Protein Balls

That's so awesome!! I'd totally use it to make peanut butter cookies, protein oatmeal balls, toppings on yogurt / oatmeal lol I love peanut butter!

I always reached for something quick and protein-heavy. Cliff bars, meat sticks, jerky, cheese sticks, and these protein balls I get from Sam’s. You might also add some electrolyte drink mixes in there. Congrats to your friend ��

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Kaykorikat said: Are they allowed chocolate on a regular day. That would mean chocolate flavoured protein balls, chocolate covered flax seeds and mini rice cakes with a drizzle of chocolate

Avocado toast with sunny side up (takes 5 min in the morning). Pre marinated Costco wild salmon in air fryer takes 8 min. Protein shake once a day. Energy balls made every Sunday with nuts, coconut, oats and maple syrup.

I’ve been trying to find a way to indulge in protein bars regularly without burning a hole in my wallet, most of them are either unsustainable on a budget or are filled with sweeteners, preservatives, etc. That’s what led me down this rabbit hole. I tried some recipes and was able to crack a few, to suit my taste and macros. Then, recently I picked up a few Whole Truth bars because I like their taste, and that's when I noticed something interesting, they list the exact percentages for every ingredient. So I decided to reverse engineer them. Converted the percentages into grams for a 67g bar (20g protein), tested a few batches at home, tweaked the texture and it worked. The formula is surprisingly simple and clean (Shoutout to The Whole Truth and sorry for using your recipe). After a few iterations, I was able to recreate all 4 flavours pretty closely same texture, similar taste, ~20g protein, but at a fraction of the cost. Tip: At times binding might be an issue, I personally add a few more dates and peanut butter to tackle this, but alternatively you can skip molding them into bars and either consume them directly or make laddoos (balls). Here's the ingredient breakdown: 🍫 Double Cocoa: Cashews: 22.8 g Dates: 17.4 g Whey protein blend: 12.7 g Almonds: 6.7 g Cocoa powder: 4.0 g Cocoa butter: 3.35 g (regular butter works just fine) 🥜 Peanut Cocoa: Peanuts: 30.8 g (~31 g) Dates: 18.8 g (~19 g) Whey protein blend: 11.4 g Cocoa powder: 2.7 g Cocoa butter: 3.35 g (regular butter works just fine) 🫘 Coffee Cocoa: Cashews: 23.5 g Dates: 16.8 g Whey protein blend: 12.7 g Almonds: 6.7 g Cocoa powder: 2.0 g Coffee: 2.0 g (chicory or no chicory) Cocoa butter: 3.35 g (regular butter works just fine) 🌰 Hazelnut Cocoa: Hazelnuts: 26.5 g Dates: 16.5 g Whey protein blend: 15.0 g Cashews: 3.0 g Cocoa butter: 3.0 g (regular butter works just fine) Cocoa powder: 3.0 g submitted by /u/sticky_water to r/Fitness_India [link] [comments]

I love that they didn't put dates in it or anything else like Palm kernel oils they usually sneak into something like this. submitted by /u/grazzyphase to r/Costco [link] [comments]

