Hey all,

I'm about 6 weeks pre-op so my surgeon has recommended that I start sampling Vitamins and gathering up what I'll need as far as vitamins and supplements. I ordered a sample pack of vitamins from Celebrate on recommendation from my doctor and her other patients and wow, I can't believe what they sent me for $3.00. There's at least 12-15 samples here...

According to Celebrate, every sample pack is different but you will get at least one item from each category (Multivitamin, Calcium, Iron, etc)

They sent me:

Multivitamin Chewables in Pineapple-strawberry, Mandarin Orange, Grape

Calcet Creamy Bites in Lemon (amazing!!!, will definitely be ordering)

Calcium Plus 500 chewables in Cherry Tart and Berries & Cream

Vitamin D3 500 IU in Orange

calcium citrate Chews in chocolate and Berry

Multivitamin Soft Chews in Orange and Very berry

Multi-Complete in Forest Berry and Orange

Iron+C 60mg Berry, 18mg tangerine, 30mg grape

Celebrate ENS drinkable multivitamin + calcium in Cranberry Grape

and ENS Protein in Chocolate

So far I've tried the Calcet Lemon Creamy Bite and the Pineapple-Strawberry multivitamin chewable and both were great. Anybody else taking sups from Celebrate? What are your favorites?

This is what they sent me.

I use Celebrate vitamins, but also am taking Wellesse liquid vitamins and calcium, since I'm less than a week post op. They taste like an Orange Julius.

@@blashlee Ha! I got those too back before surgery! They are good. I didn't end up ordering them though because I found a chewable pineapple Vitamin I liked better.

Ps I couldn't do the vitamin powder mix...made me gag!

Review of what I got..

Multivitamin Chewables in Pineapple-strawberry Mandarin Orange, Grape<--These were all good but Pineapple-Strawberry won for me.

Calcet Creamy Bites in Lemon<---incredible. Cheaper to order from drugstore.com so I will order from there.

Calcium Plus 500 chewables in Cherry Tart and Berries & Cream<---These are huge and hard, definitely won't be able to try for a while post op, I'll stick to chewy calcium.

Vitamin D3 500 IU in Orange<---texture and taste was fine but not enough IUs for what my doctor wants me to take.

calcium citrate Chews in chocolate and Berry<---both were good but the Calcet Lemon are still the best.

Multivitamin Soft Chews in Orange and Very Berry<---GROSS. Tasted like plastic. They didn't chew down very well, I had to spit them out.

Multi-Complete in Forest Berry and Orange<--Orange was better but both were good. Similar texture to Flintstone Vitamins. Melt pretty well and go down easy.

Iron+C 60mg Berry, 18mg tangerine, 30mg grape<---Grape was the best, tangerine was also good but not enough for what my doctor wants me to take.

Celebrate ENS drinkable multivitamin + calcium in Cranberry Grape<---Ew.

and ENS Protein in Chocolate<---Too many carbs, didn't try

I also saw that I got the sublingual B12 in Cherry Tart, it was disgusting I chewed it up and choked it down with Water.

So far I plan to order the Pineapple-Strawberry multi, Calcet Lemon Creamy Bites, the Grape flavored Iron (30MG), I found liquid B complex and a better tasting sublingual B12 from Vitamin Shoppe.

Ladies and gents -- how many of the celebrate MV's are you supposed to take (RNY patients) daily to accomodate your daily needs?

what else do you take (calcium/vit d wise, etc.) ?