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[bosch]

Just interested to know how many people think that cheestrings are a good thing to feed their children?

My weekly shop is generally the same foods,I'm not terribly adventurous when it comes to trying new foods. But it is so unlikely that I would ever buy these. Aren't they just like the sort of processed cheese slices that I put on a beefburger in the 80's and wouldn't allow over my threshold in the noughties?

No they are not processed cheese....at least in so far as they claim to be 100% cheese. They are not the same as burger slices.

Not that I buy them (despite the nagging)

How they get them stringy I don't know.

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Cheesestrings are almost identical in the way they are made to mozzarella. The only additives are annatto which is a common cheese colouring and salt. Imo the only reason to limit them for your dc's is due to salt content.

The curd is heated and then pulled and stretched to form the strings.

cheese strings are fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, altho made in a slightly different way to normal cheese IIRC, and therefore, lb-4-lb more expensive!!

I get them for mine for picnics etc, altho dairy lea is more my thing.

tis one way also to get calcium into some kiddes

DH buys them sometimes...... they taste suprisingly good. (But then I have been accused of having c h a v taste buds on MN)

I feel a bit giulty about the amount of plastic waste,though.

I buy them and I don t mind telling anyone either. DS is super fussy and this way I know he is getting a chunk of cheese every day. Nothing wrong with them imo.

I buy em for my ds sometimes. He loves em and i quite like them myself!

He also eats 'normal' cheese so thats not the reason i buy them. He likes any other type of cheese, cheddar, brie and stilton etc so i dont see a problem at all

Thanks for replies - comparison to mozzarella is probably the most convincing that they are real food.

But must admit I'm not entirely convinced. If they are just the same as cheese why do they cost more (not because of the processing costs obviously....err?)

(like cods reply best though - I care, and that's what matters!)

not allowed in my fridge, but I am a self confessed cheese snob.

DS nags me for them every week; our compromise is babybell, but I'd rather just give him some nice farmhouse cheddar in his lunchbox.

ah - must confess, we do get babybel for when ds's are having a packed lunch (ie occassional treat). I think I must be a bit of a cheese snob too!

ds2 eats regular mature cheddar at home, ds1 doesn't eat much cheese but I wouldn't tempt him with cheestrings unless absolutely nagged to death necessary. Might buy some baby mozzarellas though and see what he makes of them...

I love cheese strings and so does DS. They are real cheese. If you buy the harder type of mozarella (ie not in a bag of water but packed like normal cheese) it goes stringy in exactly the same way - and I remember getting very posh and authentic "string" cheese from our local italian deli as a child (it was made in a kind of pear shape and we used to peel it into strings just like a modern cheese string).

I bet they're expensive because they're individually shaped and packaged. I don't always have them in but just get them once in a while, but only because of the extra cost and overpackaging.

(Do you know what else I love them for - getting a pack while supermarket shopping with DS and letting him have one on the way round. Not terribly unhealthy, and occupies him for ages. I'll get me coat. )

I think cheese strings should have been invented in the 70's. For some reason I think they're quite kitch. They should be served in the same meal as Angel Delight. (lots of calcium there too!)

Oooooooh

I haven't had angel delight for about 105 years, but now I want some. Butterscotch flavour.