Recipes
Chocolate "Milk" Shake - (Gluten free, no sugar added, can be fat free & diary free)
By: Andrea Wyckoff
This treat is WAY too good to be good for you! Rich & Creamy, yet can be fat free and dairy free depending on your choices Just like a great thick chocolate malt.
Details
- Prep Time:
5 min - Cook Time:
2 min - Ready In:
7 min
Servings: 1 pints
Ingredients
- Pick up a bunch of bananas, peel them, cut them into chunks, and freeze them in a ziplock bag.
- 1 to 2 frozen bananas (cut in chunks)
- 1 to 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder (I ♥ Dutch Process Cocoa)
- ½ to 1 cup Rice Milk, Almond Milk, or Real Milk, as needed
Directions
Blend & Enjoy. You can also mix it up by adding peanut butter, vanilla, or cinnamon.
Trader Joe's (if you have one near you) is a great source for sugar-free almond, hemp, soy milks. And they have stevia in paper packets, which are perfectly portioned. If you allow your bananas to ripen before you freeze them, they'll be so sweet you won't need added sweeteners. (But beware: they become carb-heavy and higher in calories the riper they become.) I am under the impression that agave, like honey, will spike blood sugar, while stevia will not. This is what everything I've read has said.
Well, I wouldn't say it's sugar free. There's plenty of sugar in rice milk or almond milk that's added. But it still sounds good.
You can also use coconut milk. Any frozen fruit can be used, but bananas are really good with chocolate or carob.
Thanks, Andrea! I bet this would be great with coconut milk, too.
Actually a smoothie can be sugar free. There is unsweetened almond milk and you can use hemp milk (which has omega's, E, B12, Magnesium and other nutrients)if you can't have nuts. Tempt is a brand I have discovered. I personally cannot have coconut despite I love it. My doctor informed some milk alternatives have cane sugar in them. I just add Stevia or Agave for sweetness. Personally, I prefer Agave. It gives a balanced sweetness and will not spike your sugar. Stevia is just different and you have to get used to it. It is a bit powerful to me, but tolerable and takes very little. If you need to avoid all sugars including nectars due to yeast overgrowth Stevia and Lakanto are two products I have discovered. Lakanto is used in Japan to help reduce illness (safe for diabetics) and it tastes just like brown sugar. You can use it equal to the amount of regular sugar in baking and it will not cause any ill affects such as yeast overgrowth. You can find it on bodyecology.com. I hope that is helpful for someone.