Warm protein drinks, ways we can make them - share yours please!
Okay, its getting chilly here in the mornings (yaaay!!) so I made a warm protein coffee this morning (I usually have cold protein coffee in the summer) and thought - HEY! Birds, stones and all of that, maybe someone could use a tutorial! So, here I am in my terribly glamourous star studded morning outfit :} stuttering and stumbling trying to get the vitamin C and P fixed and into my gullet! :}
If you make it differently, please feel free to share here! I thought it might be helpful if we had a "warm protien drink" sort of thread we could reference and folks could pick and choose which method worked best for them.
**also! For eveningtime - you could make a warm protein drink, be it coffee, or tea (I will use Chai tea that I have made and Cake Batter as my milky creamer) or I will often just use unsweetened almond milk, so the *what* you mix it with is not as important as getting your technique down so you do not curdle your protein. Also, green tea and niller protein goes well together (in my book!)
Words for folks who do not care to be stunned by my morning amazingness. :}
Put protein in small container with lid. Put small amount (I use the 1/3 cup, but only because that is what I use to measure my almond milk for my vatOjoe) of liquid in there, shake into slurry.
Put small amount of warmed *whatever* in container. Stir, may add a bit more of warmed *whatever* stir.
Pour into vatOJoe.
Yum!
Video!
http://s467.photobucket.com/albums/rr37/brandilynnhealthjour ney/?action=view¤t=proteincoffeeee.mp4
Edited to also ask -
What are your favorite proteins for using in your warmed drink?
My favorite vanilla is Optimum Nutrition's Cake Batter (really good with green tea!!)
Chocolates - Optimum Nutrition's Caramel Toffee Fudge !!!!!
Optimum Nutrition's Chocolate Malt.
Favorite chocolate low carb, Syntrax Nectar Sweets Chocolate Truffle.
Favorite lower carb nilla? Did not have one.
The ON's are higher carb than the Syntrax, but are not crazy high (like the BSN Desserts, which are yummy but whooo.. if you are watching carbs they are a splurge!)
I also love warmed protein drinks in ma coffee... Do it the same way as you though, so nothing productive to add..
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"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
I like ready to drink vanilla pure protein, room temp, mixed with a matcha green tea latte (green tea powder and ho****er), with the protein acting as both the milk and sugar in there..
I also like chocolate ens from celebrate slurried and added to a caramel latte (stbx caramel coffee packe****er, shot cream).
I love that basically any protein shake can act as the sugar and creamer in a hot drink..
I also love peppermint, but usually just use a plain van or choc slurry and make the coffee with a shot (or two) of sugar free peppermint paddy syrup..
I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
(I was trying to insert pic o' my old apt kitchen...but OH is being not nice. My new kitchen is loads better, but still...nothing like yours...)
So, I haven't done warmed protein coffee yet cuz I just moved back into coffee land. But back in the colden days last winter, I was in love with About Time's Chocolate Mint with skim...reminded me o' Sbux Peppermint Mocha. I'm sure it would be delightful in coffee. When I tried it with almond milk, it clumped like the dickens...but I'm guessing it was because I was impatient (me? impatient? imagine that...) and didn't wait for it to cool long enough.
But I've developed my love/hate relationship w. About Time so I don't know if the newest batches of their protein are still any good. I still have some left but I probably won't reorder. But others make Chocolate Mint, right?
HW: 280; SW: 255; GW1: 150; CW: 155.
Yes other's make chocomint. ON does, I know. Fella loves GNC's AMP (I think its AMP) Chocolate Mint. I am going to order ON Chocomint next batch.
This weekend is shopping again, and I will work hard to overcome my genetic issues with getting things in the mail so you can taste the flavors I have and see if they are worth your cashdolla when your AT stash is gone!
Also, did you just put the warm stuff directly into the powder (or vice versa?) I use cool stuff to slurry the powder, and then add the warm to the slurry. ITs not screaming hot boiling stuff I add, but definitely hot enough you do not want it spilled in your lap :}
I always drop stuff on kitchen floor but Osc is a mop as well as garbage disposal so all is right with the world.
oh. I forgots you were gonna mail proteins. Don't worry. I don't have the mail gene either. My family hates me cuz I never send stuff. Doesn't make it easier that post office not be convenient in NYC either.
HW: 280; SW: 255; GW1: 150; CW: 155.
The idea of the ball jars is awesome, I think I am going to pull out some the small jars that are no longer good for canning and use them like you do! What a great idea!