What to eat with cottage cheese?
Help! I'm in a cottage cheese rut. I find myself only eating it with apples, a drizzle of honey, and some cinnamon. What's your favorite way to eat it?
Food_Fiend
Oct 23, 2006 06:33PM
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My favorite is to put a little salt, cracked pepper and lemon juice on top.
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Cantaloupe. Sounds wierd but it is so delicious. Just cut one in half, remove the seeds, fill the hole with cottage cheese and dig in.
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Not so weird... I have been eating this since I was a kid. When I was a lifeguard at a pool club in college, all the women ate that for lunch as a diet item. I eat it becuase it is delicious, especially now that I am pregnant, cottage cheese with everything. :-)
Also:
On pasta, preferably wide egg noodles
On toast with cinnamon (need to toast, top and then toast again) YUM!
With cut up bananas (maybe with a bit of strawberry jam)
With cut up peaches (you can use the dole fruit cups, too)
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ahhh, the memories. that was one of my favorite summer breakfasts as a kid. i remember it was always on the menu as the 'diet plate' at the diner.
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that sounds so delicous. will definitely give this a try! it's been awhile, but I always used to make tuna salad and then stuff it into a cantaloupe half, and drizzle with a touch of ranch dressing.
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I was going to suggest something simular: cottage cheese with papaya. I find that to be a delcious combo and the duo needs nothing else but a spoon and mouth.
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Add me to the list of canraloupe with cottage cheese. One of the few things I ate at the cafeteria in college. I hate to admit it but another favorite was canned peaches in heavy syrup as well.
Kids love it on pasta
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ditto the canned peaches. My gramma used to give it to me when I was a kid. I don't eat canned stuff anymore (or cottage cheese), but I remember that combo tasted really good.
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Cottage cheese with canned peaches, Splenda, and FiberOne. I know. It sounds like something you'd spoonfeed Great-Aunt Edna. But if you mix it up and let it sit, it gets to be all puddingy...mmm.
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Funny! I like cottage cheese with splenda, fiber one and cinamon. I like the idea of the peaches too, though!
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Definitely with canned peaches--my go-to dinner when I have a headache but I enjoy it even more without the darn headache. Mostly I like it plain, washed down with a glass of orange juice--even better when I have some buttered rye toast.
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with peanut butter in a crisp lettuce leaf
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Holy cow! Someone else who likes cottage cheese and peanut butter! I never thought about it in a lettuce leaf. I always ate it on bread, but come to think of it, peanut butter and lettuce was an old favorite of mine. Thanks for the idea Infomaniac!
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Three parts cottage cheese topped with two parts peanut butter topped with one part of jelly and finally some wheat germ over it all. I had this at a cafe in Las Vegas about 25 yeras ago and they named it with a name having to do with energy. I have made it myself several times a year ever since minus the wheat germ. Wheat germ is not something I usually have around the kitchen. Come to think of it flax seed might be a good topping over this little mountain of food.
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ooh, sounds great!
i can't eat wheat, so the first place my brain went for a wheat germ substitute was ground flax. i eat cottage cheese and peanut butter pretty much every day, but never together...until now. i'm trying this for breakfast tomorrow. i'll just have to decide which flavor of preserves to use...
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I haven't read through all 238 replies on this thread, so I don't know if this has been mentioned, but you can put your cottage cheese and peanut butter on top of a baked (nuked) sweet potato. Good.
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Don't like c.c. much but, occasionally - usually savory - A little green onion, crunchy snow peas, shredded carrots, cucumber slices, green or black olives - any or all of these.. When sweet, I'll add a little raspberry jam and fresh raspberrys if I have them. My mother and brother always loved with canned peaches or pineapple. :) KQ
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tomato aspic (home-made)
canned pineapple tidbits
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Roasted red peppers -- pureeed
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As a treat, I'll chop a tiny piece of candied ginger and mix it into a serving of cottage cheese. If you have low-fat cottage cheese with pineapple already in it, this is even better!
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Cottage Cheese with a ranch-like seasoning mixed in makes a good dip for veggies.
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Yogurt.
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hey me too. half cottage cheese, half vanilla yogurt mixed up. makes the yogurt not so sweet and the cottage cheese not so salty.
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add raisins
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This is probably the weirdest suggestion yet...but am I the only person out there who loves mixing cottage cheese and tunafish??
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You're not alone. One summer I stayed at a University that rented out dorms but was actually closed for the summer. So we had no access to the communal kitchens, and no central meal plan. We ate this almost every night:
-romaine lettuce
-drained canned tuna
-drained canned corn
-cottage cheese
-Italian dressing out of a bottle
I lost about 5 pounds inadvertently, and it was actually a tasty salad. Every time I think about it I kind of want to make it.
