Grated Cheese

Skint_Catt

underlay_guru wrote: »

Teabags with powdered milk in them (10 quid a box)

You must have missed these a few years ago. They were made by Typhoo or someone - trying to find them on Google at the mo!

Caterina

Where do you get grated gruyere, I have never seen it, but would be interested - DS loves it.

Glad that my suggestion for mozzarella was useful to you, thriftlady! BTW I tend to buy the occasional bagged salad too, when rocket is not growing in my garden!

C x

Quasar

I could live on cheese - I gobble up a mozzarella in a tomato salad, like there's no tomorrow. I occasionally buy grated cheddar, but never grated parmesan. My Parmigiano Reggiano comes in the usual wedge and I keep it tightly wrapped in cling film. Never lasts long with me anyway as fresh parmesan is an excellent cheese in its own right, great with bread or crackers. :drool:

MrsE_2

thriftlady wrote: »

Not always. I like gruyere, and at my local Waitrose it is much cheaper to buy grated. The grated mozzarella and cheddar are more expensive than ungrated but not by much.

I buy grated mozzarella (the Tesco half fat one) because I find the wet ball of mozzerella very difficult (impossible even) to spead thinly & the grated one saves lots of calories:D

But I buy everything else in a block, especially parmesan I would go back to ready grated parmesan again (Grana Pandanna SP? is much lower in cals, I get that).

MrsE_2

thriftlady wrote: »

Caterina since you mentioned that mozzarella in pouches of water makes for a soggy pizza I've been buying the grated stuff -I love it! I think it is more economical than the posh stuff because I use less -I always used to use up a whole ball at once. Thanks for the tip.

Ditto:D

If you're interested Tesco HL do the ONLY low fat grated mozzarella I've found.

Oldernotwiser

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

This thread suggests that it isn't I agree, it's a greater surface area, so grated cheese goes off more quickly.

Penny. x

Actually, that thread suggests that although it can look cheaper it's usually more expensive in the long run as it consists of the cheaper cheese with less flavour.

thriftlady_2

Caterina wrote: »

Where do you get grated gruyere, I have never seen it, but would be interested - DS loves it.

I've bought it at Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Tesco's

Rikki

The cheap range grated cheese is cheaper per kilo than the cheapest block cheese.

I buy it to make bird cakes if I haven't any old cheese left.

hilstep2000

I just buy a block, grate in my food processor, and leave it in a plastic box in the fridge. It goes further grated, and is easy to use. If it starts to go green, I just pick out the green bits!

daska

hilstep2000 wrote: »

I just buy a block, grate in my food processor, and leave it in a plastic box in the fridge. It goes further grated, and is easy to use. If it starts to go green, I just pick out the green bits!

I do the same except I keep it in the freezer - fewer green bits, longer life...