The meal 

Welcome back to another tasty high-protein ice cream recipe from Strength By Fitness coach team, Mike and Mida. Today, we present version two, which pulls off almost the same high-protein content but with substantially fewer higher-SPC, whole plant-based carbs for those of you who’re leaning more into a lower-carb approach.

This version delivers roughly 70 grams of protein from 4 main sources of protein, and roughly 500 to 600 calories.
This gives us a very good SPC range of 51 to 65, and a crazy low energy per unit of nutrient ratio of roughly 7.

This makes this version of our homemade high-protein, nutritionally rich ice cream a better high-protein, higher-satiety meal compared to our first high-protein ice cream recipe.

Yes, this version delivers a little less protein, but with around 200 calories less in energy, coming from almost cutting the whole plant-based carbohydrates in half, the satiety rating comes out higher, and let’s face it, 70 grams of protein is still a lot of protein.

Weigh our different homemade ice cream recipes, take a look at your nutritional needs, and base your decision on that because it’s all high satiety, loaded, chock-full of quality proteins and micronutrients.

Important to remember one thing: higher-SPC carbs are good & healthy for you.

So the existence of this ice cream recipe is not us telling you plant-based folks to all of a sudden avoid those health, fitness, and body composition-friendly higher-SPC carbs. No, we are not saying that. But there is a balance to everything.

So we have room for recipes with fewer higher-SPC carbs that still pack in plenty of fiber, protein, healthy fats, and all the micronutrients you need, just as we have room for higher-SPC recipes with more higher-SPC carbs.

And you guys pick and choose the recipes that fit your needs for the day, no matter your medical situation, bodyweight goals and fitness performance, and level ( unless you are, of course, actively being coached by us, if so, we make all the deep level thinking and choices for you ).

We managed to do this recipe change despite holding on to almost the same amount of fiber and fats.

Allowing you to enjoy almost the same protein content and delicious taste bud experience, but with a more satiating, lower energy ice cream meal.

Pay attention to the way this recipe of our tasty homemade high-protein ice cream makes use of almond milk instead of soy milk. We swapped out the more nutritionally rich soy milk for almond milk in our pursuit to cut down on total energy and carbs.

It´s not a big change, but it adds up.

So, if you strongly prefer soy milk ( as we do ), feel free to continue doing this recipe with soy milk instead, just be aware that total carbs and energy will be higher, together with a small bump of protein and other important micronutrients. In other words, Almond milk is not better, it’s just a less nutritionally rich choice we made to improve satiety with this homemade ice cream.

With that said, the original recipe still holds its own, it´s my own favorite, with more protein and a richer and more complete nutritional range, but options are always good, especially for people who are looking for lower-quality carbs and a lower energy intake.

Enjoy.