Cottage Cheese Snack Bowls
Cottage cheese, toasted seeds, and whatever fruit is in the bowl — the snack that actually holds you until dinner.
Nutrition facts, per serving
- Calories
- 260
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 18 g
- Fat
- 9 g
- Fibre
- 3 g
Per serving. Estimated from ingredients as listed.
This barely qualifies as a recipe, which is exactly why it’s useful. Some days the answer to “what should I eat” needs to take under a minute to execute, or it doesn’t happen and you eat three biscuits standing at the pantry instead.
Cottage cheese has a texture problem for some people — it’s the reason a lot of readers skip it. Toasted seeds and fruit fix that by giving the bowl something to chew, and honey rounds off any remaining tang if plain cottage cheese isn’t your thing yet.
Buy the higher-fat version if the low-fat one tastes like sadness to you. The calorie difference across a bowl is small enough not to matter for anyone not counting to the gram.
Ingredients
Makes 1 servings- 3/4 cup cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup, sliced strawberries — or whatever fruit you have
- 1 tbsp, toasted pepitas
- 1 tsp honey — optional
Method
Spoon the cottage cheese into a bowl.
Top with fruit and toasted seeds.
Drizzle with honey if you want a little sweetness. That's the whole recipe.
Frequently asked questions
Why cottage cheese instead of a protein bar or yoghurt?
Gram for gram, cottage cheese carries more protein and less sugar than most flavoured yoghurts or bars, and it's slower to digest — useful if you want a snack that holds you for two hours, not twenty minutes.
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