Why?!?!

I always keep it in the fridge, sealed up, I only take what I need out (rather than hovering the bag over steam etc), and it still gets blue fungus on it. There's still a week left until its best-before date!!

return it.

Contrary to what the manufacturers want us to believe, grated cheese is not made of the best pieces of cheese. It's mostly made of leftovers. Leftovers that sometimes can be on the edge of what is legally allowed concerning food safety. Depending how it is transported and stored it can happen that it gets mouldy before the date on the bag. Especially after opening the bag.
Therefore I always use it as quickly as possible and use it all at once.
If, unopened, it gets mouldy before the use-by-date, I return it.

BTW A couple of years back a Dutch consumer organisations did a test on pre-packaged grated cheese, and surprise, surprise Aldi came on top. Not only on taste but also on the bacterial and fungal content.

It's probably something to do with the "surface area" because there's more space for the microbes to get in. Scientific.

I buy block cheese and grate it myself - keeps for weeks!

Must agree, buying grated cheese in just laziness LOL. Its like buying ice cubes, why??

Same here. But I hate grating cheese, so if I can I'll let OH do it.
My fridge is full of blocks of cheese that will be grated at one point or another.

It seems crazy people will buy grated cheese as they are too lazy to use a cheese grater! Grated cheese cost per 100g is far more expensive than the same cheese in a block!

I occasionally buy grated cheese. I have a bag in the fridge now. I cant be arsed to get the cheese grater out just for a little sprinkle of cheese on the top of a salad. I only buy it when its on offer.

I also buy ice cubes. I dont have an ice maker in the freezer, and those bags you fill from the tap drive me nuts. I can never open the blummin things and the ice flings everywhere. Hubby and I like nothing nice than a few vodka and cokes sat in the sunshine, so i buy a 99p bag of ice which lasts us a few weeks.

Well... if you've got a party that evening and you've only just remembered then it's useful. Also, it's a pain to fill those stupid ice bag things!

one tip I did read which seams to work is to keep cheese in kitchen foil rather then the plastic packaging it came in.

once they're open they only last 3 days. It says on the pack

As with what others have said it's just the nature of grated cheese that it will go off sooner.

I only buy two types. Grated moz for pizza/pasta and four cheese mix for pasta and chips, cheese & garlic.


For anything else i'd prefer either slices or freshly grated because the cheese is better quality.