{"id":20040,"date":"2011-09-21T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:45:36","slug":"the-perfect-low-carb-snack-just-the-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Low Carb Snack: Just The Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here\u2019s a list of some of my childhood favorite foods:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese, Cheese Nips, Cheetos, Doritos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=24732694693\" target=\"_blank\">Planter\u2019s Cheez Balls<\/a>, Quaker White Cheddar Rice Cakes, Smart Food White Chedder Popcorn&#8230; \u00a0Do you notice a theme?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese1.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20058 lazyload\" title=\"justcheese\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Today, during a Google search for low carb snacks, \u00a0I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialcheese.com\/orders.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Just The Cheese<\/a>.\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve never heard of it before. It sounds like it could be the best food-related thing to happen to me since my diabetes diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why?\u00a0 <em>Just The Cheese<\/em> are baked cheese snacks, virutally carb-free.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re like cheese and crackers but without the crackers.\u00a0 And the description on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialcheese.com\/orders.htm\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0says they\u2019re \u201clike the cheese at the edge of a pizza.&#8221; \u00a0What could be better than that?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Has anyone tried these?\u00a0 Tell me, please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, I also noticed they\u2019re selling something called <em>popped cheese<\/em> and another snack item called <em>frying cheese<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20059 lazyload\" title=\"justcheese - 16 pack\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese-16-pack-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese-16-pack-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese-16-pack-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/justcheese-16-pack.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And one more thing which is totally unrelated to anything but the aforementioned Cheez Balls&#8230; When I was in sixth grade, my best friend and I wrote and performed a play called <em>The Moon and Its Superstitions<\/em> for our local History Fair contest.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure the play was terrible, but we won prizes for it and were invited to compete in the state finals in Austin.\u00a0 I played a woman named Joan, who, while serving dinner to her husband said, \u201cLie on your back and look at the moon, good luck will come to you very soon.\u00a0 And now, dinner is ready.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What was dinner?\u00a0 Broken up pieces of Quaker Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars and Planter\u2019s Cheez Balls.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t fake eat.\u00a0 We actually ate while trying to speak our lines!\u00a0 And we used cutlery! I always went for the Cheez Ballz because there wasn\u2019t much chewing involved, and my words came out less garbled. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyone else have cheese snack nostalgia? \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Perfect Low Carb Snack: Just The Cheese | ASweetLife<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During a Google search for low carb snacks, I discovered Just The Cheese...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jessica Apple\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040\",\"name\":\"The Perfect Low Carb Snack: Just The Cheese | ASweetLife\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ASL-Social-Big-Square-3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-21T17:06:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T20:45:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1f33fe649de04a31a493d746b6e72607\"},\"description\":\"During a Google search for low carb snacks, I discovered Just The Cheese...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ASL-Social-Big-Square-3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ASL-Social-Big-Square-3.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":1280},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20040#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Perfect Low Carb Snack: Just The Cheese\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\",\"name\":\"ASweetLife\",\"description\":\"The Diabetes Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1f33fe649de04a31a493d746b6e72607\",\"name\":\"Jessica Apple\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c10409e04c60ee9e1a01fbe9c4a704b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c10409e04c60ee9e1a01fbe9c4a704b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jessica Apple\"},\"description\":\"Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. 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