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 🙏
Boost shakes are pretty good, we give them frequently in the hospital
Second this. The chocolate ones aren’t too different from chocolate milk in taste.
Thank you. Nothing screams great food like they serve it in the hospital lol
You’re looking for evidence based high calorie liquid nutrition, right? Fuck me for answering your question I guess lmao
Sorry I meant that in a fun jokey way. Wasn’t trying to be rude. Appreciate you recommending Boost shakes
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
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.
I’ve been eating Soylent for several years now.
You are the first person I’ve contact with who drinks Soylent.
Is there truth in the memes?
Which memes? I’m not familiar. But, the attempts at joking about this product and the Charleton Heston movie are soooooooooo oooooooollllllld.
I’ve been eating Soylent for several years. I started with the powdered formulation v1.4; I did an experiment where I lived on only Soylent for about 5 months straight - I had no issues, I just got bored of not chewing things. I jumped to the premixed drinks when they arrived. I currently do Soylent for 1-2 meals and regular meals the rest of the day.
Most recently, I’ve been doing subscription shuffling because the current ownership is allowing the business to wither away because not enough people are doing monthly subscriptions. Right now, if you want pre-mixed drinks, chocolate is your best and maybe only option.
Something in soy can reduce iodine uptake into the thyroid (or utilisation of iodine in thyroid), thus reducing testosterone levels.
I learned this outside of the soyboy-memes, which joke about men who consume soy have low t.
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.
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 😭
What type of blender do you use? A powerful one or a less powerful? 1500W?
Edit: be careful with raw nuts and associates, they contain „phytines“ which absorb metals (like iron and other essentials) and make them unabsorbable for the digestive system.
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.I’d maybe add a scoop of protein powder to that
how dare you
Protein is important
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
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’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
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.
As much as I wished it was healthy, I don’t think it would be healthy to replace all meals with sugary hyper refined nutrition fluids. Do they have good fibre, protein, omega-3 and 6?
Tried various varieties of Soylent for when I couldn’t eat hard foods for a bit but never found them satisfying to drink. I wish there were savory versions because drinking them gets boring really fast.
I’ve found Huel to be pretty decent. You mileage may vary for taste and availability though.
Differing from some of the other opinions, but I’ve been using Huel for several years now and like it! Simple and easy, and thin enough to chug.
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.