I am NOT OOP, OOP is u/smitswerben Originally posted to r/NewParents I ruined my life: I have an unhappy, irritable baby. Trigger Warnings: Postpartum Depression / Postpartum Anxiety, struggles with raising a newborn Original Post: September 11, 2024 She is so fussy and irritable. She is 6 weeks and she has been this way since she was 3 weeks old. If she is awake, she is crying. Fed, clean nappy, burped, no hair on her fingers or toes and we only use clothing without tags so they don’t irritate her skin. Nothing soothes her. Holding her? Cry. Put her down? Cry. Try to distract with contrast cards or music? Cry. Outside? Cry. Walk? Cry. Carrier? Definite cry, she hates the bloody thing. Yesterday morning I had to just give up, stick her in her bouncer next to me and put on headphones while she cried herself to sleep. I’m a terrible mother for letting a 6 week old cry themselves to sleep. My only weapon is bouncing her in the pitch black bathroom with the shower running and I’m terrified of when that stops working. Sleeping? She won’t do it. During the day she’s up for hours. I’m lucky to get a 15 minute nap from her. “But Smitswerben, you must be missing her sleepy cues!” No. She fights sleep like it’s going to kill her. Shrieking, throwing herself backwards, flailing her limbs. You’d think she would sleep great at night since she’s up all day, but not really. Her usual is about 2-2.5 hours. Occasionally 3 and a handful of times 4. That’s an improvement after we bought an expensive rocking bassinet. Which if it ever stops rocking, she wakes up IMMEDIATELY and won’t go back down. So I wake up every 45 minutes to reset the timer on the rocker. She had bad reflux and I thought fixing it would solve so many of our problems. I’m glad she’s not in pain anymore, but nothing has changed. She’s just as irritable as before. It feels hopeless. Every day I regret having this baby that my husband and I wanted so badly. And that makes me feel terrible, what kind of mother am I? I can’t comfort my own kid. I feel like my marriage is disintegrating. Everyone is unhappy and stressed. There is no intimacy, emotional or physical. How can we have time for each other when we have a baby that won’t give us a second of time for ourselves? All day I think about how she would be better off without me, with someone that will actually make her a happy baby. Update: I am overwhelmed by everyone reaching out with suggestions and kind words. I can’t thank everyone enough for your suggestions but also for caring enough to comfort an internet stranger and offering advice for our LO. We have seen the pediatrician about this, and he feels that she has reflux. I am nicu nurse and I definitely agree with this. We don’t breastfeed anymore and are using Enfamil AR. He won’t prescribe us meds until we have trialed that for a few weeks. Her reflux has improved with the Enfamil AR. Her general distress doesn’t seem to be associated or aggravated with feeding. Of course we are using gas drops liberally and following the 5 S’s. (editor’s note: Swaddle, Side or Stomach position, Shush, Swing, and Suck) I have a lot of anxiety that this is an allergy, but when I look clinically from a nurse perspective, she doesn’t fit the bill other than fussiness and reflux (and that’s resolved). She has no rash, her stool doesn’t have mucus or blood. But it’s nagging at me and I’m worried that she’s part of the percentage that does have a cmpa (editor’s note: cow’s milk protein allergy) allergy/intolerance that doesn’t scream diagnostic. I’m just anxious in general. I want her to feel better and be happier, and I so badly want it to just be something fixable like changing formula. Our ped’s advice is to try and stick it out for now and see if there is improvement. Trying a hypoallergenic formula is definitely on my radar. I’m hesitant to pull her off of the Enfamil AR so quickly after starting and potentially cause more discomfort from the reflux reemerging. If there is something wrong that is causing her unhappiness, we will work down the list and keep going until we figure it out. If not, it’s reassuring knowing that it will eventually get better and that there are other people have felt what I’m feeling and that it doesn’t make me a broken person. I don’t know the answer to my marriage disintegrating. The answer is probably that he needs to be home more to split the load, but it’s not a realistic option. But we can’t start trying to figure anything out until I talk to him about how I’m feeling. Most of all, I just wanted to thank everyone for telling me what my brain won’t let me believe. I never expected motherhood to be so isolating. Rereading my own thoughts spelled out in front of me, I am realizing that I have severe PPA. If a mom at work came to me with these feelings, I would immediately refer her to psych. I wonder how much of my daughter’s hysteria is related to my exasperation and frustration. Relevant Comments Commenter 1: Hey, it won’t be like this forever. Babies go through a lot of stages, and you are still in the early days. A few things: - You are not a horrible mother, you are doing the best you can and you obviously care a lot. - If she is inconsolable for more than 3 hours, that’s the deadline my pediatrician gave me to check in about that. So maybe check in with them. -Make sure you get yourself checked for PPD. The way you wrote this feels like the PPD I dealt with. -Have you and your husband