My Morning Coffee

I miss coffee BAD… I do not drink coffee every morning anymore. My Dr. suggests that you don’t drink coffee, alcohol or take meds anymore for the rest of your life after the MGB. I do get an occasional SF soy milk coffee from Starbuck/Dutch Bros. sometimes still for a treat. Shhh But I do try to use it as a treat. I just keep finding any reason to find a "reason" to get my coffee treat sometimes. I have to tell myself “no” or I would be there more often to tell you the truth. So I had to find something healthy for me and yummy to replace my morning coffee/news ritual. So I needed something healthy with vitamins and I found a couple of things that taste good to me, so I thought I would share since Amber asked me too. :) I have a small blender I got from Wal mart for $20. It's small, so it fits on the counter without taking up a lot of space and holds a little over 2 cups. I had the magic bullet but I would not recommend buying one because mine lasted me I think 6 months and it stripped out on the bottom of the blender where in fit into the base. I’ve already got longer out of the cheap one from Wal mart than the expensive Magic Bullet Blender (http://www.buythebullet.com/). Here is my morning ritual recipe. The chocolate drink is the one I make more often in the morning.

Chocolate Whey Protein Drink
EAS premium protein powder (I get my whey protein from Costco)
*6 ice cubes
*1 scoop of chocolate whey protein powder (100 cal, 2g fat, 18g protein, 2 sugars per scoop)
*2 cups or less of plain soy milk (100 cal, 4g fat, 8g protein, 6 sugars per serving)
*1-2 teaspoons of benefiber (just throw some in there)
BLEND My favorite! Mmm... almost like a shake, just icy.
*300 cal
*10g fat
*34g protein
*14g sugar
The whey protein at Costco is load with all kinds of vitamins and different proteins and not a lot of sugar. And it tastes good too. They do have vanilla too. It was a good source of whey protein and I was happy over all with the numbers. I do buy light soy milk if they have it, but I can’t always get it, which does help with a few calories. I just did buy the big box of 15 little boxes inside of Kirkland soy milk from Costco so I’m set for awhile now.

My O.J Yogurt Blend
*6 ice cubes
*1 Yoplait light orange cream yogurt (100 cal, 0g fat, 5g protein, 14g sugar)
*1 1/2 - 2 cups or so of O.J. (100 cal, 0g fat, 1g protein, 20g sugar per serving)
Throw some Benefiber in there
BLEND
*300 cal
*0g fat
*7g protein
*54g sugar
For some reason the sugar in this or OJ in moderation does not bother me. I do take a good hour to drink it. So so so yummy. Anyone remember Orange Julius in the malls? Tastes like one of those, and your getting your yogurt in which is good for the tummy. My Dr. tells us to eat yogurt everyday. Sometimes I do put plain low fat yogurt in the chocolate drink also because I know I need to eat more yogurt and I have a hard time just eating it, so I blend it.

That’s pretty much my breakfast and my morning coffee now. Keeps me full because of the protein and about mid morning I usually eat a South Beach protein cereal bar @ 140 calories. Not always but if I’m going to eat I eat that most days. I think those two drinks are a good source of healthy protein and vitamins with only about 300 calories and I enjoy them both. I get a lot of my healthy items from Costco (http://www.costco.com/) Gotta love Costco!


P.S. Amber- I got my Valentines heart shirt at Wal mart for 5 bucks. Cute and cheap!