Re: What's the story with cheese?

[Guest guest]

At 09:00 PM 9/29/2010, you wrote:

Does that mean I can go to the

local super market deli and ask for a pound of domestic swiss with out

also asking them to read the ingredients to me? Can I get a simple block

of Colby with out it being some organic $8.50 a pound cheese? What other

ingredients in the making if cheese should I expect and are they legal?

Just having a hard time making sure what is legal when it comes to

cheese.

Cheese! One of my favorite topics, what with me being a

cheesoholic.

While some folks prefer grass-pastured milk, cheese and butter, and

there's no doubt that it's better for us, some of us can't afford

that.

My cheddar and sharp cheddar comes from Sam's Club, and I found provolone

without smoke flavoring at Wal-Mart. The Parmesan comes from a local

supermarket called Breaux Mart.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

Sometimes the cheese packaging has ingredients. If it says anything about mold

inhibitors or cellulose to prevent sticking/caking, then avoid those, but if you

buy fresh cheese in a block, I think it is fine. I buy a big block from Costco,

but you have to read the labels to be sure there is nothing added. Like, I

avoid additional colors in my cheese.

> >Does that mean I can go to the local super

> >market deli and ask for a pound of domestic

> >swiss with out also asking them to read the

> >ingredients to me? Can I get a simple block of

> >Colby with out it being some organic $8.50 a

> >pound cheese? What other ingredients in the

> >making if cheese should I expect and are they

> >legal? Just having a hard time making sure what

> >is legal when it comes to cheese.

>

> Cheese! One of my favorite topics, what with me being a cheesoholic.

>

> While some folks prefer grass-pastured milk,

> cheese and butter, and there's no doubt that it's

> better for us, some of us can't afford that.

>

> My cheddar and sharp cheddar comes from Sam's

> Club, and I found provolone without smoke

> flavoring at Wal-Mart. The Parmesan comes from a

> local supermarket called Breaux Mart.

>

>

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

> Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

> Darn Good SCD Cook

> No Human Children

> Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

> Babette the Foundling Beagle

>

[Guest guest]

At 10:12 PM 9/29/2010, you wrote:

Sometimes the cheese packaging

has ingredients. If it says anything about mold inhibitors or cellulose

to prevent sticking/caking, then avoid those, but if you buy fresh cheese

in a block, I think it is fine. I buy a big block from Costco, but you

have to read the labels to be sure there is nothing added. Like, I avoid

additional colors in my cheese.

That's a good point.

We don't use commercially shredded cheese because that uses cellulose or

potato starch or rice starch as an anti-caking agent.

And some people are sensitive to added colors.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle