Any Juice-mixable meal replacement powder products out there?

helaurin

Slim-Fast used to make a product, Slim-fast Ultra Juice mixable. It was great, because I could mix it with whatever juice I wanted - orange, grape, apple, etc. They stopped making it (a while ago) and now I'm trying to find something like it. It seems like all the meal replacement powder products are either vanilla, chocolate or strawberry flavors.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance...

Sued0nim

can't you just make a fruit smoothie?

sheepotato

Garden of Life has an unflavored meal replacement powder. I haven't tried it, but their unflavored protein powder didn't have much of a taste so I only tasted the fruit I added when I made smoothies with it.

JazmineYoli

I used to buy GNC Pro Performance 100% Whey Protein – Naturally Unflavored and also Isopure Zero Carb Unflavored from Vitamine Shoppe. You could mix those with anything

helaurin

rabbitjb wrote: »

can't you just make a fruit smoothie?

I suppose, if I'm not in a rush, I could. But I'm always rushing, especially in the morning, as I am trying to get dogs out, back in and fed, child up, dressed, fed and packed for school, etc.

An easy-to-measure meal replacement powder, some juice and ice, it takes me less than 2 minutes to prepare and about 30 seconds to enter the calories/nutrition on MFP. I pour it into my water bottle and sip it at work during the early part of the morning.

I don't want to have to chop up fruit, weigh each type separately on the nutritional scale, record the weights, enter each to get the nutrition, etc. when I'm already challenged on time and organization.

helaurin

sheepotato wrote: »

Garden of Life has an unflavored meal replacement powder. I haven't tried it, but their unflavored protein powder didn't have much of a taste so I only tasted the fruit I added when I made smoothies with it.

Thanks, I'll check it out

helaurin

JazmineYoli wrote: »

I used to buy GNC Pro Performance 100% Whey Protein – Naturally Unflavored and also Isopure Zero Carb Unflavored from Vitamine Shoppe. You could mix those with anything

I'll check those out too, thank you

Missjulesdid

Isopure unflavored.

SLLRunner

helaurin wrote: »

Slim-Fast used to make a product, Slim-fast Ultra Juice mixable. It was great, because I could mix it with whatever juice I wanted - orange, grape, apple, etc. They stopped making it (a while ago) and now I'm trying to find something like it. It seems like all the meal replacement powder products are either vanilla, chocolate or strawberry flavors.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance...

I'm sure there are, but....why?

All it takes to lose weight is to eat at a calorie deficit. There is nothing magic in meal replacement drinks.

helaurin

SLLRunner wrote: »

helaurin wrote: »

Slim-Fast used to make a product, Slim-fast Ultra Juice mixable. It was great, because I could mix it with whatever juice I wanted - orange, grape, apple, etc. They stopped making it (a while ago) and now I'm trying to find something like it. It seems like all the meal replacement powder products are either vanilla, chocolate or strawberry flavors.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance...

I'm sure there are, but....why?

All it takes to lose weight is to eat at a calorie deficit. There is nothing magic in meal replacement drinks.

Because when I'm in a rush - which is often on weekday mornings - or when some emergency/urgent issue arises (such as yesterday, taking boyfriend to hospital ER for what turned out to be a fractured rib)... I don't always have time to eat a good, healthy meal. It takes 2 or 3 minutes to mix something up into my water bottle and it keeps me pretty well satisfied (usually at 250 to 315 calories) for most, if not all, of the morning, even during meetings at work.

While there's nothing "magic" about a breakfast shake nutritionally, the "magic" is that I'm still adjusting to being a second-time-around-parent of a school-aged child, while juggling work, etc.

Any little trick that gets me past those "danger" opportunities, is a good trick to have available. Conversely, boyfriend shoved two Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches into his mouth as breakfast... 820 calories, 520 of them fat calories.

He can get away with a 2,500 - 3,000 calorie diet; I'm struggling to lose weight keeping to an average of 1,100 calories a day. Do I want to make my life about diet/meal replacement shakes? No. But I want to have it in my weight-loss arsenal

TimothyFish

What's wrong with just eating real food? Drinking your calories is not a good idea.

helaurin

TimothyFish wrote: »

What's wrong with just eating real food? Drinking your calories is not a good idea.

Nothing is wrong with eating real food. I just want to have options for those crazy-running-around mornings, which happens far too often. And when I do make a breakfast shake, I'm often able to "nurse" it through the morning, even through meetings at work. Can't do the same with "real" food. And usually is weekday mornings where this option is really helpful.

