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Old Tue, May-25-04, 15:33
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Plan: South Beach Diet
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Default Ricotta cheese

What brand do you use. Whatever brand I tried was grainy regaurdless of what I did to it. The ricotta desserts seem like they should taste good. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks
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Old Tue, May-25-04, 16:18
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I put mine through a mini food processor and it helps with the grainy texture.
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Old Tue, May-25-04, 16:41
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Plan: Retrying
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Mz. Frog suggests non gritty brands on her web site along with the other south beach info if I remember.
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Old Tue, May-25-04, 16:45
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Plan: No sugar, flour, wheat
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I use the Polly-O part skim ricotta and mixed it with vanilla extract and a splenda and it was really good!!
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Old Tue, May-25-04, 17:29
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The Frigo part skim is pretty good.
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Old Tue, May-25-04, 21:03
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I like Precious - wasn't granular at all. PecanPie
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Old Wed, May-26-04, 04:44
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Plan: South Beach Phase 2
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I use Sargento's.....ran out of it so not sure if the spelling is correct. I eat it with either vanilla, almond or lemon. I don't add any splenda because I'm not a sweet eater.
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Old Wed, May-26-04, 06:31
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the food processor or hand mixer works wonders- it makes it less grainy and more airy- also try refrigerating it for a while before eating. Say you prepare it before you start on dinner and then put it in the fridege until desert time. I dont know why, but the refrigeration really helped with the taste.
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Old Wed, May-26-04, 06:34
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Plan: The South Beach Diet
Stats: 192.0/168.5/142.0 Female 64 inches
BF:39%/36%/25%
Progress: 47%
Location: Boston, MA
Thumbs up Carando brand fat-free ricotta

Hi, I live in the Boston area and get Carando brand fat-free ricotta at Bread and Circus natural foods store. It is inexpensive and very good, almost like regular ricotta, very little grain texture. Works very well in a blender, too. There are inexpensive handheld blenders which save time assembling a food processor. Hope you can find this brand; it's very nice! Best wishes!
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Old Wed, May-26-04, 08:47
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Plan: South Beach Diet
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Thanks for the infromation. I will be headed out to the store pretty soon. I will just make a list of the brands you enjoy and see what I can find.
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