Any meal replacement drinks y’all would recommend? New meds make food less appealing and harder to eat. I want something quick and easy with decent nutrition to chug for breakfast or lunch.
Side note, do y’all hate researching stuff on the slopnet as much as I do? I used to enjoy researching stuff on the internet but now idk what I can trust. My answer is you kind nerdy internet strangers 🙏
Pale Lager, Pilsner style… I’ll see myself out.
When I was a kid I had oral surgery which made chewing food right after difficult while I recovered. My mom made a chicken veggie soup that she blended so that it was smooth and it was actually amazing. Like a savory shake.
Yes!! Soups are a great angle here
Just to throw in another option: A blender, nuts, barista oat milk (it’s sweeter and less oaty), some fresh fruit or frozen berries, and some kale.
Takes about 3 minutes, you can experiment with different fruit and nut combinations, and some fresh kale means you’re getting some greens.
My go to is a big handful of peanuts, half a handful each of walnuts and hazelnuts, a cup or two of frozen raspberries, 2 or 3 leaves of green curly kale, a scoop of creatine, and enough oat milk for it to give it a good consistency - usually makes about a litre.
My only issue with this is that at least where I live, nuts are absurdly expensive. Like, paid $27 for a bag of walnuts recently expensive 😭
My wife has trouble tolerating solid food for medical reasons, and so she has a prescription for Kate Farm’s nutritional drinks.
They’re pretty much the best I’ve seen in terms of actual nutritional value, they’ve got little filler.
They are expensive as fuck though. It’s like $72 for a pack of 12. With that said they are really good quality.
And out of curiosity I’ve tried a little. The plain vanilla ones taste like froot loops milk IMO. I find it tolerable, my wife not so much. So we use them as a base for smoothies for her.
The smoothie recipe in case anyone is curious:
- Half a bottle of Kate Farms
- Ice to taste
- 3 tbls of brown sugar
- 1 tbls of chocolate ovaltine
It’s a fuck load of sugar. I’ve been trying to get her to accept less sugar in it with mixed success.
It’s not clear whether you’re replacing some or all of the sugar with an artificial sweetener or not. Some don’t work for some people and some may be unsuitable for medical reasons, but there might be one or two that work.
FWIW, I’ve been putting saccharin in my tea for years now. Not dead yet.
It’s less replacing, more adding. Kate farms does have some sugar, but it isn’t the bulk of the drink like some of the lower quality ones I’ve seen around.
250g oats + 20g walnuts/almonds + 20g unsweetened cocoa powder + 20g molasses/date syrup + 1 or 2 bananas + a few ice cubes
add water, blend.
I keep the dry ingredients stored in glass jars right next to my kitchen scale, so it only takes like a minute or two to prepare. Been drinking variations of this for breakfast every morning for years.
Cheaper and more nutritious than any expensive prepackaged meal replacement drinks you can buy. Eat real food.Definitely going to try this. I’ll have to adjust the amount of bananas and use a different sweetener because diabetes, but this sounds like an amazing alternative to the powdered bullshit. Thanks!
I’d maybe add a scoop of protein powder to that
how dare you
Protein is important
I like Vega One. They were wrapped up in the whole lead contamination thing, but that last ne in particular wasn’t listed so I just keep going. 46g mixed with 380 mL of almond milk.
My mom has almost entirely stopped eating food, but she drinks slim fast chocolate drink about 3 times a day, yes it’s supposed to be a diet aide but it’s really just a nutrition drink. She uses milk to mix it, and I think now she’s adding protein powder to it. I didn’t really know what it tastes like but she likes it she uses the powder version though
Oh that’s hard. I hate, hate, hate those mixes. Would do bone broth for some meals, fruit and yogurt smoothies for others, and definitely throw some nut butter (cashew, almond, whatever) into the smoothie.
Date shakes are good, lots of sugar but fiber and nutrition.
And if you can tolerate soup - a can of cannelini beans, a can of butternut squash puree, and some chicken or vegetable broth, with salt and whatever else you want, is so easy, delicious and again does have fiber. Just heat them together then blend with a stick blender.
Ensure Plus Strawberry Smoothies.
Make sure you get the “plus” version as it has way more calories than the normal kind.
Ok I’ll look into them
I’ve tried Soylent and Huel. I definitely prefer Soylent. Huel has a strong flaxseed flavor, which makes it taste strongly like a protein shake. In my experience, though, Soylent isn’t that good for chugging. It’s pretty thick and is better drank in sips over a long period of time
I came here to suggest Huel though I’ve never tried Soylent.
My preference is Holfood (Chocolate). Canadian company, produced in Toronto. It has a nice flavour and isn’t too filling.
Compared to other nutrition shakes I’ve tried in the past:
- Soylent powder and Holfood Vanilla are both very similar and taste very artificial. It’s not what I would call “bland”.
- Boost and Ensure: They’re always way too sweet (I would not be able to consume more than maybe 300 Calories worth in a day), and much more expensive than the alternatives when you consider the nutritional value.
I’ve been eating Soylent for several years now.
The supply issues on their website are irritating me, though
Me too. It seems like they’re down to doing only Chocolate flavor in reliable quantities.
Are you in the US? Cus the one I like is only sold in Belgium and the Netherlands
Sadly yes I’m in the US
I tried soylent (powder and premade) years ago and I didn’t mind the taste or feel (some people dislike it). But I always felt “off” after drinking it, and overall didn’t enjoy it, but it might have gotten better since.
I started drinking huel a year or 2 ago, for exactly the same reason as you. It was perfect for a while, but the changed the receipt not too long before they got acquired and the lead report came out, and since then its not as “satisfying” as it was before.
If you do go with huel, I recommend the black edition, the higher protein helped me not feel hungry for longer.
After trying a couple I settled on huel. I got the powder just so I can vary them in taste a bit. Mix in a banana/replace some of the water with oat milk, stuff like that. Pretty satisfied.
