Goat Cheese with Olives
Two ingredients, one bowl, sixty seconds. Goat cheese crumbled into olives is the kind of snack that barely counts as prep, but at 192 calories with 17 grams of fat and 8 grams of protein, it pulls more weight than most things that take ten times longer.
What you taste is the contrast. Tangy, soft cheese against briny, firm olives. No cooking, no heat, no cleanup beyond a bowl and a spoon. The 2 grams of carbs are almost incidental.
Ingredients
- goat cheese 2 ounces
- olives 8 pieces
Method
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Mix the goat cheese with the olives in a small bowl.
Use a soft, fresh goat cheese log rather than an aged round. Fresh goat cheese crumbles apart when you stir it, coating each olive in a tangy layer instead of sitting in separate chunks.
Behind this recipe
Is 17 grams of fat too much for a snack?
Research looking at fat intake and hormone function found a daily floor of roughly 44 to 56 grams of fat. This snack covers about a third of that minimum. Seventeen grams from a single snack is not excessive by any measure the available evidence supports — if anything, most people eating for fat loss cut closer to that floor than they realize. More on the daily fat floor
Read the full evidence reviewCan I use feta instead of goat cheese?
You can. Feta is firmer and saltier, so the texture changes. Goat cheese is softer and tangier, which means it breaks apart into the olives and coats them. Feta stays in distinct cubes. Both work, similar macros, different experience.
Does it matter whether the fat comes from the cheese or the olives?
MRI research found that the same surplus calories produced different body compositions depending on fat type. Saturated fat led to more visceral fat storage, while unsaturated fat led to more lean tissue. This snack delivers both: saturated from the goat cheese, monounsaturated from the olives. What MRI found about fat type and body composition
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