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I also love this combo, especially on top of a garden salad with italian dressing. Delicous!
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On sliced whole wheat bread I spread cottage cheese and sliced strawberries for lunch. Yum!
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I agree with many of the above suggestions like yogurt, etc., chopped chives mixed in and eat the next day when flavors have mixed in is very tasty, of course pineapple chunks or mandarin oranges are good. mix in a little butter milk is also good. When I was a kid I used to take a spoonful of mashed potatoes with cottage cheese, it sounds wierd but tasted good. If in a decadent mood mix a little mayonaise with it the flavors seem to compliment each other.
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cottage cheese and any sliced fruit. or a little bit of jelly/jam mixed in and put on toast. OR we used to make fun of my mother for this - cottage cheese and sour cream with scallions, cucumber, radishes (maybe one more item). but i had a little sour cream left and mixed it in and added fruit, i have to say it was really good.
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Louisiana hot sauce, of course!
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I'm also a hot sauce person. I prefer Srirachi due to it's thickness, though. I started with Crystal. That has been my go-to diet lunch: Breakstone Live Active Cottage Cheese with 2 tsp of Sriracha and a green salad.
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I like cinnamon on my cottage cheese too. I'm glad I read this thread too, because I've often gotten strange looks from others when I do this.
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cottage cheese room temp topped with fresh Bartletts and English walnuts.
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Good ripe tomatoes and lots of fresh pepper.
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Salsa is good on cottage cheese, also ( a little strange) dip a spoonful of cottage cheese into your cup of hot pea soup, enjoy together, it's tasty!
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Not that strange, I also enjoy this pairing and it's not uncommon, I've visited many cheemaking families in Mexico and they eat salsa with just about everything including with crema fresca, and a strange hybrid of buttermilk and cottage cheese, almost akin to yogurt by the name of hokoki or hocoque(spelling ?) which they mix with salsa and scoop up with tortilla pieces.
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My favorite is Trader Joe's non fat c.c. with cherry tomatoes and lots of fresh pepper.
I've also dumped a pile of leftover bruschetta mix on top of a bowl of c.c. and it was amazing.
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I agree...also add a handful of home-made potato chips.
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Ooh I love cottage cheese with potato chips!
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I've been eating a lot of cottage cheese for breakfast these days, mostly just with sliced banana. But I like it with any fruit-- I was on a plum kick awhile ago, and always had on hand some version of really delicious cooked plums, very good with cottage cheese. Chutney is good also, just about any kind. Frozen whole cherries, lightly zapped to start the thawing process. I bet it would be good with cranberry sauce also.
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I love curry powder mixed into my cottage cheese. I had it as an amuse-bouche in a little restaurant near the Ashokan Reservoir in upstate NY once, and loved it ever since!
Richard Nixon put ketchup on his cottage cheese.
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I see the curry powder suggestion, and raise you a Lawry's seasoned salt.
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This used to be my favorite snack in high school, had to be Lawry's. I also love cc with tomatoes, sunflower seeds and salt and pepper.
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Absolutely Lawry's seasoned salt, but it has to be mixed all through the cottage cheese, not just sprinkled on top. With marinated artichoke hearts it is a great combo.
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marinated artichokes sounds fantastic!
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The BF introduced me to tomatoes and garbanzo beans --yummy
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Sunflower seeds.
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I'm a fan of lowfat cottage cheese. I do all the sweet versions. I also mix it with capers and black pepper.
With tuna fish.
I also mix it with hot multigran cereal (Trader Joes brand), raisins, walnuts, and wheat germ for my breakfast everyday.
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Last night I tried Uncle Sam ceral on top on CC. Wow! the crunch stayed until the last bite. Very good foods go well together.
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Ripe tomatos, avocado and balsamic vinegar! Add sunflower seeda if you have them on hand.
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mixed with grainy french mustard, it makes a great dip for raw veggies.
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pineapple
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Not exactly healthy, but, I love cottage cheese with potato chips. Just scoop up some cottage cheese with the chip and enjoy!!
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I'm a big fan of cottage cheese and triscuts. Not exactly potato chips, but it's a healthier compromise.
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You, too? Isn't that about the best in the world? Scooping out the CC with a Triscut?
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an ex's favorite snack was CC scooped with Wheat Thins.
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I second the vote for cottage cheese and salsa. I mix the two and put them on salad (as a dressing) all the time. Also use cottage cheese occasionally in smoothies if i want a creamy, chunky texture, which happens once in a blue moon.
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Sunflower seeds and raisins with Knudsen low fat cottage cheese
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Red grapes. Grated carrots and raisins. Radishes. Sprouts (just not the mung bean ones). Pumpkin butter.
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ketchup!
or, a mash of runny scrambled eggs, tuna, cottage cheese and black pepper.
can't you tell i like mushy food? :)
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