Make chili with extra beans and lean ground turkey and top with a little cheddar cheese and sour cream.

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Falwell's order arrived: a three-egg cheddar cheese omelet, sausage links on the side, plus a jar of mustard (for the eggs).

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But more often than not, lunch would be another ponchoed picnic at a national park, with dry cheddar cheese, autumnal fruit and other distressingly unpackaged foodstuffs.

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Lower-fat or fat-free products can be higher in sodium than their full-fat counterparts: An ounce of full-fat sharp cheddar cheese has less sodium than one ounce of fat-free cheddar.

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Cheese curds are essentially morsels of cheddar or other cheeses that are removed from the cheese-making process before they are pressed.

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The offerings are as vegetarian-friendly as can be, given it is a Southern buffet brunch, with creamy jalapeno cheese grits, delicious cheddar and broccoli casserole and biscuits with a smoked chipotle sauce.

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Second runner-up was Medium Cheddar, made by Team Cracker Barrel Natural Cheese, Agropur Weyauwega for Kraft Foods in Glenview, Ill.

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Here cheese-maker Alastair Pearson takes 90, 000 litres of milk a year from five biodynamic farms and turns it into enormous rounds of nutty, muslin-wrapped cheddar, creamy brie, Swiss-style mountain cheese, gouda and mature, tangy tomme.

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