Cheese for long shelf life stores?

[Frnc]

Bought a few different mac and cheese packets/pots from Sainsbury's this morning. Will report back when I've tried them.

[Medusa]

I have looked at tinned cheese, some of it it seems very expensive as does tinned butter. I have read that waxed cheese can last years. Some of the American preppers wax their own. I'm not convinced and have some in my fridge which is probably about 2 years out of date now, because I convinced myself it will last. I will have to cut one of them for science and will report back. I have had some previously which did not last and developed a strange mouldy and wet coating on the outside. Perhaps the wax coating was not completely sealed and had tiny holes to allow the air in.

[GillyBee]

Cheese in wax follows the same rules as other food preservation techniques that exclude air like bottled fruit/veg If the cheese is not dried enough or is not acid enough the bugs are still able to operate and it will go off, hopefully without critically poisoning anyone.
And my local Turkish shop sells canned white cheese. This clearly states on the tin that it must be stored at 4- 6C i.e fridge temperature.

[Ahastyatom]

Probably the most economical option, its lasts well and you don't need a lot to get that cheese hit. 250g of Blue is about £8.50/ £9. and Cheddar £7/£8

Oh I've never heard of dried blue cheese before, do you remember the brand name you got?

[pseudonym]

Bulk military rations of

Cheddar Cheese Flavour Spread

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187540696057

And if you need biccies for that:

Cheese Oat Biscuits

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187667774632

from the same seller.

Funnily enough the cheese biccies are made by Nairns

[Frnc]

Tried Bachellors Pasta n Sauce Cheese and Broccoli flavour small pot, 65g, 248 calories, £1.00, 1.6g salt.
Verdict: Not bad. Quite tasty. A very small percentage was crunchy for some reason, maybe not stirred enough. I don't mean whole pieces of pasta, more like tiny parts of them. This is easier to make than the Ald one, as all you add is boiling water to the pot.

I have a larger one that's Mac and Cheese to try at some point. Sainsbos seemed to only have the Mac and Cheese in large, and the Cheese and Brocc in small. Large is 50% bigger for 20% extra £.

[Nurseandy]

What about the "cheese" (and I use the term loosely) sachets in MRE's? Pretty sure they'd last a good long time if they could be bought separately to an MRE.

[Arzosah]

This is agony! I love cheese, and I don't have any except refrigerated, so I finally went looking. Most of it is really disgusting or horrendously expensive - I don't care how good it is, I'm not paying £4.89 for 50 grammes (which I've already moaned about on this thread, sorry ).

Anyway, because I don't usually eat prepackaged cheese sauces, I'm used to actual cheese, so the percentage of cheese in the ingredients is important to me. There was a "broccoli and cheese" something or other at Sainsbo, with 1% cheese and 2% broccoli, and the rest was crap or filler. Terrible.

The other thing that's important to me is the amount and type of synthetic chemicals added to pretend its food.

So, these are the ones I'd be prepared to eat:
https://www.asda.com/groceries/product/560675 Jenny's pick upthread, its 32% cheese powder, made of cheese and whey.
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/pro ... oured-109g much lower cheese percentage, 6% or so, but its a potato mix so fair enough, and most of us like the Idahoan mixes.
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/pro ... cheese-68g a good compromise, maybe, 7% cheese powder and also contains more skimmed milk powder and whey.

I think Jenny wins the internet today as the best combo of price and ingredients. I'll go back to ordering from Asda for a while to get a couple, and test them out over a couple of weeks. Then I might go in heavy handed

[jennyjj01]

So, these are the ones I'd be prepared to eat:
https://www.asda.com/groceries/product/560675 Jenny's pick upthread, its 32% cheese powder, made of cheese and whey.
...
I think Jenny wins the internet today as the best combo of price and ingredients. I'll go back to ordering from Asda for a while to get a couple, and test them out over a couple of weeks. Then I might go in heavy handed

That Colman's is 90p or 4 for £2.45 in ASDA,so 62p each.

Meanwhile, I've picked up Aldi's and Lidl's offerings at 39p each, for a taste test, coming soon.I'll put the Sainsbury Offering to the test at the same time.

[NBK2000]

Stevemre1989 on youtube has eaten cheese from MRE's from 20 odd years ago and it was fine. He's an animal though, he's eaten ration packs from the 1900's. Very informative if you like that kinda thing.

Now let's get this out onto a tray, nice!