hey guys for those of you who have or haven't done this yet...what do you or have you or will you add to your shakes to give them better flavor? if you have preferences. :eek: i picked up 2 weeks worth today and the woman said that some ppl add .. uhh? mint? lol. and something else to the vanilla.

any tips would be awesome, i start on monday. eeeeeek. :cool2:

OK now this really stinks...most of the stuff everyone has mentioned I can't add. I'm on Optifast, and it's very limited. Diet soda, splenda or equal, and extracts are about it for me. I can tell you that diet root beer, diet cherry coke, and cherry extract all are terrible in mine! :w00t:

lol, i have news also... *EEK* .. i got a call back from my dietitian and she said "maybe i can approve for you to put a banana in it, or something" ........LOL.......so...i cheated? i had 2 sips of the shake with banana and strawberry haha.

i guess my dr.'s system is more strict than i thought. :w00t: lol.

anyways, i threw that one away lol. *yuck*

Tonight I tried a little vanilla extract and 3 splendas in the vanilla shake, and it was tolerable. Better than the vanilla in anything else, ugh, that made me want to get sick...Can't wait to go shopping and pick up some orange diet soda and some more extracts. Wish i could put fruit in mine. Just for something solid! Hahahaha!

oh, i know. i had 2 sips of vanilla for Breakfast and i am going to be sick lol. i am putting it in the freezer...hoping that if it freezes, i can eat it with a spoon and pretend its ice cream.

but when i tried that with another flavor, it never froze. lol.

I tried vanilla in diet root beer in the freezer for a couple of hours and it sort of froze, not solid though, just had ice flakes in it. lol. And it was AWFUL!

When I did Optifast 3 years ago, I used this recipe list

Personally, I liked using Faygo diet chocolate soda with a vanilla shake or diet cherry soda with chocolate shake. I also used to add instant coffee and a bit of cocoa powder to the chocolate for a mocha.

I still have a lot of my extracts from last time. Guess I'd better dust them off for my 4 week pre-op diet :cursing: