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The Easiest Protein Smoothie
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Apr 25, 2024
This delicious vegan protein smoothie is quick and east to make and it will give you energy to get you through your next workout. After experimenting with many types of protein drinks, this is by far my favorite recipe. It gives you natural energy from the berries and will keep you full until your next meal.
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Alright everybody, hey I'm Anna. I'm here to help you in your fitness and
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nutrition journey. I don't know about you but when I'm going to the gym I like
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need a little pick-me-up, a little snack right, but you don't want anything too
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heavy because you're working out and you don't want stuff like jiggling around your tummy. So what is a really good thing for that is a power smoothie and
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I'm getting ready right now to go work out myself but I need a little bit of
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energy and did you know berries give you natural energy. A little fun fact for
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you there. So we are gonna make the best power smoothie you have ever tasted in
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your life. Alright so what we are gonna be needing or use. I happen to like this
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protein powder. I'm partial to it but you can use whatever protein powder you want
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I don't do whey. I do vegan so this is a good organic vegan protein powder and I
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get it at Costco and on Amazon you can get it either place but I'm gonna do two
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scoops of that. So the vanilla is really good it goes with a lot of different
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flavors obviously and they have a really good chocolate one but obviously
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anything you put with that one it's gonna take on a chocolate flavor. The vanilla is just a little bit more you know mild and it goes along with
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basically any recipe. So now I'm gonna be doing a little bit of chia seeds. So
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chia is really good for your digestion. It's got a lot of good fiber in it. I
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always like to add a little bit chia or little flax in my recipes where I can in
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my oatmeal or my smoothies. I'm just gonna add like one spoonful of that
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because that goes a long way. Okay now all of these little things I like to use
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for my smoothies you can just kind of mix and match. I have some berries
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blackberries here I'm just gonna throw in there and that's gonna be kind of my
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fruit. So those are gonna be going in those will be great. A banana what would
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a smoothie be without a banana right? Like so I'm just gonna throw that in
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there and I'm gonna make this smoothie for like two people so that's why I've
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got a lot of ingredients going in. You can always like freeze the smoothies
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afterwards to put it in like a little Tupperware and almost eat it like an
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ice cream. You could put like honey and toasted coconut and nuts on top and make
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it like your own little smoothie bowl or acai bowl kind of like that. So all right
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now for my liquid I'm gonna be adding some unsweetened almond milk. You can use
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sweetened vanilla almond milk but this is the one I like. I happen to like
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unsweetened just doesn't add that extra vanilla flavor I don't really care for
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it and then I will be adding some of this powdered peanut butter organic you
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can get it on Amazon. A big jug of it I'm always gonna go through a lot of it so I
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buy the thing and that's basically just pressed peanuts the oil taken out of it
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so it's a lot less calories and all right and we added a little bit of ice
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in there and I added just a little bit of water in there as well as the almond
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milk so now I'm gonna be putting on my lid and this is awesome I actually just
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have to add this in. If you want to meal prep and make smoothies, smoothies are a
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big staple in my diet. A blender a good high-quality blender like a ninja is
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awesome to invest in. I not only make my smoothies in it but I you know
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pulserize, pulserize? Is that a word? We'll cut that out okay you blend you can
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blend like oats in there and make your own oat flour all kinds of things so I'm
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gonna put the top on here now. All right so now we're done we've got an awesome looking smoothie let's check it
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out here. All right it is looking pretty good I'm just gonna add just a little
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bit more protein powder it's looking a little liquidy obviously you can add as
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much as you want I tend to like it on the like creamier side so I'll add
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things as I go. Perfect okay looks fantastic
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That's good all right I'm ready for my workout now. If you like these videos go
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ahead and subscribe to my channel and watch the other ones and I'll see you next time
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