take alternating breaks. Even just for a walk around the block, allow yourself to step away sometimes. You will make it through this, it isn’t forever. Babies change a lot over the first couple months. OOP: Thank you for validating the feelings that I’ve been having. I could definitely use more help from my husband, I am realizing that I am running on fumes. I have her for basically 24 hours a day and I often feel like a single parent. My husband is gone from 0600-2030 pretty much every day at work and I send him to bed at 0000 so he can be up at 0530. He works with heavy machinery and I’m afraid of him not getting enough sleep and making a mistake at work that gets him hurt. Commenter 2: This sounds a lot like my baby. Who had dairy and soy allergies. Even if it is "just normal newborn fussiness" having your very first baby is a shock to the system. My little boy turns 3 years old in a few weeks. He's a delightful chap, with a goofy sense of humour, the world's best hugs, he eats real food and shits in the toilet. It's okay to not like newborn phase, it doesn't mean you don't like your baby or you're a bad mum or you're going to feel like this forever. Right now your baby is a screaming potato which goo firing out of all ends. She doesn't reciprocate anything or can't tell you anything. Things usually get easier for people when they can see some personality in their baby, some smiles and some giggles. You'll be all right mama, just see the doctor in the meantime. OOP: I’ve debated if she has an allergy, but I’m really unconvinced. I stopped giving her breast milk, I thought it might be something I was eating or the caffeine I’m drinking. I started her on Kendamil but her reflux definitely got worse and she started refusing bottles. I reached out to the pediatrician, but he thinks it’s just reflux and had me switch to Enfamil AR. He wouldn’t give us meds. We did see a huge improvement on the Enfamil AR. She’s no longer screaming during feeds or refusing them. Before she would spit up and re-swallow and I could tell it hurt her, but now it doesn’t seem to bother her when she spits. She doesn’t have any rashes, and the reflux has stopped now that we switched formula. I do wonder if the formula is just a band aid and masking the reflux now that it’s too thick to come up. But I’m too scared to try a hypoallergenic formula because they can make reflux worse and we just got her eating normally again. Commenter 3: I would bet $100 your baby has food allergies. What have you tried cutting out so far? OOP: We stopped breast milk because I thought that was it at first. We have to use Enfamil ar for her reflux. I have thought about trying a different formula and using something to thicken it, but my husband and I both agree that we should give her a few weeks to see if she has any improvement before we switch her again. Commenter 4: One comment on marriage since you’ve gotten so many on the baby: This is the moment to check in with your husband and have a very very real talk. If we hadn’t had that talk my husband and I wouldn’t have made it maybe, we had horrible fights because of sleep deprivation and resentment over not seeing eye to eye on everything in terms of what to do about the shrieking sleep-hating potato. Step one look at each other and tell each other you have to fight for your partnership and you two (as a unit) are worth the fight. Step two, acknowledge there is so much irritation, potentially even Post Partum Depression or Anxiety, and big feelings in both of you so the words that come out of your mouths are going to sting. Agree to let each other speak but agree to also not dwell on the things you disagree on because you’re each looking at the world and interpreting things through a very distorting lens. Step three, make plans: make plans for nighttime. For daytime, for splitting the day so one person has a break at each given time. Step four, state the non-negotiables - own or two things that will help you stay sane that each of you request specific time for. Step five, have a phrase that you can each say to remind each other you’re on the same team when you’ll inevitably snap and hate each other. Step six, make plans for when the baby is better (whether it’s because you’ll switch formulas or the baby simply grows out of the “miseries stage”) .. try and visualize a future together , a beach vacation, a quiet picnic at the park, a little date if someone can babysit.. try and visualize it so you guys can remember that a world beyond this newborn stage exists and you want to be there for each for it. OOP: Thank you for this. I hate trying to talk to him about how I’m feeling. He works 70+ hours a week and I feel so guilty complaining to him when he comes home. It must be really crappy for him to work all day and come home to an angry baby and a miserable wife. I worry that he resents me for not being able to do my most basic function - taking care of our child. I will definitely talk to him about trying to look towards when this is over. We just need to make it through together.   