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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

5 Amazing Homemade Protein Shake Recipes

Citrus Energy Explosion Shake

Instead of stopping by your local coffee shop for your morning caffeine pick me up; why don't you replace that "cup of joe" with a citrus energy explosion shake. This shake gives you the energy support of natural sugars to kick start your day. 


Ingredients
1- Scoop protein
1- Orange peeled and cleaned (100g) 

1- Lemon peeled and cleaned (5oz) 

10- Baby carrots (85g) 

8oz- Light vanilla almond milk 

1- Peach (150g) 

4oz- Broccoli florets 

5 ice cubes 


Preparation 
Combine all ingredients in blender, mix until desired smoothness. 


Macronutrient Breakdown: 

Total calories: 257 

Carbonates: 59g 

Fats: 2g 

Protein: 32g


Mass Building Post Workout Protein Shake

After an intense weight-training workout your body is ready to soak up as much nutrition as it can. It is also very important for muscle growth to feed your body as soon as possible after your workout. Here is my mass building post-workout protein shake.

Ingredients
2- Scoops protein isolate
42g Natural honey
2- Table spoon natural peanut butter
4oz Vanilla almond milk
1- Banana (126g)
8oz water

Macronutrient Breakdown
Total calories: 630
Carbohydrates: 79g
Fat: 18g
Protein 59g

Key Lime Pie Breakfast Protein Shake

Today's protein shake flavors seem to be dominated by a choice between chocolate or vanilla. However these limited flavors to choose from should not limit you when you are in your kitchen. He is a great protein shake I whipped up this morning for breakfast. This shake is a great spin to the normal vanilla breakfast shake.


Ingredients:
150g- Key lime pie yogurt 

1-tbs Limejuice 

8oz- Light almond milk 

1-tbs Organic honey 

1-Scoop vanilla protein powder 

4-6 ice cubes 

Pinch lime zest

Preparation 
Combine all ingredients in blender, mix until desired smoothness. Garnish with the zest of a lime. 


Macronutrient Breakdown 

Total calories: 402 

Carbohydrates: 51g 

Fat: 8g 

Protein: 37g

Oatmeal Cookie Protein Shake

Everyone wants to cheat and have a treat from time to time when dieting. However with this shake you get the feeling of cheating but when in reality you are having a healthily nutritious pre-workout energy shake to help fuel your workout. Here is a great pre-workout shake that will definitely solve your sweet tooth craving. It is called the "Oatmeal Cookie."

Ingredients:
1- Scoop  protein
4oz- Light almond kilk 

5ml- Vanilla extract 

4oz- Low-fat yogurt 

4oz- Oatmeal 

1- Miniature box raisins 

5ml Cocoa powder 

Pinch cinnamon 


Preparation 
Combine all ingredients in blender and mix until desired smoothness. 


Macronutrient Breakdown 

Total calories: 327 

Carbohydrates: 62g

Fat: 6g 

Protein: 32g

Orange Whey-Whipped Dreamsicle

Having the same old post workout shake can get little boring from time to time. If you are looking to change up you post work out shake I suggest you give this one a try. It is call the "Orange Whey-Whipped Dreamsicle."
Ingredients
2- scoops protein isolate
4-oz pure vanilla almond milk
4-oz orange juice
1-banana (128g)
2-tbs-organic/raw honey
5 ice cubes


Preparation
Combine all ingredients in blender, mix until desired smoothness.


Macronutrient Breakdown
Total Calories: 488
Carbohydrates: 71g
Fat: 2g
Protein: 53g

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