what's up muscle & strength Chris bumstead here today I'm gonna be taking you guys
through my typical breakfast at least a breakfast I eat when I'm actually at
home so my favorite thing to eat while I'm not traveling on the road and have my
kitchen at hand is protein pancakes so I'll show you guys how I make it the
base of it essentially where I try to get the most protein and like calories in the
morning in I do four whole eggs right in the bottom i contributes the most of
the liquid for carbs i normally weigh out anything between 80 to 100 grams didn't
eat much yesterday so we're gonna do a hundred grams today just pour it in so
I still pretty much weigh everything I eat in the off season obviously you
don't have to weight eggs cause you just count the number of eggs but I pretty
much weigh everything not eat too much or too little but just to kind of stay
consistent and if I notice I drop weight I know where to add it if I put on too
much weight I know where to take it out and just keep things a little bit more
consistent one of the most important parts of this recipe is the banana A for
flavor B because it adds the kind of a better texture to it makes them a little
bit more fluffy when you actually cook them up literally just plop in about
three-quarters of a normal sized banana and finally which is like the flower of
the recipe i would call it i add protein in so i've been using the cookies and
cream MHP Maximum Whey probably my favorite
flavor they have and it almost adds like a cake taste to the batter
so I just do one scoop of protein and on top of that I add in some glutamine
in the morning
so baking powder also it never comes with a scoop in it but this kind of makes the
pancakes fluff up a little bit and cook a lot better so I actually use the scoop
for the glutamine for the baking powder I add in like a pinch of that and then a
full scoop of glutamine in there glutamine is just like a really good
like amino acid that's like you need and you obviously don't have too much
abundance of and the harder you train your body kind of expends a lot of it so
it's good to get it in through a supplement last thing I do they add in
some cashew milk or almond milk whatever I use unsweetened vanilla and this is
just gonna kind of help it mix I put that in the top so when I blend it
everything kind of comes together
this is my go-to breakfast now because honestly I hate oatmeal I don't think
I'm the only one but I know it's like it's a great carb to eat especially in
the morning it's a very slow digestion carb so it's a great thing to eat for
breakfast but I just hate eating it plain so my trade-off was just to make
pancakes and making my food taste good there's no time it's all skill and when
cooking these when you pour it on you kind of want to wait until bubbles start
to come through and as soon starts to bubble on the top side that's when
they're usually ready to flip and flip them over and at that point you only
leave them over for like maybe 20 seconds and they're usually good to go
this is just one of those preference things for some reason they just taste
better when they're smaller bite sized things always taste better
like mini cookies or mini muffins little things always just taste better
yeah the baking powder I think I mean what it says it's supposed to magically
raise it everything you cook so it just kind of expands it as it gets hot and I
found also adding that almond milk at the end which instead of the only liquid
being the egg which cooks hard the almond milk is a liquid that doesn't
actually cook hard I find that makes them a little bit more fluffier and less
dense
so for these there is really not much order to it
I just kind of do half-and-half blueberries and raspberries get a little
bit health in your life I usually try and get one maybe two meals of veggies
in and then I'll have like a bit of like a green supplement I use because just
like a pain in the ass when you're eating so much food to get in veggies as
well but when I'm like actually full prep dieting I actually you veggies
probably every meal just kind of as a filler and just for more health I
usually put them in four or like 45 seconds just kind of check it you can
see the fruit will start to like pop and overflow and that's when you want to
stop it a lot of people don't have a good appetite in the morning and you
want to don't just want to wake up and have a protein shake every morning like that's
the most typical thing to do everyone just kind of has a shake so you
actually want to get like nutrients stuff in the whole eggs some real good
carbs in oats and stuff like fruit and everything so this is just kind of a
perfect way to get that all together and actually enjoy your breakfast not my best
cooking job but you get the picture and it tastes pretty damn good like I said
you go on a little more sweetness too it and you don't really care about like a tiny
bit of extra sugar a tiny bit of like maple syrup on it goes a long way makes
it taste really sweet a lot better and kind of adds a little bit more to the
dish