Update: February 27, 2026 (17 months later from the original post) Update I ruined my life: I have an unhappy, irritable baby. It’s been 19 months (19!!!) and I get a lot of messages from people sharing their similar stories and feelings. Most people always ask if things ever got better for us, so I figured I would post an update! In my original post, baby girl was 6 weeks old and we were struggling in the thick of it. I was sleep deprived, had some ppd and didn’t really have help. Baby girl was… challenging. A lot of commenters on my original post suggested she had cmpa. (editor’s note: cow’s milk protein allergy) She didn’t. I was convinced she had reflux, and maybe she did. She definitely had purple crying episodes. I had moments of intense regret and fear that life was never going to be “normal” again. It was not what I had signed up for. I had to let go of my illusion of what I thought having a newborn would be like. I accepted that my baby was a *special* baby and just learned to adjust to her needs instead of try to “fix” her. For us, that meant exclusively contact napping until she was ~5 months old. I threw the bassinet in the bin and got a foldable floor mattress and co-slept following the safe sleep 7 (minus breastfeeding) at night. She finally started sleeping in her crib at night around 4 months. I had to bounce on the yoga ball with noise canceling headphones for the “5 o’clock scaries” almost every night until she was around 11 weeks old. Around 5-6 months old is when she really hit her stride and we started actually enjoying being parents. This is all to say, baby girl is 19 months old now and is without a doubt the light of our lives. She is sweet, hilarious, STUBBORN, and the best little sidekick. Worth every hour of sleep lost and every minute on that stupid yoga ball. I still have a lot of guilt for ever regretting her, but I was relieved to know that my husband was overwhelmed too and had a lot of the same feelings. Sometimes we get caught up in enjoying our daughter and think about having another. Then we have vivid flashbacks of angry potato phase and shudder. If you got this far: Yes. It does get better. You just have to thug it out in whatever way works for YOU Some of Relevant Comments OOP gives support to fellow parents who are going through similar situations Commenter 1: Thank you for this 🙏🏽 currently 12.5 weeks and exclusively contact napping/cosleeping with a needy Velcro baby, and I hate life most days. This gives me hope it won’t last forever. OOP: Hang in there! Everyone always had something to say about contact napping/cosleeping “You’ll spoil her, she can’t get used to that!” and I think that’s why I was so resistant to trying it. Those first months are about SURVIVAL. She transitioned to sleeping on her own with an appropriate amount of fuss. Commenter 2: I’d love your recommendation for foldable floor mattresses. thank you so much for this update, I think it’s so important for folks to hear from folks “on the other side” of a really really difficult stage. OOP: Honestly, I just got the thickest one that would come fastest from Amazon. I was so sleep deprived, I’m pretty sure I could have slept standing. It’s 3 inches thick and folds in to three sections so we can stuff it in the closet if we’re not using it. I still use it when baby girl is sick and I have to sleep with her. Commenter 3: When did you stop co-sleeping? OOP: Around 4ish months. One night I was trying to put her to sleep and she was so resistant and fighting. I put her in her crib just as safe place while I went downstairs to get some water and take a breather for myself. She cried for maybe 5 min and then stopped. I freaked out when I noticed she wasn’t crying anymore but when I checked on her the little turd had fallen asleep. That’s when I knew she was ready for sleep training and we did go ahead and sleep train (which is not for everyone!). After that she would sleep for like 4-6 hours before waking up to eat once and then go back down. Sometimes she would wake up around 5:30 and I would cosleep with her until 7 am. Commenter 4: How did you transition out of contact naps and into crib at 4 months? 3.5 month old right now is the same way, she sleeps in bassinet at night but is outgrowing it and only will contact nap during the day. OOP: We contact napped waaay in to 5/6 months. She would do nights in her crib but naps were much harder. I would start her nap in the crib but if she woke up before she needed to, I would extend the nap with contact napping. What kind of sleep training method did OOP use? OOP: We did Ferber method. r/sleeptrain has a lot of information if you’re more interested in it. They have everything (for free) that you can possibly get by paying money (taking cara babies, etc). Many members will also help you trouble shoot any scheduling issues that may be making sleep more difficult.   DO NOT COMMENT IN LINKED POSTS OR MESSAGE OOPs – BoRU Rule #7 THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT OOP submitted by /u/Choice_Evidence1983 to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

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Ingredients: 500g of pressed cottage cheese (I use MC Dairy) 40g of peanut butter powder (I use PB Fit) or regular 100% peanut butter 50g of protein powder (Optional) 15g of semi-sweet chocolate chips 2 tbsp of sweetener of your choice (I use monkfruit/erythritol) Recipe: 1) Prepare the peanut butter powder. 2) Mash everything together and make them into balls. Try to make them into consistent size. I can usually make 10 balls. 3) Store them in the fridge for at least three hours before serving. Macros(per ball): Calories: 100kcal Protein: 15-16g Carb: 4g Fat: 2g (Only if you use a powdered PB) submitted by /u/VonPB23 to r/LowCalorieCooking [link] [comments]