Reddit reviews Garden of Life Raw Organic Meal Replacement Powder - Vanilla, 28 Servings, 20g Plant Based Protein Powder, Superfoods, Greens, Vitamins Minerals Probiotics & Enzymes All-in-One Meal Replacement Shake

Also not a body builder but I do Garden of Life Meal Replacer every day, but if you're looking for just protein they've got that too.

Entirely raw, organic and sprouted protein from whole grains, beans, and seeds with fiber, probiotics and enzymes like protease, and no sugar. The meal replacer has the same amount of protein and probiotics/enzymes, but also adds complex carbs, more fiber, a tiny bit of fat, a green juice and fruit mix, and a ton of vitamins and minerals. The only downside is that there's a bit of brown rice syrup, but it's not enough to outweigh the enormous benefits.

A good greens blend should be able to cover any nutritional deficiencies but you'll probably want to use several servings a day.

There are so many awesome superfood powder bramds out there. Just search superfood on Amazon.

I like Amazing Grass, and Garden of Life's Raw Meal and Green Superfood. Vibrant Health is good too.

Also, One-A-Day multis are terrible. PM me if you want my recommendations.

Simple and easy way to get more protein into your diet. When looking at the nutrition label, if it says "Nutrition facts" the contents have been verified by a relatively strict process. if it says "Supplement facts" the actual content is allowed to vary a lot from what's listed on the label.

If you're looking for a meal replacement, I've found that Muscle Milk brand powder works well. If you're just wanting a protein supplement, I really like the flavours of Optimum Nutrition and they're relatively low carb. If you're trying to lean more towards the vegetarian side of things, Garden of Life is an excellent option as well. Although I personally think the texture is pretty "gritty" the flavours aren't bad.

Regardless of what you choose, if you do some price comparison among top brands, you'll find it to be a fairly good deal in price/calorie compared to pre-packaged foods. Almost all of the powders are going to be a healthy option for adding to your diet. For myself, I've found protein shakes to be the best small meal replacement for when I'm trying to cut weight, and a great source for extra calories to add between each meal if I'm trying to bulk up.

I use Garden of Life Meal Replacements because it's organic & vegan, has plenty of protein, 44 superfoods, a bunch of fiber, & you can blend with whatever other veggies or fruits you want.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007S6Y74O/ref=mp_s_a_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1491523425&sr=8-2&keywords=garden+of+life+meal+replacement

My breakfast every morning is: one scoop of this delicious vegan protein powder, 8 ounces Almond Breeze chocolate almond milk, and 8 ounces of water shaken up in my blender bottle. It holds me over until lunch since the protein powder has about 17 grams of protein and tons of other good stuff in it. It's somewhat pricy, but when you think about it, it lasts me through the month, and the almond milk doesn't cost that much. It's a great breakfast for 275 calories, especially since it holds me over until lunch (no snack in between).

There are a couple products/companies that I stand by.

• Thorne Research
  
• Pure Essence Labs LifeEssence Multivitamin - Do not take if you're on anything that interacts with grapefruit. Also very smelly, due to the seaweed. But overall PACKED with all kinds of nutrients.
  
• One of the Garden of Life multivitamins, for whatever your demographic is
  
• Garden of Life Raw Organic Meal - Just avoid chocolate. Vanilla is good. Contains entirely food sourced nutrients, with 20 grams of plant protein per serving.
  
  All of these products are either plant sourced or otherwise contain the more "active" versions of the compounds, ie. Methylcobalamin (B12) over Cyanocobalamin (B12). It's still debated whether this matters for a multivitamin, but theoretically, and also from anecdotal experience, I feel that food sourced and non synthetic compounds perform better.
  
  
  GNC is very middle of the road. Many multivitamins make faulty claims on the contents of the product, but GNC does less of this. I used to work there. They sell Garden of Life, however, and whenever possible I would direct customers to that brand, which makes higher quality products at a very fair price. GNC, however, is taking a very bad direction in their sales tactics and other frantic reforms in a last ditch effort to save their company from the retail bust. I would not be surprised if their products have declined in quality as well, but I quit back in April, so I don't know.

Sorry for the late response! I didn't see this until now, I'm still new to reddit haha.

I actually got the name raw, but here's the product I use from Garden of Life (http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Replacement-Formula/dp/B007S6Y74O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-2&keywords=raw+vegan+protein). I enjoy the vanilla spiced chai more than the chocolate, but I have not tried the plain vanilla.

And yes nutritional yeast does have protein! It has a pretty unbelievable nutrient profile (http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/custom/1323565/2)

Hi there,

This is a little heavy-duty, but this stuff got me through 6 months post throat operation of not being able to eat solids. I highly recommend it if you're unable to get in the calories and protein you need.

http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Replacement-Formula/dp/B007S6Y74O/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=1-2&keywords=garden+of+life+raw+protein

Raw Meal protein shakes are not sweet and are super nutritionally dense.

https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Life-Organic-Vanilla-Powder/dp/B007S6Y74O/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1472747817&sr=8-2&keywords=raw%2Bmeal