY THEY ARE ok AS A SNACK? mY 3YO DD LOVES THEM. i CAN'T SEE WHY i SJHOULD NOT GIVETHEM TO HER.

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Greensleeves · 09/10/2006 19:33

Um.

lulumama · 09/10/2006 19:34

if anyone can resurrect the cheese string thread from a while ago - please do it now and save us all a lot of time...

greensleeves - have you also abandoned your halloween name - me too--- peaked too early and bored of it??? hijack over

TrickOrTref · 09/10/2006 19:34

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zippitippitoes · 09/10/2006 19:34

processed cheese is made up of bits..did you see that dairy that has been shut down that provides the stuff for processed cheese?

zippitippitoes · 09/10/2006 19:36

here

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SpeckledHen · 09/10/2006 19:36

thanks pals. did not see earlier thread. will search fot it. this has intrigued me for a while.

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TrickOrTref · 09/10/2006 19:37

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/10/2006 19:38

Well, because its not real food.
Because there are much better tasting things you could give her.
The are extortionately priced for what they are.

But, please explain what the difference in rules between meals and snacks are, so we know where you are coming from here.

WigWamBam · 09/10/2006 19:39

Last thread about cheesestrings.

Should tell you all you need to know without anyone getting their knickers in a knot about it again

lulumama · 09/10/2006 19:40

IMO speckledhen - if you want to give them to her, then do so....my kids eat stuff from time to time that is not the greatest...

ginmummy · 09/10/2006 19:43

SpeckledHen - just mention that your dd washes them down with a FruitShoot and you're in for a fun night of flaming!

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SpeckledHen · 09/10/2006 19:46

heloo again pals. mydd has cheesstrings occasionally between meals. eats lots of fruit and innocent smoothiees and water to drink. snacks on rasins - that kind of thing. last meal In made was pumpkin curry! likes babaybels. occasionally (rarely) gets fruishoot when we are out and cheesestrings when sees them in supermarket. I try to feed her well and also give her treats. balance is hard tostrike but I try. Not being defensive - just curious.

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crunchie · 09/10/2006 19:47

OK but when you have tried chedder which you all spout as 'why not chop up some chedder' etc, Edam (thought it was quite plasticky) babybel, dairylea, philidelhia, had a short stage of sucess with emmenthal, but no more. Then I will do cheesestrings on occassion.

AND I do gibbon penis too (Or for those not in the know - Mini pepperami) So now you can all tell me how bad they are!!

ginmummy · 09/10/2006 19:50

Never heard pepperami called gibbon penis before!

lulumama · 09/10/2006 19:52

PSML! gibbon penis.....oh mi god

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SpeckledHen · 09/10/2006 19:54

HO hum. so seems to me that sonsensus is that cheesestringsaand fruitshoot for that matternot so bad in moderation. - as long as get proper nutrition too

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Coulterm · 09/10/2006 19:56

From the threads I have just read (this and others) it seems that there isn't actually much wrong with them. From an additives point of view they don't have anything in them that many people don't accept readily on other products (eg colours in red leicester/double gloucester, similar flavourings as in All Bran/Special K). So it would appear to me that the main thing wrong with cheese strings is that they are seen as "naff" and therefor cool to despise. Of course I would never feed them to my daughter myself

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