{"id":889,"date":"2010-09-09T01:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=889"},"modified":"2012-11-18T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T23:38:16","slug":"taters-protein-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Tater’s Protein Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just invented a new concoction which I don’t think will catch on with anyone else in the world<\/em>, but I thought I’d share anyway.<\/p>\n

The background is that I am, like many, trying to eat healthier. So, I went to the grocery store and picked up a pack of roasted yellow chickpeas and a pack of roasted salted soybeans. They’re both good sources of protein for a vegetarian: the chickpeas aren’t exactly jam-packed with protein, but they’re high in fibre and low in fat; the soybeans have a ton of protein, but it comes with a lot of fat as well. Both are full of lysiney goodness.<\/p>\n

I’ve been getting loose soybeans like this for a little while now, and know that I can just pop a few handfuls at a time and eat them straight like that. I tried doing that with the chickpeas, and my reaction was “well, I guess if the zombies come, this’ll keep us alive.” They weren’t terrible, but they weren’t particularly good, either. They just had no flavour of their own. However, they did have a decent enough crunch. Realizing both could use a bit of flavour, I came up with this mixture:<\/p>\n

2 tbsp nutella
\n1\/2 c roasted yellow chick peas
\n1\/4 c roasted salted soybeans<\/p>\n

Just mix to evenly coat everything.<\/p>\n

In total, the concoction has 440 calories, 17 g of protein, 21 g of fat (5 g of it saturated), plus 10 g of fibre. Though it’s not very big in the bowl, it’s pretty calorie-dense, I find it’s a good breakfast-sized portion (but keep in mind I’ve only had it twice now). <\/p>\n

So there’s obviously way too much fat in this concoction to be really healthy, but it’s just so hard some days getting vegetarian protein. Most of that fat comes from the nutella, so I’ll see if I can tweak the recipe to find another way to bind everything together and give it some modicum of flavour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have just invented a new concoction which I don’t think will catch on with anyone else in the world, but I thought I’d share anyway. The background is that I am, like many, trying to eat healthier. So, I went to the grocery store and picked up a pack of roasted yellow chickpeas and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}