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healthy living nutritionCan you make protein shakes without protein powder?
Great news for those folks: There are plenty of other tasty ways to make high-protein shakes and smoothies. "It's simple to add protein to a smoothie without using protein powder," says Rumsey. “You can also add a few tablespoons of nuts and seeds,” along with a cup of soy milk (about 8 grams of protein).
Simply so, what can you use instead of protein powder?
6 Breakfast-Boosting Alternatives If You Hate the Taste of Protein Powder
- Make overnight oats with Greek yogurt or cottage cheese.
- Blend Greek yogurt or cottage cheese into smoothies.
- Cook oatmeal in whole or 2-percent milk, and add some nuts.
- Cook an egg into your oatmeal.
- Eat dinner leftovers, if you feel like it.
- 1 banana, peeled.
- 150g low-fat natural yoghurt or soya yoghurt.
- 100ml of semi-skimmed milk or dairy-free milk.
- 1 tbsp peanut butter.
- 1 tbsp chia seeds.
- ½ tsp cinnamon (or to taste)
Regarding this, can I make my own protein shake?
- Add the unsweetened almond milk, full fat plain greek yogurt, vanilla protein powder, frozen banana, and ground cinnamon into a blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- If you find your shake is too thick, you can always add some more almond milk, little by little, to the blender.
One reason you can't substitute protein powder or flax meal for almond flour is because almond flour does not absorb much liquid, but flax and other flours do. There is only so much liquid in a recipe.