Smoothie for Breakfast

donalg1

I usually have a bowl of shreddies and half a glass of orange juice for breakfast, but have recently purchased a blender and have tried making smoothies recently.

Just wondering if they are healthy or unhealthy I have seen some conflicting reports here, ingredients are:

1 Banana
Frozen Raspberries (about 2 tbsp)
Frozen Strawberries (2 tbsp)
Low Fat Natural Yoghurt (1.5 tbsp)
Half a glass of low fat milk

Stench Blossoms

It's not they are healthy/unhealthy, it's that they are usually high in sugars and not very filling.

There isn't much protein in them.

It's better than the shreddies but not as good as say porridge or eggs.

boomtown84

Just add a scoop or two of protein powder and some oats = Winner
Oh and full fat greek yoghurt and milk.
I don't find them filling though so if you're dieting they might not be ideal.

donalg1

boomtown84 wrote: »

Just add a scoop or two of protein powder and some oats = Winner
Oh and full fat greek yoghurt and milk.
I don't find them filling though so if you're dieting they might not be ideal.

Was hungry earlier than normal today so was thinking of having a slice of homemade brown bread with it tomorrow

donalg1

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

It's not they are healthy/unhealthy, it's that they are usually high in sugars and not very filling.

There isn't much protein in them.

It's better than the shreddies but not as good as say porridge or eggs.

Thanks for that I'm not a fan if porridge so will go the egg route

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

grab yourself a tub of coconut oil, have a spoon/fork of it either in or just before/after your smoothie. very filling stuff

Mr. CooL ICE

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

grab yourself a tub of coconut oil, have a spoon/fork of it either in or just before/after your smoothie. very filling stuff

I've heard this before but I never do it. Instead, I put dessecated coconut into my smoothies. Any idea what the pros or cons of this are?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I have no idea

i'd imagine coconut oil works out a fair bit cheaper, not knowing the price of dessicated coconut but at 6 euro for a 500g tub of oil it lasts me an age

Stench Blossoms

I don't really think you can compare dessicated coconut with coconut oil.

They are too completely different things.

cosmic

I usually add some oat bran and/or peanut butter to my smoothies for added calories and protein. Helps keep me going longer!

looperman1000

+1 for adding Protein in and using Coconut Oil.
Also +1 for Full fat yoghurt. I use to use fat free or low fat and my personal trainer friend said that they are a really bad idea as when they take out the fat out of these 'low fat' or 'fat free' food products they usually replace the fat with sugars, which causes insulin spikes resulting in craving more food.
Can't go wrong by loading up with protein, you could chuck a handful of nuts in too maybe?

Mr. CooL ICE

My brunch smoothie is along the lines of this:

Apple
Banana
Orange/cranberry/blueberry juice (depending on mood)
1 stick celery
1 sprig broccoli
1 tbsp crunchy peanut butter
1 tbsp flaxseed
1 tbsp dessecated coconut
1 scoop vanilla flavour whey protein

I sometimes add in some porridge oats if it is excessively watery. Tastey as fcuk and keeps me going for a few hours

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

man I can't wait until I'm finished with this weight loss kick and I can start adding calories into my diet with all these smoothies and whatnot i've seen posted here

I had a couple of these recently, delicious
http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/smoothies/strawberry-smoothie

was surprised to see them sticking in protein powder

Red About Town

Would only have a smoothie for a snack and not as a main meal.

Gummy Panda

Whey + oats + nut butter + berries + milk is usually my MRP shake. Rarely have it though