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Recipe - Protein Shakes

The sky's the limit The trick is to find a basic flavored powder like vanilla or chocolate protein powder that you find palatable and then spruce it up. You can add a little more of this or that to suit your taste. Everyone's taste buds are different, so what may be good to one person, may not be good to another! 

Hints:

·          You can use water or milk to make your shake.  Milk will give you added protein.  Hood’s Carb Countdown mill has 12 grams of protein in 8oz.

·          Almond extract helps disguise the taste strong protein taste of some powders.

General strategy for making smoothies.

Put all ingredients except protein into blender. Blend on high until no more pings from ice on blades.  Turn down blender until top of mixture is moving but not splashing.  Add protein powder and replace cover and blend a few seconds.   Mixing the protein too much causes it to foam and increase the volume of your drink.

Notes:  FF (Fat Free)    SF (Sugar Free)

Basic Drink Recipe

In a blender put

½ **** (crushed if you can)

enough water to cover the ice

1-2 scoops or protein powder

Now the variations...  Add any of the following to change the flavor of your drink

·          SF Jello powder

·          SF pudding powder

·          Cold Decaf Coffee

·          SF Café Da Vita (French Vanilla or Mocha) you can find this in the grocery store coffee aisle.

·          General foods international sugar free Coffees or Chai Latte

·          Torani or Divinci Sugar Free syrups

·          SF Tang

·          Crystal Light powder

·          1 tsp cream cheese

·          1tsp sour cream

·          Cinnamon

·          Frozen fruit

·          Peanut butter

·          Baking Extracts (Vanilla, Almond, etc)

Hot Protein Drinks

Protein powder will clump if it’s too hot.  So it’s best to use Hot tap water or heat your water/milk to about 130 degrees 

For step by step instruction to make a Hot protein Drink.  http://store.bariatriceating.com/howtomamahot.html

·          SF Swiss Miss hot chocolate mix (w/marshmallows) and I add a 1/2 scoop of protein powder

·          Chocolate protein powder mixed with Milk or water

·          Café Latte – Vanilla protein powder and Coffee (use brewed Coffee or instant Coffee crystals)

·          Café Mocha – Chocolate protein powder and Coffee.  Add SF flavored syrups like hazelnut.

Protein Coffee Recipe

2 cups Water

2 scoops instant coffee crystals

1 cup Milk

1-2 scoops vanilla protein powder

1 scoop SF cocoa powder (hot chocolate mix)

SF syrup (try hazelnut or irish cream)

In a big plastic cup, mix water and coffee and and microwave for two minutes.

In a blender, blend Milk & Protein on low until well mixed (no lumps) 

Add the chocolate and syrup to the coffee mix and stir well.

Add the protein mix to the coffee while stirring. 

Put it in your ‘to go’ mug and hit the road.

Note: It sounds like a ton of trouble, but If you have everything ready to go and it takes only minutes to do the whole thing. Faster than a McDonalds drive thru and LOTS more protein!!!  Don’t forget to rinse out the blender immediately or the protein powders becomes like cement (recipe from Kristine)

Shakes or Smoothies

Fruit Freeze

1 scoop unflavored protein powder

½ cup skim milk or water

5 strawberries, frozen, no added sugar

2 peaches, frozen, no added sugar

¼ cup pineapple, canned, packed in juice (or Lite syrup)

4 ice cubes (or ½ - 1 cup crushed ice)

Mix in blender.

Fruit Smoothie

1 scoop Vanilla or Strawberry protein powder of choice

1/2 cup fresh squeezed orange juice

4 fresh strawberries frozen and sliced

1/2 fresh banana frozen and sliced

Put all ingredients except ice in blender and blend until smooth. Add ice and blend until frozen smoothie consistency.

