Protein Shakes with fruit??
Hi everyone!
Does anyone adds fruits to their protein shakes? Since I've gained some weight, I was thinking of doing just liquids for a few days but I can't stand the taste of the protein shakes anymore...I think if I add some fruit I would probably tolerate them, but I'm not sure if this would work because fruits are high in sugar..What do you guys think?
All suggestions / opinions greatly appreciated!
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maggie
I use fruit quite often in my shakes. I use frozen fruits as they take the place of some ice and make the shake more of a smoothie. I use a base of 3-4 ice cubes, 1/2 c FF vanilla yogurt, 1-1.5 scoops of protein, and about 1/2 c of light soy milk. I then add a half cup of fruit or maybe a banana with peanut butter. the combinations are endless. Sometimes I use a small can of NS juice instead of the soy milk. Blend them all together and enjoy. The fruit sugars aren's that bad. Just buy frozen fruit without sugar or buy fresh fruit and freeze. I do that with bananas.
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THOSE ARE GREAT IDEAS! GOT A QUESTION, CAN YOU ACTUALLY FREEZE BANANAS?? I KNOW YOU CAN FREEZE MOST FRUIT BUT THIS IS A NEW ONE FOR ME.
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Hi Maggie,
Go easy on the fruit. Only add a few fruits at a time to your shakes. Be careful with the peanut butter also. Peanut butter has sugar in it as well. Adding everything together might be too sweet for you and that will cause you to get sick and dump. And if you don't get sick right away , you may have a late dumping later on. I'd be very careful with mixing everything together. Add some fruits and see how you tolerate it. and then go from there. Enjoy! :-)
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Hi Lizzy!
I agree with you, one of my concerns was the sugar in the fruit, so I used soy milk instead of regular low fat milk because it has way less sugar & carbs. I have not tried the peanut butter. This morning for breakfast I had: 1 cup soy milk, 1 scoop vanilla unjury protein & some fresh pineapple chunks....IT WAS YUMMY!! Very satisfying, I also bought papaya, organic strawberries & blackberries. Let's see how it goes!
Hugs,
maggie
Yes, the first few weeks post op I experimented with adding fruits. I tried 1/2 banana, or 1/2c strawberries or blueberries, etc. If you go to www.bulkfoods.com you can order whey protein there unflavored, and make your own flavors. Pineapple and grapes are the higher sugar content fruits.
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I couldn't stand my protein shakes without some fruit in them! I use Libby's splenda sweetened pineapple. or splenda sweetened mandarin oronges. Also, Dole has some splenda sweetened fruit cups with peaches . I usually add about 1/3 to 1/2 cup fruit, a scoop of protein powder, a few ice cubes, splenda and skim milk. If you use strawberry protein powder or orange protein powder, I add crystal light in a corresponding flavor instead of milk-- strawberry tangerine, or orange sunrise, etc. It makes a WORLD of difference in the taste. Also, I use the dole reduced sugar orange juice-- 10 calories, low sugar, etc. in the protein shakes-- makes an out of this world tropical smoothie with pineapple and/or frozen mango chunks. Da Vinci has a sugar free pineapple syrup too, that I add sometimes to make a tropical smoothie. I experiment a lot with protein shakes. The bottom line is, whatever it takes to make them palatable to you! You gotta get the protein in.
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