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).