let's play the protein shake game
Do you like creamscicles?
Jay Robb has a dreamscicle flavor.
I make it with Unsweet Almond milk (cant do milk) and I add in a little orange sf Jello mix to bump up the orange flavor and add color. It tastes orangier when I can see the orange!
I like it, something different.
Jay Robb has a dreamscicle flavor.
I make it with Unsweet Almond milk (cant do milk) and I add in a little orange sf Jello mix to bump up the orange flavor and add color. It tastes orangier when I can see the orange!
I like it, something different.
Banded Feb 23, 2009 / Revision to RNY Aug 25, 2010 
Click! both the mocha and the vanilla latte flavors. They do contain caffeine, so that might be a problemfor some folks.
I make mine with water, ice cubes in the 'magic bullet'- style blender, or just shake in the shaker jar with the little wire ball. They can also be heated to make a hot drink (after blending),
Lots of ways to jazz it up, but prefer it pretty plain.
I make mine with water, ice cubes in the 'magic bullet'- style blender, or just shake in the shaker jar with the little wire ball. They can also be heated to make a hot drink (after blending),
Lots of ways to jazz it up, but prefer it pretty plain.
I've tried tons of flavors by the following:
CHIKE
About Time
UNJURY
Nectar
...and some others that I can't remember right now. I absolutely can not do the vanilla, chocolate, banana, strawberry flavors. They don't make my stomach hurt, they just make me sick to my stomach. ICK. I've tried adding fruit and SF syrups... tried with milk, soy milk, water. I just can't do it.
However, the Nectar Fruit Juice proteins are great. I love Roadside Lemonade (and you can mix it with any type of Crystal light to change it up), the Strawberry Kiwi & the Twisted Cherry. The trick with the Nectars is do NOT mix them with cold water. It changes the flavor and you get nasty clumps. I just mix it with room temp or luke warm water then add ice and shake again. Delicious. Post op, plain water makes my pouch yell, so almost everything I drink has a scoop of roadside lemonade nectar in it!
CHIKE
About Time
UNJURY
Nectar
...and some others that I can't remember right now. I absolutely can not do the vanilla, chocolate, banana, strawberry flavors. They don't make my stomach hurt, they just make me sick to my stomach. ICK. I've tried adding fruit and SF syrups... tried with milk, soy milk, water. I just can't do it.
However, the Nectar Fruit Juice proteins are great. I love Roadside Lemonade (and you can mix it with any type of Crystal light to change it up), the Strawberry Kiwi & the Twisted Cherry. The trick with the Nectars is do NOT mix them with cold water. It changes the flavor and you get nasty clumps. I just mix it with room temp or luke warm water then add ice and shake again. Delicious. Post op, plain water makes my pouch yell, so almost everything I drink has a scoop of roadside lemonade nectar in it!
I ordered a ton of samples preop. I can't stand any of them! I've tried Unjury (all of them), Chike (all of them, waaay too thick), Syntrax Nectar (just nasty), and some from GNC. Before surgery I was drinking EAS 100% Whey Protein in chocolate flavor and liked it then since it is pretty thin, not foamy, and mixes well in a shaker bottle. I still like it after surgery but I am getting really sick of it.
You might wanna try BSN Lean Dessert protein. You can get samples at vitalady.com. I say that because it's one of the few brands I actually like mixed with water instead of milk, which makes them thinner, you know. And they don't get too foamy, either.
Celebrate has ENS with protein (it's a multi, plus 500 mg calcium, plus 25 grams protein in one shake) and I've tried the vanilla cake batter and the chocolate milk, but not the strawberry. The two I've tried, though, are both pretty good with water. They might send you free samples if you contact them and ask.
