Peanut Butter Protein Powder Shakes

Perfect addition to help a more balanced diet. I have an awful habit of not eating breakfast or not leaving enough time to bait every day with a sporatic schedule. This shake makes nutrition easier and I feel more nourished. I'm impressed that they've managed to check all the boxes: gluten fee AND soy fee AND no dairy AND no sugar AND (ETC). VERY HARD TO COME BY! I add a bottle of water, 2 scoops (a little over the top on each), 1 banana, and 2-3 ice cubes. I use a KOIOS blender, but it for about 15 seconds and it's pretty perfect! Smooth, a little thick and sometimes there's small chunks of bananas but I don't mind you could just blend for another 10 seconds. Some people add too much ice and it's chunky- i also read where someone added water and almond milk AND 8 ice cubes (way too many) and it was watery- well duh.. your ratio to powder and liquids is way off. I love that there are loads of vitamins, good amount of protein it complements my vitamins and minerals deficiencies and I definitely feel a considerable difference. I'm on my feet for 6-10 hours straight, very physical job as a professional medical massage therapist. This shake (with a banana) gets me easily through 7 hours of straight massage. I take women's complex vitamins PURE encapsulation brand once a day a few hours after my shake. I am certainly ready for dinner when I get home it seems to stave off Hunger for about 8 hours for me. If I get hungry before the end of my shift I just have a hard boiled egg. Not sure about weight loss because I'm not monitoring weight; my goal with this meal replacement shake is proper clean nutrition. I do feel a boost of energy, no brain fog, a little fullness so the Hunger doesn't come on until dinner time, zero bloating, many other great things. I got the peanut butter flavor and it tastes and smells great. I think the ratio to ice and liquid really matters so don't go nuts! Cleaning the bottle does take a bit of effort because it's plant based protein so it's going to be thicker and stick to the bottle but my came with a brush with several sides of teeth to get in the grooves. Hand wash or dish washer gets it clean. Overall VERY IMPRESSED- I ordered 2 more same flavor and have recommended to several friends and clients.

I love peanut butter - only high quality of course. This product is delicious. If it's too thick, add a little water (common sense). It's a great substitute for those evening cravings too. I will continue buying this product - the chocolate is also good, but so far, the peanut butter is my favorite.

Got this and the Creamy Chocolate at the same time. I tried the Peanut Butter first. Like I said, It's not bad, and for the all the nutrients in this, it's like taking a multivitamin in your smoothie. It wasn't really tasty, nore was it undrinkable. However, I did doctor these up, I bought 4 lb bags of frozen cherries and 3 lb bags of blueberries to mix in. I'm from Hawaii, so, we get the candy apple bananas (locally grown). I freeze them and add them to the vitamix. So frozen Cherries, Blueberries and Banana. Plus, I add a handful of spinach, some cinnamon and ginger root. I will sometimes add a few dates to the mix if I'm feeling like a need a bit more sugar. I will usually add in 4 scoops, and pure it into a pitcher so I can have a smoothie the next day without having to clean the vitamix. I feel it gives me my protein and will provide a meal a supplement. I have to admit, I was going to try Kachava, but I am glad I bought this instead. I also use just water to mix. No almond milk or or juice. However, I notice there is some grit in with the shake, like the powder didn't mix all that well, so, you be advised to have a really good blender to like a ninja or blendtec to get this blended well. I am still working on the chocolate, and I prefer the Peanut Butter flavor over the Chocolate, I was excited to try the Chocolate as I'm a Chocolate lover, but the flavor was is really weak, unlike the peanut butter, the flavor is stronger and I prefer that. I'm not sure I could tolerate drinking this straight from the bag.

