Meal Prep Made Better: How to Use Goat Cheese in Your Weekly Rotation
- elementseo
- Jul 16
- 5 min read
Goat Cheese Isn’t Just for Complicated Recipes
When you think of goat cheese, you may envision it on a chef-created microgreens salad with roasted peaches and hot honey. And, yes … that sounds absolutely amazing. But while goat cheese certainly brings showstopping flavor to high-end menus, it’s not just for chefs. Goat cheese is for everyone who loves good food.
Why Goat Cheese is a Must-Have for Weekly Meal Preppers
Meal preppers (like you!) know their stuff. Period. You’ve mastered the art of planning ahead, choosing wholesome, nutritious ingredients that fuel your family and simplify your week. You don’t just cook; you create meals with purpose, flavor, and care. Goat cheese delivers everything meal preppers want and need, from dependable freshness and robust nutrients to versatility. Plus, goat cheese is much more picky eater-friendly than you think.
Clean and Fresh
LaClare Creamery’s milk is sourced from nearby dairies. With quick and expert handling between the farm and cheesemaker, our high-quality milk creates a remarkably clean flavor and freshness that surprises many at first bite.
Simple Ingredients
Turn over a package of our Original chèvre, and you’ll only see a handful of ingredients on the label. Whole pasteurized goat milk, salt, cheese cultures, and enzymes. From there, our flavored cheeses simply add a few ingredients. For instance, Fig & Honey Chèvre adds cane sugar, honey, and diced golden figs. That’s it. All real ingredients you can read and taste.
Highly Versatile
Original chèvre is creamy and mild with a pleasant tang, making it easy to swap into your favorite recipes in place of other dairy products and seasonings (more on that below). Also, with a vast collection of flavors, there’s a sweet, nutty, savory, spicy, or earthy goat cheese for any moment. Chèvre flavors include Original, Apple Cinnamon, Blueberry Vanilla (rolled or regular), Chipotle Honey, Cranberry Cinnamon (rolled or regular), Everything Bagel Spice, Fig & Honey, Garlic & Herb, Honey, Lemon Bar, Maple Bourbon, Mediterranean, Pumpkin (seasonal offering), and Truffle.
Nutritious and Gut-Friendly
Goat cheese is a healthy cheese option that brings you important nutrients—and actually, it offers more protein, carbohydrates, calcium, and vitamin A than cow's milk cheese. Many people use goat cheese as part of a keto or high-protein diet. It also contains probiotics (the friendly bacteria that benefit your tummy) and is reported to be more easily digested than cow’s milk cheese.
“Since goat milk contains less lactose than cow’s milk, products made from goat’s milk, including yogurt and cheese, may be a better choice for those with lactose intolerance.” –Healthline
Loved by Kids and Adults Alike
If the kids in your life love cheese, they’ll love goat cheese. Just try Blueberry Vanilla spread on French toast alongside crispy bacon and watch your kiddos’ eyes light up. When introduced in formats like this French toast, kids will start to think of goat cheese like any other cheese, such as cream cheese (only better!).
It’s Tasty All on Its Own
As you’ll see later on in this article, goat cheese can be eaten plain or with just a few partners, like fruit, crackers, veggies, or a drizzle of your favorite sauce. Keep goat cheese in the fridge for a dependably delicious, family-friendly snack that doesn’t need any dressing up.
Easy Ingredient Swaps: Weekly Meal Plan Ideas Featuring Goat Cheese
Replace Cream Cheese in Dips
If you love buffalo chicken dip as much as we do, try switching the cream cheese for goat cheese in our take on the simple appetizer. It adds depth of flavor and a little extra tang with zero extra work. Another of our bold dip recipes uses Chipotle Honey Goat Cheese in place of cream cheese.
Replace Butter in Frosting
Goat cheese can easily take the place of butter in whipped topping. Combine chèvre with powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, and flavoring like vanilla extract for a fluffy, smooth, and tangy frosting for crumbles, cookies, cakes, pies, and more.
Replace Cow’s Milk Cheddar in Mac and Cheese
Goat cheese’s secret in many warm, comforting dishes is that it melts perfectly. While “regular” cheddar and other cow’s milk cheeses may get oily or separate, goat cheese melds right into sauces, soups, and stews. In our mac and cheese recipe, you get all the flavor and creaminess your heart (and tummy) desires.
Replace Cow’s Milk Cheese on Burgers
Did we mention goat cheese melts like a dream? Garlic & Herb Goat Cheese and Everything Bagel Goat Cheese are both incredible on burgers because they get gooey the minute they hit the heat of the burger patty. The next time you grill out, try Garlic & Herb with sautéed mushrooms or Everything Bagel on a warm pretzel bun.
Our Favorite 4-Ingredient Goat Cheese Snack Boxes
The rise of the viral Tiffany Plate on TikTok is just more proof of what we already know—when you have fresh, flavor-packed, high-quality ingredients, you don’t need to do much prep. Just unpackage your ingredients, wash and chop if needed, and enjoy your favorite combinations.
Goat cheese can be paired up with almost anything, but here are some 4-ingredient snack boxes to make for the family the next time you do your weekly meal prepping.
Goat feta + cucumber + carrot sticks + cherry tomatoes
Classic veggies, meet crumbly, sweet, salty, and tangy goat feta. This box is sort of like a deconstructed gyro, so feel free to add some pita chips, jerky, or tzatziki if you like.
Goat cheddar + apple slices + mini pretzels + dark chocolate square
This box captures the taste of a full charcuterie board with just a couple of items. Our goat cheddar is sweet, mild, and slightly fruity, complementing the apple and dark chocolate.
Original chèvre + strawberries + honey packet + whole grain crackers
This one gives “sunny picnic with the girls” vibes. Velvety chèvre, juicy strawberries, golden honey, and crunchy crackers bring you fresh flavor and lots of nutrients in every nibble.
Aged goat cheddar + pulled pork + flatbread crackers + pickles
If you love a good Cubano sandwich, this snack box captures the savory, tangy, smoky flavors you crave. We invite you to use storebought pulled pork or deli ham to save time.
Maple Bourbon chèvre + pumpkin seeds + dried cranberries + oranges
Bourbon and oranges are good together, so why not add more texture and flavor with other fall classics like pepitas and cranberries? A PSL and cozy blanket are not required (but encouraged).
Everything chèvre + smoked salmon + bagel chips + red onion
This lox bagel-inspired combo is easy enough for a quick nosh but elegant enough for when friends come over. Swap out red onion for capers if you’re that kind of snacker.
Goat mozzarella + pepperoni slices + buttery snack crackers + pizza sauce cup
Lunchables who? This easy-prep pizza snack box lets kids build their own custom creations. Swap pizza sauce for ranch if the kiddos prefer that.
Freshness Tips
Almost all the above ingredients will keep well when prepped ahead of time, but if you want to prevent fruit from browning, add a splash of lemon juice. Carrots can be set in a container section with a bit of water at the bottom to keep them from drying out.
Find LaClare Near You and Level Up Your Weekly Meal Prep
Whether you’re looking for more simple goat cheese recipes to add to your weekly meal prep rotation or want to find out where to find LaClare in a store near you, we’ve got you covered.
Our other fan-favorite goat cheese snacks and simple appetizer recipes:
Happy prepping!
