Snack

Cottage cheese + berries

Name: Cottage cheese + berries
Prep time: 1 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1 servings
Cuisine: American

After a hard session, or before bed on a heavy training week.

Steps

1
Small curd, and properly cold
Three quarters of a cup of small curd cottage cheese, straight from the fridge. Small curd and very cold is the version kids will eat. Large curd at room temperature is the version that put a generation off cottage cheese entirely.
Common mistake: Serving it after it has sat out. Warm cottage cheese is a different and much worse food.
2
Berries on top, whole, not stirred
Half a cup of strawberries or mixed berries over the top. Stirred through it goes pink and watery in minutes; left on top it stays a bowl of white with fruit on it, which is what gets eaten.
3
Honey last, a thin drizzle
One teaspoon over the top. Cottage cheese is faintly sour and a small amount of sweetness on the surface is what covers it. You need much less than you would think.

About 20 g of protein in three quarters of a cup, with no powder involved, which makes this one of the highest-protein snacks on the site.
Low-fat rather than fat-free. Fat-free is noticeably more sour and needs a lot more honey to fix.
Casein in cottage cheese digests slowly, which is the reason it is a common evening snack for athletes.
If the texture is the obstacle, the vanilla cottage cheese smoothie is the same food blended smooth and he will not know.