It seems that every fast food joint has turned fall desserts into milkshakes.
Skip the fast food sugar-bomb and make your own (much healthier) version!
Apple Pie is fantastic a la mode… it’s only natural that is become part of the la mode.
Yes, my Apple Pie Shake is green. If you haven’t tried it yet, now is the time to toss an avocado in your smoothie. It adds to the creamy-milkshake texture and you cannot taste it. (Recipe at the bottom of post.)
Breakfast:
To begin my WIAW, I had a post-workout Apple Pie Shake. Perfect beginning to a warm fall day.
Words of shake-making advice:
- Virtually anything can be frozen – including avocados and apples
- Guar Gum is worth the expense – a little bit goes a long way and it makes the perfect shake texture
- Don’t skimp on vanilla and cinnamon
- Guard your apple when taking pic from your balcony
I only turned my back for a second when I heard a big “SPLAT.” I looked around… where’s my apple??? Hmmmm… glance down… apparently my apple grew legs and jumped off my balcony. It’s not that bad, apple!
Odd craving for apple sauce…
Lunch:
Today’s lunch was gourmet. By gourmet, I mean multi-course.
First a salad of arugula and spinach with carrots, cucumber, and a hearty scoop of chipotle salsa. I love salsa as dressing.
Followed by my leftover “pasta” (spaghetti squash from this dish) and a quick batch of this tahini sauce.
Dinner:
I didn’t realize today was going to be a “make it again” day. Typically I don’t repeat recipes… there are so many new ideas floating around in my head!
After the tahini sauce repeat, I re-made this Wild Mushroom Soup for dinner. It was one of my favorites last winter – someone remind me to re-make dishes more often!
Don’t judge… brown food is impossible to photograph!
I made is almost the same way; however I did use fresh parsley and roasted garlic and added lentils for bulk.
Snacks:
It was a fun snack day! In addition to my “OMG, I cannot get sick” Emergen-C, I tried a new product: Primal Strips.
It’s meatless vegan jerky made from seitan!
Observations:
- 11 grams of protein
- Only 3 grams of sugar
- Ingredient list I can pronounce
- Texture was a little weird (chewy, which I suppose is jerky-esque), but I got over it half way through the “strip”
- Loved the teriyaki flavor
Verdict: I’d definitely buy it again and would love to try other flavors!
Not pictured: I made another Apple Pie Shake as a bedtime snack. Like I said, it’s a day of repeats.
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Apple Pie Shake
- 1/2 large apple
- 1/4 large avocado
- 2 scoops vanilla protein powder
- 1 handful spinach (optional – but I swear you can’t taste it!)
- 1 C unsweetened vanilla almond milk (or any milk-substance)
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp ginger
- 7-8 drops NuNaturals Pure Liquid Vanilla Stevia
- Shake of salt
- Shake of Guar gum (optional, but helps create milkshake consistency)
- Ice, to taste
Put it in a blender and blend until smooth! Pour into tumbler and drink your pie.
I received the pictured Tervis tumbler as part of the FoodBuzz Tastemaker Program. It didn’t influence the fact that my shake was fantastic, but it did keep it nice and cold while I took a million pics of it. 🙂
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What is your favorite dessert-gone-shake?
Do you have “go to” dishes you make regularly?
I tried putting an avocado in a smootie once and it was not a pretty picture! I actually had to throw it out because it tasted chemically – I am scared to try again but your smoothie may sway me 🙂
Ewww… was the avocado bad? I’ve never had that happen! 🙁
I love avocado in smoothies!!! especially with bananas! Can’t wait to try your apple pie smoothie 😀
Perhaps it knew it was the bad apple? Your eats look great! (As usual 🙂 )
I tend to make the same things over again. I also tend to make up a lot of my meals which makes it tough to document them on my blog…but I do anyway! 😉 You’re right about the brown food! Happy WIAW!!
Hahaha at the apple sauce craving… you sicko!! ;D
Mmmm love the apple pie smoothie!
I’ve been drinking a ton of pumpkin smoothies so I’ll have to switch it up!
The spaghetti squash look yummy too =)
oooh i love avocados in smoothies! yum! apple pie flavour sounds yummy! the apple sauce craving made me giggle!
I’m always too lazy to make smoothies which I realize doesn’t make sense. This looks good though. Don’t get sick!!
