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Rinsing cottage cheese to reduce sodium
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I wouldn't rinse cottage cheese, but I do rinse canned beans, even low sodium ones. It does reduce the sodium content quite a bit.0
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suzannesimmons3 wrote: »
It was two years ago.....
Wow.
I'm usually good at seeing this and missed it completely.
K, call me a dumbass1 -
Still wanna know who was flagging the posts - and why... Very mysterious.1
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missysippy930 wrote: »I wouldn't rinse cottage cheese, but I do rinse canned beans, even low sodium ones. It does reduce the sodium content quite a bit.
By how much, and how do you log it?1 -
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suzannesimmons3 wrote: »
some strange puppies on these boards at times.
Haha so true!0 -
Zombie thread for something soooo disgusting! Is it for Friday the 13th? Ewwww.... don't wash your cottage cheese
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If you are that concerned with sodium, just make the cottage cheese yourself. It's milk and vinegar.0
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I guess I just like gross stuff XD but I prefer the whey strained out of the curds and the curds rinsed off and let to dry a bit. And if I do it myself I can get it the way I like.0
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I just buy no salt added cottage cheese.
I’m just thinking eww at rinsing it.1 -
Gross bro.1
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That sounds remarkably unappealing to me, too.
My cardiologist actually told me to increase my sodium. Every once in a while, medically, I luck out.
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Tacklewasher wrote: »
Wow.
I'm usually good at seeing this and missed it completely.
K, call me a dumbass
I missed it, too!
Still gross though. 0 -
Gee, that sounds utterly disgusting. Glad I do not care about sodium, but even if I did I can't imagine ever actually doing this.0
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I don't care how old this thread is. I'm gonna respond anyway.
Rinsing cottage cheese for THREE WHOLE MINUTES? Put a timer on that. That's a long, long time. Is anything even left after all that water strains through the mush and runs down the drain? Plus, gross. No, I'll keep the sodium and the calcium, thanks. My blood pressure is excellent. I don't worry about stuff like that.
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Ew.0
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To reduce rinsing why not just get reduced sodium cottage cheese or no sodium cottage cheese.1
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The evens that I can't.
Cottage cheese is one of my favorite foods and is a staple in my diet. I happen to need salt (am on a medication which lowers my blood sodium), but even if I weren't... I'm an older woman. I need the calcium.
I can't see wasting calcium just to get rid of the sodium. If you don't want the sodium in cottage cheese, either eat yogurt instead or buy low sodium cottage cheese. I also wonder how much protein you're rinsing away.2 -
Christine_72 wrote: »
By how much, and how do you log it?
How to Reduce Sodium in Canned Beans | Healthy Eating | SF Gate
healthyeating.sfgate.com/reduce-sodium-canned-beans-4219.html
^ see above, rinsing reduces sodium quite a bit, and many times low sodium is not available in some types of beans. My philosophy, why not rinse. It is quicker than using dry beans.0 -
I'm doing KETO, and wonder if rinsing 4% cottage cheese would lower the CARB count. (My brand has 5 carbs in 1/2 cup.) We don't have sodium concerns, so I probably couldn't do more than a 30-60 second rinse. Thanks in advance.4
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No, it wouldn't lower the carb count. Washing tuna doesn't take the fish away because that's the main ingredient. The gross part about rinsing your cottage cheese is that the water you're rinsing it in may be worse tasting than the sodium you're washing off. Depends on your quality of tap water but then you really kick it up a few notches by boiling the water first, cooling it down before your rinse. That's what clean eating is all about. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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When I eat cottage cheese, I simply drink a bottle of water afterwards...problem solved....It's better than rinsing cottage cheese with water.5
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I eat cottage cheese several times a week and don't think I will be rinsing it.
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Why does this weird *kitten* thread keep getting bumped?? :laugh:4
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So I should stop putting salt on my cottage cheese?6
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JulieJoyScott wrote: »I'm doing KETO, and wonder if rinsing 4% cottage cheese would lower the CARB count. (My brand has 5 carbs in 1/2 cup.) We don't have sodium concerns, so I probably couldn't do more than a 30-60 second rinse. Thanks in advance.
Carbs, fats and proteins are all part of the structure of the cheese curds themselves. That's like trying to rinse the carbs off your pasta or rinse the protein off your chicken. It would only lower the carb count if you rinse the cottage cheese right down the drain. That will lower all the macros and micros...LOL.
I'm gonna go rinse me some Reese's peanut butter cups right now.
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Carbs, fats and proteins are all part of the structure of the cheese curds themselves. That's like trying to rinse the carbs off your pasta or rinse the protein off your chicken. It would only lower the carb count if you rinse the cottage cheese right down the drain. That will lower all the macros and micros...LOL.
I'm gonna go rinse me some Reese's peanut butter cups right now.
Actually, it will increase the ratio of carbs to calories if you rinse off the cream (well, the liquid in old-fashioned homemade creamed cottage cheese was actually cream -- not sure if that's true of commercial cottage cheese) -- anyway, if you compare the USDA database entries for creamed and uncreamed cottage cheese, you'll see that the calories-to-carbs ratio in creamed cottage cheese is more than twice the calories-to-carbs ratio in uncreamed (dry curd) cottage cheese. The liquid that would be rinsed away is a different product than the curds you would be left with, and apparently the liquid is much less carb-y than the curds are. I guess if you didn't increase the serving size because you were rinsing part of it away, you might end up with slightly less total carb grams than you started with, but the food would be more carb-dense (proportionately) than what you started with.1 -
Or, shocking, I know, you could just not eat cottage cheese. Gasp!0
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runnerchick69 wrote: »Ok admittedly this sounds really gross BUT with that said, I rinse ground beef. I've done this for several years now and it does sound disgusting to some people so I can't really judge the OP
I rinsed ground beef - once - back when fat was going to kill us all. Rinsed out all the flavor. Decided I'd prefer to live dangerously. Then it turned out that was all a Big Fat Lie.4 -
Truly a crime...has anyone tried eating no fat, low sodium cottage cheese? Tastes like sand compared to 4% full artery clogging fat, hypertension inducing/peripheral vascular resistance increasing salt (joking, moderation...)2
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