help with cheese please

[Afshaan]

i'm on phase 1. just started my diet 2 days ago. i went for my grocery shopping today but couldn't find laughing cow lite cheese. its not available in my country. however, i did find Philidelphia fat free cheese but it has 1g of sugar but 0 carbs and i also got low fat processed cheddar cheese. can i have them? these were the only ones that were low in find i could find. i'm freaking out now. i don't want to do anything wrong during this diet and i'm desperate to have cheese. please help. thanks.
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[trustycat]

Kraft has some good stuff :)

[Allergymom]

get some of the skim milk string cheese..That is good and i wrap a peice of fat-free ham around it with some sugar free jello for breakfast

allergymom/linda

[Afshaan]

thanks for ur replies. Kraft low fat products are not available here and neither is skimmed milk string cheese. i guess the country i live in sucks!
i bought the philidelphia and cheddar, the ones i mentioned above in my earlier post. can i have any one of them?

[Afshaan]

i just visited the Laughing Cow products website and i came across the ingredients in their low fat cheese. it contains 1g of sugar too. so i guess Philidelphia fat free cheese is ok to eat, right? it also consists of 1g sugar.
so confused. what to do

[Afshaan]

alright guys. i finally found la vache qui rie Sulphide low calorie cheese. it contains 6g of carbs and 7g of fat per 100g. is it alright to have it during phase 1? waiting for ur approval. thanks. :help:

[Monika4]

I was just about to tell you that it might be called la vache qui rie! I would not get in phase 1 a cheese with 6 g carbs per 100 g. I just got mine out - which is the lowest fat cheese I am aware of in the US. It says 0 g carb per 28 g (1 oz), which may be up to about 3 g per 100 g (if it is less than 1 g they can say zero), it has 9 g protein per 28 g, and 3.5 g fat per 28 g. It has 70 calories/30 from fat per 28 g. In the US, I go up to 80/40 - all of this is per 28 g, so you have to recalculate. It looks like your cheese has more carbs and less fat than mine, but especially in phase 1 I would not go so high in carbs. On the other hand, if it is really so important for you, the official south Beach people say 2 servings of dairy (small portions!) are ok.

To me your cheese sounds like the kind they warn about where the fat has been replaced by carbohydrates, which you don't want. I would say though, that on the other hand fresh yoghurt will contain carbohydrates - from the milk sugar - and that is allowed.

I would look at the ingredients. If the ingredient list only has low fat milk listed, but no mentioning of sugar or high fructose corn sirup or starch or whatever else might have been added for the carbs, it may be ok. But what you don't want is added carbs - the milk sugar (lactose) that is naturally in soft cheese and yoghurt (but not in the hard cheese I am looking at) is ok. But if they replaced the fat with '

It is quite possible that la vache qui rie in your country is made of different components than laughing cow light here. So it is important to keep in mind that you don't want added carbs of any kind. and limit dairy to 2 servings a day (early on in South Beach they were completely forbidden).

Good luck!

[RandiS]

I had a hard time finding LC lite cheese until I saw it's not in the regular cheese section at our store. Actually its not in the cold section at all. It was on a self by some sausage ???!

[Afshaan]

alright guys! i just went to the supermarket and got these cheese from kraft. let me know if u approve of this:

Kraft Fat Free natural shredded mozzarella cheese which has total carbs 2g and calories are 45 per serving and 0 sugars

Kraft fat free cheddar cheese. it has a south beach diet recommendation label on it for phases 1,2 and 3. again it has 2g of total carbs, 45 calories per serving and 0 sugar.

Kraft Sting Ums string cheese, Low moisture Part Skim Mazarella Cheese.

i can't find any cheese that has 0g or 1g of carbs. please tell me this is exceptable to eat. thanks.