The choice between something healthy and something bad but Yummy is always a hard one. When you’re faced with this dilemma on a positive day you’d probably go for the healthier option, but on a bad day when you need some good comfort food the Yummy-option. But why choose when you can have both ways? Read on and have a great Sunday eve with these healthy smoothies that taste like milkshakes.
Almond Joy Milkshake
We all love ourselves a good old Mars or Snickers, this time we’re turning those chocolate into a healthy milkshake. With unsweetened almond milk, refreshing coconut water, and a touch of cocoa powder and almond butter, this is dairy-free and vegan too.
Needs:
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened almond milk
- 1/2 cup coconut water
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons almond butter
- 2 dates, pitted
- 2 bananas, chunked and frozen
- Shredded coconut, for garnish (optional)
- Sliced almonds, for garnish (optional)
- Cacao nibs, for garnish (optional)
- Chia seeds, for garnish (optional)
Instructions:
Combine all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Divide between glasses and garnish as desired.
Skinny Oreo Milkshake
Say WHUT?! A healthy version of an oreo shake?! Best day of the week by far huh?
Needs:
- 250 grams fat-free cottage cheese (low sodium!)
- 1 cup skim milk
- 3 oreo cookies
- 1 teaspoon truvia
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions:
Blend cottage cheese. Add the rest of the ingredients to the blender. Add more milk if a thinner texture is desired. Keep in mind that it gets thicker in the fridge. Chill for one hour before you drink it. It’s optional, but it tastes so much better that way!
- DO NOT use cottage cheese with salt. It’s difficult to find a salt-free version, so you might want to use skim ricotta instead, which has a similar texture.
- If you want to replace the Truvia one table spoon of sugar is needed.
- The milkshake tastes much better when it has been chilled for at least one hour.
- This recipe makes one huge serving, two big servings or three smaller servings.
Cookie Dough Protein Milkshake
We gotta love Cookie Dough, but we are def in need of a healthier version than the Ben & Jerry’s kind, follow this recipe for a healthy cup of liquid love (that wasn’t meant to sound as gross as it did!).
Needs:
- 1 cup milk of choice (240g)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp baking soda (this is for flavor)
- just over 1/4 cup vanilla protein powder (I used Vega) (24g)
- sweetener of choice (such as 1 tbsp sugar or 10 NuNaturals vanilla stevia drops – more if using an unsweetened protein powder)
- 6 drops maple extract (for flavor – can be omitted)
- raw oats and chocolate chips for garnish, if desired
Instructions:
Blend all ingredients except garnishes together until smooth. Garnish as desired. Thickness will depend on your brand of protein powder. For a thicker protein shake, it’s recommended to freeze the 1 cup of milk ahead of time in an ice cube tray, then use the frozen milk as the milk of choice in the recipe– it adds thickness and a chilled ice-cream-like quality to the protein shake.
