Protein Shakes

I use About Time Banana Protein Isolate and EAS soy chocolate protein. I also use PB2 to add different flavors. I mix mine with light vanilla almond milk. I know a lot of people that buy Torani Flavored Syrups and use them in there since they have sugar free options and such.

Top three favorite ones:

Chunky Monkey
.75 scoop banana
.25 scoop of chocolate
with 1.25 cups of Almond Milk

PB Choloate
1 scoop of chocolate
1 tbsp of PB4
1.25 cups of Almond Milk

PB Banana
1 scoop of banana
1 tbsp of PB2
1.25 cups of Almond Milk

You can buy About Time and Torani on Amazon. That is where I get mine.

I make a berry banana smoothie

Eas - Soy Protein Powder - Vanilla 1 scoop
1 banana
1C strawberries
8 oz Silk Almond Milk - Vanilla Unsweetened
Yoplait - Greek 100 Calories Blended Blueberry Yogurt, 5.3 oz

458 calories
34g protein

I use protein shakes for my breakfast! My fave powder is Sun Warrior Blend Vanilla (vegan); my favorite whey protein was Biochem Vanilla ( Iwent vegan due to dairy issues). Pay attention to the ingredients in your powders, alot of them use a bunch of artificial ingredients which turn your "healthy shake" into a dose of chemicals. The 2 brands mentioned above are free of all the crap!

Chocolate Cherry:
1 scoop vanilla powder
1 tbls unsweetened cocoa
1 cup frozen sweet cherries
1 cup unsweetened almond milk

Chocolate Banana
1 scoop protein powder
1 tblsp unsweetened cocoa
1 tbls PB2
1 small banana
1 cup almond milk

Pumpkin spice
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 banana
1 cup almond milk
dash of pumpkin pie spice

Pina Colada
1 scoop protein powder
1 cup almond milk
1/2 banana
1/2 cup pineapple chunks
1 tsp coconut extract

The combos are endless, I usually buy vanilla powder and I use unsweetened cocoa powder when I want something chocolate! I also use Silk unsweetened almond milk, it's the nly brand that does not contain carageen. I also like to throw in a tablespoon of ground flax seeds for an extra boost.

Anyone know if it's cool to pre-make the shake in the evening and drink it the next day? I don't see why not, but I'm a little concerned with clumps of gross-ness, lol!


This ^^ has never worked well for me, sorry.....

I use Shakeology, and also About Time.

I have one go to smoothie recipe and have recently added a second. I have these for dinner a lot of nights, along with some veggies. The calories will depend on what yogurt you choose, how big of a banana you use and what protein powder you pickl. Typically mine are between 300-400 calories, and 40-50 grams of protein.


Chocolate/PB/Banana smoothie

1 cup plain fat free trader joe's or chobani greek yogurt (they have the highest protein count per calorie from what I've seen)
1 serving chocolate protein powder of your choice
1 banana
1 serving of pb2
water to the consistency you like


And my new one for fall, Pumpkin Pie.

1 cup plain fat free trader joe's or chobani greek yogurt
1 serving vanilla protein powder of your choice
80 g pumpkin pie mix (the canned pumpkin that comes sweetened and with spices)
80 g plain pumpkin
water to the consistency you like

I'm still working on the sweetness ratio of this one I think I may bump the sweetened pumpkin down to 60 g and up the plain to 100 g.

I typically get designer whey from Trader Joe's, but picked up EAS when I needed vanilla for my new fall smoothie.

I use Muscle Milk brand protein powder. I have a lot of allergies and problems with gluten and dairy and found this is the only one that doesn't make my stomach upset to the point of throwing up. The vanilla is good mixed with fruit! They have tons of flavours...the banana is my favourite as it tastes like banana marshmallow candies.

Some good advice already. But the thing that stuck about the OP first post is the over 200 calories for the shake. I rotate my shakes between about 5 different brands and they range from 100 to 160 calories per serving...all give at least 22 grams of protein, but most around 30.

I never mix mine with milk..always water or coffee.

After I have my normal two cups of coffee in the morning, I run another 12 oz thru the coffee pot...so second time. Naturally it isn't as strong as the first batch, then I take that pour it into my protein shaker and stick it in the freezer for about 70 mins. Take it out, put protein power in it and off to the gym. Makes a great workout shake.

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I try replace at least one meal with one of my nanner shakes, it feels like you are cheating & eating icecream with the frozen banana-noms!

I use:
BSN SYNTHA-6 Protein Powder - Vanilla Ice Cream OR Choc
Frozen Banana
1% Milk or Almond Milk
Nutribullet (love & use this thing for everything)

Def am going to try a few of the ones posted here, thanks guys

Hey all, I'm trying to come up with some protein shake recipes that are a little better than what I've done in the past; a more rounded sort of breakfast smoothie. Does anyone have experience using veggies in their fruit-based protein shake?

I'm going to try a recipe:

4 oz orange juice
50 g banana (roughly half a banana)
170 g (6 oz) Zoi Plain Nonfat Greek Yogurt
1 scoop EAS whey protein powder (about 18 g)
10 g ground flax seed
4 oz H2O
5 ice cubes

... and maybe add some spinach? Would that taste terrible? I see recipes that "hide" spinach in sweet protein shakes so I'm wondering if this is going to taste ok before wasting ingredients! Anyone try something like this?

If I added spinach, this recipe would be:
335 cal
28 g protein
5 g fat
44 g carb
4 g fiber

plus hefty doses of Vitamin A, C, Calcium and Potassium.