Something I've just discovered that's wonderful and unexpectedly filling are smoothies. I just got a blender last week, so I've been experimenting like crazy. The banana+peanut butter+honey is my favorite, but the strawberry+blueberry+raspberry is good too, and the chocolate+peanut butter was a big hit with the roommate. Infinite varieties! I'm gathering courage to try the carrot-apple that my cousin swears is so amazing. You wouldn't believe the crazy things you could put in a blender and make taste all right.
The trick I've discovered for making a smoothie filling enough for a snack or a meal is to add a generous serving of vanilla yogurt or smooth tofu (or both) for protein and weight. I would never actually eat a serving of tofu straight (ew, that texture! ew ew ew!), but you can't even tell it's there when it's all blended together. Plus, hey, extra source of calcium! Never bad.
The beauty about smoothies is that they're even better chilled, so if you blend them the night before, just decant into a travel mug and throw it in the fridge, and the next morning, it's ready to go with no hassle!
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Something I've just discovered that's wonderful and unexpectedly filling are smoothies. I just got a blender last week, so I've been experimenting like crazy. The banana+peanut butter+honey is my favorite, but the strawberry+blueberry+raspberry is good too, and the chocolate+peanut butter was a big hit with the roommate. Infinite varieties! I'm gathering courage to try the carrot-apple that my cousin swears is so amazing. You wouldn't believe the crazy things you could put in a blender and make taste all right.
The trick I've discovered for making a smoothie filling enough for a snack or a meal is to add a generous serving of vanilla yogurt or smooth tofu (or both) for protein and weight. I would never actually eat a serving of tofu straight (ew, that texture! ew ew ew!), but you can't even tell it's there when it's all blended together. Plus, hey, extra source of calcium! Never bad.
The beauty about smoothies is that they're even better chilled, so if you blend them the night before, just decant into a travel mug and throw it in the fridge, and the next morning, it's ready to go with no hassle!