Depending on your weight and how intense your workout is, you need to consume around 82-130g of protein per day. Sometimes reaching these numbers can be hard and a little boring, if you are eating the same protein-rich foods each day. So, here are a few great ideas to use everyday ingredients to reach your daily protein intake.

Walnuts instead of Breadcrumbs

Chop some toasted walnuts to coat chicken or fish. You can mix them with your usual breadcrumbs or cook them on their own. Each quarter-cup contains 4 grams of protein and 2.5 grams of omega-3 fatty acids.

Cottage Cheese in Pancakes

Switch the milk in your favorite pancake recipe for low-fat cottage cheese. A cup of cottage cheese contains 28 grams of protein. It won’t change the pancake texture and will taste delicious.

Quinoa in Soup

Quinoa has 8 grams of protein per cooked cup and is a great whole grain to incorporate into your diet. Add it to soups or stews to add some flavor and texture.

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First, choose between Vanilla or Chocolate Cookie base.

Cookie Dough Recipe

Ingredients

• ½ cup protein powder
• ¾ cup oat flour
• 1 ¼ cups almond meal
• ½ tsp baking sode
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¾ stick melted butter
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ¼ white sugar
• ¼ almond butter
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

For chocolate cookies, add ½ cup processed cocoa powder.

Instructions:

Sift together the protein powder, oat flour and almond meal with the baking soda and salt (add the cocoa powder now if you want chocolate cookies). In another bowl mix together the melted butter, brown and white sugar and almond butter. Whisk in the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla extract.

Add the flour mixture and mix everything together.

Now it gets fun. Add any additions you want—nuts, sweet, crunchy or chewy. Don’t exceed 2 ½ cups in total. You can add pretzels, peanuts, hazelnuts, pecans, pistachios, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews or sesame seeds. Dried Cherries or apricots, goji berries or raisins. For some sweetness, you can add some chocolate chips, freeze-dried strawberries, coconut flakes or banana chips.

Fold in your additions and let the dough sit to hydrate, covered with plastic wrap at room temperature for 10 minutes.

Scoop ¼ cup of the dough on parchment paper and bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.  Rotate the tray and bake for about another 3 minutes. Leave to cool and eat!

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Depending on your weight and how intense your workout is, you need to consume around 82-130g of protein per day. Sometimes reaching these numbers can be hard and a little boring, if you are eating the same protein-rich foods each day. So, here are a few great ideas to use everyday ingredients to reach your daily protein intake.

Walnuts instead of Breadcrumbs

Chop some toasted walnuts to coat chicken or fish. You can mix them with your usual breadcrumbs or cook them on their own. Each quarter-cup contains 4 grams of protein and 2.5 grams of omega-3 fatty acids.

Cottage Cheese in Pancakes

Switch the milk in your favorite pancake recipe for low-fat cottage cheese. A cup of cottage cheese contains 28 grams of protein. It won’t change the pancake texture and will taste delicious.

Quinoa in Soup

Quinoa has 8 grams of protein per cooked cup and is a great whole grain to incorporate into your diet. Add it to soups or stews to add some flavor and texture.

The post How to Add More Protein to Your Favorite Foods appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

First, choose between Vanilla or Chocolate Cookie base.

Cookie Dough Recipe

Ingredients

• ½ cup protein powder
• ¾ cup oat flour
• 1 ¼ cups almond meal
• ½ tsp baking sode
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¾ stick melted butter
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ¼ white sugar
• ¼ almond butter
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

For chocolate cookies, add ½ cup processed cocoa powder.

Instructions:

Sift together the protein powder, oat flour and almond meal with the baking soda and salt (add the cocoa powder now if you want chocolate cookies). In another bowl mix together the melted butter, brown and white sugar and almond butter. Whisk in the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla extract.

Add the flour mixture and mix everything together.

Now it gets fun. Add any additions you want—nuts, sweet, crunchy or chewy. Don’t exceed 2 ½ cups in total. You can add pretzels, peanuts, hazelnuts, pecans, pistachios, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews or sesame seeds. Dried Cherries or apricots, goji berries or raisins. For some sweetness, you can add some chocolate chips, freeze-dried strawberries, coconut flakes or banana chips.

Fold in your additions and let the dough sit to hydrate, covered with plastic wrap at room temperature for 10 minutes.

Scoop ¼ cup of the dough on parchment paper and bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.  Rotate the tray and bake for about another 3 minutes. Leave to cool and eat!

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