So I as I'm watching Dr Oz, I am reminded about how excited he gets about peppers. I like peppers too, but sometimes I forget to look for ways to sneak them into my diet. Today's protein shake includes 6 mini bell peppers--2 yellow, 2 red and 2 orange. And it tastes interesting! Well, it's not awful, especially considering how many I was able to get in there. So in all, the shake has
1 scoop of chocolate whey protein powder --Target's Market Pantry brand
1/2 cup of reduced fat organic milk (usually I put in some low fat vanilla yogurt, but I'm all out)
2 tablespoons of pb2 (that's low calorie dehydrated peanut butter)
water
ice
6 mini bell peppers
Not bad, not bad!
I made some rookie mistakes yesterday when I added fruit and vegetables to my protein shake. I put so much in that there wasn't room for hardly any ice. By the end of the drink, it just tasted like lukewarm beet juice. Today's is much better!
1 scoop of market pantry chocolate protein
3 tablespoons of organic fat free vanilla yogurt
1/2 large organic cucumber
1 handful of organic blueberries
lots of ice
This is a much smoother taste. And according to the interwebs, cucumber is a natural anti-inflammatory!
I bought organic produce today and added some new things to my protein shake. I put the following in the blender
1 scoop of Market Pantry's chocolate whey protein shake
3 heaping tablespoons of fatfree vanilla yogurt
1/3 of a raw beet sliced
1/2 of a raw cucumber sliced
2 large strawberries
1 handful of blueberries
ice
It is very good. I deem it a success!
My favorite protein shake concoction yet occurred yesterday.
1/3 of a large beet, microwaved a bit and peeled
chocolate whey powder (target brand)
ice
2 tablespoons of ff organic vanilla yogurt
All blended up it was absolutely gorgeous!
Today's protein shake is too good to be believed. After seeing the recent Dr Oz show about cancer risks from eating too much dairy, I wanted to try making a protein shake without adding yogurt or milk. The following ingredients were put in the personal blender:
1/2 protein scoop (target's market pantry chocolate whey protein)
1 whole peeled lime
ice
water
And that's all. It's GORGEOUS. It's probably a bit too tart and could use the rest of that protein scoop to balance out the lime. But I wanted to break up my protein shake into 2 shakes.
EDIT:
I take it back. It's WAY too tart. It needed the full scoop and maybe yogurt to soften it up.