I'm so tired of protein shakes but I'm only in the full liquid stage. I mixed my protein powder with FF butterscotch pudding mix, almond milk, and a teaspoon of peanut butter, blended in my magic bullet. Tastes just like a butterfinger! Yummy!

okay here is a question for all of you..... when making your protein shakes that you add stuff to like sugar free pudding, do you make the box kind of pudding or do you use already made pudding? Sorry I haven't experimented with shakes yet, just mix my powder with milk or I buy the pre made shakes. But really want to try to make my own

Barbm1366, I use a protein powder to make my drinks. If you use SF almond milk instead of water, you get a richer drink plus a gram of protein and fiber for only 30 calories. Then you add 1-2 tablespoons of dry FF SF jello pudding mix to make it more flavorful and thick. I also add frozen berries or other fruit and frozen spinach just to increase vitamins. And finally, I add a packet of splenda because I want the extra sweetness. HTH!

Interesting. I'm gonna try this.

What were the measurements on the ingredients for this?

Is your protein powder chocolate?

Any other smoothie / shake ideas???

I never thought to use dry pudding... gonna try it

I make some shakes

banana, almond unsweetened milk, powdered PB, flax and sometimes some dry oatmeal and a little ice

Raspberries chocolate almond milk spinach scoop of unflavored Protein powder flax and maybe some ice

These are my favorite.

Adding pudding to my protein shake sounds so good! thank you all are great with all the tips

Gigi that sounds great. What type of protein powder did you use?

Thats sounds awesome! I will have to try that next week. Do you have any other recipes? Maybe we could swap :-)

There is a previous post called Protein shakes (a must see) that has quite a few recipes for delicious shakes using sf pudding mixes and other basic ingredients. I have tried almost all of them and they are absolutely delicious.

There is a previous post called Protein shakes (a must see) that has quite a few recipes for delicious shakes using sf pudding mixes and other basic ingredients. I have tried almost all of them and they are absolutely delicious.

Do you have the link? I'd love to look through them.

What kind of protein powder do you use?

Can someone explain to me again, what's the purpose of being a full liquid diet for so long. I am on a full liquid diet for 3 weeks, post op, so I have 2 more weeks to go. I am sure my doctor explained this, but I am curious to hear from you all.

It's mostly (from what I remember) because you are quite swollen on the inside from surgery. You really haven't learned to eat as a bander (or with the sleeve) and it'll be very bad if you get stuck and have to throw up so soon after surgery. I had two weeks of liquids followed by two weeks of mushies and then could progress to solids. Every doc is different though. You don't want to rip your stitches right now, well ever, but I think right now with it being so new and not scarred over is worse.

That does sound delish! I want to try it, too! Karen