Fruity Tutti Shake

1 scoop vanilla protein powder

8 oz water or milk

3 tsp SF jello gelatin or SF kool aid 3-4 frozen unsweetened strawberries or fruit of your choice

ice

Blend

Try SF lemonade 1/2 tsp and 4 frozen strawberries or 3 tsp SF strawberry gelatin powder and 4 frozen strawberries)

Strawberry Berry Berry

1 scoop of Strawberry Protein Powder

4 strawberries (frozen or fresh)

¼ cup of blueberries

1 cup of cranberry juice

1 cup ice or crushed ice

Blend

Two Berry Delight

1 scoop vanilla protein powder

1 cup frozen or fresh strawberries

½ cup raspberries

½ cup water

1 cup ice

1 packet of sweetener

½ cup milk

1 cup orange juice

Put all ingredients except ice in blender and blend until smooth. Add ice and blend.

Strawberry for Protein Dummies

1 scoop unflavored protein powder

10 frozen strawberries

½ small banana

8 oz Water

1/3 cup Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk

Splenda to taste

Strawberry Banana

1 scoop vanilla protein powder of choice

1 small banana

¾ cup skim milk

½ cup non-fat sugar free strawberry yogurt

¼ cup fresh squeezed orange juice

Put all ingredients except ice in blender and blend until smooth. Add ice and blend

Peach and Strawberry Yummy

3 slices frozen peaches (or 1/2 frozen banana)

3 good sized frozen strawberries

¼ - ½  cup water

1 packet Splenda

1 scoop Vanilla protein powder

Blend

Creamy Peach Melba

2 scoops Peaches & Cream Protein Powder

6-8 frozen peach slices

4-6 oz water

1 Tbsp peach mango Luzianne Tea Flavor

1 tsp DaVinci Raspberry flavor

2 packets splenda

1 Tbsp heavy cream

Blend peaches, water, flavorings, & splenda until liquid. Add protein powder. Drizzle in cream last. Blend.

Peach Creamsicle

1 scoop vanilla protein powder

6oz crystal lite peach tea

2 tablespoons SF instant vanilla pudding (optional)

splenda to taste

6 ice cubes

blend thoroughly

Orange Sunrise

1 scoop of vanilla protein powder

6 to 8 oz sunrise orange crystal light (premade)

3 ice cubes

3 frozen raspberries

Blend.  optional: top with Tbs of light cool whip

Orange Julius Ain’t Got Nothing On Us Smoothie

2 Scoops vanilla Protein powder

6 oz water

1 T sugar free vanilla pudding mix

1/4 c real orange juice

1 t good vanilla flavoring

3-4 ice cubes

Blend all ingredients except ice cubes. Cold water will cause pudding mix to thicken. Add ice cubes and blend till ice slivers.

Orange Julius protein shake

2 scoops Vanilla protein powder

8oz non-fat plain yogurt

1can(6oz)orange juice concentrate

2½ cup skim milk

1tsp vanilla extract

put ingredients in blender, blend until smooth

Dreamsicle Shake

1 scoop vanilla protein powder

6-8 oz flat diet Orange soda

2-3 TB heavy cream or milk (more or less to tatse)

dash of vanilla extract

Add Ice and Blend

Orange Banana Smoothie

1 scoop Orange Crème protein powder

1 scoop Banana Crème protein powder

1/2 cup cold water

1/2 cup pulp free OJ

1/2 banana sliced

1 cup ice

Blend all ingredients except ice until smooth. Add ice & blend

Banana Shake

1 scoop unflavored or Vanilla protein powder

1 cup fat free milk

½ banana

2 splenda packets

1 capful of vanilla extract

Put in blender and mix well.

Add 1 cup of ice and Blend. 

100 calories, o fat, 29 protein.

Pina Colada Shake

1 scoop vanilla protein powder

8 oz water or milk

ice

½ tsp each: coconut, pineapple & vanilla extract

pineapple chunks (optional)

Blend

Pina Colada Smoothie

1 scoop vanilla protein powder of choice

8oz can COLD crushed pineapple in unsweetened juices

1 tsp coconut flavoring

1/2 cup crushed ice

1 packet artificial sweetener

Blend

Pineapple Vanilla Ginger Shake

2 scoops Vanilla Protein Powder

½  Small COLD pineapple

enough cold water to blend

small piece of fresh ginger