How to Sneak More Calcium Into Your Kid’s Diet

Serving cottage cheese and raspberry preserves sandwiches is a devious way to sneak in more calcium into your child’s diet.

Think that sounds unappetizing? So did I, but it’s quite delicious and refreshing when you use Breakstone’s 4% fat cottage cheese and good preserves.

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Cottage Cheese and Jelly (or Preserves) Sandwich

serves 1 (double, triple, quadruple etc. per your needs)

Ingredients

  • 2 slices honey wheat sandwich bread
  • 3 heaping spoons of cottage cheese (I highly recommend Breakstone’s 4% cottage cheese)
  • 2-3 teaspoons Raspberry Preserves (I am fond of Bonne Maman preserves, but use what you like)

1. Toast your sandwich bread. Toasted bread holds the cottage cheese much better.

2. Slather raspberry preserves on both sides of the bread.

3. Spread three good size spoonfuls of cottage cheese on one side of the toast.

4. Top with the other slice of bread, cut diagonally, and you’ve got a winner of a sandwich, even for picky kids!

I love making cottage cheese and preserves sandwiches for my kids at least once during the week. Serve with fresh fruit – pineapple, bananas, and apples are favorites in our house – and watch your kids wolf their lunches down.

What is your favorite sandwich to serve your kids for lunch?

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About Kelly Estes

Kelly is a freelance writer who loves to cook. She is a former award-winning newspaper journalist who now writes for the web from her test kitchen in Jacksonville, Florida.
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  • Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!
  • Liz,
    Oh, yum! I love hummus sandwiches, especially with lettuce stuck in there to give it some crunch. Add some fruit, like grapes or pineapple, and it's soooo good.

    We had chicken salad sandwiches today; both my kids loved them. I was laughing when my daughter asked if the chicken salad sandwich would fill her up. Uh, yes! It will fill you up, for sure! :)
  • Liz
    My kids are loving their Hummus sandwiches!!!!
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