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Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding [ w/ collagen peptides ]

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Posted:7/22/16
Updated:12/2/19

This Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding uses yogurt, milk and collagen peptides for added health benefits for skin, joint, and gut health. Dairy-free friendly!

Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding using yogurt, milk and collagen peptides for added health benefits for skin, joint, and gut health. Dairy-free friendly! this recipe

This post is sponsored by my partnership with Vital Proteins. All opinions expressed, as always, are 100% my own. Thank you for supporting the brands I trust and have the pleasure of working with, making Fit Mitten Kitchen possible!

You know what’s really great?

Connecting with so many like-minded people in one place. Especially those in the healthy living and fitness realm. To me, nothing is more inspiring than being surrounded by those who want to make a difference in the overall well-being of others.

The energy at BlogFest and IDEA World was incredible. It was my first time attending a conference like that and it reaffirmed why I started doing what I’m doing <— that being sharing healthy recipes with you all and inspiring an active lifestyle.

Our BlogFest keynote speaker was Jenna Wolfe. I always enjoyed watching her on the Today Show, but seeing her speak in person made me fall in love all over again. She was down to earth, funny, relatable, and seriously inspiring. We were all laughing (and possibly crying) throughout the speech. Seriously though I was holding back tears.

Some takeaways from Jenna Wolfe

life is not a dress rehearsal

Life is not waiting for us to go through the all of the steps. We don’t get rehearsals before the big show. This IS the big show. Your life RIGHT NOW, is the show.

If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.

Sounds pretty obvious, right?

Do something every day that scares you

This one may be a bit more challenging. It may require to you make a list of things you WANT to do, and then take note of the things that you keep putting off because they seem out of reach, or “scary”. I certainly could make use of this right now.

Listen to YOU

With all of the podcasts, blog posts, articles, etc. etc. available to us day in and day out, it’s easy to get caught up with what we “should” be doing. Some people say less is more, while others say you have to do it all.

Hustle hustle hustle.

Wait… slow down.

But what about listening to yourself? Don’t YOU know what’s best for YOU? Maybe you’re listening to podcasts and reading self-help books to try and figure it out… But don’t forget to look within and see if you can answer some of your own questions.

You may not know where you’re going

And that is okay! Embrace it. Jenna was super honest and real about leaving the Today show to start her own career. The fact that even she, as someone who is super successful, still doesn’t know exactly where she is going, can be comforting to all of us “normal” folk. The truth is none us truly KNOW where we’re going. The only thing we can do is to live each day as purposeful as possible in hopes of getting to where we WANT to go. Where we PLAN to go. Again, if you want something you’ve never had you have to do something you’ve never done.

Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding

So what’s on today’s blog food menu? Chia seed protein pudding, featuring Vital Proteins.

Vital Proteins was also one of the BlogFest sponsors. It was neat to connect face-to-face with a brand I’ve been in partnership with over the past few months. Again, nothing beats face-to-face and connecting with real life PEOPLE in the blogging community.

Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding made with collagen peptides from Vital Proteins. [ This post is sponsored by Vital Proteins. All opinions are 100% my own. ]

What you need

chia seeds

collagen peptides

favorite yogurt (dairy-free, greek, regular will all work)

favorite non-dairy milk

fresh strawberries

It’s funny… I used to make chia seed pudding ALL of the time as a snack. Especially as a mid-morning snack at the office. Somehow it got away from me. But when I was thinking up some ways to sneak some collagen into daily snacks, chia seed pudding made perfect sense.

It’s super easy and really requires such little prep. All you have to do is mix up all of the ingredients and let the mixture thicken for about 4-6 hours (or overnight). Then you have a healthy, satisfying snack all  ready to go!

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Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding [ with Collagen Peptides ]

Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding
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  • Author: Ashley
  • Prep Time: 4 hours
  • Total Time: 4 hours
  • Yield: 2 1x

Ingredients

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  • 2/3 cup non-dairy milk
  • 2 scoops collagen peptides
  • 1/4 cup favorite yogurt* (regular, greek, dairy-free)
  • 1/4 cup chia seeds
  • 1/2 cup chopped strawberries

Instructions

  1. In a 16oz jar, combine milk and peptides first until peptides dissolve**. Then stir in the remaining ingredients. Cover with lid and shake until well combined. Stir together one more time and top with more strawberries if you wish, before placing lid back on and storing in fridge. Allow mixture to thicken at least 4 hours, or overnight.

Notes

*I used a lightly sweetened vanilla skyr yogurt. If using unsweetened yogurt and/or milk, you may want to add a hint of sweetener like maple syrup, honey, or stevia.
**Make sure peptides and milk are combined first before adding the rest of the ingredients to ensure there are no clumps.

