A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I love cheese. No really - it's like we were made for each other. If I wasn't getting married this month, I'd probably marry cheese. Cheese is amazing. It may even pip chickens in the amazing stakes. Which is a problem. Because I am on a major health kick. And there is no room for cheese on a health kick. So I was wondering - can you get cheese flavouring? Like, non-cheese cheese-flavoured powder? So if you're making, say, a lettuce sandwich, you can sprinkle cheese flavouring on it and you have a cheese and lettuce sandwich without the cheese! Or you can use it on lasagne and on pasta instead of cheese. Granted, you won't have lovely, gooey, melting, fatty goodness going on, but you'd get the flavour. Where can I buy non-cheese cheese powder? That dairy-free cheese sauce tat from the hippy aisles in the big supermarkets and tiny health food shops is awful and doesn't count as a reliable substitute. It must taste like real, fat, strong cheddar. But in powder form. Help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Why do you want to cut cheese out altogether? It might be better to use only small amounts which might help avoid a binge if it gets too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clur Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Use grated cheese - a lot less goes a lot further and you don't feel deprived! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joojoo Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I love cheese. No really - it's like we were made for each other. If I wasn't getting married this month, I'd probably marry cheese. Cheese is amazing. It may even pip chickens in the amazing stakes. Which is a problem. Because I am on a major health kick. And there is no room for cheese on a health kick. So I was wondering - can you get cheese flavouring? Like, non-cheese cheese-flavoured powder? So if you're making, say, a lettuce sandwich, you can sprinkle cheese flavouring on it and you have a cheese and lettuce sandwich without the cheese! Or you can use it on lasagne and on pasta instead of cheese. Granted, you won't have lovely, gooey, melting, fatty goodness going on, but you'd get the flavour. Where can I buy non-cheese cheese powder? That dairy-free cheese sauce tat from the hippy aisles in the big supermarkets and tiny health food shops is awful and doesn't count as a reliable substitute. It must taste like real, fat, strong cheddar. But in powder form. Help? Your description has just made me laugh out loud but I soooooo know where you are coming from. Let's just say it's one of my weaknesses too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 what about going for the strongest cheese that you can find, grating it and using half/quarter the usual amount. I find that if I use a mild chedder, I need tons of it, but if I use a extra mature chedder, I can use a fraction of the amount I also find that if I try and cut something out totally, I normally binge on it at some point in the not too distant future cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Echo the above - really strong cheese, but not much of it is my answer. I don't like additives and I strongly suspect any cheese flavouring would be quite unnatural! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 No no no no no no no! Grating and strong cheese and less cheese?! Are you mad?! Cheese is my love! Cheese is my passion! It is my precious! I can't have a little cheese! When the need for cheese flavouriness strikes, I gotta have cheese. I gotta have cheese like some people gotta have more cowbell (google/youtube 'more cowbell' - it's worth it). I DO grate and use strong cheese, but it's not diet-tastic, and to caress a small lump's yellowy softness against a grater sometimes just isn't enough. I need the full cheese. But in fake form. In powder form. Oh cheese - why must you not have the calorific content of celery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Here you go hun http://www.amazon.com/Cheddar-Cheese-Powder-1-lb/dp/B00016LZT8 but in my quest to find you some powdered cheese, I found thishttp://www.bellplantation.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=54 I nearly fell off my chair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 im sorry, powdered cheese is wrong on soooo many different levels just eat cheese woman!! cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 Oh Couperwife, I must resist the cheeeeeese! Blue Karin - that real cheese powder is reminding me of the ped egg thread! I am thinking the powdered peanut butter could be used for wrong hot drinks. An amazing smoothie can be had by whizzing up bananas, milk and PB. You could do similar but hot with the PB powder, banana syrup (Like Monin syrup, as used in posh coffee shops) and milk. Wrong, but possibly very very right... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Blue Karin - that real cheese powder is reminding me of the ped egg thread! mmmmm lovely I never knew though you could get so many things in powder form. I'd love to be the fly on the wall in the lab where they make it when they say "right, what shall we powder today? Lettuce? Bread?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
