Pickles and Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is always shunned as a bland diet food. Confession time: I am in love with cottage cheese, yes even the 0% kind. It's a great way for be to get a ton of protein with less fat, while still indulging my cheese cravings. To really amp up cottage cheese, I love pickles as a pairing! Sure, people put berries as a side, but pickles are the perfect partner with a dash of black pepper.

Cottage cheese is also a good source of calcium, so if you find you're not a glass of milk kind of girl, this is a great way to make it happen. For perspective in terms of calories, one cup of fat free cottage cheese is under 150 calories. If I'm not having it with pickles, I will usually have it with shredded carrots, chopped tomatoes, celery and cucumber with fresh basil. It is an insanely good and light lunch during the summer! 

What's your weird snack confession?