Volume Eaters Thread
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kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
I've already re ordered the Salted Caramel three times, exclusively for making ice cream. The cookies n cream is really good too but if I had to choose based on flavor and volume... I would definitely pick the Salted Caramel
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »Are any of the protein powders that are chocolate flavoured likely to contain any caffeine? A sniff of coffee or chocolate after about lunchtime and I definitely have trouble falling asleep. Is it really "chocolate?"
They have cocoa...which contains trace amounts of caffeine. Hard to determine how much, as cocoa beans themselves vary in caffeine levels(.1-0.7%). I'm also assuming there isn't a large amount of cocoa powder in the protein powder.1 -
kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
Salted Caramel is Also delicious with a crushed graham cracker and tbs of cocoa nibs. My PEScience samples arrive today. I'm literally sitting on the doorstep. Snickerdoodle (I'll try tonight) and Peanut Butter Cookie (for breakfast). And FYI if you like crunch, the Ezikiel Sprouted Grains cereal is the crunchiest thing ever, just need a tbs on top, adds about 25 cals3 -
kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
I've already re ordered the Salted Caramel three times, exclusively for making ice cream. The cookies n cream is really good too but if I had to choose based on flavor and volume... I would definitely pick the Salted Caramel
Ok, I'm glad I chose the Salted Caramel!!kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
Salted Caramel is Also delicious with a crushed graham cracker and tbs of cocoa nibs. My PEScience samples arrive today. I'm literally sitting on the doorstep. Snickerdoodle (I'll try tonight) and Peanut Butter Cookie (for breakfast). And FYI if you like crunch, the Ezikiel Sprouted Grains cereal is the crunchiest thing ever, just need a tbs on top, adds about 25 cals
Thanks for the topping ideas!
And haha, I'd probably be sitting on my doorstep for those flavors too! Be sure to share how they turn out!1 -
kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
Yum! Can't wait to read how it turns out.
I just made more tonight & put less ice & some xanthan gum in & it turned out more like ice cream than my past two attempts. I topped it with six butter cookies.
Today for lunch I had a Great Value Frozen Grain meal that has quinoa, kale, & a few other vegetables (226 grams) & frozen green beans (338 grams) & my belly was full until I made my ice cream.2 -
Taking a break from ice cream fluff for a real meal. Large and lovely mushroom and spinach frittata with sweet potato chips. Intended to drizzle with spicy laughing cow, but couldn't get it to melt to save my life. 2 whole eggs, 2 egg whites, 3 cups spinach and 100g mushrooms. Bake at 350 for about 15 mins.18 -
kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
Yum! Can't wait to read how it turns out.
I just made more tonight & put less ice & some xanthan gum in & it turned out more like ice cream than my past two attempts. I topped it with six butter cookies.
Today for lunch I had a Great Value Frozen Grain meal that has quinoa, kale, & a few other vegetables (226 grams) & frozen green beans (338 grams) & my belly was full until I made my ice cream.
Ok, it was sooo much better than the other times I made it with the other protein powder. Way more volume and better texture..like real ice cream texture. I'm so happy I bought Quest!
Your lunch sounds good!
And @nowine4me, that looks awesome!3 -
kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
Salted Caramel is Also delicious with a crushed graham cracker and tbs of cocoa nibs. My PEScience samples arrive today. I'm literally sitting on the doorstep. Snickerdoodle (I'll try tonight) and Peanut Butter Cookie (for breakfast). And FYI if you like crunch, the Ezikiel Sprouted Grains cereal is the crunchiest thing ever, just need a tbs on top, adds about 25 cals
Exited to hear how your PEScience samples are! And holy crap that meal looks delish too.0 -
kelly_c_77 wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »DancingMoosie wrote: »kelly_c_77 wrote: »My protein powder isn't giving me the volume that you guys are getting with the ice cream recipe. I'm going to get some Quest today. Which flavor do you guys suggest? Cookies n cream or Salted Caramel? I know it's personal preference, but they both sound good and I can't decide!
I haven't tried cookies and cream yet, but the salted caramel is my favorite of the ones I have tried. It is great with coffee and frozen banana too.
Awesome thanks, that's what I ended up going with! I'm excited to try the ice cream again tonight!
And yum to coffee and frozen banana!
Yum! Can't wait to read how it turns out.
I just made more tonight & put less ice & some xanthan gum in & it turned out more like ice cream than my past two attempts. I topped it with six butter cookies.
Today for lunch I had a Great Value Frozen Grain meal that has quinoa, kale, & a few other vegetables (226 grams) & frozen green beans (338 grams) & my belly was full until I made my ice cream.
Ok, it was sooo much better than the other times I made it with the other protein powder. Way more volume and better texture..like real ice cream texture. I'm so happy I bought Quest!
Your lunch sounds good!
And @nowine4me, that looks awesome!
