Fuel Your Fancy with Friendship Dairies Cottage Cheese

August 30, 2016 8 Comments

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Friendship Dairies for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

Guess what this waffle has as a main ingredient? Cottage Cheese!

Why did I make it with cottage cheese? Because for 90 calories of cottage cheese, I am fueled by 20 grams of protein to do my toughest (and most rewarding) activity – running.

This is a beautiful photo of me after I ran a 5K. As you can see, I am colored with chalk that was tossed at me as I ran. These “color” runs are all over the nation and I get a kick out of training for them and running them.

If you want $5000 to #FuelYourFancy (probably something not as nuts as a 5K in Technicolor), enter the Friendship Dairies #FuelYourFancy contest.

How do you enter?

Take a picture of that thing you love to do (easy, right?)
Upload the photo at Fuel Your Fancy or
Follow @FriendshipDairies on Instagram and share your photo using #FuelYourFancy or
Follow @FriendshipDairy on Twitter and share your photo using #FuelYourFancy

Participants can enter August 15 through September 11, 2016.

Unfortunately, I can’t enter the contest but you can! I would post my crazy running photo. I used cottage cheese in my waffle recipe because cottage cheese is the The Original Superfood.

My waffles are gluten-free, easy to make, and each serving contains 15 grams of protein to satiate me after a long run.

Friendship Dairies cottage cheese is great for dips, spreads, and smoothies. I love to mix cinnamon and raisins with it in a small bowl for a quick snack.

Check out Friendship Dairies for a ton of modern cottage cheese recipes and videos for inspiration.

Cottage Cheese Waffles Recipe

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Makes 2 large or 4 small waffles

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Ingredients

1 cup whole oats
1 cup 1% Friendship Dairies Cottage Cheese, no salt added
3 large eggs
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon (optional)

Instructions

Heat a waffle maker and coat it with non-stick spray. In a high power blender, puree oats, cottage cheese, eggs, baking soda, and cinnamon. When there are no chunks left (oats or cottage cheese) pour onto waffle maker. Cook for 3-4 minutes until the steam stops rising out of the iron.

Nutrition Facts

½ large waffle is 182 calories, 6.2 g fat, 2.1 g saturated fat, 16.2 g carbohydrates, 0.7 g sugar, 15.2 g protein, 2.1 g fiber, 200 mg sodium, 5 SmartPts

Points values are calculated by Snack Girl and are provided for information only. See all Snack Girl Recipes

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8 Comments:

What is the smart points value?

RHODA ZWEIGBAUM

Per the calculator, 5 SP

Joanna

I have hated college cheese since I was a very young Brownie. Our group took a tour of the local dairy: we walked by the machine that made cottage cheese. The horrible stench that came from that machine, and the look of turning milk into lumpy white something, made my weak stomach do the worst thing it could do in a dairy. I never lived it down and I never ate cottage cheese again.
This recipe seems to remove all evidence of cottage cheese-ism and may finally convert me after all these years. I know that it is often recommended wherever healthy eating is discussed. I can't wait to try this. Thanks.

Sue

You need to be careful because many brands of cottage cheese are high in sodium. I notice that the serving size in this recipe is only a half of a waffle and it contains 200mg of sodium. Who can eat just 1/2 of a waffle and feel, satisfied?

Vivian Euzent

Thanks, Joanna! 5 SP is correct and I will change the post to include it. Sorry about that.
@Vivian - this cottage cheese is salt free so the sodium here is mostly due to the baking soda - which adds a lot of sodium. This is a very large waffle but I wouldn't expect you would eat only 182 calories and be satisfied for breakfast.
Thanks for your comments!!

Snack Girl

I wonder if this would work as a pancake? I don't have a waffle maker.

Robin

Boy, I'm doing a V8 head-slap! I've been cooking for almost 60 years and never gave baking soda or baking powder any thought regarding sodium. Sure, I make it a point to get aluminum-free but salt content never occurred to me. I've always had low BP so it hasn't been a personal concern but I do want to cook healthier for my family and guests. I found Ener-G baking powder and soda on the web, both have 0 sodium and aluminum. I'll be making the switch and sharing this with friends. Thank you so much Lisa! :)

BarbL

This recipe worked out great this morning especially for my carb lovin' 3 yr old.

Kim