Pro Series

This is what I use as well. Love the taste and not super expensive.

Not sure about affordable, but I use syntha 6 or muscle milk. Buy the big jugs from Amazon, cost $35-$50ish per jug and lasts about a month. I prefer mixing with oat milk but water, milk, soy milk, etc will all work just fine.

PS just read an article about high lead and heavy metal contamination in a lot of protein. Syntha 6 came out as a recommended brand. Muscle milk pro had higher lead levels. Ugh.

Muscle Milk Pro, because it tastes the best in my opinion after trying most of them and it is also fortified with other really beneficial vitamins and minerals.

Optimum nutrition gold standard, it’s what I use most of the time. I’ve started having the muscle milk pro series 50g before going to bed as it’s a nice mix of milk protein isolate, casein and some whey for only 310 calories per 50g protein serving. Both of these mix fine, I use water and a shaker bottle. But really not much beats ON gold standard for whey. Competitors either are cheaper but taste worse/have fillers/use inferior low anabolic types of protein like collagen/not 3rd party tested/are more expensive.

Instead of getting pre-made protein shakes, get protein powder and *unsweetened* almond or oat milk. My favorite brands are Orgain and PB2 for plant protein, and Muscle Milk and Jocko for whey protein Low-fat cottage cheese. This is great plain, with jelly, and can also be blended and added to things. For example, I blend it and add ranch seasoning instead of using ranch dressing Non-fat Greek yogurt. My favorite is the Chobani extra protein ones that have 20g of protein each String cheese Eggs. Scrambled, hard boiled, breakfast hash, quiche, egg bake. Extra protein oatmeal packets - mix with a plain packet to offset the amount of sugar Tuna (in moderation while pregnant of course). The Starkist envelopes have good macros (80-110 cal and 13-17 grams of protein depending on what flavor) More chicken! Starkist also has envelopes of chicken that are quick and easy. I personally like the plain reduces sodium ones the best Beef, pork, turkey, lentils, beans, etc. Ground turkey is a good replacement for ground beef. There's plenty of bean and/or lentil soup recipes