Cottage cheese?

Hi!

I was wondering your ideas for cottage cheese? Usually I eat it with cut up fruit mixed in, but I was wondering what else is possible! And non-sweet food items, like maybe with tomatoes or something??

Thanks in advance :)

I usually mix apple butter and sunflower seeds into mine.

I eat fat free cottage cheese almost daily ..... great low cal source of protein!

I too normally use fruit in it - I always have bags of frozen fruit so I can have pineapple, blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, cherries ......

I normally add Splenda to cottage cheese/fruit to get it a little sweeter!

I've also added slivered almonds

Also peanut butter - I prefer PB2 which is a powdered peanut butter - uber natural and low fat cause they press most of the oil out of the roasted peanuts.

My dad always loved tomatoes and scallions in his cottage cheese

A friend of mine made a veggie dip from cottage cheese - I cannot remember all the ingredients but it was cottage cheese blended to make it smoother, and add spices nad diced onion, red bell pepper, etc.

Last night I sliced up polenta, warmed it, and put cottage cheese on top. It took thirty seconds to make a whole plate full and It was still under about 150 calories.  :D

I'd never had polenta before, but I liked it. It was very mild and complimented the cottage cheese well.

I mix it in to my oatmeal sometimes. Also I have it as a snack mixed in with some greek yogurt and sugar free coffe syrup (yeah yeah I know, but we can't eat perfect all the time ). For lunch meal when I have very little time what I do is I take one serving of quick cooking oatmeal, a serving of oatbran, add 3/4 cup of boiling water and let it seat "cooking". Then I add in a serving of strong flavored cheddar cheese cut in to small pieces. I like the Horseradish sold in Costco. Mix well, adding a bit more water if necessary. Then I microwave it for about a minute and a half, and mix in a serving of cottage cheese. Delicious! Plus it makes a pretty complete meal in terms of fat, carbohydrates, fiber and protein.

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I love cottage cheese too. Other than fruit, I mix it with:

Granola or trailmix

Shredded Wheat

Canned pumpkin(with cinnamon-sugar)

Baby carrots, cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, green peas

Peanut butter/other nut butter/nut

Honey or jam

On cinnamon raisin bagels/cinnamon rice cakes, or english muffins.

Mixed with tuna for sandwiches

In oatbran/oatmeal

Original Post by cowcow44:

like maybe with tomatoes or something??

 

That's probably one of my favourite additions to cottage cheese ever! That, and pineapple (which you can buy pre-mixed alread). But definitely tomatoes (I usually used canned ones, with a little bit of the sauce).

You can mix cottage cheese with just about everything. I eat it with corn chips for a treat sometimes. Mostly I mix it with spinach or even steamed chicken.

i loove me some cot chz!

but dont love the sodium!

Sometimes I mix salt and pepper with it and eat it it celery. But i mostly like my cottage cheese sweet. Mostly I use it for a quick breakfast. I use 1/2 cup cottage cheese with splenda, cinnamon, some frozen fruit (blueberries mostly), almonds and a container of yoplait light. pretty tasty.

I don't like my cottage cheese sweetened so no fruit for me. I like eating it on english muffins or toast or mixing in some seeds. My favorite though is a topper for a baked potato.. grosses my husband out but its delicious! Throw some steamed brocolli in and its a quick meal if you "bake" the potato in the microwave.

w/ sliced freash tomatoes and black pepper. 

i mix it in with my tuna instead of mayo, 

depending on the sandwich, use it on the bread in place of mayo, 

mom used to use it to make a ranchy type salad dressing with a bit of butter milk for flavor. it was good, and drastically fewer calories. 

the baked potatoes idea sounds great! 

Oh cottage cheese is wonderful!! I like to top a white cheddar rice cake with cottage cheese, salt, cracked black pepper and carrot slices. Also I bake with it a lot. I use it in pancakes for texture and thickness. I'm good witch just eating it plain out of a little dish  as a snack. It's good with fruit in between 2 pieces of light wheat bread. Go to google and type in what to do with cottage cheese. I am sure you'll get some fun results!

Original Post by me234:

Cucumbers!

It's nachos, Flanders style!

But it is actually really good. I put both in my lunch box daily.

hahahhaa I love that episode :D

i'm a sweet tooth and have recently become addicted to cottage cheese with splenda and cinnamon

salsa is good

my best friend eats it with tomatoes and balsamic vinegarette

I cook it with my scrambled eggs and it makes them cheesy tasting yum yum!

Mix it with fat free refried beans.

Mixed with Salsa

Mixed with Avocado, little garlic powder, yummy!

Put in blender and it looks like sour cream, kinda, great for creamy dips.

All the rest have been listed, love my cottage cheese.