Peanut Butter Cookies n Cream Protein Shake

I hear protein is pretty important. I also hear that shakes and smoothies are a great way to get in some of those much needed calories without having to constantly chomp on things. I trust those sources I've heard the crazy claims from so I decided to once again try out the protein shake. With my sensitivity to food textures I've always had trouble with shakes because the powders tend to be gritty or leave a weird after taste. I'm also not a fan of powders filled with nothing but sugars and weird crap.

I came across the PlantFusion brand a year or so ago and tried the Vanilla Bean flavor a few times. I followed the directions (add powder to water, shake and drink) and just didn't like it. Since I'm now taking my nutrition a bit more seriously I decided to give things another shot and come up with something I could stand. Enter their new flavor, Cookies 'n Cream! There's no way that can go wrong, seriously. I tried it out and the flavor was great but the water still left some of that grit I don't like so I made a few changes and came up with an awesome shake I will definitely be incorporating into my life.

Ingredients:

1 scoop PlantFusion Cookies 'n Cream Protein Powder
10 oz Unsweetened Original Almond Milk
2 oz Cold Water
2 Ice Cubes
1.5 oz of Creamy Peanut Butter

Directions:

Put ingredients into blender (or Ninja)
Blend
Pour
Drink

Simple enough! This particular smoothie turned out to be 414 calories and packed in 31 grams of protein which I can totally use in my diet. A lot of people don't like the unsweetened almond milk so feel free to use the chocolate or vanilla versions, just keep in mind that will add calories. I also like my shakes really cold so I added in ice just to make it colder, I don't think they're mandatory.

Do you have any plant based protein shake recipes you like? I could really really use some!

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