 I think we have approximately nine minutes before Shalva comes home with the kids, so Let's dive right in first mistake that people make chalky protein shakes You don't have to have chalky protein shakes easy way to fix that add some oats Protein powder is pretty disgusting unless you're my four-year-old who likes to put a scoop in and perfect All right now we'll put One more look pretty much lick the protein powder off and have it all over his face It's more hilarious than he realizes add oats number two a stalled blender Really if you're using any any blunder it doesn't need to be a Vitamix Nutribullet a ninja Protein powders have a way of well they make blunders stall everything kind of sticks together and you'll get a blade That's just spin spin spin spinning. How do you fix that? First of all when you're Freestyling when you're building your protein shake just from whatever's in the fridge and you're not following a recipe Use what we like to call the wiggle test. Basically you should have enough Liquid where the frozen stuff like your ice here frozen bananas frozen strawberries blueberries they wiggle they kind of move a little But there shouldn't be too much wiggle room So if it doesn't wiggle at all It means you don't have enough liquid if it wiggles too much if it's splashing all over the place If the frozen stuff is able to move more than a centimeter or so you need to add more frozen stuff The wiggle test silly way of saying you have to mind the ratio of 50-50 ratio of liquid to frozen stuff And that's gonna keep everything even if you like super duper thick protein shakes 50-50 ratio is what you're going for pretty much any protein shake that you make you can find success using a Cup of liquid and a cup of frozen so a cup of ice a couple frozen bananas if it's too liquidy Stop right away. Adding ice or adding frozen strawberries later after you've blended for 30 seconds or 60 seconds It doesn't turn out well if you notice right away that it's gonna be too thin if it's Sloshing around way too much if it is pretty much done blending after five seconds stop add frozen stuff That you want to use a slow ramp So you're gonna ramp up from the lowest speed your blender can go to the highest speed it can go And you want it to go slow so that the blade it keeps holding on to the ingredients You want it to kind of not spin so fast that it just starts spinning against nothing and everything just stays there You want it to hold on to what you're Blending so there's some feel to it. It's a bit of an art Go slow and feel and if you feel it to kind of start Losing its feel of the ingredients go back slow down a little bit And you may have to stop and give it a shake and start over all the way at variable speed one The lowest speed it can go and slowly ramp up keep the blade grabbing the ingredients liquids first Add your milk of choice first your water whatever you're adding to your protein shake pour in first It's gonna help you use the wiggle test know the ratio But also the liquid at the bottom is gonna help keep the blade connected attached Grabbing to all the protein shake ingredients So you don't have those air bubbles I'm just realizing now that we've done a ton of videos on green juice And we've done videos on soups and ice creams and all sorts of fun stuff that you can make in your vitamins really any blender and In our newsletter we've talked about making protein shakes all the time we make them for dinner sometimes with with pretzels and queso or For a snack with movie and with a movie and popcorn We don't really have any videos on protein shakes So it's good to be doing this to finally be talking about protein shakes something that I guess I kind of took for granted that It's not really all that hard But the more I thought about it and it's fairly complicated and there's a lot to know and a lot of mistakes to avoid Okay, back to the mistakes if your protein shake is ugly. It may be because you mixed Complementary colors, so blue and yellow makes green if you mix green with another Complementary color if you mix green with purple too much of that is gonna make a brown smoothie Yes, you can add some greens to your protein shake But you can't add too much add a little bit of spinach to your strawberry banana protein shake And it'll still be pretty much red you can sneak a little spinach or even a little kale in a Mixed berry sort of a purple protein shake, but not too much. Otherwise, it'll be brown I think we're on mistake number four if your protein shakes taste gross The simple solution is just to add fewer ingredients less is more If your protein shake tastes watery Add some frozen ingredients, especially frozen bananas. That's gonna make your protein shake creamy Frozen mango is really good, too But be a little careful because citrus really only works with a few types of protein shakes mango with peanut butter Not so great. Also to add creaminess if you can't have frozen banana frozen squash or Same thing with avocado frozen avocado. We like to eat our avocados fresh They're delicious and they're expensive so to freeze them