A whole tub of cottage cheese!

hug0

Once I open a tub of cottage cheese I cant stop eating it until its gone, I have it also with sugar free jam to sweeten it and 2 nairns oatcakes, the calorie content is high, its 210 calories per tub, especially when I have sugar free jam and oat cakes with it!

Should this be eaten as lunch as there's so many calories in it? Also it says it has 5 weightwatcher points in it!! Is that a lot for one tub or should I just ignore W.W!

Adelie

hug0 wrote: »

Should this be eaten as lunch as there's so many calories in it?

210 calories for lunch is nowhere near high, even with the jam and oakcakes it's probably less than 400 which is still really low!

EileenG

210 calories is not high. A typical latte is more than that before you even order a muffin. A whole tub of cottage cheese makes an excellent snack. Actually, I'll often eat some before I go out to a meal in a restaurant, it takes the edge off my hunger so I don't order all round me.

Ignore WW. Cottage cheese is high protein, low carb, low fat. Even the regular full fat cottage cheese is low fat compared to most other foods. Eat and enjoy.

hug0

I know thats not high for lunch, but I would have it after work as a snack to tie me over until dinner,is it too much?

Adelie

Oh right I misread your post. Well if you're counting calories, it totally depends on your total for the rest of the day. It sounds reasonable as a snack to me but obviously you won't need to eat as big a dinner afterwards.

didka

Well, I eat something every 3 - 4 hours so if I lunch at 12 and have my dinner at 6 or 7 I definetly need something and 200 calories would be fine for me.
I usually hummus and peper sticks before leaving work -about 200 calorie worth of them

Kiva.D

I'm not particularly nutrition-wise, but isn't cottage cheese considered a good low fat option? I particularly enjoy adding it to a can of peaches (I'll have to go look up the nutrional value of that combo before partaking again).:)