I meet people, both in person and online, who say that they do not like protein drinks. They invest quite a bit on a huge canister of protein powder only to find that they don’t like it. I’m not one of those people NOW. But at one time, I didn’t like protein drinks either. But it would be hard to pry my fingers off of my morning cup of protein coffee or afternoon frappuccino! It’s all in the art of knowing “HOW” to prepare them, or what I like to call “mixology”.

Let’s look at chocolate protein powder for a moment. Many brands carry your basic protein powder. I know of only a few that will knock your socks as mixed with just water. But others, well they might need a little bit of tweaking. In other words, they need some help in how they are prepared and what ingredients are added to them. So if you have a huge bucket of protein sitting around that maybe has had one or two trial run scoops taken out, and left for dead… try this.

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