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Fruit Protein Shakes

Fresh fruit mixed in as part of a protein shake can provide the important vitamins and anti-oxidants that your body requires.

Our delicious recipes will assist you in enabling yourself to live a healthier lifestyle. Whether it's to ensure that you get a proper breakfast in the morning, or after a good workout, our fruit protein shake recipes are healthy and tasty. Try our delicious fruit protein shake recipes.

Veggie Protein Shakes

Vegetables, as part of a health protein shake, give you your essential vitamins and nutrition that you need in order to maintain your health.

When you're looking for that extra boost, or just to provide your mind and body with the balanced nutrition that it requires, try our Veggie Shake Recipes.


7 Healthy and Creative Protein Shake Recipes That Rock

Everyone needs protein. It helps keep you strong, and it helps make you healthy. Body builders and people who are very active need more of it than the rest of us lazy couch potatoes whose only after-work exercise involves the six-pack curl, the cheese-doodle in couch-cushion search, and the thumb-numbing remote button press.

If you eat meat and don't work out heavily all the time you probably get enough protein, since that's where a lot of it comes from. For vegetarians, and for people who body build and involve themselves in similar activities, getting protein can be a problem. Oh, sure, lots of plants and nuts and seeds and things have protein, but they can taste really bad, and no one wants to eat them. That includes the much-touted 'protein shakes' that everyone seems to think vegetarians and body builders drink all the time.

They don't, really, because most vegetarians - and meat eating body builders alike - can't find any protein shakes that taste good enough that they're actually willing to drink them! Most of these protein shakes are homemade. There are also protein shake mixes that you can purchase and don't have to make yourself, but again, that taste! Yuck. If you doctor them up a little bit you can drink them and actually enjoy the flavor without compromising on your diet or weight or body building or vegetarian goals.

Here are some ways to make protein shakes better with a few easy, tasty options. Follow these tips, and you can get impressive and decadent recipes that are still healthy for you.

Breakfast Shakes



Berry-Vanilla Shake:

  • 1 cup berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
  • 1/2 banana (optional)
  • 6 oz. milk
  • 6 Ice cubes
  • 2 drops of vanilla extract
  • 1 scoop (5g) of Protein Extreme

This particular shake is a good choice because it contains the whey protein that is needed and the fruit and milk to make the whey protein taste decent. The fruit and milk are great for breakfast. Instead of putting them on your cereal, blend them up with the whey protein powder and have a breakfast milkshake. Just wipe that milk mustache off before you head out the door for work.

Another good breakfast choice is:

Yogurt-Granola-Berry Shake

  • 1 scoop (5g) of
  • 1 scoop (5g) of Protein Extreme
  • 1 cup berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
  • 4 Tablespoons of flavored yogurt (you pick the flavor you like best, and you can add more if you want.)
  • Ice

You can add a little bit of granola to this, and you can also add some milk if it's too thick when you blend it up. Using skim milk or 2% is a good choice to keep calories down. Soy milk is also a good choice, and you can get it in different flavors. If you need a serious kick in your breakfast shake, you can add some instant coffee granules to the recipe, but that can make your shake gritty, so just be aware of that.

Lunch or Snack Shakes

Not everyone has time to make a protein shake in the morning, but there are a lot of people who have the time to make one for lunch. If you're one of those people, here are three good choices for lunch or snack time protein shakes:

Low-Calorie Chocolate Shake

  • 1 scoop of chocolate high energy protein
  • 1 cup of whatever fruit you like the best (or several different fruits, as long as they mix well together)
  • Milk (you can use chocolate milk if you want, but it might be a bit much - just make sure you use no-fat or low-fat milk!)
  • Ice
  • For a little extra taste, you can put a banana or some low-fat peanut butter in it, too.



Strawberry Orange Protein Shake

  • 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 2 drops of vanilla extract
  • 1 scoop of your favorite protein powder
  • 1 handful (or two handfuls) Strawberries
  • 1/2 banana



Simple, Quick Protein Shake

For any of these, just blend them together and drink. You can also modify them - maybe you like bananas but not strawberries. That's fine. The key is to get protein and healthy food that tastes good so you'll enjoy drinking it.

You'll need something for dinner, too, so here are some ideas for your last meal of the day. These should help keep you full 'til bedtime!

Dinner Shakes

This is a popular "atomic smoothie" and should keep you from snacking during the evening:

Atomic Smoothie

  • 1 cup fat-free milk
  • 1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 1/2 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon peanut butter
  • 1 banana, cut into small pieces
  • 1 small kiwi, cut into small pieces
  • 1 tablespoon toasted wheat germ
  • 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds
    • http://ask.metafilter.com/49476/Lets-have-your-recipes-for-lowcalorie-protein-shakes

This all gets blended together. Then all you have to do is drink it. Notice there's no whey or other protein mix in there? You don't need it, 'cause you're getting enough protein from the seeds, the peanut butter and the wheat germ. And it tastes good, too.

Coconut Shake

  • 1/2 cup coconut milk
  • 1/3 cup berries of any kind
  • 1 scoop
  • 1 scoop (5g) of Protein Extreme
  • 2 Tablespoons flax seed
  • 1/2 to 1 cup of water (you can use less if you want your shake to be really thick
  • Splenda or another low-calorie sweetener to taste (don't use sugar, you'll defeat your 'eating healthy' purpose!)
    • http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/beverages/r/berryshake.htm

There you are! Seven protein shakes that are really healthy for you and that don't taste so terrible that you won't be able to drink them. Make sure you eat at least one normal meal a day and don't live off the shakes. Adjust them to your taste, as long as you make sure that you're not adding sugar, whole milk, or some other high-calorie potion to the mix. Go for low-calorie, high-protein, and you'll be just fine.



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