Celebrate has ENS with protein (it's a multi, plus 500 mg calcium, plus 25 grams protein in one shake) and I've tried the vanilla cake batter and the chocolate milk, but not the strawberry. The two I've tried, though, are both pretty good with water. They might send you free samples if you contact them and ask.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I'm having such a hard time right now. I dread drinking a protein shake. Just the thought of it makes me want to vomit. I have unjury chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and syntrax cappuccino and choc truffle. I tried the syntrax fruity ones and they were nasty. I love the chicken soup unjury, but the sodium makes me swell up. I have a ton of syrups and I use milk. My problem is just the sweet. And I tried decaf coffee in them, but my pouch hates coffee now. 
My problem is the shakes stay down. My pouch is still sensitive. I can eat yougurt, beans just fine and limited amounts of deli shaved poultry, shredded chicken and tuna. That's it. Anything else comes up. I've tried shrimp, other fish, ground turkey, ground turkey sausage, ground beef, cheese (some are okay). I end up relying on a shake for a1/3 of my protein b/c I feel so limited in what I can eat.
My problem is the shakes stay down. My pouch is still sensitive. I can eat yougurt, beans just fine and limited amounts of deli shaved poultry, shredded chicken and tuna. That's it. Anything else comes up. I've tried shrimp, other fish, ground turkey, ground turkey sausage, ground beef, cheese (some are okay). I end up relying on a shake for a1/3 of my protein b/c I feel so limited in what I can eat.
HW 394 | SW 330 | CW 270 | GW 150
preop [64] month 1 [32] month 2 [10] month 3 [18]
preop [64] month 1 [32] month 2 [10] month 3 [18]
What if you used half a scoop of whatever flavor and half a scoop of unflavored? That would make it less sweet. Of course, there would be less of whatever flavor, too.
Or what about adding unflavored protein powder to low sodium broth instead of doing the unjury chicken soup? You'd probably need to add something to season it - low sodium broth usually isn't very tasty. But you could add some sort of salt substitute or herbs or something.
Or what about adding unflavored protein powder to low sodium broth instead of doing the unjury chicken soup? You'd probably need to add something to season it - low sodium broth usually isn't very tasty. But you could add some sort of salt substitute or herbs or something.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I can't even remember all the brands I've tried....
Main message I got out of the plethora of samples I've tried (and some containers I've tried and returned!) is, much like my taste in jewlery, my tongue likes EXPENSIVE! So, alas, no Body Fortress or generic Vitamin Shoppe powders for me.... the flavors/smell/textures just don't agree with me despite different preparations & s/f syrups ... Unjury & Nectar are my go-tos. And Premire Nutrition RTDs from Costco, but only the chocolate flavor as the vanilla is too gritty.
My preparation with chocolate & vanilla flavor powders usually is a protein latte: mixing the powder in a paste, warming almond or soy milk, adding fiber powder/flavoring/shot of decaf espresso and then tempering the protein paste into the hot liquids. Yum!
Main message I got out of the plethora of samples I've tried (and some containers I've tried and returned!) is, much like my taste in jewlery, my tongue likes EXPENSIVE! So, alas, no Body Fortress or generic Vitamin Shoppe powders for me.... the flavors/smell/textures just don't agree with me despite different preparations & s/f syrups ... Unjury & Nectar are my go-tos. And Premire Nutrition RTDs from Costco, but only the chocolate flavor as the vanilla is too gritty.
My preparation with chocolate & vanilla flavor powders usually is a protein latte: mixing the powder in a paste, warming almond or soy milk, adding fiber powder/flavoring/shot of decaf espresso and then tempering the protein paste into the hot liquids. Yum!
First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.
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on 4/2/12 10:36 am - FL
on 4/2/12 10:36 am - FL
My absolute favorite Pro z 25 chocolate mixed with 8 oz. 1% milk, with 1 tsp. davinci sugar free caramel syrup, put in the blender for 4 seconds serve over a glass filled with ice. I never drank milk before surgery, I hated the taste of it, but this concoction bumps up the protein and is more like a desert, it is wonderful. Tastes like chocolate fudge and caramel ice cream, honestly.
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