Update 02/19/23: I got a blender! Maybe not the best one but it'll do. I put in two servings, 16oz of almond milk, 8 pieces of frozen bananas, and 8 ice cubes. Still watery, cardboardy, hints of banana (not a fan of banana but wasn't sure what other frozen item to put in), and not just grainy from the powder but the tiny, tiny ice grains as well. Trying again tonight with one serving, 8oz of milk, more ice, but probably the same amount of bananas. Also switched to vanilla cookie for next order and playing around with other frozen ingredients to add. Update 02/14/23: My taste has returned! Unfortunately. This is very cardboard with a tiny hint of chocolate peanut butter even though it's supposed to only be peanut butter? I did two servings with 16oz of water in a blender bottle, very grainy and very little flavor outside the cardboard. Today I did 2 servings with 16oz of almond milk in a blender bottle, stilly grainy but thicker and the milk lessened the cardboard. It'll definitely make for a good milkshake once I can afford an actual blender. I think I'll use frozen bananas in it and check it out. Original: Our association started out poorly. I set it on the counter and shook it and patted it down to get all the powder in the bottom. However, once opened, powder went everywhere. The scoop was also at the very bottom under all the powder. I know there's not much someone can do about that one. Once I got my two scoops out (which this stuff is incredibly clingy so you're losing powder all over the place) and went to close the bag since it's "resealable" I was unable to reseal it because of all the powder caked into the zipper portion. Guess I'll wrap it in cling wrap because I don't have any plastic bags big enough for it and will have to go to the store to get it its own storage container tomorrow. Texture! I used a blender bottle and this will be a great shake when I have an actual blender and ice cubes to turn into a milkshake. I shook my blender bottle vigorously until I could no longer see clumps. However, the texture was still very grainy. So far, I have only tried this with water because I am out of milk until I go to the store tomorrow. Now about that taste! Tastes good so far but I'm still recovering from a sever head cold and only have 20% of my taste buds left. One serving is two scoops + 8oz of liquid and that's a full meal? Thank goodness I have no appetite thanks to this head cold and have switched to these types of things to get nutrition and to make my stomach shut up. Hopefully once my appetite comes back I can continue to successfully enjoy and use this as my breakfast replacement. We'll see. The whole powder mess situation is very unfortunate and feels like it's going to cause more waste, especially for the price.

UPDATE 7/6/23: Finally they addressed the bag issues! I stayed true to my word and hadn’t purchased again since my last review, but have been checking back regularly to see if there’s been any changes to the packaging. I noticed the closure is different in the stick photos, so I decided to order a couple bags. This new closure is 100 times better!! The zip lock tracks are protected from the powder before opening, and the powder is now truly sealed (not simply glued closed). You just have to use a knife to cut open the seal, but after that nothing but flawless opening and closing. On top of that, I noticed there’s a new flavor, strawberry banana. I’ve tried many many protein powders over the years and their peanut butter was always the best tasting amongst all the other companies I’ve tried. But oh boy, this new strawberry banana flavor may take the crown! It doesn’t even taste like you’re drinking a protein shake it’s that good. For reference, I only blend protein powder with ice and water. Upgrading from 1 star to 5 stars! ————————————————— I’ve been using this for a while now and have gone through maybe 30 bags. Peanut Butter is definitely my favorite, although the new improved chocolate formula is much better than it was before. I use a Ninja smoothie maker to blend this with water twice a day. I really do love this brand compared to the competition largely due to its superior taste and texture when prepared. Now as to why I can no longer recommend this product… this company simply cannot get the bag packaging right! I’ve dealt with these ridiculous bags they use to package the powder for a while now because I like the product, but they’ve recently added a poorly designed double zip lock closure that is always caked with powder when I receive new and impossible to zip close as result (without spending time to clean out all the powder stuck in between). But now they can’t even get the seal right! There are slight openings that allow entry into the package, and since the zip lock closures can’t close right from the factory because of all the powder stuck in them, pictured is an example of exactly how I received it. This is not a shipping package issue, this is a manufacturing issue. Who knows what crawled inside to eat away while these bags sit inside a warehouse waiting to be shipped, let alone that allowing air into the bags affect freshness. Prior to these new zip lock closures, the old style single zip lock closure would constantly come unglued from the bag mid-use when simply opening them leaving no way to reseal. I’ve had that happen a couple times with the new bag design as well, so it’s still an issue. Anyway, if the product can’t get to you sealed and fresh then it’s no longer worth paying for.

Dont buy. I bought the peanut butter flavor. It was beyond disgusting. I first used water to mix with this and it was awful. I then started using almond milk and while it made the protein powder slightly tastier it didnt convince me to continue to use it. I bring pre-made protein shakes to work for lunch so, its in my lunch box/cooler along with two ice packs, it stays cold throughout the night. When I go to drink it, it looks like coagulated milk even with one of those shaker things, (that always comes with these protein powder shaker tumblers) its so gross. Long and the short of it, you get what you pay for. This product is cheap.

Loved this, so delicious! Whether with just water, or oat milk, or yogurt and a variety of fruits and veggies, this flavor is the bomb. Sometimes getting the right amount of liquid + ice is tricky. It's almost always trial and error for me. I always used two full scoops and I aim for a smoothie-like consistency. I hated the bag, sometimes I'd be surprised to see it open when I definitely locked it. There have been numerous comments about it in reviews, so I hope they change it! It's not a meal replacement for me. I get hungry after 2 to 2.5 hours. I hoped it would be a good breakfast replacement, but I also lead an active lifestyle so perhaps it's a full meal replacement for people that are less active. Good price for the number of servings. Great ingredients. I would definitely buy again and try the other flavors!

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