Odd or different ways to consume your Protein Shake.

Skolls081102

Hopefully I'm not the only one that has an odd/different use for my protein shake. I will start by saying, my breakfast rarely changes. I look forward to it, and it's delicious, so there's no reason to change it up (at least not until I get completely bored...lol). Anyway. my morning breakfast consists of the following:
Morning coffee
Vitamins
1 Bowl of Cereal- Kashi Heart to Heart 3/4 cup
Protein Shake:
1 Scoop Vanilla (usually) Muscle Milk powder.
2 Tbsp of Natural Almond Butter
1 Frozen Banana
1 Serving (140g) of Frozen Mixed Fruit (Bought at Costco)
Blend with 8 oz of water.

This all blended together makes a nice thick cold shake...and rather tasty I might add. It also increases in volume by about 3x!!!
So after I fill up a 20 oz cup, I have a significant amount of shake left over in the blender...what to do, what to do......

So instead of wasting some calories on another 1/4 cup of milk for my cereal, I just pour out the shake into my cereal bowl and use that as my "milk." It is absolutley delicious!!!

Ok, so post up if you do different things with your shakes. I'm always looking for something new!!!

MellowGa

sounds good I'll give it a try

webbed1

This is an EXCELLENT thread, because eventually we all need some controlled variety.

Substitute for milk or whatever in your coffee. If you've already factored the oveall calorie value of the batch into your breakfast allotment, then the calories are NOT incremental. This is exactly what I do with the equate nutri drink (250 calories) base of my morning meal--drink 2-3 cups coffee with pours from that same bottle. So my calories are stable and I have a nutritious, calorie accounted for "creamer."

I haven't done this, but now it occurs to me that I could. I don't eat ice cream because I can never find lactose free ice cream and I am severely lactose intolerant. I wouldn't eat now if I could find it because I am on a low carb, cut up phase. But what I could would be make my basic morning shake (equate, 2 scoops isopure whey) put half of that in a blender and add ice--wala--tolerable, calorie accounted for ICE CREAM! High in protein too and still very delicious!

As more ideas come in, we should compile them, this is a neat thread start, thanks.

paulhood

I thought the cereal went into the shake? Are you eating more cereal?


Update:

Never mind, I see the separation now between the two. Duh!

ickybella

I make overnight oats, sometimes and I like to add my protein powder to that. I have two absolute favourites.

1. Carrot Cake Oats
The night before you are going to eat this, combine these ingredients in a bowl or tupperware container:
oats
1 carrot, grated
tsp cinnamon
vanilla soy milk (or milk of your choice)
Cover and leave in the fridge. In the morning, add 1 scoop vanilla protein powder and mix really well. Eat! If you add it the night before, the consistency is really weird. (This all works really well blended together in a shake as well.)

2. Chocolate Oats
Night before:
oats
chocolate "milk" (I use chocolate oatly, but you can use whatever you like)
cocoa powder
The morning, chocolate protein powder.

I also like to (thank you, ohsheglows.com) freeze a banana and then mix it, in the food processor, with chocolate protein powder for chocolate banana "ice cream". It is so ridiculously delicious.

I've mixed protein powder into hot oats or with muesli as well, or made protein "icing" for cakes and oats. You just mix a little powder with some almond milk. And sometimes I even have it the way it was meant to be consumed (in a shake) lol.

lizzil0

I almost always make my protein powder shakes (muscle milk light) with water and about 3 cups of spinach blended up, sometimes some fresh fruit added too. I have put a little as flavoring in homemade pancake mix, oatmeal, and made protein bars out of them as well.

Skolls081102

I almost always make my protein powder shakes (muscle milk light) with water and about 3 cups of spinach blended up, sometimes some fresh fruit added too. I have put a little as flavoring in homemade pancake mix, oatmeal, and made protein bars out of them as well.

Please post up the recipe for the homemade protein bars!!!!!

lizzil0

Please post up the recipe for the homemade protein bars!!!!!

Sure!

4 cups dry oats
1 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
8 scoops muscle milk light vanilla (I think a scoop is 1/4 cups)
1/2 jar of PB2
4 Tablespoons coconut oil
water

mix all dry ingredients, then pour in the coconut oil, mix again , then add water 'till you get the consistency you want,just wet enough to hold together when you squeeze it together. Press into a baking dish. I baked it for 15 min at 350, I don't think it was necessary though. Then cut into 20 pieces. The stats are per serving-
Calories: 160 Carbs: 16 Fat: 8 Protein: 9 Fiber: 3 Sugar: 1

But I'm sure there are tons of variations, you could skip the coconut oil to make it less fat, add apple sauce instead of water, add chocolate chips or cocoa powder, real peanut butter, raisins, seeds, nuts. This was an experiment that turned out really tasty , even the husband liked it, so I call it a win.

webbed1

thanks for the homemade protein bar recipe! I don't eat retail bars because they are gross and who knows what you are really getting. with this in mind I can experiment till I find the best combo to meet my specs--

marie_2454

I use my chocolate protein powder to make my morning mocha coffee drink...not too original since all I do is add some instant coffee to my shake