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Are cheesy strings BAD?

33 replies

Tinkerboo · 01/12/2006 10:39

Package says 100% cheese. No transfat or added salt. But surely they MUST be BAD?

I need to know DS2 is addicted,after 1!! what is in them???

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AlgernonGetYerTubaOut · 01/12/2006 10:40

They taste bad

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Tinkerboo · 01/12/2006 10:41

I know that, youi know that, DS2 strangely doesn't know that. He's OBSESSED.

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Moomin · 01/12/2006 10:42

dd1 came home from school asking for these and you're right - it feels bad buying them or even acknowledging they exist! But I looked at the packaging and the 100% cheese ones do certainly seem to be better then, say, the Dairylea ones which have all kinds of crap in them. They do taste like bendy rubber (except bendy rubber might actually taste better) but I've said she can have them 2 or 3 times a week maybe. I guess it could be worse!

AlgernonGetYerTubaOut · 01/12/2006 10:45

Cheese isn't a 'good' food anyway is it ? Full of animal fats.

DD (4) nagged me and nagged me about blardy cheesestrings, I kept saying no, no, no, she kept nagging. Anyway I bought a packet knowing that she would hate them and they would never be mentioned again, and lo, I was correct. She had a bit of one and spat it our onto the kitchen floor.... Nice

Moomin · 01/12/2006 10:45

themulled.... interesting because I am a mild food nazi, in that we generally just don't do processed/junk as a rule and we cook everything from scratch but I didn't think these were as bad as some of the things she's been asking for. Am i barking?

nailpolish · 01/12/2006 10:46

tink

get babybels instead

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Tinkerboo · 01/12/2006 10:46

I know Moomin I feel like there must be actch and smthing V bad about them but can't find what it is.
I agree that they are tastless and rubbery but unless actually bad for DS2 I will relent on this issue.

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Tinkerboo · 01/12/2006 10:48

Are baby bels better?
I wish mine didn't like them.
Cheese is good for calcium etc, but not too much as saturated fat. But kids need the fat don't they? Mine do they're rakes. I don't think I could make my kids fat if I tried.

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nailpolish · 01/12/2006 10:52

my dd's are daft on cheese

there are lots of other cheese miniatures inthe shops, have a look and see what you think

nappyaddict · 07/03/2007 04:52

i quite like the white cheddar ones

yes i too read the 100% cheese claims. this can't be right, surely? they certainly taste very unnatural!

nappyaddict · 07/03/2007 04:52

whoops wrong thread.

twentypence · 07/03/2007 06:22

Edam is a low fat cheese (well in so much as it ever is) so babybel deffo a better bet.

igloo · 07/03/2007 06:46

I saw on a programme that If a child's lunchbox was to contain a packet of Lunchables, a cheese string and a bag of crisps, it would contain more salt than a small bag of salted peanuts and more than the RDA of salt for young children.
Ever since then I have completely eradicated cheese strings from my four year old's diet. I do not really care how they are marketed, they are NOT cheese in it's natural form. I have also become very alarmed by those adverts by the British Heart Foundation that eating a bag of crisps is like drinking a glass of vegetable oil. I have also banned crisps, unless they are baked. I am now working on the big yellow 'M'. My son doesn't even like the food there and no matter how hungry he claims to be his appetite miraculously goes when he gets the toy in the happy meal. Yes they sell salads there and apples, grapes etc but how do they stop them going brown? What do they spray them with to keep them looking so fresh and perky for days on end?
I may be the worlds meanest Mummy but, I don't care. Did anyone watch Hugh Fearny-Whittingstall's(spelling???) programme called 'At the river cottage', I think, where he took self-confessed junk food addicts and made them eat naturally produced food for a week. It almost put me off every food type completely. I am not a macrobiotic eating vegan and I try to eat organic food but I am not religious about it but the food that they market as 'healthy and natural' for are children is often anything but and now I very cautious about many things that are not in their natural form. I hear that fruit bars/sticks etc have an unnaturally high sugar content and dentist are warning against them.
Do I sound like a humbug?

Blandmum · 07/03/2007 07:21

I don't know if this is how macdonals do it, but you can stop apple slices from going brown by tossing them in lemon juice, or orange juice

Sounds scary when its chemical name is used I suppose, citric acid, but it is quite natural

FrannyandZooey · 07/03/2007 07:51

It doesn't really matter what is in them, they have been buggered about with so much as to no longer resemble real food

harpsichordcarrier · 07/03/2007 07:55

I view them like something like haribo or parma violets - not actually food as such.
like aitch I let dd1 try one and she couldn't eat it - she kept peeling the cheesy off the outside and saying "I can't get the plastic off...."
so that was the end of that
she's not keen on babybels either tbh.

ChippyMinton · 07/03/2007 07:59

babybels come in goats cheese variety now (maybe a nice treat for kids with cows milk allergy??)

glitterfairy · 07/03/2007 08:01

My kids went through a periosd of loving them and then went off them. I hated buying them and only did it once in a blue moon but now they only like the real deal.

lissielou · 07/03/2007 08:03

ds loves cheese, esp the yeo valley organic cheese sticks. tastes like cheese instead of plastic

glitterfairy · 07/03/2007 08:05

yes their yoghurts are lovely as well.

Tortington · 07/03/2007 08:08

cheese is a 'good' food IMO. - in response to an earlier comment - not chesestrings per se

lissielou · 07/03/2007 08:11

agree with custardo. MIL gets them for "her boys" ive tried taking my own but doesnt stop her. however there are worse things!

JillJ72 · 07/03/2007 13:58

Wouldn't ever buy cheesestrings and we have some Babybels in the fridge, neglected. DS has taken a shine to the Lil Moo's cheddar sticks that I buy for myself, and I can understand why because they are proper chunks of cheese.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's programme... I hope they repeat it soon. We do eat meat in our house but always organic... just watch his programme to understand why

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