Chocolate Syrup/Chocolate Milk

Hubby loves protein mixes. Ew, yuck, gross! I've been drinking chocolate milk after a workout with some baking soda mixed in. Yes, sounds weird but it's suppose to help the muscles heal or something. Honestly I don't know. I found a few 'after workout' drink recipes and the first one had baking soda in it.
4 cups water (or 1 liter)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons sugar or agave nectar
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed citrus juice

You mix and drink. IT WAS DISGUSTING!

However the chocolate syrup recipe was awesome, super easy and even more awesome. You use about a tablespoon per 8oz. Guess who isn't buying chocolate syrup anymore?

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably Dutch-process
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
In a medium saucepan, bring water and sugar to a boil, whisking until sugar is dissolved. Add cocoa and salt; mix well with a whisk. Let mixture simmer until thick, whisking continually to keep from scalding. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Add vanilla. Pour into an airtight container and refrigerate.

Yeah, how stupid easy is that?! Right now the mixture is in my daughters old sippy cup. We have lost all of our containers and it was all I have. Good way to hide it from the kids.

There was a coffee recipe also I tried (sorta) today. I woke up to find we have no milk in the house. Which sucks because if I wanted to get some I have to walk to the store because we are still down to one car. Totally different story. Grrr. Anyway, I tried the coffee one, skipped the sugar because I only had some sweeten condensed milk. Threw in the baking soda for good measure and wasn't too bad. the cocoa doesn't like to blend well with the cold so that was a little weird. But, I'd do it again.

So here is the link to the recipes for the drinks. We both tried the smoothie one with cottage cheese. Yeah, not doing that again. There's been a lot of misses here lately with food. Kinda depressing.

Enjoy

http://espn.go.com/espnw/training/nutrition/6642310/make-recovery-drinks