HAHAHAHAHA Apple suicide! I sneak avocado into Mr’s banana and cocoa smoothies, he can’t taste the difference, isn’t that great! Apple pie milkshake sounds like the one to try.
Huhhh I have never put an avocado in a smoothie before, but I am intrigued! Will be trying that for my next smoothie 🙂
Pasta and homemade pizza are the 2 go-to dinners I have, and they probably pop up once each week…Any smoothie with spinach and strawberries in it is a winner to me!
I need to make MORE homemade pizza. Perfect winter quickie meal. 🙂
At first I thought, “Aww man, I want an apple pie shake. Damn the veganism!” But then I saw that…I can! I can! 🙂
(P.S. So THATS what to do with guar gum…..)
Yeah for vegan-ism! Drink yer pie, my friend. 🙂
A green apple pie shake?? Totally up my alley. I’ve never bought guar gum.. but now I think I have a reason to. RIP Apple.
Guar gum is awesome – it will change your smoothie-life!
The apple appreciate all of your kind thoughts. 😉
Sounds amazing! I’ve been kind of curious to try out the spinach-smoothies, maybe I should just get over myself and do it, haha.
I PROMISE you cannot taste the spinach. Kale, yes. Spinach, no.
I’ve never tried spaghetti squash but it looks so good, definitely need to get on that!
It’s so easy to make and a great pasta alternative or addition! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
I love avocados in smoothies but have yet to try apples – this sounds delicious though!
You have to watch those apples, they need constant attention or they head for open windows in search of a better life. I’ve made an avocado peanut butter smoothie before that was delish. I didn’t freeze the avo though…
Silly needy apples. 🙂
I usually only eat 1/2 an avocado at a time and since they don’t keep well I’ve found that freezing them for smoothies is a good way to avoid waste.
I love spaghetti squash and haven’t had it in ages. Thanks for the reminder.
I’ve been very sneaky with getting the vegetables into my meals for my kid crowd. Wonder if they’ll buy the spaghetti squash . . . .I’ll step out on a limb and give it a try-
Thanks for the tip!
I like pumpkin smoothies!
I like a lot of my recipes a lot but I hardly ever re-make them, baring a few.
Voted! I hope you win. Poor apple! I actually gasped (apples are my favorite). Favorite dessert gone shake? Probably pumpkin pie. Think you could figure out a way to make black forest cake into a shake for me? lol.
Thanks!!! Black forest? Seems do-able… 🙂
oooh that sounds good. I haven’t tried shakifying any desserts, but I’d be keen on anything pumpkin. I dislike pumpkin pie but have a feeling it would be superb as a smoothie. Not keen on avocado but perhaps in a smoothie? Something about it just doesn’t taste good to me.
I recently rediscovered Tahini after not liking it for years. It’s so good!! I’m going to have to try that sauce.
Mushroom soup would be so good right now. It has been raining all day and my poor feet are frozen.
You should try it! They are so good for you and you don’t get an avocado taste from a smoothie.
Hope your feet thaw!!
I love the apple pie smoothie (sorry for the apples that didn’t make it, don’t they know suicide is no way to go).
I would never have put avocado in it…but that is some good fat.
Thanks for a WIAW winner!
Thanks for a WIAW winner!
Sometimes repeating is good (in your case)…sometimes not so good (in my case)
LOL! Thank you, Rachel. You crack me up. 🙂
Apple suicide…I guess those apples didn’t like the looks of your mouth or the blender eh? 😉
We live in the “Land-o-Shakes” so we rarely make homemade shakes, but sounds delicious enough to try.
This milkshake looks so yummy! I gotta try this avocado in the milkshake thing!
Um, SWOON. That smoothie looks incredible! I also want the primal strip 🙂
I definitely checked out your recipe for the Wild Mushroom Soup – looks FANTASTIC. I am definitely going to have to try that sometime this winter. Looks like a perfect “I am freezing and in need of some piping hot food to warm me up now” meal 🙂
Also love the idea of an apple pie shake. I use pumpkin pie spice on things, but I just heard that they also have an APPLE pie spice. Did you know this!? I need to get on finding some of that … 😉 Can’t wait!!
They have spice for everything! I usually have all the components on hand though. Like a make-your-own-spice blend!
I personally think turning dessert into a milkshake is juuuuuuuuust fine 😀 lol