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Would it be safe for me to put about a tablespoon (or less) of Peanut Butter in a Protein Shake? It seems like it would make it taste better, and the Protein would be super helpful. I'm currently in the first two weeks *full liquids* stage of post-op surgery.

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I don't know about regular Peanut Butter, but my dietition told me about PB2 it is a powder peanut butter. 2 TBs is 5 g or Protein. I ordered it from Amazon. I add it to my chocolate protein and it is YUMMY taste like a reeses peanut butter cut! It is roasted peanuts with all the oil pressed out and turned to powder. Look it up,

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I use the PB2, also. I add sugar free butterscotch pudding to the chocolate whey and Peanut Butter and it makes it a butterfinger-it's yummy! There are a lot of things you can add it to. I love this stuff

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Thank you all for the suggestions! I just placed an order for PB2 on Amazon. I'd never even heard of it! :D

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@Bobo, how much SF butterscotch pudding do you put in each shake? Im looking for things to change it up a lil and never thought about putting pudding in it. Thanks in advance for any ideas you can send my way :}

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I had never hear of the PB2 either until I saw it on here. I live in a small town with no "health food" stores but I happened to walk down the "healthy" isle of my Smith's Grocery store and they had it. I was shocked to see it there and they had the reg and the chocolate PB2. So before you all pay extra shipping check in your local grocery stores. Good luck all it's a good thing to have on hand if you haven't tried it yet :}

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I got a recipe grouping from one of my coworkers that has a bunch of whey Protein Shake recipes that are great! It's published by Herbalife but you can use any whey Protein. I'll be happy to e-mail them to you, if you'll send me your address. BTW, I put a tablespoon of the butterscotch pudding mix. The pudding mixes are great for pumping up the flavor and I also add FF Greek yogurt (about 1/2 cup) to make it creamier and it adds 11g of protein.

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Peanut Butter kept me sane. I never used the PB2, but I always thought it was perfect for the shakes.

Watch regular Peanut Butter. It is calorie packed and you really have to watch how much you eat. A small bit is all you need. Pre-surgery I used to load a celery stick with about 3 tbs of the stuff. GAAAAAAAAAA! No wonder I was were I was.

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I don't know about regular Peanut Butter, but my dietition told me about PB2 it is a powder Peanut Butter. 2 TBs is 5 g or Protein. I ordered it from Amazon. I add it to my chocolate Protein and it is YUMMY taste like a reeses peanut butter cut! It is roasted peanuts with all the oil pressed out and turned to powder. Look it up,

i am just getting ready to place an order for it on amazon. wondering if you can just add the powder to shakes or if i have to mix the PB2 with Water first

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i am just getting ready to place an order for it on Amazon. wondering if you can just add the powder to shakes or if i have to mix the PB2 with Water first

If adding to shakes, no you don't. It mixes beautifully! Lol

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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