dianeseattle
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I am terrible at math, so I did the math here over and over and over and I think I have it right now.
First some facts about Magic Milk: I always make it by putting one packet of Milkman dried milk powder into one quart of nonfat milk. I blend it until it is smooth and then I use it instead of water when I make soups or cereals.
And now I have gone over to the dark side and have been eating Premier Protein shakes for the last 4 days. It is an 11 oz drink by volume containing 30 g of protein. That is hard to beat... or so it would seem.
So I broke it down by the ounce. Magic milk gives you 2.0 grams of protein in every ounce that you use. Premier Protein gives you 2.7 grams of protein for every ounce you use.
According to nutritionix, magic milk actually gives you 16.3 grams of protein per cup and is 184 calories. That is to be expected considering the fact that you are putting enough dry milk in there to create another 32 oz of milk so the calorie count is actually quite good.
On the other hand, Premier Protein gives you 30 grams of protein in 11 oz. That sounds like a lot more but there is one X Factor.
Whereas every protein drink at the supermarket contains some sort of whey isolate or another form of calcium caseinate protein, magic milk does not. It is milk plus milk. Because it is not concentrated, the milk protein grams are what naturally occur in milk.
But I am done beating up on protein shakes. At least for the time being. It takes 11 oz of volume, which is an issue for post-op people because of their tiny pouch, in order to get 30g of protein in. It takes 8 ounces of volume to get 16 grams of protein from Magic milk. Even if you kicked it up to 11 oz of volume, you would only be getting 22 protein grams from Magic milk.
So it does come down to a choice in a way. Do you want to drink a product that is enhanced with additives that you will not find in milk, like extra riboflavin and folic acid, processed and adulterated, like a protein drink, or do you want to drink milk?
Using magic milk requires a lot of preparation at home. And then making something with it requires more preparation. You can just pop the cap off a protein drink and slug it down, no preparation at all. and although there are a lot of scary sounding chemicals in the protein drink, who am I to judge? I eat crap everyday, just like every other American. Unless you grow it yourself, you have no idea what somebody put in it.
Aaaaah how I long for my days on the farm. Everything was so simple and so perfect. Everything was organic and unprocessed. We didn't even have to try. We just took care of animals and grew plants and we still had to spend money at the grocery store. But if I had a chance to return to the Garden of Eden oh, I would do it.
Oops. I kind of got off track. The object of my lesson today was that I learned I could make something that was pretty nutritious and not pay the price of something very processed, but I would not be getting anywhere near the protein grams that is listed on the label of a protein drink. However, the drink I made today tasted a whole lot better than a Premier Protein Shake.
So I'm just going to use my culinary skills and trade off everyday. I need that protein. My body has informed me that when I was not getting adequate protein, I was super depressed, low energy, had exaggerated symptoms of a nasty head cold that turned into sinusitis, and just didn't have the muscle tone that I normally have. When you reintroduce protein into your body, muscle tone comes back right away.
First some facts about Magic Milk: I always make it by putting one packet of Milkman dried milk powder into one quart of nonfat milk. I blend it until it is smooth and then I use it instead of water when I make soups or cereals.
And now I have gone over to the dark side and have been eating Premier Protein shakes for the last 4 days. It is an 11 oz drink by volume containing 30 g of protein. That is hard to beat... or so it would seem.
So I broke it down by the ounce. Magic milk gives you 2.0 grams of protein in every ounce that you use. Premier Protein gives you 2.7 grams of protein for every ounce you use.
According to nutritionix, magic milk actually gives you 16.3 grams of protein per cup and is 184 calories. That is to be expected considering the fact that you are putting enough dry milk in there to create another 32 oz of milk so the calorie count is actually quite good.
On the other hand, Premier Protein gives you 30 grams of protein in 11 oz. That sounds like a lot more but there is one X Factor.
Whereas every protein drink at the supermarket contains some sort of whey isolate or another form of calcium caseinate protein, magic milk does not. It is milk plus milk. Because it is not concentrated, the milk protein grams are what naturally occur in milk.
But I am done beating up on protein shakes. At least for the time being. It takes 11 oz of volume, which is an issue for post-op people because of their tiny pouch, in order to get 30g of protein in. It takes 8 ounces of volume to get 16 grams of protein from Magic milk. Even if you kicked it up to 11 oz of volume, you would only be getting 22 protein grams from Magic milk.
So it does come down to a choice in a way. Do you want to drink a product that is enhanced with additives that you will not find in milk, like extra riboflavin and folic acid, processed and adulterated, like a protein drink, or do you want to drink milk?
Using magic milk requires a lot of preparation at home. And then making something with it requires more preparation. You can just pop the cap off a protein drink and slug it down, no preparation at all. and although there are a lot of scary sounding chemicals in the protein drink, who am I to judge? I eat crap everyday, just like every other American. Unless you grow it yourself, you have no idea what somebody put in it.
Aaaaah how I long for my days on the farm. Everything was so simple and so perfect. Everything was organic and unprocessed. We didn't even have to try. We just took care of animals and grew plants and we still had to spend money at the grocery store. But if I had a chance to return to the Garden of Eden oh, I would do it.
Oops. I kind of got off track. The object of my lesson today was that I learned I could make something that was pretty nutritious and not pay the price of something very processed, but I would not be getting anywhere near the protein grams that is listed on the label of a protein drink. However, the drink I made today tasted a whole lot better than a Premier Protein Shake.
So I'm just going to use my culinary skills and trade off everyday. I need that protein. My body has informed me that when I was not getting adequate protein, I was super depressed, low energy, had exaggerated symptoms of a nasty head cold that turned into sinusitis, and just didn't have the muscle tone that I normally have. When you reintroduce protein into your body, muscle tone comes back right away.
