"Just the Cheese" snacks at a reasonable price?!?

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 12/29/11 12:57 pm, edited 12/29/11 1:00 pm - OH

I just love these cheese snacks, but they are just ridiculously expensive ($15 for 16 half-ounce packages or $3 for a 2 ounce package are the best prices I have found)!! Has anyone seen them for a better price anywhere?

The ones I have been able to make at home aren't as flavorful or as crunchy no matter what I do to the cheese.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Liz J.
on 12/29/11 9:29 pm - Woonsocket, RI

RNY on 12/16/11

These are right up my alley (could be dangerous)! Thyere kind of high in calories and fat..
Do you eat the whole bag or a serving?

http://www.carbsmart.com/justthecheese.html

nfarris79
on 12/29/11 10:24 pm - Germantown, MD

RNY on 04/13/11

serving is 0.5oz, I think. Early out, once I was doing solids, I wouldn't be able to do a whole 0.5oz bag at a time but now it's much easier. Yummy!

First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 12/30/11 5:41 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Those half-ounce bags, which are TINY, are one serving.... but I sometimes -- porbably more times than not -- actually eat two at a time (gasp! horrors! quick, call the food police!)... but I am also 4.5 years out. If I get the 2-ounce bag, I generally eat half.

Interestingly, it says a serving is one bag BUT that a serving is about 22 pieces. The problem is, the bag holds only half that amount... about 11 pieces... so I have no idea how many actual calories and fat are in a half-ounce bag!

Honestly, even though I am much more sensitive to fat than suger (even now), I don't worry at all about the calories and fat in these, but, again, I am 4.5 years out. The calories are easily included in my daily intake and about the only fat I have in my diet comes from dairy, nuts, and red meat (and occasional light mayo and real butter and my beloved spponful of Haagen Dazs), so I don't sweat the fat, either. When I was first post-op my skin and hair were horribly dry from lack of fat in my diet. I added almonds and more full-fat cheeses as snacks (rather than yogurt) in order to get enough fat into my diet.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

nfarris79
on 12/29/11 10:25 pm - Germantown, MD

RNY on 04/13/11

Amazon has them on subscribe & save for $12, so if you eat them on a regular basis, the savings might be worth it....

First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 12/30/11 5:44 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Yeah, but that's still outrageously expensive for a snack item... and I simply won't pay it on ANY kind of regular basis. I treated myself to a box for Christmas, though!

I do see that Netrition has dropped their price just a bit ($2.39 for 2 ounces of most types), but they only carry one of my favorite flavors :(

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

NHPOD9
on 12/30/11 6:52 am

I've only tried the grilled cheese flavor, which I LOVED, but all the flavors seem yummy. But, as you said, the price has prevented me from experimenting with other flavors. Which do you like the best?

~Jen
RNY, 8/1/2011
HW: 348 SW: 306 CW:-fighting regain GW: 140

He who endures, conquers. ~Persius