Ensure shake
nonecandi2013
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Any help would be appreciated; I know nothing about protein shakes
Is ensure good while I am doing diet
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What are you wanting from it?1
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if you are looking for a protein shake keep looking - that is not a lot of protein for the calories.5
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nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?
I want vitamins but I don’t want to gain weight0 -
nonecandi2013 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?
I want vitamins but I don’t want to gain weight
If you want vitamins, why not supplement with a multivitamin?6 -
I wouldn’t consider them useful unless I was trying to gain weight and looking for some quick calories that wouldn’t be very filling.
9 grams of protein is pretty low, and you could get a (comparatively) lot of food for 235 calories. Personally, I don’t find shakes filling at all, I’d be just as hungry after drinking that as I was before.
The protein shakes I usually drink are close to 50g of protein for 250 calories.2 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »nonecandi2013 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?
I want vitamins but I don’t want to gain weight
If you want vitamins, why not supplement with a multivitamin?
Or eat vegetables, fruit, grains, eggs, chicken, etc.?3 -
I agree with all above...but above all 'Ensure' tastes terrible!1
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nutmegoreo wrote: »nonecandi2013 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?nutmegoreo wrote: »What are you wanting from it?
I want vitamins but I don’t want to gain weight
If you want vitamins, why not supplement with a multivitamin?
Or eat vegetables, fruit, grains, eggs, chicken, etc.?
I was getting to it...6 -
Add me to the "Ensure tastes terrible" club. I used to work in wildlife rehab, and we used Ensure as the base for making slurries to tube-feed to seals and waterfowl (the vanilla one, not the chocolate one ) We added fish, then blended the heck out of it. I can no longer think of it as vanilla Ensure; to me it will always be fish Ensure, and that's more than enough to put me off. It'd be like eating Alpo, I just couldn't do it.6
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Ensure is given to people to gain weight.
It's not a protein shake.1 -
I thought ensure was for people who need to gain weight? Look at premier protein, which is a protein shake that comes in a little carton like that if that's what you're looking for.1
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TavistockToad wrote: »Ensure is given to people to gain weight.
It's not a protein shake.
absolutely...they use it in some eating disorder hospitals given to patients who refuse/can not eat their full meals. The patients can barely choke it down1 -
Not jist eating disorder but basically any underweight patient. I actually do not mind ensure. My favourote is orange cream. I drink them because I don't tolerate much solid food.2
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Add me to the "Ensure tastes terrible" club. I used to work in wildlife rehab, and we used Ensure as the base for making slurries to tube-feed to seals and waterfowl (the vanilla one, not the chocolate one ) We added fish, then blended the heck out of it. I can no longer think of it as vanilla Ensure; to me it will always be fish Ensure, and that's more than enough to put me off. It'd be like eating Alpo, I just couldn't do it.
@Cinner29 , thanks for helping save the animals. You're good people.3 -
FireOpalCO wrote: »Add me to the "Ensure tastes terrible" club. I used to work in wildlife rehab, and we used Ensure as the base for making slurries to tube-feed to seals and waterfowl (the vanilla one, not the chocolate one ) We added fish, then blended the heck out of it. I can no longer think of it as vanilla Ensure; to me it will always be fish Ensure, and that's more than enough to put me off. It'd be like eating Alpo, I just couldn't do it.
@Cinner29 , thanks for helping save the animals. You're good people.
Except for the fish they blended up.3 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »FireOpalCO wrote: »Add me to the "Ensure tastes terrible" club. I used to work in wildlife rehab, and we used Ensure as the base for making slurries to tube-feed to seals and waterfowl (the vanilla one, not the chocolate one ) We added fish, then blended the heck out of it. I can no longer think of it as vanilla Ensure; to me it will always be fish Ensure, and that's more than enough to put me off. It'd be like eating Alpo, I just couldn't do it.
@Cinner29 , thanks for helping save the animals. You're good people.
Except for the fish they blended up.
That is what seals and waterfowl eat?0 -
ExistingFish wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »FireOpalCO wrote: »Add me to the "Ensure tastes terrible" club. I used to work in wildlife rehab, and we used Ensure as the base for making slurries to tube-feed to seals and waterfowl (the vanilla one, not the chocolate one ) We added fish, then blended the heck out of it. I can no longer think of it as vanilla Ensure; to me it will always be fish Ensure, and that's more than enough to put me off. It'd be like eating Alpo, I just couldn't do it.
@Cinner29 , thanks for helping save the animals. You're good people.
Except for the fish they blended up.
That is what seals and waterfowl eat?
I know, I was just being a smartypants.4 -
I always thought Ensure was for adults what Pediasure is for kids, something to help underweight gain quickly. Good if you can't eat solid food for some reason (dental surgery or something) but otherwise not a good idea just for protein supplementation.
I just mix protein powder with cashew milk, it's fabulous. Take a multi with it. Protein shake with vitamins!
Use cow milk if you are not looking for lower calories or have no issues with lactose, has it's own protein and is good for you and what not.0 -
OP, what kind of diet are you on that you are concerned about not getting enough nutrition?1
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ExistingFish wrote: »I always thought Ensure was for adults what Pediasure is for kids, something to help underweight gain quickly. Good if you can't eat solid food for some reason (dental surgery or something) but otherwise not a good idea just for protein supplementation.
I just mix protein powder with cashew milk, it's fabulous. Take a multi with it. Protein shake with vitamins!
Use cow milk if you are not looking for lower calories or have no issues with lactose, has it's own protein and is good for you and what not.
A bottle is 235 calories so you have to drink an awful lot to "gain weight quickly"1
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