If it gets them eating cheese, its worth it (Golden Vale Cheestrings)

Member Name: zerub

Product:	Golden Vale Cheestrings
Date:	03/10/08 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Children eat them

Disadvantages: They are expensive, and over-packaged

Cheestrings. Cheese strings. These are expensive but good for getting something healthy into your child's packed lunch, if they won't take a lump of cheddar!

You can get them in packs of 4, 8 or 12. They do original, or white (same but without the colouring), or light (lower fat) or Twister (stripey coloured and white).

The ingredients are - cheese. Thats it. With annatto colouring as part of the cheese. Salt content is 0.76g per 100g, which is quite high, but so is all cheese. Each cheestring contains 21g of cheese.

The cheese is a type of cheese that pulls apart, stringily. So the children have fun pulling it into shapes as they eat it. It is also very mild-tasting.

Each cheestring is individually wrapped in plastic. The plastic is not too difficult to get off, although sometimes my 6-year-old has to get help.

They are pretty expensive - about 30p each.

Basically, I'd much rather put a lump of cheese in my children's lunchboxes. Cheaper, less waste of plastic packaging, and I still feel that cheestrings aren't "real" food. But if I put a lump of cheese in, it comes home again. Whereas they actually eat these things.

Summary: Good for lunchboxes