Homemade Shakes vs Store bought?

[MelancholyRoar 14]

Hey guys, this is my first post coming 3 days after my surgery as I get ready to go into Full liquid. I was wondering if anyone bothers to make their own Protein shakes from home. I thought a decent recipe would be the following:

-Bananas

-strawberry

-Skim Milk

-Milk powder

-Protein Powder

However, Im not sure if that compares as well to the ones that are ready made. Also does anyone know what the amount of sugar we are roughly allowed? Ive seen some Protein Shakes have up to 5g of sugar and was just curious.

[Sai 785]

I made mine homemade. The first week or two, I used extract or flavoring since our stomachs are still healing. fruit the first couple of weeks may be too harsh. I was "allowed" to have 1/2 banana in my shakes, but from what I've seen on the forum, fruits do not do typically do so well. Let's see what others think about this.

[TheCurvyJones 721]

I tried. I'm just too lazy for all of that. I bought mine. There's no way to avoid sugar when you're using fresh fruit in your shakes and smoothies. Count the carbs--most surgeons want us to keep them at 30 or below but it depends on your doc's plan.

The only other reason I would also leave the fruit out is because our bodies sometimes have an issue processing high sugar. Milk too. It might be unpleasant....

[Bufflehead 6,358]

Things like bananas, strawberries, and milk are going to add a ton of calories and carbs to your shakes. I make my own -- to me all the ready made ones tasted like industrial sludge or ag runoff -- but use things like flavored sweet drops or SF Torani syrups for flavor and mix with unsweetened almond or cashew milk instead of dairy milk. If you really must use dairy milk, maybe look at the special low carb/high Protein milks like Carb Master (at Kroger stores) or Fair Life.

[kittykatlover 50]

I make my own if I am home. Skim Plus, ice, and powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury chocolate Spendor. I do have Premier Protein for when I am on the run.

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[QueenOfTheTamazons 634]

I make my own with fairlife milk (choco and plain), GENEPRO, and PB2.

I might try swapping the chocolate for plain and adding a couple of slices of frozen banana.

HW 385 SW 359 CW 335 (50lbs down!) Sleeved 10/5/16

[katragina 33]

I just use premier as I'm not all that great with mixing things together. I try to get creative and usually fail pretty hard! However I haven't had much luck with tolerating Protein. I'm going to buy some "liquid" Protein stuff my dr sells. I guess it's the consistency of Water.

[RickM 1,747]

Some of the devout carb counters would have total apoplexy at the thought of the bananas and strawberries in there, but even ignoring carb counts (as I did) you need to watch the calories and make sure that they fit in with your needs. I found that in making shakes with fruit like strawberries in them that the amount of fruit needed to make a notable difference in flavor wasn't worth the calories when in weight loss mode. My wife throws a pound of frozen strawberries in the Protein smoothies (which makes a couple of good sized servings) but she isn't counting calories or trying to lose weight.

Making shakes from powders is my preferred approach as I can alter the flavor and consistency as I choose. Whether you need to add the milk powder to skim milk and Protein Powder is up to you - run it through a tracking app and see what it does on Protein vs. calories to see if it make sense to do.

[claytor1806 6]

I make some from Protein powder...I have chocolate and vanilla. I have used the extract trick too. I make my shakes with unsweetened vanilla almond milk and a little ice. I like them. I also use Premier shakes when I'm on the run. I prefer the chocolate. Oh...and there is a Peanut Butter powder called PB2. It gives you the Peanut Butter taste but nowhere near the fat and calories.

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[MelancholyRoar 14]

So far Ive only used Muscle Milk (though I did cheat a bit with smoothie King's Gladiator) in my Pre-Op diet. Maybe Ill check out Premier since so many people seem to be using that.

Edited November 10, 2016 by MelancholyRoar