Velveeta a soft cheese?
 

In another thread, I saw someone include Velveeta with the soft cheeses that are a no no for Induction (i.e., ricotta, cottage, farmer's, etc.). Can someone enlighten me? I know Velveeta is a processed cheese and is soft in texture but just didn't know it was an Induction no no.

Soft or not, it's not the best choice because, as you noted, it's processed. I don't even know what it's made of...the ingredients might give you a good idea of whether it's Induction-friendly or not.

I don't know about it being an induction food or not, but it seems fairly high in carbs compared to other cheeses. If you have to keep your carbs fairly low like I do I just don't think it would be worth it.

I think that Velveeta falls into the imitation cheese category.

Taken from the atkins site:

"Imitation cheese products are not allowed, except for soy or rice cheese—but check the carbohydrate content."

I swiped this off the kraft website

It looks like there are 3g of carbs per oz. So that alone makes it a no no and I couldnt find ingredients so cant tell you what kind of stuff is in it, but its a processed cheese and should be avoided.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not dying to eat the stuff. I just hadn't thought of that as being a soft cheese, per se. My family does prefer that to be melted over broccoli but I hadn't tried it since I re-started Induction.

Dr. A's book says only hard cheese. :)

So are kraft cheese slices not recommended either. I have always eaten these. I like the har cheese but it is very nice to go to the fridge and grab a cheese slice.

The best cheese is the on you get in the deli...but read the labels (most deli people have nutritional info on hand)...basically, the better quality the cheese, the costier, the better for us LCers. Thus, I tend to eat the harder cheeses - fontana, asiago, parmisiano....although saltier...I do best with these. If I eat more than 2 oz of softer cheeses...my weight loss tends to slow down tremendously...this espeically is true with cream cheese (a no-no for me).

If it is processed, it is not allowed in the plan.

You can put the carb options cheese sauce over brocolli for a easy cheesey brocolli option. Not 100% if this is induction friendly since I haven't read the cheese sauce jar but it could be used on OWL.

as strange as this may sound, I take a cup of raw broccoli (washed and cut) and I put it in a bowl with a slice of muenster cheese on top and nuke if for a minute. It tastes great!

Some American Cheeses have just as few carbs as cheddar and the like. The trick is getting 100% real cheese, not "cheese food" like Velveeta.. which is a mixture of cheese and a lot of emulsifiers and if I remember right, starches and milk. It's been so long, I don't remember!