Getting enough protein in the first few weeks post weight loss surgery is pretty difficult without protein shake supplementation and some of us continue to use them on our weight loss journey on those days we just don't feel like a heavy meal, are on-the-go, need a protein boost in the day, to fuel fitness workouts, or in this latest triple digit heat wave they have been my protein packed, low calorie way to cool down. It's been miserable this week, hot and muggy, I don't know what I would have done without that frosty shake boost in the afternoon.
I love to add low calorie additions to my protein shakes to change them up. I've gathered together some of my favorites additions into this Protein Shake Making Pantry Essentials Box. If you are the winner of this box of goodies you'll be able to create many of the shake recipes on My Favorite Protein Shake Pinterest Page including a couple of award winners: Candy Cane Shake, Tiramisu Shake and Chocolate Covered Cherry Shake.
It's Giveaway Time!
The Prize: Some of my favorite post weight loss surgery protein shake pantry essentials:
10 Different Single Serve Travel Packets of Protein Powder including:
Celebrate Vitamins Protein 20 line: Cookies and Cream, Peanut Butter Cookie, Chocolate Mint, Caramel Vanilla Swirl, Iced Decaf Coffee, and All Purpose/Unflavored (1 packet of each flavor) and Chike Nutrition: High Protein Iced Coffee Mocha & Original, Chocolate Bliss and Very Vanilla (1 packet of each flavor)
5 Premier Protein (RTD Ready-to-Drink) Protein Shakes: Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberries and Cream, Bananas and Cream, and their latest flavor Caramel (1 of each flavor)
1 Mini Sampler Set of Sugar Free Torani Syrups (4 - 150 ml mini bottles) in SF Caramel, SF Raspberry, SF Vanilla, and SF Hazelnut
2 jars of Chike Nutrition Chike PB Powdered Peanut Butter (add the taste of peanut butter with only a fraction of the calories, fat and sugar) in Original and Chocolate.
2 Sugar Free Pudding Mixes: SF Pistachio, SF Butterscotch
3 Davinci Coffee Flavors: Caramel, French Vanilla, Hazelnut
28 oz. Blender Bottle Shaker
How to Enter: LEAVE A COMMENT on this blog posting (be sure to include a name and some email address where I can contact you if you are the winner) Scroll down to # of comments/post a comment below to leave yours. That's it, easy peasy.
Example: Jane Doe jdoe@someemail.com
For fun (optional): Tell me something you love to add to your protein shakes
Contest Period Ends: Sunday, July 31st (so 11:59 PM technically Pacific), sometime Monday, August 1st. I'll draw a name(s) using a random number generator and announce the winner(s) here on the blog! I will also email the winner at the address provided. You'll have one week (7 days) to respond to my email. One comment entry per person. Blog comments are moderated so there may be a slight delay (up to a few hours, especially at night if I'm sleeping Zzzz) in seeing your comment/entry post. Giveaway is open to anyone in the contiguous United States (48 contiguous, AK & HI) (sorry it's a legal issue: international laws govern giveaways and a money $ thing)
Good Luck!
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