Easy Cheese, entertainment for kids of all ages

by Heather Craven, Posted Apr 11th 2006 @ 3:30PM

Although it goes against just about every parenting instinct I possess, sometimes the allure of a can of Easy Cheese is just too much to resist. Easy Cheese has almost no redeeming qualities whatsoever, except that it entertains my children for as long as there is goo in the can. I am not sure exactly what Easy Cheese truly is, anything dairy that can indefinitely remain under pressure and at room temperature has got to be suspicious. But my kids love it and from time to time I succumb to the grocery store yah-yahing, temporarily lose all cognitive functions and agree to purchase a can. I do this because I know that for as long as the contents last, my children will be busily squirting out the orange paste and happily lapping it off of any surface they deem fit.

Today I broke down and bought a can for my daughter, who thought Easter had come early when I agreed to this. However, as I mulled it over in the cracker aisle while I envisioned that horrid concoction going into her little body, I decided to make a project of it. We grabbed a box of Wheat Thins, a compromise on her part to Ritz crackers, and decided to have an Easy Cheese Art Contest. I was envisioning an Eiffel Tower or a Frank Loyd Wright structure. The Easy Cheese actually makes a fine foundation, it's thick and just pliable enough to add support. But it was our choice of Wheat Thins for the basic building material that set us awry, they are too thin and many are broken.

My daughter was able to create a lovely snake and a daisy. While I opted for what I thought might be the Sydney Opera House. When all was said and done we were both sick of Easy Cheese and ready to move on to a different project. It was good, cheap entertainment and I believe she is sated for at least a few months.

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Filed Under: Cooking With Kids, Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: cheese, comfort food, condiments, dairy, Easy Cheese, EasyCheese, Eiffel Tower, EiffelTower, oddities, Sydney Opera House, SydneyOperaHouse, Wheat Thins, WheatThins

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4-11-2006 @9:57PM Jen said... Ok so it sounds like you actually didn't eat it, but played with it - and while that seems like a better idea considering it isn't all that healthy... there is one way that it actually tastes good. Squirt some of that orangy paste on a Hot & Spicy Cheez-It cracker and you've got yourself a tasty treat. This is something that my friend discovered when we were in college, if that explains anything. ;)
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4-12-2006 @9:18AM JavaMoose said... The best is to poke a straw through a cooked hot-dog, the nozzle for the Easy Cheese will fit perfect in the hole now left in the hot dog - I think you can see where this is going...

Unhealthy? Sure, but tasty!
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4-12-2006 @10:50AM Jumper said... Oh YES!! One of my favorite guilty little pleasures. I love to squirt it on anything crunchy and pop it in my mouth. I usually comsume one can every three or four months.
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