Cup for smoothies/shakes

I like using one of these with a lid for dinner, protein drinks, coffee… Very durable. It rinses out easily and I “wash” it with a drop of unscented Dr. Bronner’s every now and then.

Ball Jar makes a plastic freezer screw lid container. I use a 8oz one for my cup, but they also make a 16oz one.

Dawn, my HDPE jars are 51 grams for the 16 ounce version and 53 grams for the 12 ounce version. Both weights are with the lid, it’s the white one with the foam liner and a square edge (not the decorative rounded one).

I think they are comfortable to drink out of and easy enough to hold with hot liquid inside. The HDPE is supposed to be heat resistant and I have zero deformation or weirdness after 30+ boiled meals/drinks in one of these. Another option is just a wide mouth Gatorade bottle. A friend of mine uses a wide mouthed but narrow disposable bottle that was some kind of Korean aloe juice. Honestly, a dedicated smoothie bottle is a nice thing because it keeps your potatoes from tasting like smoothie and vice versa.

When I’m doing bigger days I like smoothies for breakfast.

-Carnation Breakfast shake packet

-1/4 cup of Nido powder milk

-1 tablespoon of freeze dried fruit. I’ll make it into a powder in my coffee bean grinder.

I prep by putting it into individual ziplocks then dump the contents into a 16 oz plastic peanut butter jar with a blender ball inside. I think the jar and blender ball weigh about 1.3 oz combined and the shake is about 400 calories. I also like to substitute the powdered fruit with a Starbucks Via packet to get a caffeine start in the morning.

I’m sure there’s some recipe you can find that works for you. There’s a lot of milk alternative choices at Whole Paycheck, um I mean Whole Foods. ;-) Dehydrated fruit is not dry enough to make into a powder. Although, dehydrated bananas may work because they’re so dry/crunchy. If you can find powdered fruit that would be a lot easier. A quick search found this

https://www.northbaytrading.com/freeze-dried-strawberry-powder?gclid=CKylu4ewp9ECFQ9EfgodbpoJpA

Seems pricey but when compared to my Trader Joes bag of freeze dried blueberries that I have to make into powder myself it seems about the same price. Figuring in your time and also that some fruit is lost in the “powdering” process.

Online: $9.95/2.25 oz

Trader Joe’s: $3.50/1.2 oz

i just check the weight on my jar and blender ball set up. A little heavier than I thought. 1.8 oz.