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Kraft will pay you $20 not to make cheesecake for Christmas
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Posted on 12/15/2021 10:57:03 AM PST by mylife

Kraft is using its cream cheese shortage as a marketing opportunity.

For just a few days this holiday season, a limited number of people will be able to spend $20 on dessert and charge it to Kraft, owner of Philadelphia Cream Cheese. The premise: People who can't bake cheesecakes because they can't find cream cheese can get another baked good on Kraft's dime.

Here's how it works: People interested in the offer can visit a special website set up by Kraft. On December 17 and 18, up to 18,000 of them will be able to nab the right to get reimbursement for a holiday treat. They'll be able to submit receipts to the company a few weeks later.

For Kraft, the campaign is a way to soften the blow of empty cream cheese shelves -- and keep customers thinking about Philadelphia cream cheese, without souring on the brand.

Cream cheese is the latest hard-to-come-by grocery item in a year of shortages. A spike in cream cheese demand during the pandemic has made it difficult to keep shelves stocked, Kraft said.

Last year, with more people baking and eating at home, demand for cream cheese jumped about 18% compared to 2019. It's stayed at that high level in 2021, according to Kraft. Meanwhile, restaurants are also ordering more of the product.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cheesecake; clintonnonnews; cnn; kraft
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To: peggybac

Carrying on the savings by making your own yogurt to sub for cream cheese decreases the cost by another dollar:

Great Value 32 oz. plain yogurt = $1.87
Homemade using Great Value milk or Great Value powdered milk = 82 cents for 32 oz.

Add in a penny for the starter which was chained from 4 previous batches of homemade yogurt or the dregs from the previous jar (or a heaping spoon of store bought yogurt with live cultures).

Total savings by not using Kraft is about $5.60. Why put that in their pocket?


61 posted on 12/15/2021 12:15:54 PM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: carriage_hill

You calling CNN liars? ;)


62 posted on 12/15/2021 12:21:21 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: mylife

Hmmm, all kinds of cream cheese at my rural neighborhood country store........


63 posted on 12/15/2021 12:24:52 PM PST by cranked
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To: peggybac

Cheaper, yes, but most off brands have a chalky feel to them. Best to stick with the gold standard which is Philly. It’s even popular in Italy and those peeps know a thing or two about cheese

Z


64 posted on 12/15/2021 12:25:26 PM PST by zigmeisterxiv ( )
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To: mylife

How many cheesecakes do they not want me to make?


65 posted on 12/15/2021 12:36:28 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Jaded
Nah.

It is Christmas so here is the best recipe I know.

Three Ingredient Cream Cheese

I use cream and it makes the best low carb cream cheese.

66 posted on 12/15/2021 12:40:48 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: gloryblaze

I like that, too. It’s always creamier, more tangy, and less ‘cake-y’ than the ready-made ones I’ve bought lately.


67 posted on 12/15/2021 12:46:04 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

I’m with you on that. The hard ones seem to be made stale on purpose.


68 posted on 12/15/2021 1:02:30 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I thought that was the way they were supposed to be for years until I had some homemade ones and they were soft.

Never bought another bag................


69 posted on 12/15/2021 1:03:48 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: mylife

I don’t know about cream cheese, but the one shortage I’ve noticed at my Publix in Pensacola is sports drinks.


70 posted on 12/15/2021 1:06:04 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Red Badger

We’ve or an excellent German bakery near us. It’s time for a short jaunt.


71 posted on 12/15/2021 1:06:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; mylife

TP and paper towels are a little down, too.


72 posted on 12/15/2021 1:06:28 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: mylife

Can’t I tell Kraft I’m not making cheesecake but use Publix cream cheese instead? The shelves at Winn-Dixie and Publix have cream cheese.


73 posted on 12/15/2021 1:11:33 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: from occupied ga

Really? Good to know. I have never made a cheesecake but when I use cream cheese in casseroles, it works just fine. Thanks.


74 posted on 12/15/2021 4:36:21 PM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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