Any Juice-mixable meal replacement powder products out there?

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

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 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.