Big-batch recipe · Vegetarian
Egg and cottage cheese breakfast muffins
12 muffins, 3 breakfasts, about 32 g of protein in each. 10 minutes of hands-on work and 25 min of cooking.
Where it sits in the week
What this one is for
On the vegetarian track this is a Wednesday cook — the shorter mid-week top-up, which covers Thursday to Saturday. Cooked once, portioned hot, and eaten across the days that session covers — on the seven-day plan it turns up at Wednesday breakfast.
Two portions is about 64 g of protein — our own arithmetic on the figure above, not a separate measurement. Protein targets on this site are computed against goal weight or lean mass rather than scale weight, which is the whole of Real Fuel.
Part of the vegetarian meal plan, cooked in the two-session prep schedule.
What goes in
- 18 eggs
- 2 cups cottage cheese
- 1 cup grated cheddar
- 2 cups chopped spinach, 1 diced pepper, 6 spring onions
- Salt, pepper, hot sauce
How
- Whisk the eggs and cottage cheese together. It looks wrong in the bowl and bakes fine.
- Fold in the vegetables and cheese, fill a greased 12-hole tin to the top.
- 350F for 25 minutes, until the middles are set with no wobble.
- Cool completely in the tin before you try to lift them out.
Keeping it: Fridge 4 days, freezer 2 months. Reheat 45 seconds from the fridge, 90 from frozen.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. It is a plan written for general strength training in healthy adults, and any condition or medication you are managing outranks it.
Doing it cheaper
Swaps that apply to this one
From the vegetarian track's budget version, filtered to the ingredient this recipe actually uses.
| Instead of | Use | Why it is worth it |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-grated cheese | A block, grated at home | Cheaper per pound and it melts properly. Bagged shreds are dusted with starch to stop them clumping. |
The prices behind these swaps, with sources, are in the protein-per-dollar table.
The rest of the vegetarian week
3 more big-batch recipes on this track, plus the seven-day plan they feed.