Protein Shake hack?

HvymetalMG

Trying to gain more protein in my diet. I've always had a difficult time with protein shakes. The consistency and taste was never for me.

I love Quest bars so I just tried their whey protein powder. It was bad but I mixed it with 8 ounces of water and an enlightened bar (of same flavor) and found it to have a much closer taste and consistency to a real shake.

All together it's 180 calories. 28 grams of protein and 7 grams of sugar.

I recommend it!

alyssa0061

My hack is to buy the premade ones. They taste awesome

canadianlbs

i couldn't when i first came across whey. tasted pre-digested to me, but soy makes me feel chemically weird and that wasn't an option either. so my original solution was to drown that barf aura in plain unsweetened yogurt.

then i needed a handful of fruit to tame the sourness of the yogurt, and that more or less seems to work. now i'm working on killing a lifelong banana aversion with strawberries and canned pineapple, but idk so much about this one. it might take me a while.

gracemaryx

Put it in a blender with 250ml skim milk, a few ice and can even add in a banana! It does raise the carb content but totally worth it. Makes it cold and sweet and thick :-)

AnvilHead

I always mix my shakes with nonfat milk (Fairlife). The taste and texture with milk (even nonfat milk) is 100x better than water. And the extra protein from the milk is an added plus.

VKetoV

No matter what, protein shakes just are not that satiating in a liquid (8oz or so) form. A common hack is to make a pudding like texture ("sludge") by adding in small amounts of water & stirring until desired consistency. Some will use fats (olive oil, peanut butter, almond butter, etc.) instead of water as the solvent based on individual diet/macro goal (I find olive oil followed by a small amount of water makes a very good pudding like consistency).

psuLemon

HvymetalMG wrote: »

Trying to gain more protein in my diet. I've always had a difficult time with protein shakes. The consistency and taste was never for me.

I love Quest bars so I just tried their whey protein powder. It was bad but I mixed it with 8 ounces of water and an enlightened bar (of same flavor) and found it to have a much closer taste and consistency to a real shake.

All together it's 180 calories. 28 grams of protein and 7 grams of sugar.

I recommend it!

I hate protein powders with water, taste terrible. I do it with milk or almond milk and they are much thicker. And I regularly have used the quest version. Also, you can go onto quest website and they have shake recipes if you like.

trigden1991

Light almond or soya milk is great if you prefer thicker shakes.

RhysT28

Mutipower has a great taste and is smooth not grainy like some powders. Rich chocolate is the best flavour. If you use a blender and whack a banana in, that can thicken the texture up too

angel7472

I do greek yogurt. Like this morning is PB2, mini chocolate morsels, 8 oz greek yogurt and birthday cake whey. I make pancakes with it. If I'm in a pinch I do vanilla soymilk and protein powder in blender.

lporter229

I use EAS whey protein powder for my shakes. 1.5 scoops of vanilla, 1 cup 2% milk, a banana and a pinch of good cinnamon. Or, 1 scoop of chocolate, 1 cup of 2% milk a banana and a tbsp. of peanut butter. Both are quick and yummy. I don't add ice because I do not like things too cold, but you probably could. As it is, these are very creamy if you blend them long enough. The banana helps.