LaBrada Vanilla

Bob,            I will try to answer this for you!! You can find the Hood milk in the refrigerator section at Kroger and Walmart, it comes in a 1/2 gallon in Fat Free, 2% and Chocolate. Yes, the LaBrada is a protein drink, it comes in a Ready to Drink container in Vanillia, Bananna, and Chocolate, you can get it from GNC and Vitamin Shoppe, it does come in a powder form, but the RTD is what heats up, I ususally use once container for two to three drinks!!! Hope this helps some!! Shelia

Hey Bob!  LaBrada can be found at GNC or The Vitamin Shoppe.  Where as ""Hood can be found at Kroger's, Wal Mart, and a few other places!  RJ has a glass of the Hood Chocolate milk every morning for breakfast!

Hey Bob!

It looks like you have gotten tons of information!  The only thing I can add is that there are many different kinds of Hood's milk.  Be mindful to look for Calorie Countdown: it only has 3 grams of sugar - so read the label. I'll let you know when we get our new machine.  It is so exciting!  We have three currently but only one is an 18 bar pump (the Artemus.)  I'm just so excited that we are going to upgrade!!!! Have a great day! Freddie

OK Here is the "low down" or "rundown" or "skinny", whateer you want to call it, on Labrada. You want the RTD.  Its called "Labrada Lean Body RTD".  It has 9 carbs, and 40 g protein for a container.  Its thick.  So here is the special secret.  You can play around with it until you get what's right for you... but here is what I do. I used to get vanilla.  Add about 5 or 6 oz, then about 3 oz of Hood Fat Free milk, then about 1/2 to 1 oz of water.  Heat in microwave.  Remember that the ready to drinks can be heated, and it won't "lump" or "cook" the protein.  Labrada can be heated more than micellar milk without lumping, it gets much hotter, and THEN I would add 1 tblsp of Gosh That's Good mocha, kudos to Freddie for hooking/addicting me to that!  Anyway, then Vitamin Shoppe ran out of vanilla. SOOooo....  I got a case of chocolate.  I just add my Hood FF milk, a little water, and heat that up.  Its just perfect.  If you like chocolate milk, you can forget heating and drink it cold.  I loved it for a treat the other day at work when I was too busy from cleaning and rearranging the office.  That one does not require the Go****'s Good.  It's perfect the way it is. But, Labrada is very thick.  Always remember that if its too thick, just add whateer you want... FF milk, or water to it.  AND another thing, If you don't have Gosh That's Good, you can get you some Davinci sugar free chocolate SAUCE, not the syrup, but SAUCE.  Add a few tblsp to your vanilla ready to drink.  Then add some splenda, about 1 tblsp.   Have fun with it.  Just play around. One day I heated up the vanilla ready to drink and added white chocolate davinci syrup to it.  I've also tried kahluah.  That was good.  Go to BaristaProShop.com for the Go****'s Good.  Cheaper than the maker sells it!  They also have some recipes on there... you'll be a professional barista before you know it! You can also find recipes on torani's website, davinci, and monin. *** Another secret.  If you want a certain flavor of drink, its like mixing crayons to get certain colors.  For example, if you want banana split, mix 3 flavors, chocolate, strawberry, banana.  If you want cinnamon bun, use caramel and cinnamon.  Here are the ingredient measurements: flavors needing 2 syrups :  use 1/2 oz of each flavor flavors needing 3 syrups:  use 1/3 oz of each flavor So cinnamon bun would require 1/2 oz of cinnamon, 1/2 oz of caramel.  AND by the way, I tried cinnamon bun.  It was too sweet for me but it did work.  Not a shameless plug for my website, but under "categories", there is a protein first tab.  Click on that and it gies you some recipes that me and my protein diva friends have come up with... Paula, and Susan. And someone asked recently if they could use my protein packet for their docs office.  I don't mind, but please put my name on it.  I spent a lot of time preparing the material.  Though I cannot take credit for the products, I would at least like kudos for compilation.  thanks

By the way, EVERYONE needs to check out Melinda's site, because it has some really great stuff on it!!! GREAT JOB MELINDA!! Shelia

Thanks, Shelia.  I try!

One more thing.  You can type in to Google, "Labrada Lean Body" "cheap" and find the cheapest prices for it... Make SURE its the one with low carbs.  They have several products that go by the same name I didn't get any at GNC.  They wanted 4.49 a container, when Vitamin Shoppe only wanted 3.49.  And on GNC website, you can buy it there the cheapest if you have a gold card, which I don't...  and if you buy so much, shipping was free.  

Thanks Shela & Melinda for all the good info I'm printing this off now I To your expertise. Bob

Melinda, Shelia, Freddie... I just want to say... ya'll make my head spin! There is so much information - and you have so much knowledge. Would you come live me for a couple weeks? I seem to read the info, think "Mmmm... that sounds great. I need to try that..." and i find myself right back w/ my same old/same old. I intend to check out melinda's website this week sometime, but right now i have to take my house back. the sicky germs have overcome us, and I must fight back! Luckily, both kids went back to school today, but John is home sick now. ugh! Clorox Clean-up here I come! ~ Tara

TARA I just want you to know... I learned ALMOST everything I know about protein from Paula, Susan and Kym....  I believe in giving credit where it is due... otherwise, its just protein plagiarism!   I am grateful to have had such wonderful protein diva teachers.  They rock!