Grated cheese is great! (So are bagged salads.)

I'm not big on shredded cheese, but I am big on salads. I always buy the pre-bagged salads. I'll eat a bag a day if not more all by myself. I also like the fact that most come with carrots and cabbage already in them. As far as price, I go to a discount food store and they're 2 for $3.00. You can't beat that!! At my regular grocery store they're 2 for $6.00 and that's if they're on sale. So, I try to make it to my discount store once or twice a week. Pre-bagged salad is worth it to me.

Depends on which is cheaper when I go to buy. A head of lettuce was 50 cents this week, while the bagged was a dollar something. I dont' eat it as quickly so the head stays fresher longer than the ready-cut. Lately chunk cheese has been rather high, but this one brand of shredded has been about half the price for more lbs. for the last 2 months so I get that. It also is healthy per the ingredient label more so than the chunk, so it works out very well for the time being! I used to get the chunk and grate it and then freeze it - (you cn freeze grated, just not sliced or chunk)I'd buy the 3 lb chunk and grate it in the food processor and bag it in quart size ziploc bags and use as needed. Worked really well.

I do both, it depends on how my money is that week. The bag salad is usually not that bad in price. Same as the cheese. I like the convience of having it all prepared for you.

I do buy the bagged salads when they are on sale - the other week they were 69cents a pound bag - I bought 4 and we ate them all.... but, I do not find them as flavorful.. I like romaine lettuce the best and also spinach - often times I will add these to the bagged salad to enhance it some.

Hi there, My52cents...... Well, as for me, I don't like the smell that bagged lettuce has, it's soooooo gross. Easier, yes, but I can't get past the smell, Peeeeee-U! :o) The grated cheese, now I can handle that, but it is more expensive, that's for sure. I think that I still enjoy being in the kitchen w/my hubby, cutting the stuff up ourselves. Guess it's just a personal thang!!! :o)

I will buy Romaine lettuce that is not in a bag sometimes, but I find that when I do that it goes to waste more than when I buy the bagged salad. I like to eat lettuce on sandwiches and stuff but I am not a big salad eating person. I love the Asian salad from McDonalds though so I re-create that at home for much less expensive. I buy already grated cheese too. I do own a cheese grater but I normally only use it for Mexican cheese because it comes in a big block. I usually buy frozen bagged onion because we don't use a whole lot of it. Recently someone gave us two big onions though. I chopped them up and froze them myself so they didn't go to waste. Phew! I was really crying! I had never chopped a whole lot of onion before and they weren't kidding about how bad your eyes water when you do it!

I don't ever buy either. I'm not even sure they're always more expensive, but I buy block cheese anyway, and buying grated cheese is just another purchase/package/storage to deal with. It's easier to grate what I need when I need it. Prepackaged salads always taste off to me, and I'd rather make my own mix of vegetables.

You are very fortunate to be able to buy preshredded and prepackaged produce. Unfortunately a lot of people who cannot afford it also do so. Somehow they think this is the only way to cook. Honestly I never buy items like that. I am afraid there are preservatives in it or it is contaminated and the bacteria inside the bags can multiply and make me sick. I also don't know if the salad is properly washed or not and if any foreign matter is picked out. I shred my cheese and love the fresh smell that is emitted. For salad I by whole lettuces that are really fresh and sometimes the loose mesclun mixture that I can look at before I scoop it into the bag. I also like to add different things to salads, like chopped up peppers or carrots, English cucumbers, plum tomatoes or walnut pieces and different dressings for different salads. One of my hobbies is to watch cooking shows and of course the chefs always start with fresh ingredients. Anyway that is just me, to each their own.

I do buy the packaged salads and the already grated cheese, but not a lot..My husband does not eat salad and so i rarely buy it...As far as the already grated cheese,i do use that whenever i fix dishes that call for cheese..

I really prefer to grate my own cheese but if I'm in a hurry I do use the pre-grated cheese. The bag salad's are good though...I like them. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

My favorite bagged salad is the spring mix or the baby greens. I buy on sale almost exclusively. If I get to the 99 cent store, I'll look for salad there, but the inventory seems to change and they'll have the iceberg mix or the romaine and not my favorites. When I buy the bagged salads, I have less waste than buying lettuce in bulk, and I think it's the convenience factor of not cleaning and tearing apart. The salad is ready to go with a few additions. I also buy cheese shredded - and then on sale always. We use it on so much stuff. ..whit

I think the bagged salads are not too much more expensive...neither is the cheese if you buy the cheaper stuff...I pay about $2/lb for cheese wether its shredded or not... I have gotten in some pretty deep discussions over buying grated cheese with my hubby...the way I mutilate cheese trying to grate it, my hubby won't let me buy anything besides the pre-cut stuff.