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Trader Joe’s Cottage Cheese (small curd, whole milk)

For $2.99 you can buy their excellent of cottage cheese in a one pound container.

But for only a dollar more, you will get twice as much. The big container has two pounds. That works out to about two dollars a pound instead of three dollars a pound for the smaller tub. Two dollars a pound is an amazing deal.

12 grams of protein per 1/2 cup!

All which is why I now only buy the big tub (32 oz) of cottage cheese. It just a way better deal economically, so my suggestion is buy the big one. One way or another it will get used. It is good for at least a month if not more. More ideas for using cottage cheese are below.

(UPDATE! They just raised the price from $3.99 to $4.29 Argh!$#@!!)

Update 2 (Oct 2025) Just about a month after that increase I see they raised the price again!!! It went up to $4.49. I can’t help thinking someone at Trader Joe’s read my first post and decided to up the price on us! Argh#!##%