I know, I "should" better allocate my time. A typical weekday starts out with me getting up, taking care of hygiene needs, weighing myself, waking up my grandchild, dressing, taking the dogs out, checking to be sure grandchild is up/moving and getting dressed, back down to refresh the dog's food and water bowls, calling them in, back to my grand who invariably needs help with one or more things - signing homework logs, finding the right clothes for her, helping her with her very long and unruly hair, last-minute "I forgot to give this paper from school...." (remember, she's only in 2nd grade), making sure we each have all of our respective "stuff" for the day, then getting her to before school care, and then getting myself to work - all before 8 am. She gets breakfast at before school care; I don't get breakfast at work. Then I typically work until nearly 5:30, pack my work laptop to do more at home, drive to after-school care and pick up the child, and depending on the day, we might have the next two hours getting to/from medical appointments for her (we usually average two a week, but we've had as many as five in a single week).

At the earliest, we get home at 7:30 pm, and sometimes her appointments run until 8:30 at night and then we drive home. Regardless of when we get home, then we have homework, which usually takes around 60 - 75 minutes, during which time I'm getting the dogs out & in again, checking homework as she gets stuck, getting her logged in for the computer portion of her homework, etc. By the time homework and dinner is done, it's often 9 pm or later. Then it's getting her ready for bath and bed. I'm usually hauling out my work computer after that, and/or taking care of other household chores such as doing bills, dishes and laundry after that. Many nights, I get to bed 11 pm or later, and then I'm up by 6 am to repeat that cycle all over.

Since I usually only need to worry about making my own breakfast on a weekday, often it's simpler to make a shake and take it with me to work on those more-hectic mornings.

Thankfully, weekends usually are less complicated, and then I usually can enjoy a "real food" breakfast, such as a healthy cereal, etc.

Christine_72

You don't have to write a run down of your every waking moment to anyone here.
Do what's best and most convenient for you xx

SLLRunner

helaurin wrote: »

SLLRunner wrote: »

helaurin wrote: »

Slim-Fast used to make a product, Slim-fast Ultra Juice mixable. It was great, because I could mix it with whatever juice I wanted - orange, grape, apple, etc. They stopped making it (a while ago) and now I'm trying to find something like it. It seems like all the meal replacement powder products are either vanilla, chocolate or strawberry flavors.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance...

I'm sure there are, but....why?

All it takes to lose weight is to eat at a calorie deficit. There is nothing magic in meal replacement drinks.

Because when I'm in a rush - which is often on weekday mornings - or when some emergency/urgent issue arises (such as yesterday, taking boyfriend to hospital ER for what turned out to be a fractured rib)... I don't always have time to eat a good, healthy meal. It takes 2 or 3 minutes to mix something up into my water bottle and it keeps me pretty well satisfied (usually at 250 to 315 calories) for most, if not all, of the morning, even during meetings at work.

While there's nothing "magic" about a breakfast shake nutritionally, the "magic" is that I'm still adjusting to being a second-time-around-parent of a school-aged child, while juggling work, etc.

Any little trick that gets me past those "danger" opportunities, is a good trick to have available. Conversely, boyfriend shoved two Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches into his mouth as breakfast... 820 calories, 520 of them fat calories.

He can get away with a 2,500 - 3,000 calorie diet; I'm struggling to lose weight keeping to an average of 1,100 calories a day. Do I want to make my life about diet/meal replacement shakes? No. But I want to have it in my weight-loss arsenal

Hi helaurin,

Oh, the dreaded time factor! I know how that feels, for sure. I plan and log everything the day before, sometimes pack my lunches the night before, make my oatmeal while showering, do my coffee and eat my oatmeal when I'm almost out the door. Truth is, I've never been much on meal replacement anything, but that's just me.

Tell the beau to hand me one of those Jimmy Dean sandwiches!

helaurin

christinev297 wrote: »

You don't have to write a run down of your every waking moment to anyone here.
Do what's best and most convenient for you xx

You'd be surprised at how much I actually left out! As a certified resource parent, I learned quickly to document every little thing though and it can be a tough to NOT do that. Even so, I've occasionally been told I don't get enough done or accomplish enough with my time. I guess I get frustrated sometimes too!

Turning_Hopes_to_Habits

I think it's great that you're finding something that works well for you. I hate the things and they'd never work for me, but that does not mean they are not useful, helpful, and healthy for others. A mind that is already made up about everything, based on only one's own experiences, is too closed to realize the value of different choices.

Just because something is harder doesn't make it better, and just because something is easier and faster doesn't make it worse. I love my morning oatmeal, but it does take 4 minutes in the microwave and then the time to sit down and eat it, versus sipping a cup which can happen on the go. But, I use the term "morning" loosely: I don't get hungry usually until 11:00-1:00. I have breakfast when most people have lunch, then I have lunch late afternoon, and dinner sometime before 7:30. I'm sure some people think it would be just as good to have breakfast earlier. And it would be-for them.

So good for you for finding a routine that works for you. Sorry I don't have any practical advice, I really do hate the things!