One question… how the hell do you guys eat this stuff??? The oatmeal is terrible, even with cinnamon and a little brown sugar, I just have to choke it down.
But it is not even close to being as terrible as cottage cheese! The taste is fine, maybe even good, but the texture makes me gag. I tried it for the first time tonight and I almost lost it! Is there any way to get rid of the texture?
Any recipies or suggestions? Thanks in advance!!!
we here do not always eat purely for taste…we eat for utilization
Ok try this:
In the morning, take one cup of (unprepared) oatmeal, MRP, and whatever else (I usually add a banana) . Put them into a blender. Add water. This breakfast takes about 2 min to prepare, about 5 min to drink and youve got a good start for the day nutrition-wise. If I had to eat formally prepared oatmeal I wouldnt.
For the cottage cheese, I have been adding yogart to it and its much more enjoyable.
Dude, nobody ever said getting bigger is easy, assuming that’s what you want. Sometimes you’ve just got to man up and realize to get something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. Or just don’t like.
Oatmeal - have it with honey, youghurt and flaxseed meal.
Cottage Cheese - mix 50/50 with youghurt and frozen blueberries.
Or replace both with meat.
[quote]I AM wrote:
Dude, nobody ever said getting bigger is easy, assuming that’s what you want. Sometimes you’ve just got to man up and realize to get something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. Or just don’t like. [/quote]
Or he could just consume any of the dozens of other possible sources of whatever macronutrient combos he needs instead. I for one find cottage cheese to be absolutely repugnant, so my last meal before bed is a Low Carb Grow! shake and several fish oil tablets. No one has to ‘man up’ to a bowl of curdled milk chunks to keep getting stronger…
I like oatmeal. Use a little artificial sweetner and a little milk.
I mix my cottage cheese with tuna! This makes both these foods more palatable than they would be alone. I mix them into a kind of mush. A tomato cut into small pieces and some salt and pepper gives it more taste.
Can’t stand cooked oatmeal myself, I mix it with whatever. It’s easy to hide.
Cottage Cheese and Grow! is the ultimate meal. Get a small curd and mix in chocolate Grow! and you’ve got choco pudding, vanilla and strawberry taste greate 2. I eat this for a meal every day and after about 8 months I am not sick of it yet!
So many weird people out there. Cottage cheese and Oatmeal are AWESOME :).
For oatmeal I use ca 80-100 grams of oats, add 20 grams of NATURAL cacao, some canela and add a good portion of skim milk. Then cook it for 10 mins, but be sure to mix in all the cacao first. Afterwards, add 30-50g of preferably chocolate (altho vanilla is ok) protein powder. If you use little milk, it will really stiffen up. I wonder if I could make some sort of protein bar with it. You could allso add some peanut butter for taste, altho be carefull with the fats (as natural cacao has a lot of fat).
For cottage cheese I used to add yogurt, but I now I add some sort of(sugarfree) jam to decrease carbs pre-bedtime. Add some vanilla or strawberry protein powder (it’s a good idea to have multiple tastes of protein powder waiting), and you’ll forget that once upon a time there was added cottage cheese. Allso heard natural peanut butter is good stuff. Still haven’t gotten to try it.
ok here is one for you. Mix 1/2 cup each of Cottage cheese and oatmeal, 3 egg whites, 1tsp of baking powder, 1tbs vanalla, and 1/4tsp of cinimon. Heat a pan or griddle that’s been sprayed with cooking spray and make pancakes out of it. They freeze pretty well too
Good stuff.
La’
Redsol1
Yeah, well, I’m afraid oatmeal is never going to be mistaken for captain crunch or peanut butter puffs.
I prefer not to cook mine, just dumping some in a bowl. Throw a scoop of chocolate Low-Carb Grow! on it, some skim milk, then chow down.
Get the real deal, not the unsweetened instant flakes.
With a bit of time and effort, you can retrain your tastes. Alternately, find some other foods that give you the nutrients you need.
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
I mix my cottage cheese with tuna! This makes both these foods more palatable than they would be alone. I mix them into a kind of mush. A tomato cut into small pieces and some salt and pepper gives it more taste.[/quote]
I do that too. When I first heard about the combo - I thought there’s no way that can be good - but it is! I also substitute the tomato with celery or green pepper for variety.
As for oatmeal - I cook it up with a little salt, water and a little bit of milk. When it’s done I mix in frozen blackberries and sometimes add a splash of maple syrup. It’s great!
I love oatmeal with cottage cheese! Adding some vanilla Low-Carb Grow! adds sweetness and flavor. Here’s my recipe…
Proatmeal - steel cut oats (or old fashioned rolled oats) with chopped apple, 1/4c lf cottage cheese, 1/2 scoop Vanilla Low-Carb Grow!, 1 Tbsp ground flax seeds
I cook a pot of oatmeal (about 4 svgs) and add one chopped apple with a few minutes left to cook and keep it all in a tupperware in the fridge. I scoop out a bowlful and heat in the microwave with a splash of carbcountdown ff milk, then stir in lf cc, Grow! & flax seeds.
24P 29C 6.5F - 275 calories
[quote]vroom wrote:
Yeah, well, I’m afraid oatmeal is never going to be mistaken for captain crunch or peanut butter puffs.
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Crap! I was so hoping…
I can’t stand oatmeal. It makes me think of throw up.
My kids like it w/ Optimum Nutrition vanilla protein powder. It’s not bad! Vanilla gives it a decent taste and the protein first thing in the AM sets their day off to a good start. I’ve even added beaten eggs to it (microwave it) and that adds a kind of neat texture. It’s almost palatable!
I’m still finding the ‘joy’ of cottage cheese. It’s weird but not too bad. Growing up, my mom ate it w/ some ketchup. That sounds so gross, but it was actually good! I had plain cottage cheese on a burrito once and that was quite tasty.
I also prepare it w/ xylitol, stevia, or raw local honey. (Natural sweeteners - we’re all about natural in this house!)
I say, if you can’t stand it, find something else. The world doesn’t revolve around cottage cheese or oatmeal.
Here is a great recipe which uses both:
PB&J oatmeal-
oatmeal
cinnamon and splenda to taste
handful berries of your choice
nuke with water
add:
couple large clumps of cottage cheese
scoop of vanilla Low-Carb Grow!
tablespoon of nat PB
mix well and enjoy - tastes like a PB&J
Thanks for the helpful replies, I’ve got quite a few ideas now.
Are you eating those instant oatmeal pack? they really taste like shit, get yourself some rolled oat or large oat flakes they taste so much better add a little splenda and its perfect. For cottage cheese , I guess I’m lucky but I love it, I can eat pounds of it.
Don’t live to eat. Eat to live. This way everything tastes good.
Honestly, I just make oatmeal per the directions and throw in 2 scoops of Low-Carb Grow! and some frozen blueberries. It’s perfect everytime.
I like cottage cheese on its own, but I have tried with Grow! as well.
Kuz
.5c Oatmeal + Vanilla Low-Carb Grow! + .5c Dried Cranberries or Blueberries
1c Cottage Cheese + .5c Low-Fat Granola