Hi all. My hubby came home one day last week with a pumpkin spice latte from McDonalds and was raving about it. It smelled really good but I don't like coffee so that got me thinking about trying to come up with a pumpkin Protein shake. I've been playing around with it for about a week and have finally found just the right pumpkin pie taste, and it's quite good if I do say so myself. I thought I'd share the recipe with my fellow sleevers.

Add to blender:

1 cup (8oz) skim milk

1 scoop vanilla protein powder, I use unjury

3 tablespoons canned solid pack pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie mix)

pumpkin pie spice to taste

Blend well on high for a minute or two.

Add:

2 teaspoons Jello instant sugar free vanilla pudding mix----this helps to thicken the mixture and makes it a more shake-

like consistency.

Blend on high for another minute or two, pour and ENJOY! Makes about 12 oz once fully blended.

I actually drink my shake in the morning on the way to work but I mix the first 4 ingredients in the blender as directed the night before, refrigerate overnight, and then in the morning I add in the pudding mix, blend for a minute or two, and off I go. And this recipe is easily tweaked to suit your own taste buds----you could use a different type of milk, fresh pumpkin puree instead of canned, more or less pumpkin pie spice (or different spices altogether), other additions, etc. During my experimental trials I made a couple shakes with Torani sugar free Pumpkin Pie syrup added to the recipe and that was good too. Just play around with the recipe until you come up with what tastes great to you.

Sounds amazing, thanks for sharing!!

OH YUMMY!!! Thank you for sharing! I've been thinking about pumpkin coffees for weeks!!

That sounds great....I'll have to try that!

I made a version of this for breakfast and it was awesome!

CAN'T WAIT TO TRY THIS!

Sounds so good!

Yum! Thanks for sharing, I am a pumpkin junkie!

I'm a pumpkin junkie too!! And since I started this journey 11 months ago, I NEVER would have thought I'd ever utter the words "quite good" and "protein shake" in the same sentence. I've gotten used to and can tolerate the Unjury chocolate splendor as well as the Premier chocolate shakes and consider them the lesser of all evils, but these pumpkin shakes actually make me feel like I'm having a delicious treat.

How many calories is in your pumpkin shake?

If made following the recipe as written, there are about 210 calories. Of course if you alter the recipe that would change the calorie count as well.

Sounds yummy.. I love anything pumpkin!! Thanks for sharing

Thank you for the info.

Been drinking a cup each day for 2 days now love it!! thanks

Saving! Thanks for posting!

yum! Thanks so much for posting. I've been experimenting but mine have been failures so far.