Home made protein shakes

@rod2341 :
welcome to MFP.
There are many variations available for homemade protein shake. You have to find what you like and give you "more bang for your buck"
I use whey protein isolate in powder form, a banana, 2% milk, some raw pineapple. I prepare mine without sugar.
This is way cheaper than buying an " off the shelf" protein shake already prepared.
Good luck in your healthy journey

Keep fruit frozen and then you don't need to add ice cubes. Peel bananas, break them in half, and freeze them in a ziplock bag. I also use tons of frozen blueberries, raspberries, strawberries. Frozen chopped spinach and other greens are great to have too.

My ritual:
I prioritize protein in my shakes, so I usually use plain greek yogurt and add protein powder to round it out.
For fat, I either use full fat yogurt or else I add a spoonful of almond butter. Sometimes both because yum.
For fiber, I add flax seeds, chia seeds, and/or use raspberries as my fruit because they are quite high in fiber.
For carbs, I use about 1/2 banana and then about a cupful (sometimes less) of berries.
Good handful of frozen greens, a cup of coconut water (potassium).
Occasionally might add vitamins, Benefiber.

These run about 500 calories without the almond butter, 35g protein, 13g fat, 12g fiber, 65g carbs.

If calories become bothersome, I will take a walk or drink these shakes on workout days.

Looks more like a carb shake

What are you looking for? A protein shake as stated (a post/pre workout or snack or way to increase protein) or a meal? Are you against using protein powder? I do a variety of smoothies (meal replacement but with a good amount of protein) and those answers will affect what I suggest. (Mine are usually for breakfast, but could be modified.)

rod2341 wrote: »

Hello I was wondering if anyone has any good homemade protein shake recipes ? I currently use these :

Half banana
8oz 1% milk
1 cup Greek yogurt (fat free)
1 tbl peanut butter
50 g of Acai
2 tbl ovaltine

I mix these in the blender and add a cup of ice cubes to make it as a slushy. I take this after a workout.

If anyone has any suggestions please by all means reapond, as I will greatly appreciate it. My ultimate goal to drop weight while maintaining what muscle I have. Thank you

I'm lame and lazy and just do water and two scoops of IsoPure Zero Carb Vanilla. LOL. Your version sounds way better, love the Ovaltine addition

rod2341 wrote: »

Thank you for the responses. I use it as a post workout shake. I honestly would like to use foods rather than the protein powder.... but if necessary I will use protein powder. I'm trying to cut. So what I'm doing is trying to lower my calorie intake. I'm currently at 1700-1800 calories a day.

I've read that carbs+protein is good post-workout (4-1 ratio), so that your current one is higher carb is probably fine. Without protein powder I'd use 0% greek yogurt as my main protein source too, and bananas are good post workout, so I don't really have a better recipe for that.

For meal replacement I use lots of veg and some fat. For example, today I did some summer squash, cauliflower, spinach, frozen strawberries, half an avocado, and greek yogurt, with a little water to make it the right consistency. My fall go-to was winter squash (roasted before), spinach or kale, green pepper, frozen strawberries, protein powder (but you could use greek yogurt), and homemade cashew milk for the fat (it is basically blended up cashews plus water). In the summer I use a wider variety of fruit based on what's in season.

I like Ovaltine in protein shakes too. I do it simple. Milk, protein powder, Ovaltine in a blender bottle. If I'm ambitious enough to plug in and clean the blender I use 1/8 of a tablet of Mexican chocolate instead. With winter here I'm thinking of trying both versions hot.

CorneliusPhoton wrote: »

Keep fruit frozen and then you don't need to add ice cubes...

I agree with this. I hate diluting my shakes and I don't like the texture of ground up ice. So I always use frozen fruit instead. As a bonus, you get some fruit servings in your shake.

My hubby lost 60lbs eating his meals out of the nutribullit. But my morning shake is 1 C unsweetened almond milk, 1/2 C frozen fruit, 1/2 C lite yogurt & how ever much room there is for spinach and/or other greens