Cottage cheese had a rough reputation for decades. It was the sad diet food of the eighties, the thing your aunt ate with canned peaches while everyone else had pancakes. Then the internet discovered you could blend it into everything, and suddenly the humble tub became the backbone of a thousand cottage cheese breakfast meal prep routines. The hype is mostly earned: a single cup of low-fat cottage cheese carries roughly 25 grams of protein, costs a fraction of protein powder, and behaves like a blank canvas for sweet or savoury breakfasts. Winter mornings in Canada are the real test of any breakfast routine. When it is minus twenty and…