Getting off of the dairy habit is crucial in this case and the Veggie
Slices(brand name) are the only substitute that help right now.  It's a
temporary thing in an emergency.   He has improved already in bp and weight
loss.  Veggie slices are the least offensive of the soy for the purpose.
Oliva

-----Original Message-----
From: alexs


>Ah, soy cheese - sorry to say, but that stuff is about as unPaleo
>as can be. This has probably been dealt with earlier, but:
>
>As far as I can tell from the ingredients, it's basically tofu
>mixed with Coffee Mate: soya derivatives plus milk-derived
>caseinates. This from the label of Soya-Kaas brand "soy cheese".
>Kinda the worst of agricultural and high-tech combined.
>
>Caseinates are the acetate-curdled insoluble proteins from
>surplus (or expired) milk. The lactose, whey, fat and other
>milk fractions are separated, processed and sold off as
>profitable food additives. You can buy the stuff wholesale
>from dairy processors in 100-lb drums. Ain't nuttin natural
>about casein or how it's made.
>
>And don't you wonder how whey, lactose, casein, milkfat and
>milk powder has crept into just about everything these days?
>Casein in Bumble Bee brand canned tuna? Gimme a break! Milk
>fat and lactose in Hershey's "Extra Creamy" dark chocolate?
>The dairy lobby and their marketers must be working overtime.
>It gets harder every day to stay Paleo.
>
>Coffee Mate claims it's "dairy free" but that's either a lie
>or a damned strange definition of "dairy". The same goes for
>so-called soy cheeses. All the manufacturer did was mix up
>caseinate powder with some soy milk or soy curd and enough
>other stuff to make it moldable, sliceable, and storable in
>the grocer's "natural" foods case.
>
>
>>    From:    O. <[log in to unmask]>
>>    Subject: Re: Seven days without cheese makes one week
>>
>>    M.,    Good one!
>>    Keep that soy cheese handy til you get over the hump.  You're not out
of the
>>    withdrawal area yet!  I would do the soy for a month were it me.  A
cheese
>>    habit is a tough one to break.  O.
>>
>>    -----Original Message-----
>>    From: M. A. <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>>    I have gone the last 7 days without cheese and feel quite a bit
different.
>>    I did eat some soy cheese ( Veggie slices ) to tide me over the
withdrawal.