and you get it mistake number six protein shakes shouldn't give you Digestive issues, but sometimes they do it's usually because the protein powders are pretty Process so a couple things you can do here. You can make protein shakes without protein powder You can also take a break making a protein shake without protein powder doesn't need to be the way you do it forever It can just be kind of an experiment. You can also switch sources of protein I got started on this whole journey with egg white protein bought egg whites put them in my protein shakes They were pasteurized so safe to eat and you can't really taste them. Maybe add some seeds Cheesy flaxseed those are gonna give you the some of that dietary fiber It's gonna help with any digestive issues that you have with making protein shakes number eight powders are not necessary We talked about this a second ago, but there's protein in oats and greens and Seeds and fruit if you do decide to make a protein shake without protein powder You should make it sweet. They're better sweet fruit is sweet But protein shakes are better with very sweet. Don't add sugar to your protein shakes. You probably know this But there's things that you can use to make it sweet if your protein powder is not sweet or if you're not using protein powder You can use dates a gavel is fine Stavia, but one that's really cool and surprisingly make stuff sweet It's like a faux sweetener is cinnamon you can add cinnamon to pretty much any protein shake you make It's gonna make it taste better and make it taste sweeter and the last mistake with making protein shakes Especially with protein powder vanilla protein powder is really the only flavor that you should ever have It is the most flexible and you can make it chocolate flavor with some cocoa powder Use vanilla now. This is a good time to tell you if you're liking this video and you like what we're doing here Like in the vibe you can subscribe to our channel to get more videos about Protein shakes and smoothies and lifestyle and recipes and demos and tomb Or not sometimes people don't have a go-to protein shake that they make every single time They're winging it every time they're throwing stuff in Musco smoothies and musco shakes when you just throw stuff in is great It's great for getting rid of stuff But you you should have a go-to protein shake that you make every single time But if you want to explore and you want to venture out stick with one of these tried and true formulas There are seven of them number one Vanilla how boring to make a vanilla protein shake. Yes, however, vanilla protein shakes become Cake better shakes by adding a lot of vanilla and more oats and just the name that makes it taste like cake It becomes an apple pie protein shake when you add apples and cinnamon vanilla protein shake becomes Pumpkin pie by adding some pumpkin. It becomes peach pie by adding peach. It's pretty much pie vanilla protein shake equals pie number two peanut butter vanilla It's like a like a Girl Scout cookie So this is your vanilla protein shake but adding peanut butter and probably some cinnamon the simplicity Just the peanut butter and vanilla three add some cocoa powder to your vanilla Peanut butter protein shake to make a chocolate peanut butter banana protein shake the best That's that's pretty much our go-to. Now. Let's say you don't like banana. You can't eat banana We have two for you peanut butter and jelly this one impresses everyone. They love it so much for a ton of people This is their go-to protein shake. It's your standard protein shake no banana and mixed berries So something red and something blue. It's peanut butter jelly. It's the best now's a good time to say instead of Trying to list all of the ingredients for all of these protein shake recipes in this video I'm gonna put links to all of them. It'll be in the description Go there to find recipes for all these just wing it If you can kind of get the essence of it You should be able to freestyle these the fifth sort of protein shake another one that's no banana is a cherry Chocolate. This is the standard formula. You have your liquids to solids and then cocoa powder and frozen cherries It's gonna be kind of brownish black with a hint of red number six and number seven We're gonna go fast blueberry protein shake. This is pretty much blueberry with banana and number seven Strawberry banana. This is a really popular one. You can't go wrong with strawberry banana And of course like I said frozen banana is gonna bring a creaminess to your smoothies I remember one all I made in in my boner was protein shake I was like, why would I make anything else? but green juice really opened up my world into like Being able to feel energized and feel good without drinking coffee and if you're interested in protein shakes And you're like, oh all I make is protein shakes Consider this video about green juice. You can make green juice whole food green juice full of fiber and nutrients It's gonna make you feel amazing this video right here and Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys in the next one. Bye guys