Yay! Pretty crazy right? Ice cream magic
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@ElvenToad tried the snickerdoodle and the flavor was awesome, but the texture didn't work. It was super icey and crunchy rather than smooth. I'll try again tomorrow maybe adding a little more almond milk. As a topper I took a tbs of the Ezekiel cereal I love so much (the texture part) and added a little cinnamon and a half packet of Truvia to amp up the snickerdoodle-ness of the whole thing.0
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@ElvenToad tried the snickerdoodle and the flavor was awesome, but the texture didn't work. It was super icey and crunchy rather than smooth. I'll try again tomorrow maybe adding a little more almond milk. As a topper I took a tbs of the Ezekiel cereal I love so much (the texture part) and added a little cinnamon and a half packet of Truvia to amp up the snickerdoodle-ness of the whole thing.
Sounds good! You said your PEScience samples are a whey/casein blend right? Because when I make ice cream with my casein pp I have that exact same problem.
What fixes it for me is adding the syrup, almond milk, extract, sweetener, pp, then ice and blending it all at once instead of adding the pp last after the ice is crushed up. Also adding 20-30 extra mils of almond milk and blending a bit longer. (food processor I imagine works pretty much the same way as a blender?)
For some reason casein pp is harder to make ice cream with than whey but a little trial and error and I got it right. I've done... quite a bit of experimenting
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Wait so whey is better for ice cream and casein for fluff? Why wouldn't casein be better for ice cream too? Gah. I'm confused. I'm a PEScience snickerdoodle girl for basic *kitten*, but honestly BSN peanut butter cookie is the best protein powder I've ever had and I'm concerned about it not making great ice cream. I have to lookup what blend it is.
Also, drunk again so if that made sense, great. If not. Carry on.4 -
I finally got all the parts for the fluff, pretty excited to try tomorrow! I got the xanthan gum at Whole Foods and today I found sample size packets of casein protein powder in a couple different flavours. I'll try it basic first but I really like the idea of the ones I've seen that make a kind of paste out of frozen fruit and whip that in.1
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Wait so whey is better for ice cream and casein for fluff? Why wouldn't casein be better for ice cream too? Gah. I'm confused. I'm a PEScience snickerdoodle girl for basic *kitten*, but honestly BSN peanut butter cookie is the best protein powder I've ever had and I'm concerned about it not making great ice cream. I have to lookup what blend it is.
Also, drunk again so if that made sense, great. If not. Carry on.
I'm confused too because the protein powder I used the first two times I made the ice cream was whey and it definitely wasn't as "ice creamy" as when I used the whey/casein blend. I'll trust @ElvenToad though since she seems to be the protein ice cream expert! 2 -
So aside from the fluff i find a really satisfying dessert (ir meal) is a large la tortilla factory wrap (90 cals and 13g fiber) pb2, cinnamon, 1/2 apple, tsp or less sugar free jam, 3 cashews split in half, a couple of slices greek yogurt covered bananas and fresh mint leaves. Yummy and so filling.2
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JerSchmare wrote: »IMHO there is nothing better than this......... Inspiralizer. inspiralized.com/shop/
And she has tons of recipes. I got one myself and since then I go 4 more for family members.
Life's too short. I'd rather pay $8 at Whole Foods.
My b-hole tightened a little when I read that. $8 for zucchini???6 -
Daft question, so forgive me. Ever since I went back to having volume meals I feel it takes me more to get full/satisfied. Does your stomach expand again or something or is it just a mental thing?0
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meganridenour wrote: »JerSchmare wrote: »IMHO there is nothing better than this......... Inspiralizer. inspiralized.com/shop/
And she has tons of recipes. I got one myself and since then I go 4 more for family members.
Life's too short. I'd rather pay $8 at Whole Foods.
My b-hole tightened a little when I read that. $8 for zucchini???
Exactly. He is paying $8 for one spirilized zucchini when a zucchini costs around $1. Wow... life really is too short.
Or we are in the wrong business haha6 -
Wait so whey is better for ice cream and casein for fluff? Why wouldn't casein be better for ice cream too? Gah. I'm confused. I'm a PEScience snickerdoodle girl for basic *kitten*, but honestly BSN peanut butter cookie is the best protein powder I've ever had and I'm concerned about it not making great ice cream. I have to lookup what blend it is.
Also, drunk again so if that made sense, great. If not. Carry on.
Oh no you can absolutely still make great ice cream with casein or a casein/whey blend. For me (not using xantham gum) I noticed the casein didn't blend as easily and started trying different things until I got it to come out with the right texture/consistency. If your getting good results then stick with that, but if your having trouble with casein or a whey/casein blend try my tips.
Here is my mint chocolate chip, its 100% casein, and it makes fabulous ice cream but not as much volume and I have to tweak the process (per my last post).
