Protien Source

[Griz]

I was just wondering if alot of folks on this board eat DRY cottage cheese?

I tend to eat alot of it and it has 21g of protien per 1/2 cup (.5g fat, and 2g carbs). So if you mix a cup in with your scrambled eggs, or whatever your basically getting a protien shake's worth.

It seems to me this is an increadibly cheap source of protien.

Any one else use this? I'm not talking about low-fat stuff here, I mean the real DRY/curd cc.

Thoughts?

 

[WarriorPL]

I eat regular cottage cheese with my eggs in the morning.

 

[gmanlax7]

never heard of this 'dried ' cottage cheese . sounds kinda sketchy post a pic maybe you should sniff it

 

[spatts]

Can I crush it, mix it with alcohol, filter it, mix it with oil, and shoot it?

J/K

I've never heard of it either. Where do you get it?

 

[Griz]

gman,

Definately not sketchy. It's a bona fide product of safety. Same company(ies) that makes our milk up here in Canada and our dairy industry is regulated like crazy.

Spatts,

You can crush it, mix it with other stuff, almost anything you want to do with regular cottage cheese. Although I wouldn't suggest "jacking it into your arm", I might suggest smoking it in a bong...who knows? Maybe your onto something.

I find the stuff in a little corner of my supermarket (and little corners of others too) in the dairy section. Funny they don't put much out but one day you go there and there's 20 containers (most that will fit in that space), next day...maybe 1. All the weight lifters in town go in there and buy a weeks supply all at once. I talked to the guy at the store and he says he fills it up, and it sits full for 5 days and then "poof" it's all gone.

The guy at the local GNC (Got No Clue) I noticed eats the stuff regularly as his lunch.

I add the stuff to my scrambled eggs, shakes, salads, chille, whatever you name it. 1/2 cup will boost a meal's protien significantly.

As for regular CC, the highest protien I can find is somewhere near 15g per 1/2 cup.

The two Canadian supermarkets where I've found it are IGA, and Save-On Foods (a.k.a. Overwaitea - pronounced over-wait-eee).

As I said before it also seems to be called "curd cottage cheese" or "dry-curd cottage cheese". NOT to be confused with regular curd cheese.

If I can find more info I'll let everyone know.

Now watch this, I'll never find the stuff in stock at the store anymore!!

 

[Strider]

I'll be looking for it next time I'm in LOEB's ( Formally IGA)

 

[Lee]

i need to go t fred meyers and see if i can find some.

 

[gmanlax7]

so its basically a protein powder

 

[Lee]

but most likely 10x cheaper

 

[hookuprx]

With the properties of a slow digesting protien. Gotta find this stuff.

 

[collegiateLifter]

NEVER EVER heard of it. let me knopw if you find it at fred meyer...

 

[johnny1111]

I did a serch on yahoo I found this :http://www.westbycreamery.com/products/drycurd.asp and some others too. -john

 

[JoBu]

How's it different from standard cottage cheese...besides being dry?

JoBu

 

[Kurtz2]

does it taste as bad as regular cottage cheese, or better?

 

[gmanlax7]

i love the taste of regular cottage cheese

its tough to cut myself off before i eat the whole container

in the picture from the link it looks the same as regular, is it dry or wet or what ?

 

[collegiateLifter]

How's it different from standard cottage cheese...besides being dry?

JoBu

I gathered that there is significantly less carbs and it is cheaper.

 

[Griz]

Johnnnnnnny,

Yup that looks like the stuff. I think it tastes better than regular cottage cheese myself. It looks like a bunch of tiny white lumps without the liquid.

No, it's not a powder but yeah, it's basically like a protien drink.

I love the stuff at night before I go to bed. Down a 1/2 a cup to a cup and I'm doing 21-42g of protien..mmmm!!

But I find it most useful as an additive to other foods to boost the protien content (i.e. chille, eggs, etc.)

I'd imagine the protien content would vary depending on the brand too though. I think the one brand is only about 18g per 1/2/ cup.

 

[JoBu]

I gathered that there is significantly less carbs and it is cheaper.

Significantly less carbs? 8oz of 2% cottage cheese only has 8g carbs but 24g prot...that's seems pretty low on the carbs to me. And I like the taste of cottage cheese

JoBu

 

[collegiateLifter]

Significantly less carbs? 8oz of 2% cottage cheese only has 8g carbs but 24g prot...that's seems pretty low on the carbs to me. And I like the taste of cottage cheese

JoBu

Not sure where you get your cottage cheese bro, but mine is 5g carbs and 14g protein per serving. So a 28g serving is 10g of carbs. So if i wanted 50+ g of protein before bed, thats atleast 20g of carbs. With dry curd cottage cheese it would be 5g of carbs. Thats a significant difference imo if you are tryin to cut carbs late night

 

[JoBu]

Not sure where you get your cottage cheese bro, but mine is 5g carbs and 14g protein per serving. So a 28g serving is 10g of carbs. So if i wanted 50+ g of protein before bed, thats atleast 20g of carbs. With dry curd cottage cheese it would be 5g of carbs. Thats a significant difference imo if you are tryin to cut carbs late night

Guess it's a matter of perspective. Sure 20g is 4x the 5g, but in the big picture 20g of carbs isn't much. I eat Breakstone's 2% which is 4g carb, 12g prot, 2g fat per 4oz so your ~50g prot would have 16g carbs with it...only about 4% of the DV for a standard 2000cal diet...that's pretty minimal. I easily burn that rubbing one out before bed

JoBu