Reddit reviews Garden of Life Meal Replacement Chocolate Powder, 28 Servings, Organic Raw Plant Based Protein Powder, Vegan, Gluten-Free

Pamela's pancake mix. Light fluffy pancakes every time. Also, redditors, don't give me crap about how easy it is to make pancake mix.

Raw Meal chocolate replacement meal. This is my breakfast everyday. I drink it with almond milk. Doesn't taste good with regular water. Whole Foods sells this for $50-60ish.

Tamanishiki Super Premium Short Grain Rice. Only applicable if you have a rice cooker. Best rice I've ever cooked. Maybe cheaper if you have an asian market near you. I do not, so I bought this. I bought this bag for $22 last time.

i'll be impressed if it goes well under $2 a meal. but for now... I still don't see much value over something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Chocolate-2-7lbs/dp/B007S6Y6VS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421646917&sr=8-1&keywords=raw+meal&pebp=1421646922177&peasin=B007S6Y6VS

It's basically $3 per day, plus a glass of milk, and whatever cheap carb you want (like a potato or bread) to top up the calories to your daily needs.

Soylent needs to drop to less than $2 per meal just to compete with existing products on the market. It's not particularly amazing in any other way, just another nutrition shake with extra calories dumped in (in the form of maltodextrin, which is a health concern in and of itself...)

There's Joylent for Europeans. There's a powder from a company called "Beyond Organic". Jevity is also out there.

Soylent is just marketing better than the rest, but it's made by a dude who is not a nutritionist or a businessman, and is making things up as he goes. Gotta give him credit for enthusiasm, but his logistics and production are not where they could be with his funding. And the actual nutrition profile is something that has been replicated elsewhere.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007S6Y6VS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Check out Garden of Life Meal Replacement - Organic Raw Plant Based Protein Powder, Chocolate, Vegan, Gluten-Free, 35.9oz (2lb 4oz/1,017g) Powder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S6Y6VS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_5ceWzb9MWAZVN

Changes every morning depending on what we have. The staples tend to be a giant compressed wad of spinach (like 4 or 5 cups), a banana or an avocado, flax seed or flax seed oil, frozen organic fruit -- i prefer mango chunks or blueberries, but strawberries or whatever are great -- not a lot of this, as the frozen stuff makes the smoothy too cold for my taste. I also throw in organic cacao powder, which is super high in magnesium, sometimes part of a carrot. If I don't have that much spinach I'll throw in an equal amount of greens. Greens are important. Give a lot of energy.
Then I put 1 to 2 scoops of [Garden of Life Raw Organic Meal] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007S6Y6VS/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) -- 2 scoops is enough protein, carbs and vits for a dietetically sound full meal. All that gets squished down and I fill the blender to the brim with some nut or bean milk, either soy or hazelnut, almond, and lately mung bean milk.
I tend to like the soymilk or almond milk unsweetened though, because the fruit and the stevia in Raw Meal is sweet enough. Can get too sweet for my taste if the milk is sweetened too.

Some days the smoothies are good, some days not the best tasting. Just depends on whatever's there.

I've bounced around between vegan and vegetarian for the last few years (cheese was always my binge / trigger food since I was a kid, and my medical diet has whey at the moment), and I spent a couple years dieting while vegan. Since it sounds like you're just transitioning towards more of the whole foods thing recently, plus my bland medical diet is making me reminisce about all the great foods I haven't had in way too long, so I'll write this out more exhaustively. A lot of it might be stuff you already know.

I found a shake mix that is great, by Garden of Life. It's basically just dehydrated, powdered sprouts with a touch of cocoa powder on it. You definitely need to like your veggies to enjoy it, as the flavor of the sprouts bleeds through a little, but hey, that was always a plus to me. Great protein, no real junky ingredients, no added sugar, lots of protein, and a good amount of fiber. Drinking a shaker of that and you feel like you had a salad. I always keep a tub of that around the house. I often don't feel like eating breakfast, so I'd have a shake. If MFP said I wasn't meeting my macro goals, I'd have a shake. Only warning is that the texture is a little thicker than most, because it's got a lot of insoluble plant fiber.

For protein, I'm a huge fan of lentils (a legume). Look up daal recipes (Indian food) for a healthy, high-protein meal. Whenever you'd have a grain like rice, quinoa makes a great substitute. It's still carb-y, but it's twice the protein of any rice, and has a good amino acid profile. Also, don't underestimate the sheer amount of green veggies you can get in a day. I often would use a full bag of spinach in a soup or cooked down for one meal, and that's about 10g of protein in about 80 calories. Also, tofu and tempeh all the things. Just such a versatile food. You can add tofu to a shake to make it rich and creamy, you can make it into dessert, you can marinate it, pan cook it, grill it, throw it in soups (miso), etc. It'll taste like anything you do to it. General tso's tofu was a great from-scratch meal to make. Beans are pretty great too. Beans on toast is a very normal British breakfast.

If you're looking for good fats, avocados, nuts, seeds, etc. are great. Avocadoes are great on just about everything. I love throwing sesame seeds in to stir fry meals. Chia seeds are a wonderful addition. 1 oz is 5g protein, 9g good fats, and 12 g carb, but 10 of those are fiber grams. They work great in smoothies to make them really filling. If you've never had chia seeds before, they gel up in water. Cashews or peanuts are used in a number of great Thai recipes. Honestly, just some random nuts or seeds (pumpkin seeds are awesome) work great for this.

So some of these might seem like more calorie heavy foods than you want. That's why the shake is such a nice go-to when you need to fix a day that doesn't have much room left. It's pretty easy to fall into carb traps, so it's nice to get a goal protein in each meal.

