Make your protein shakes more tasty

Here are a few tips I’ve picked up or made up to make protein shakes and smoothies taste a little better. I tend to buy bulk plain Vanilla whey protein powder. I also use bulk Creatine powder, Carnitine powder and BCAA from www.bulknutrition.com. It’s so much cheaper that way, but man it tastes nasty!

A blender, probably obvious but I have both a large one and the small single serving kind. Also the whisk ball shaker is a favorite of mine.

Frozen banana slices, slice up some bananas and keep then in a baggie in the freezer. Toss a few in the blender with the whey and some milk. Much better than ice in my opinion. Thickens and adds good flavor.

Apple Pie spice, this one is a great quick and cheap flavoring to add to vanilla whey, either blended or just in the shaker. Really takes away the bitterness of the Creatine, Carnitine, and BCAA.

Splenda and cinnamon, another good mix of to have on hand. Mix some of each in a small spice shaker for a quick dash of flavor.

Frozen berries, these are great to add when you are mixing up a breakfast smoothie. Depending on the berry mix it can get seedy though.

I’m sure I have some other protein smoothie ides on this blog somewhere too. Feel free to add any more ideas or recipes. I’m always looking for more.

Meatloaf recipe

Several people have asked me about my meatloaf recipe. Over the past months I’ve tried several “muscle building” and low fat/carb/sugar meat loaf recipes. I have always loved meatloaf and since I am now single again I wanted to start cooking in bulk for several meals for the week. After several trial and error attempts this is the one I have been making regularly, I can cook it on Sunday and have about 5-6 meals for the next week or so.

Muscle Meatloaf

2 lbs ground meat (either turkey or quality beef, I prefer 93/7 beef)
4 whole eggs (I don’t separate whites, but you can do 2/2 if you want)
2 cups old fashioned oat meal
2 Tbsp BBQ sauce (I use Famous Daves Rich and Sassy)

Throw in various spices to taste. I don’t measure these so feel free to adjust or replace and mix and match as you want. These are some common ones in order from most to least that I use:
Cookies Seasoning or Old Bay Seasoning
Chili powder
Mrs Dash
Oregeno
Black Pepper

I don’t use ketchup because it’s so high in sugar and carbs, plus the little bit of BBQ sauce and spices add enough flavor. Sometimes I will put some hot sauce on the top before cooking.

Mix it all together and put in olive oiled meat loaf or other such baking pan. Cook at 350 degrees for 90 minutes. Remove from oven let cool and cut into servings and put in storage containers. I can usually get 5-6 meals if I cut it right.

Honestly I don’t know the detailed nutritional info on this, I have just tried to keep the protein high, fat and carbs reasonable, and sugar low.

I’m fine

I’m still alive. The headaches seemed to be gone for the most part and I was back in the gym after a couple weeks of resting. I have been busy with some side website projects and spending time with my sons. I’d like to say I’m going to be blogging more, but I know I won’t no one really cares anyway. I need to find some thing else to do with this website I suppose.