Question for my British friends (or anyone else who knows)

[fenchurch]

I've been pulling a lot of really good recipes from the UK Weight Watchers website (as well as the WW sites in Australia and Canada) and I've gotten pretty good at deciphering food names where they differ, but there's one ingredient that has shown up a lot that I have no idea what the American equivalent might be: low-fat soft cheese.

Mostly, I'm wondering if this is a specific product or if it's just any soft cheese that happens to be low fat?

(I'm still rather annoyed by the number of yummy looking recipes that call for low-fat crème fraîche, since we've only recently been able to find the regular stuff in the non-specialty stores here... never mind some fancy shmancy low fat stuff!)

Comments

[corellian-sugar.livejournal.com]

When I spent the summer of '88 in Scotland, low-fat soft cheese was cream cheese. Not sure about Britain, but I'm assuming things wouldn't be that different. Good luck.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Looks like that's the case! And I was suspecting it might be, but couldn't find any information anywhere that said for sure. Now I can't wait to try some of the recipes I've been saving...