Try Garden of Life Raw Meal. Only thing it's low on is fat. I just mix in some milk or coconut milk and it's pretty much a completely balanced meal.

I tried HempForce, but liked Garden Life, Chocolate much better. I add Hemp, Cocao, and Maca for extra protein, flavor, and energy boost.

I drink this for a meal replacement on a pretty basis. It has a great macro breakdown and is pretty filling. They have a vanilla chai flavor which is the best tasting in my opinion, but the chocolate isn't bad either. I'd avoid the regular vanilla and I haven't tried unflavored, but I don't imagine it being pleasant. Oh, and it all tastes better if mixed with almond milk or another flavored drink.

> http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Chocolate-2-7lbs/dp/B007S6Y6VS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421646917&sr=8-1&keywords=raw+meal&pebp=1421646922177&peasin=B007S6Y6VS

The Nutritional facts on that are kind of bonkers for a meal replacement if you're going to be replacing every meal with it.

This has been in my wish list for a while, haven't gotten brave enough to try it though.

I've been buying this stuff for almost a couple of years. http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Chocolate-2-7lbs/dp/B007S6Y6VS I use a magic bullet in the morning to make a smoothie with 1scoop, almond milk, a banana, and some frozen berries. For lunch, I bring two scoops in a snack sized baggie, with the baggie right into a blender bottle. The perfect amount of water is the. 5 liter that you can buy by the case. I do this the five days a week I work, and eat normal meals for all the other ones. I save a ton of money vs eating out. I am hungry when I get home, but the nutrition is so complete that I usually don't have weird cravings. I work ten hour days. You could probably get through the other 4 hours with some cheap, sensible snacks.

Raw Meal

I've been using this protein for years, it was way better 3 years ago before the company got bought by Nestle and the formula changed but it's still solid IMO

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I use about 1tbsp Chia Seeds and 5g creatine (I just use a scoop that gives me about 5g, not worth the time to measure exactly)

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If you sweat a lot and are prone to cramps / headaches from losing too many minerals, zinc and magnesium are good to supplement

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I am not a qualified health professional though - this is just what works for me based on my own 5+ years of research & direct experience. Take it how you will

Forget protein only stuff. You need a full meal because that has vitamins, minerals, fiber, and all the protein you need. I drink this with fat free milk and a banana mixed in a blender. http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Meal-Chocolate/dp/B007S6Y6VS/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1413684235&sr=1-1&keywords=meal+replacement Best meal there is cause its organic, no fillers and other crap. Cheaper on Amazon trust me. iHerb or Amazon for best deal.

I like Garden of Life Raw Meal here. It's 120 calories with 20g fat. The chocolate flavor is good and it isn't very sweet. I usually just mix it with a cup of almond milk.

I haven't tried them yet as I haven't had the money to buy them, but I have been looking into these Garden of Life raw organic vegetable meal protein powders, the chocolate and vanilla chai only have 1 gram net carbs and 20g protein per serving, and seem to bring a lot more to the table than a simple protein shake powder including probiotics. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S6Y6VS/ref=twister_B00HFU5VT8?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

You've got a few options: soy, rice, hemp, and pea.

I've found pea protein to be absolutely disgusting to the point of being intolerable, no matter what I tried to hide it with.

I used to use soy protein but after much research learned unfermented soy is not good for you, so I stopped that.

I love hemp and rice protein and Garden of Life RAW Meal. Check them out here:

• Garden of Life RAW Chocolate
  
• Nutribiotic Chocolate Brown Rice Protein
  
• Nutiva Hemp Protein
  
  I use a combination of all 3 of these with almond milk post-workout.

I take a lot of vitamins. B12 magnessium potassium calcium vitamin c and the protein intake i take every morning has a good amount of vitamins on it as well
Garden of Life Meal Replacement - Organic Raw Plant Based Protein Powder, Chocolate, Vegan, Gluten-Free, 35.9oz (2lb 4oz/1,017g) Powder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S6Y6VS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_1GXeAbMSKBXHZ
But please do tell me what vitamins i could be missing so i can correct this problem.
I do not have a gul bladder, i hae gul stones when i was 20 unfortunately.
Yes i am checking in the morning after a bodily passing and as for the weight it fluctuates from 245 to 242 . Today i was at 243.

Garden of Life raw meal. Raw Meal

I've been using it daily for several months now. You can see that some people gave it low reviews due to the taste, but it is not a problem if you know how to mix it. My favorite recipe is to use the unflavored kind and blend with almond milk, honey, and some berries or whatever fruit I have.

http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Chocolate-2-7lbs/dp/B007S6Y6VS/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1420086736&sr=1-1&keywords=raw+meal

This mix and almond milk (you can also use just water but it tastes a little icky) and a $5.00 plastic protein shaker/mixing cup from walmart. and you can get complete nutrition, have it washed out and ready to do something else in 5 minutes. (a friend of mine and I would do this at work when everyone else was having a smoke break) It does get kind of old if this is all you do. but for breakfast and dinner it works out great. (oh and mix it and drink it fast, after a couple of minutes it sets up to a paste consistency it's not bad just THICK) chi vanilla is my favorite but now I just buy vanilla because there are so many different flavors of almond milk)
I've also been buying http://www.hackleyhealthmanagement.com/assorted-pb2?utm_source=google_shopping&utm_medium=feed&152=70&gclid=Cj0KEQiA2o6lBRCn_b7yppe98rQBEiQAMpnYneN_yBB-TVMaGzQWa0stRYCaiuNa_9OPe6cwRcEjgdMaAsBX8P8HAQ (and just dumping it in the container with the mix it makes it taste awesome)

*Not affiliated in any way with this product I just use it A lot and have for about the last year and a half)