Cottage Cheese and Salsa

Friendship Cottage Cheese and Salsa is delicious and a wonderfully healthy snack!

I have always struggled a bit with breakfast. We’ve all been told that it’s the most important meal of the day, which is one of the reasons I try hard to eat a healthy, filling breakfast each morning. Problem is, I’m a coffee girl. First thing I do when waking up is getting a good cup of coffee…which tricks my stomach into thinking it doesn’t need actual food. I head into my office, start working and, before I realize it, three hours have gone by and it’s nearing lunchtime. Now I’m ravenous and I reach for something quick, which isn’t always the healthiest of choices. I do go through green juice phases (the last “phase” lasted nine months and I skipped the coffee altogether), which I’m actually in the middle of right now. Every morning this week I’ve enjoyed a huge, delicious glass of green juice (no really, it’s good…you have to add a little spice)! But as healthy as the juice is, it doesn’t do much for satiating hunger. So I’ve added an easy, delicious complement…Friendship Cottage Cheese with a little of my favorite salsa mixed in. It’s high in protein and gives me long-lasting energy for a productive morning that sets the tone for my entire day!

I’ve been mixing salsa into my Friendship Cottage Cheese for eons. Can’t recall who first told me to try it, but once I did, I was hooked. I especially love a good smoky, spicy salsa. I only need a small amount and it adds incredible flavor! Seriously, try it…it’s sooo good. If I don’t have salsa I’ll add a few dashes of hot sauce and a decent amount of kosher salt and freshly ground pepper. I really can’t decide which of those versions I like more. It’s a great mid-morning or afternoon snack and really helps to stave off hunger until it’s actually time to eat. Wait…isn’t is always time to eat?? 🙂

Friendship Dairies is holding their Super-Duper Totally Fantastic Superfood Mix-in Sweepstakes on their site right now! They’re giving away more than $5,000 in weekly prizes, including three $498 Vitamix^®grand prizes (you all know I’m obsessed with my Vitamix! If you don’t have one…enter this giveaway)! You can enter once a day through August 31  (and each daily entry is submitted into their grand prize drawing). Plus, when you share the sweeps on your wall, you get a bonus entry for every one of your friends that enters based on your post. How cool is that?!

Entering is easy:

1. Use the Superfood Generator to select a cottage cheese
2. Choose up to 3 mix-ins
3. Get a super summary
4. Enter our sweepstakes

The sweeps runs July 1 through August 31, so head over to use The Superfood Generator! Wait…what?

Friendship Cottage Cheese has created a super fun Superfood Generator and that’s how you enter the contest! It’s a fun, inspirational tool that helps people discover the endless deliciousness of cottage cheese with mix-ins, and their nutritional benefits. I love it because I’m not the best about coming up with things to mix into my Friendship Dairies cottage cheese (I usually stick to my cottage cheese and salsa), so this is a great way for me to get ideas and see some nutritional information about my choices. Here’s what I chose the last time I entered the contest:

I chose mango and dragon fruit because they’re two of my favorite fruits, plus pomegranate arils because they’d add a bit of tartness and texture. Now I can’t wait to get to the store to have this for a delicious change in my breakfast routine! Once I had my generated Friendship cottage cheese mix-ins on my screen, this is all I had to do to enter to win:

For your convenience, I’m posting the “recipe” for my Friendship cottage cheese and salsa breakfast or afternoon snack. You don’t really need it – just stir in as much salsa as you like, to taste – but sometimes it’s helpful to be able to print something out as a reminder. So here it is and good luck in the sweepstakes!

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Friendship Cottage Cheese and Salsa

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Ingredients

• Friendship Cottage Cheese
• Your favorite salsa, I like one that's both smoky and spicy

Instructions

1. Mix together your desired amounts of cottage cheese and salsa. Enjoy!

Thank you to Friendship Dairies for sponsoring this conversation! As always, I only work with brands I love and feel great recommending.

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Kristy Bernardo

Kristy Bernardo is the recipe creator behind The Wicked Noodle. She's a five-time cookbook author, has taught cooking classes to both kids and adults, and has been creating recipes for nationwide brands since 2009. She learned most of her cooking skills from her mom and grandmother, then honed those skills at boot camp at the Culinary Institute of America.

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