Sara Habibipour has a thing for feta. She is convinced that, if Guinness is on board, she can use feta cheese on more things than anyone else.–World Records Editor Jake Sonderman 

By Sara Habibipour

If you couldn’t tell by the title, I love feta cheese. Besides being so delectable, feta cheese has many health benefits: it’s a great source of calcium; it’s great for gut health; it’s low calorie and low fat; and it’s a great source of Vitamin B. Also, it has such a fun name (especially when you say it fast). 

Feta cheese is mostly used in Mediterranean cuisine, but I’d argue that feta cheese can be put on anything, and it can be eaten with any meal. In fact, I think I could beat the world record of “most use of feta cheese.” Guiness Book of World Records, if you ever decide to make that a thing, I’m your gal. 

I eat feta at least once a day with dinner. Sometimes, I eat it as a snack. I recommend buying the “Athenos” brand from the store; it’s not too tangy like some other feta cheese.

Here’s some of the things I eat feta cheese with: 

• Tortilla and Pecans

If I’m kind of hungry, but it’s too late to eat something heavy, I put feta cheese and pecans in a little tortilla and eat that. It’s very light and tastes great!

• Salad

Ranch dressing and feta cheese go very well together on top of lettuce. I highly recommend it!

• Fruit

I have very fond memories of eating feta cheese with watermelon on warm, summer afternoons with my dad. I love the sweet and salty combination.

• Pizza

I recently went to Bill’s Pizza in Palm Springs, and they had pizza with feta cheese as a topping! I was very excited, so, of course, I got a slice of that. It was very good. 10 out of 10. 

• Omelets

I went to a hotel a couple summers ago, and, in the hotel restaurant, they were serving omelets with spinach, mushrooms, and feta cheese. I thoroughly enjoyed that meal! I don’t eat eggs that often, but I really should eat it with feta cheese more!

• Pasta

There was a pretty recent TikTok trend where people were making “Feta Pasta.” According to the videos I’ve seen, you just put pasta in a pan with feta cheese and tomatoes then put it in the oven. I haven’t personally tried it, but trust me when I say it’s on my To-Do list! 

As you can see, there are so many ways to eat feta cheese. I encourage you to eat more of it! Maybe then, you and I can compete for the world record of the person to eat the most feta cheese. 

World Records Editor: Jake Sonderman