Store leftovers in fridge and use within 1-3 days.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1/2
  • Calories: 248
  • Sugar: 5
  • Sodium: 117
  • Fat: 13
  • Saturated Fat: 3
  • Unsaturated Fat: 9
  • Trans Fat: 0
  • Carbohydrates: 19
  • Fiber: 10
  • Protein: 14
  • Cholesterol: 10

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Oh! If you’re unfamiliar with collagen and what it can do for your health, be sure to check out this post where I go over the basics!

Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding using yogurt, milk and collagen peptides for added health benefits for skin, joint, & gut health. Dairy-free friendly! [ sponsored by Vital Proteins ]

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  • Are you good at listening to yourself, or do you seek the help and advice from outside sources and then get all confused? <— me sometimes but working on getting better.
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P.S. For blogging/fitness friends wondering, I likely will not be doing a full recap of BlogFest, but rather sharing tidbits and takeaways throughout upcoming posts. To any of you wanting to learn more about the conference, please feel free to reach out! fitmittenkitchen(at)gmail(dot)com 🙂

This Strawberry Chia Seed Protein Pudding uses yogurt, milk and collagen peptides for added health benefits for skin, joint, and gut health. Dairy-free friendly!

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About Ashley

"Ashley Walterhouse is the founder of Fit Mitten Kitchen, based in the Greater Lansing Area of Michigan, AKA “the Mitten.” Ashley grew up as a picky eater but later discovered that eating healthy was actually easy and fun. She started FMK in 2015 as a way to share her newfound love of developing healthier recipes for all to enjoy."

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  1. Ellie | Hungry by Nature says

    7/22/2016 at 10:43 am

    It sounds like such an awesome conference! I love “if you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done”. Thanks for sharing 🙂

    Reply
    • Ashley says

      7/24/2016 at 9:40 am

      So simple but so true, right?!

      Reply
  2. Beverley @ Born to Sweat says

    7/22/2016 at 12:56 pm

    That’s so cool that you got to go to BlogFest! I bet it was super inspiring.
    I need to start eating chia pudding again. It’s been ages since I’ve had it and strawberries are so good right nowwww. Using this as my inspo for next weeks breakfast

    Reply
    • Ashley says

      7/24/2016 at 9:39 am

      You need to come next year! You’d love it.
      Hope the pudding is everything you remember and more <3

      Reply
  3. Jess @hellotofit says

    7/23/2016 at 2:40 pm

    I’m getting better about saying “no” and listening to myself . In the recent past, I’d try to say ‘yes’ to everything and end up resenting myself. Doing scary things is…SCARY!!!

    XOXO

    Reply
    • Ashley says

      7/24/2016 at 9:37 am

      Maybe if we start replacing the word “scary” with”challenging” we will be more likely to go through with getting those things done!? (maybe??) <3

      Reply
  4. Stella @ Stellicious Life says

    7/24/2016 at 11:31 am

    Thanks Ashley for sharing your thoughts about BlogFest, I’d love to hear more about the programs, sessions, and how your day(s) were.

    I especially loved Jenna’s advice: if you want something you’ve never had you have to do something you’ve never done.-> it makes complete sense and yet until now I ‘ve never seen it like that.

    It is also very reassuring that even later, as someone very successful she still doesn’t exactly know where she’s going. This stuff tends to stress me out that I have no clear idea, that I don’t see the picture, guess I’m just the kind of girl who should forget about that and just keep on going forward or sideways, wherever those steps are leading.

    Unfortunately I rather tend to do the second: get all the info, articles, notes together, stress myself I haven’t read them all, and then be confused and stressed since I should be doing so many things all at once.. I’m working on changing this and trying not to stress (and then resent) myself unnecessarily.

    Reply
    • Ashley says

      7/24/2016 at 1:10 pm

      Stella thanks so much for sharing your thoughts 🙂 I am like that too though, always wanting to know what is going on, have a plan, priorities, know the end goal, etc. I’ve been realizing recently though how much better it feels to try and just live in the moment. That’s really all you can do though. Yes it is good to think about big picture, but stressing about the future will get you no where if you can’t focus on the day that you’re in. It’s a fine balance of course!
      I’ll email you with a little more details on BlogFest! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Cassie says

    7/28/2016 at 10:49 am

    I’ve been into podcasts too! I love listening to them on long car rides–they’re like pouring knowledge without effort! Anyways, this chia seed pudding looks fabulous! I’d LOVE to try it out!

    Reply
    • Ashley says

      8/10/2016 at 8:21 am

      Yes long car rides and podcasts are awesome, totally makes the time go by!

      Reply

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