cheese mmm

hi ladies

a friend just asked me a question, and i thought i'd ask you experts.

can she eat colby cheese?
can she eat cream cheese?

spanks

No soft cheeses unless they are cooked and heated well abive 60 degrees...
Not sure if either of those are ok... so I am not much help.
However, FWIW Listeria, while are large risk, is very uncommon, so as long as she prepares it herself, eats it fresh and trusts it, I would eat it anyway...
But for me there wasnonly so many things i could stomach so i took the chance!

As far as I'm aware the cheeses to be wary of are the ones that are 'fancy' like blue vein, brie, camembert (possibly feta) etc... normal tasty cheese or cheddar (Colby types I would think?) and cream cheese out of a jar should be fine I think. Even cottage cheese I think is fine as long as it's the prepackaged sort and not from a deli.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong!

thats what i always thought too shades.

it seems no one has the definate list though! gets frustrating.
she was talking about cream cheese like philly cheese i think, the type you put in a cob loaf.

colby and cream cheese are fine. Colby is actually a 'hard' cheese, although it is on the softer end of the scale :)
the way to tell is to check if the cheese is made from pasteurised milk. If the milk isn't pasteurised, then stay away. Also, mould ripened cheeses shouldn't be eaten - so no blue, brie, camembert, etc.
Hope that helps :)

I found this list (from the babycentre website) to be helpful:

Cheeses which are SAFE to eat in pregnancy

Hard cheeses:
Austrian smoked, Babybel, Caerphilly, Cheddar, Cheshire, Derby, Double Gloucester, Edam, Emmental, English goat's cheddar, feta, Gouda, Gruyere, Halloumi, Havarti, Jarlsberg, Lancashire, Manchego, Orkney, paneer, Parmesan, Pecorino (hard), Provolone, Red Leicester.

Soft and processed cheeses:
Boursin, cottage cheese, cream cheese, feta, goat's cheese without a white rind, mascarpone, mozzarella, Philadelphia, processed cheese (such as cheese spread), Quark, ricotta.

Yoghurts (all varieties), probiotic drinks, fromage frais, soured cream and cr?me fra?che - any variety, including natural, flavoured and biologically active - are all safe to eat.

Cheeses to AVOID in pregnancy

Mould-ripened soft cheeses:
Brie, Blue Brie, Cambozola, Camembert, Chaumes, ch?vre (goats cheese with a white rind), Pont L'Eveque, Taleggio, Vacherin-Fribourgeois

Blue-veined cheeses:
Bergader, Bleu d'Auvergne, Blue Wensleydale, Shropshire Blue, Danish Blue, Dolcelatte, Gorgonzola, Roncal, Roquefort, Stilton, tomme, Wensleydale (blue).

Soft, unpasteurised cheese, including goat and sheep's cheeses:
Chabichou, Pyramide, Torta del Cesar.

It varies a lot depending on who tells you.
My OB with DS said any cheese that was made in australia, soft or hard, was fine becuase it was pastuerised and not "live". But I still avoided soft cheeses other than philly.

thank you peaches!!! that list is a HUGE help!
i'll print it off for her.

When I was also really sick in my first tri, cheese was one of the only protein sources I could stomach. As a result, I asked my prenatal dietitian about most of them. She said the following:

Philly cream cheese is fine as long as you use it in a day or two. In Coles you can buy seperate little tubs of cream cheese (think they are like 30g each) which work perfectly for this :)

Cottage cheese is fine ONLY if you know that it is fresh. Unfortunately we don't really, as even if the supermarket is just stacking it on the shelves, we still don't really know when it was manufactured. She suggested to avoid it.

Ricotta is fine only if it is in a cooked dish (i.e. pasta ravioli etc.)

I have eaten Colby a fair bit because it is quite mild tasting. I would honestly categorise that as a hard cheese, but I didn't ask my dietitian.

I hope this helps :)

thanks sambo!

I just read through the list of banned cheeses above and now I'm salivating.

Mmmm....banned cheese! YUM!

Dammit!
:p