Good Shake Recipe

Diet and Nutrition
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Came across this shake recipe recently and I’ve been using it to pack more calories and protein into my day. Makes a good pre-workout ‘meal’. Nothing revolutionary, but I like it.

8 oz. skim milk
1 scoop protein powder (chocolate)
2 medium bananas
10 ice cubes
1 tablespoon peanut butter

Nuke the peanut butter until it begins to melt (+/- 40 seconds), put it along with everything else in the blender, and blend (“ice crush”) until smooth.

Nutrional info: 564 calories, 81g carbs, 42g protein, 10g fat.

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Be careful about nuking (or heating) peanut butter - I believe it breaks down the fats which then makes them garbage to the body.

TS

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This is my favorite recipe also. I’ve never found a need to heat the PB if using a blender. Just toss it in while the blades are spinning.

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See? That’s whay I come here. Fresh ideas.

No more heating the peanut butter for me. Although it does keep sticking to the side of the jar. Ah well.

Thanks for the thoughts.

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So if I were to bitch about the lactose and the high GI carbs in the bananas would that make me anal? I mean, that’s an assload of high GI carbs, why not leave out the PB and have a nice Post-Surge snack?

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i have never found it necessary to heat the peanut butter.

just bang it in the blender and awa-hay you go.

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If you freeze the bananas, you don’t need to use the ice. I make a shake like this in my Magic Bullet, but I also add ground oatmeal.

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[quote]Shinigami wrote:
If you freeze the bananas, you don’t need to use the ice. I make a shake like this in my Magic Bullet, but I also add ground oatmeal.[/quote]

+1

I omit the peanut butter because it makes me belch. I add an extra scoop of Low-Carb Grow!.

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[quote]Bad John wrote:
I add an extra scoop of Low-Carb Grow!.
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Is Low-Carb Grow! really good? I’ve never used it, I’m using Whey Gourmet.

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Have tried cashew, or almond butter in place of PB?

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[quote]Shinigami wrote:
Bad John wrote:
I add an extra scoop of Low-Carb Grow!.

Is Low-Carb Grow! really good? I’ve never used it, I’m using Whey Gourmet.
[/quote]

Yes, I dont know what else you want. It is my favorite for both quality and taste.

Give it a try.

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[quote]jolly roger wrote:
Came across this shake recipe recently and I’ve been using it to pack more calories and protein into my day. Makes a good pre-workout ‘meal’. Nothing revolutionary, but I like it.

8 oz. skim milk
1 scoop protein powder (chocolate)
2 medium bananas
10 ice cubes
1 tablespoon peanut butter

Nuke the peanut butter until it begins to melt (+/- 40 seconds), put it along with everything else in the blender, and blend (“ice crush”) until smooth.

Nutrional info: 564 calories, 81g carbs, 42g protein, 10g fat. [/quote]

If you want more calories why are you not using whole milk ?

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Oh hang on, scratch that advice, some smart ass will tell me that whole milk is bad for a shed load of reasons, if anyone was going to say that be aware that the
A1 β-casein in bovine milk has been linked to ischaemic heart disease and type I diabetes so do best just not touch anything that’s been near a cow. Heh heh !

Basically for every reason why not to drink whole milk…I’ll give you two reasons to drink it. I actually wrote a dissertation, Critical Nutritional Comparison of Whey and Casein too (well the actual title was a little more elaborate than that) if anyone wants the gen on that too.