Different brands, blenders/processors, types of pp, even flavors, your mileage may vary so you might have to experiment a little bit but I have yet to be unsuccessful making ice cream with ON or Quest.
uhhh peanut butter cookie sounds like I need to google that! you know.. for science.3 -
I've always made the protein fluff with soda in the past (and I quite like it) but as I said some posts back, I wanted to try the ice cream version too. I did but I couldn't get it to fluff at all but after that I kept experimenting a bit and thought I share my experience since it might be helpful for others.
As @ElvenToad said, the results really vary a lot between different protein powders and combinations of PP/liquid/ice/etc but but here are "my results" so far:
Let me first say, I usually made my fluff in bowl with 100% casein protein powder with Coke Zero. I used casein because I had read it fluffs the best - and after my experiments I can confirm that for the fluff in a bowl without any ice. It also creates the most volume for me.
When my first attempts with the ice cream recipe failed, I kept trying with other variations.
Since the sugar-free syrup is quite expensive where I live, I tried around without syrup but with ice (cubes) and in a food processor and those results were much better. Also, I tried Whey for experimenting because I had some which I didn't love for other purposes and thought I could use that one for testing since it wouldn't bother me throwing the results out.
But to my surprise, for me the Whey protein powder works much better for fluff with ice (cubes but no syrup). Another massive surprise to me: protein powder(s) which you may not love for other uses, work fantastic for iced fluff.
In my case, a while ago I bought a Whey protein powder with lemon cheesecake flavour because I love that flavor in general but I was disappointed in the PP. It didn't taste as good as I hoped (the taste was too artificial among other things and my tolerance for that is usually pretty high) and while it wasn't so bad to throw it out, I hadn't planned on reordering that flavor again. But as iced fluff? It's pretty darn fantastic. Often fluffs are a bit bland in taste and the PP flavor doesn't always come through a lot but in this case, it works great.
What I found out for me (and re-checked also with my other flavoured PPs): Whey works much better for fluff with crushed ice (cubes) while pure casein doesn't work for me at all. @ElvenToad seems to get it to work based on her post above but I couldn't so far. I haven't tried any blends so far.
Then I also tried replacing the almond milk with soda but keeping the crushed ice (cubes) and that works well actually too. It's faster than mixing it in a bowl and my results are a bit creamier but the volume is less than mixing it in a bowl without ice (still pretty decent volume though).
Another thing I just recently tried adding: Inulin. I initially bought it as a fiber supplement but it's normally used to make yogurt and ice cream creamier. I think I need a bit more testing but I feel it makes the result of the protein fluff a bit more creamy as well.
Also, I have a Whey Coffee Caramel PP which tastes great as fluff and what I tried here with great results is making my ice cubes out of black coffee instead of water. It works really well with the taste of the fluff.
Here are 2 variations of the fluff I recently make a lot:
90-100ml of almond milk
1-2 dashes of sweetener
5-10 drops of myprotein flavdrops caramel flavor
1/2 tray ice cubes from black coffee (approx. 150ml)
Crush all those ingredients in a food processor until the ice is broken. Then add a mixture of
12.5g Myprotein Whey Impact Protein Coffee Caramel flavor
3g Xantham Gum
2g Inulin
and blend approx 2 min. I get around 3.5-4 cups of volume out of this. Compared to fluff in a bowl without ice cubs, it's a bit less volume but creamier. Idt it reaches the status of "ice cream" through.
Second variation:
90-100ml of Sprite Zero (you can use almond milk too of course)
5ml of lemon concentrate
1/2 tray of ice cubs
Crush it in food processor and then add mix of:
12.5g Myprotein Whey Impact Protein Lemon Cheesecake flavour
3g Xantham Gum
2g Inulin
and blend again for around 2 min. I get approx the same volume as the version above. The texture here is very similar to the one with almond milk; it might be ~slightly~ creamier with almond milk but imo the difference is minor.
I think one big factor in how well it all fluffs is the ability of your blender/food processor to turn the ice cubs into crushed ice/ice snow vs some slush. The snowier the first part of the process is, the better the fluff's end result. Eg. my blender isn't high-end and that contributes majorly to the reason why I couldn't make it work there and the food processor works better for me. Even the flavour can make a big difference; I have a Banana flavour of the same brand the Coffee Caramel and Lemon Cheesecake are from (which fluff great) and I LOVE the banana flavour for other uses but weirdly it neither tastes nor fluffs as well as the others.
My recipes might not be ice cream but perhaps there are some useful tidbits in there for others.
While I will keep making fluff in a bowl without any ice (I do like it) I will definitely alternate it with the version with ice (cubes) in the food processor mainly because I can use Whey there. The big advantage of Whey to me is that it's available in many more (interesting) flavours than casein which you often only get in a like 3 basic ones. It's also faster to make (if you have ice cubes in the freezer). But I'll keep experimenting and perhaps it's time to try the "ice cream" with the syrup again and I'll succeed with fluff and not soup this time around. 5
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