Trouble So Soon.. on Day 1?

So, this is the first day of my liquid diet.  I tried really hard to drink a Lean Body RTD strawberry flavored.  The smell that hits your nose before you can take a swallow is killing me.. so, I am desperately looking for some RTD protein that is more bearable.  Any ideas?

Last weekend, I ordered the Unjury sampler pack and a container of unflavored.  I hope it doesn't take too long to arrive.

I went to Walmart this morning and picked up broth, decaf coffee, water, water flavor mixes, sf creamer, sf jello and sf popsicles.  Can you think of something I left off?

Then, I come home to two pieces of bad news:

1.  I will have to travel to DC this weekend for 5 days for work in the middle of my liquid diet.  I need help with how I can manage this away from home.  Do you know of some powder mixes that I can get at Walmart, GNC or the Vitamin Shoppe that I can pack with me?

2.  The report back to work for my position has changed with the school district I work for.  Now, it's a week earlier which would take my recovery time from 3 weeks to 2 weeks.  Oh, Lord.  

I travel a lot for work and had to travel both weeks before surgery.  I bought snack size zip-lock bags and put the portions needed for each shake in the bags.  You can also get shelf stable milk to pack in a checked bag if you don't have access to milk where you are going.

I can be done!   

Trevor, what is the name of the protein mix you used?  Also, what is shelf stable milk?  Is that like evaporated milk?

No. I forget the brand I bought, but it was a 1% milk.  Not my favorite way to go but it worked.

Parmalat?

GNC has its own egg protien.  Ive seen it in vanilla and chocolate.  I bought it to have when I came home from surgery.  I mixed it with water onley, but you could do milk if you like.  It has onley three carbs.  This stuff taste great, it doesnt taste diety or gritty.  I used it a few weeks ago after surgery, then I ran out.  Went to get more, and they were out, so I got the GNC whey protien, "chocolate", uhg, it is a little hard to bear.  I bought two containers of it because I got a buy one get the second one half off.  I got one more to go then Im going back to my egg protien...  as for the other stuff, I would just order soup, as usual at the resturant, and say that you dont want any noodles.  They will usually oblige you.  After surgery when I was out of town and still in the hotel, I used the little coffie pot in the hotel room and bought chicken broth and made it in it.  I saved money and it worked find.  My bowl was the coffie pot itself, and I just bought a spoon at the store.  I also had a small cooler in the room for the apple juice, and jello my Dr. wanted me to drink.....

Try not to smell them!  lol   VitaminShoppe carries JayRobb whey and egg based in single serving sizes. I think they may have Syntrax Nectar whey protein as well.

--gina

I tried a lot of different protein shakes, mainly because I couldn't stand the smell!  The one I can tolerate best is the Muscle Milk high protein RTD, vanilla or chocolate.  I actually hold my breath when i drink it.

I actually like the low carb chocolate slim fast shakes. 20 grams of protein and 2 net carbs. I'm going to be using them as part of my pre-op liquid diet. :)

I like the muscle milk too. Not the light. It only has like 1 gram less of fat and it doesn't seem to satisfy me for as long. Its low carb. I like the chocolate. 

Did you get SF pudding?. We are allowed to have that. At least its a little more solid. We are also allowed to have cream of wheat. on the 2 week liquid diet. Not sure about your "rules".