Protein shakes...?

my fav is EAS. 110 cals and 17 grams of protein. I love the strawberry. They are pretty small. I use them more as a snack so I get in all the protein I need for the day.

Biochem is great. I would strongly urge everyone to stay away from muscle milk...lots of heavy metals and arsenic in it.

http://www.si03.com/reg_index.htm

I like the vanilla torte and the double stuffed

I use Kaizen 100%Whey Isolate, Decadent Chocolate. It comes in vanilla too. I mix it with almond milk and peanut butter, or frozen fruit.

It's awesome! I get it at Costco here in Canada. 4.4lbs for $45. Per serving: 150 calories, 0.5g fat, 1g carb, 35g protein.

Whey Protein -- Leanfit Costco Brand - very affordable & tastes good.
It's what I use!
And I am a 31 yr old female & honestly I enjoy my shakes.

I found some pretty tasty recipes on www.dashingdish.com. If you look under her shake recipes you'll find some really good ones. I use vanilla and chocolate whey protein and in her recipes she uses 1/2 cup cottage cheese blended in them, you get that much more protein and you can't taste it AT ALL!! It makes the thicker consistency of the shake. I would give some of those a try. Another one I love is with banana, blueberries and peanut butter. Super good!!

Interesting to see what other folks like...I liked EAS whey (both choc & vanilla tasted great), then Sam's stopped selling it.

Switched to Optimum Nutrition whey & liked the choc, vanilla ice cream was ok; didn't like it as much as EAS though. Plus ON is way more expensive. I tried a sample of the strawberry ON & liked that a lot, when I run out that will probably be my next buy. When blended with milk & some ice it tastes a lot like McD's strawberry shakes (which I've always liked).

Currently using Myofusion & not crazy about the choc or vanilla though it's tolerable. I find it much sweeter than the ON. All 3 brands have 25ish g of protein per serving & are pretty low carb.

I get mine at Costco. They are 30g of protein and they taste great. Come in chocolate or vanilla.

I work as a physical therapist for the Army, so I get questions on protein and supplement use quite a bit... especially now that we're in a "draw down" and they are actually enforcing the height / weight requirements ;-)

We had an inservice by one of our a nutritionists the other day.

She recommended looking for a supplement with fewer ingredients rather than more (similar to thinking re: processed food, I guess) with whey, casein or egg proteins. She noted that soy is fine if you're allergic to the others but there are some possible hormone side effects with high soy levels in women.

One of the examples that she listed for protein supplementation was powdered non-fat milk. It's a little carb heavy at 18 g carbs to 12 g protein, but I imagine the flavor would blend with whatever you mixed it with and it's relatively cheap compared to protein powder. Why you wouldn't just use regular skim milk, I'm not sure.

She also recommended getting a product that's certified by an independent testing agency for content purity.

The five resources she listed were:

http://www.nsf.org/consumer/newsroom/fact_abs.asp

http://humanperforanceresourcecenter.org

http://natrualdatabase.therapeuticresearch.com

http://www.consumerlab.com

http://www.vitamincouncil.org

I don't know that they all have info re: protein powder specifically b/c she also talked about other supplements and this was just a general "resources" slide.


Obviously, I'm giving this info second hand (from her presentation handouts) and I don't mean it to be medical advice, but maybe some good resources for what IN your protein supplement.

I know, I didn't answer the question about how they taste, but that's because I'm still in the research phase myself, so I haven't tried any!

Good luck in your search :-)
Jen

We use pure protein from wally world. Inexpensive good protein and vanilla goes with anything. We buy fruit on sale dice it up and ffreeze it then mix it with 35cal almond milk and fruit, or frozen coffee ice cubes with dark chocolate almond milk.