Product Review – Easy Cheesey!
ByOk, so I’m one of these cynical, food snobbery type people who doesn’t like packaged foods.
And, I must admit, when I heard about Mainland Cracker Cuts … whereby you get a packet of 20 mini slices of cheese, perfectly sized for a standard cracker – I did think “What has the world come to?! Have we become so lazy that we are incapable of slicing cheese for ourselves?!”
I take it all back.
I do love a bit of good cheese on a cracker, and my kids love cheese in general. My life over the last few weeks has become increasingly crazy and busy and I’m spending a lot more time racing around like an idiot from after school activities to seminars, from swim lessons to TV interviews, from day care drop offs to trying to find the first asylum that will have me.
These Cracker Cuts arrived on my doorstep (thank you Coles Online!), in a number of flavours (Mild, Light, Tasty and Extra Tasty – my personal favourite). I was pondering when and for what purpose I was going to use them, and suprised myself with how I did. Ok, we get that they’re easy, pre-cut and you whack them on a cracker, they’re very portable, great for snacks on the go, etc.
And, did you know, also:
~ very handy for when you haven’t been shopping for ages and your kids’ lunch boxes are lacking something (ie food!) and you go into panic and “argh!”. The “argh” is also because you’re running late and panicking, so you grab a pack of these and add them to the lunchbox with some crackers. Our school has a “nude food” policy, so the packs are out, but when you’re in that rushed, before-school state, they’re easy to open, grab a handful of slices, toss them in the luncbox and throw it at the kids.
~ incredibly useful when you’re trying to prepare the evening meal and the toddler is sitting at your feet, screaming, trying to climb your legs and having a good go at the floor sweepings to satisfy his hunger because he’s incapable of waiting till dinner is cooked. Whip open a pack of Cracker Cuts, and shove a handful in his mouth. Peace and quiet. And uninterrupted Preparing-Evening-Meal time. Twenty slices buys you quite a bit of time.
~ satisfyingly delicious when you eventually get the kids to bed, pop yourself in front of a good DVD with a glass of wine and think “gee, I’d love some cheese and crackers about now, but really can’t be arsed getting up and slicing some cheese”. The cheese goes really nicely with wine, too.
And that was just the uses I found for them in one day. Imagine what you could use them for over a week!
How have you used your Mainland Cracker Cuts?
Mainland Cracker Cuts are available at Coles and Woolworths/Safeway in the fridge cheesey section.
If this review is on your product, and you’d like to let everyone know what a Real Mum thinks of it, please feel free to use the button below to promote the review on your site/product.
If you’d like a different button, please check out our range here.)
