Just the Cheese Cheese Crisps | High Protein Baked Keto Snack | Made with 100% Real Cheese | Gluten Free | Low Carb Lifestyle | CHEESE & AGED CHEDDAR BLEND, 0.8 Ounces (Pack of 10)

Tasty but hard? I don’t understand the people saying these are too hard, it’s not a piece of fresh cheese…. These are very good and super tasty. I think they’re just right on the savory level. These are great especially if you’re doing keto.

Okay, last month I got on the scale and realized I was pushing 260 pounds. Not bad if you are a linebacker, I guess, but I'm five foot one...in heels. I'm also 61, female, and an emotional binge-eater. None of these are pluses in weight loss. My sons are doing keto and having great success, so I figured I'd go that route. Problem is, I have a job as a freelance editor (working from home) and there might as well be a written requirement for grazing while whipping a manuscript into shape. Other problem...I binge when I'm stressed or emotional. Not like we have anything to be stressed or emotional about these days, eh? So figuring that I'm going to eat a certain amount of junk food no matter what, I look for keto/Atkins-type stuff. Atkins for the candy/cookie type junk (I've already left reviews on a couple of those products), and SOMETHING ELSE for the salty stuff. I settle on this. Why? I stumbled across it while doing a search on "keto snacks." I love cheese; I'm pretty much a cheese-a-holic. So I figure anything with cheese as the only ingredient is worth a try. Okay, what I get is a box a little taller than a big can of Planters mixed nuts, and almost as thick. I'm thinking the box is a little smallish. Then I pull out a package. This is a ten-pack, meaning ten packages with two bars in each package. One package = one serving. The packages are about the length of an iPhone XR or 12, but narrower, maybe an inch and a half wide. They weigh next to nothing--each packet is less than one ounce. All these do not make me smile. Opening the package, I see something like a small, rectangular, hardened rice cake. Two of them. Then I bite into one. The crunch is loud enough to register on a Geiger counter, I'm pretty sure. These suckers are LOUD. It's hard to describe the flavor of the thing. It's definitely cheesy, but not like the mild American cheese most people eat. I'm into the bolder flavors, like Tillamook. "Just the Cheese" is aggressively, militantly, radically cheesy. I mean, it's like you're tasting it even before you eat it, and still tasting it after you eat it. The flavor is really strong. And it's cheese. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. It's just so strong that the first bite can throw you off. The second bite is easier. It's FILLING. You won't want more than one packet of these at a time. This is good. Less than one carb--this is better. High fat (12 grams) and 8 grams of protein. So I'm hooked. I looked at a lot of reviews for this product and it looks like a lot of people hate it. Maybe they don't have the same relationship with cheese that I do. To each his own. To address the last concern, yes, it's pricey. It comes out to between $1.90-2.00 per package. But I figure anything low carb (you can't get much lower than <1), that fills you up on 150 calories, and that tastes like this is a win-win situation. You get ten servings, which will fill you up enough that you're guaranteed not to binge, so you won't eat more than a pack a day. The good thing is that except for the days I fast, I have a snack like this one and that's all I need between meals. I'm not hungry. Heck, I could almost use this as a meal substitute. And I've dropped nine pounds in three weeks. I'm happy.

I usually buy another brand of Parmesan crisp, but figured I would give these a try. I was pretty disappointed, they the grilled cheese flavor, but just taste off to me. Was not enjoyable and will not be buying again.

They tasted like plastic

I enjoyed the products overall, but they all taste pretty much the same from one kind to the next. I ate the four different varieties within a day of receiving them, two on the day I got them and two the next day. The flavor, overall, reminds me of when you get shredded cheese that touches the side of the pan in the oven and caramelizes there, and I dig that flavor. Not so much burnt, but definitely drier. Mine were not oily or "greasy" like other reviews have touted. The salt is there, but its cheese, so I expect that when its oven baked/dehydrated, that that flavor will concentrate a fair amount. The very slight difference in taste is the jalapeno one. I didn't expect the heat and flavor like from a fresh or pickled jalapeno, but its barely there. It's akin to eating one of the other flavors and someone whispering, "jalapeno," in your ear, over and over again. I like the texture a fair bit. You could take it and crumble it up and put it on a salad for some crunch. I give it the middle of the road rating for the lack of difference in flavor from one product to the next. I will definitely buy another box of one kind when I run out, and save a few bucks from the variety pack.