Quick layered salad

In the time it takes to make a sandwich, you can have something much tastier and more creative.  Today my hubby got out the cottage cheese, so I started from there.  I filled a blue bowl half full of cottage cheese.  On top, I layered:

cilantro, chopped
red onion diced (the Christmas red/green thing)
radish, diced
bell pepper, diced
sweet cherry tomatoes in half
cucumber diced without seeds and with a bit of rind
avocado

and then I thought about it and added

black sliced olives
a sprinkle of sunflower seeds
a small lime wedge
salt, pepper

Very fresh tasting.  My husband came in the room (having gobbled his plain cottage cheese) and said, "You always have the best things."

Note:  limes or lemons will keep a long time in waxed paper bags instead of plastic.  I have bags called Natural Value unbleached.  Avocado will stay nicely in the refrigerator fruit drawer if wrapped in a paper towel.