The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[Dayna]

Cindy,

I must throw my support behind the straw bandwagon. I haven't tried the medifast shakes yet (start tomorrow!), but I used Atkins shakes for a while, and when I first started them I thought the smell was going to be enough to put me off eating altogether. As someone else said, I have a hunch it's the soy protien involved - soy seems to have a very distinctive smell (and taste) that can take a while to get used to. Drinking it very cold certainly helps, but I also recommend the bendy-top straws instead of the straight ones. Being able to bend the end of the straw away from the opening of the can/glass seemed to help keep my nose out of the line of fire, and made drinking much easier.

[Nancy]

Yep, all the bases have been covered very nicely!

Thank you very much!

The Strawberry shakes are not very good when made Quick & Dirty Style: shaken in the shaker jar with water.

They are definitely best made smoothie-style in the blender.

I like them berried up a little bit more because it seems to me that the berry flavor disappears somewhat.

I put 6-8 ounces of water into the blender, a generous 1/8th teaspoon of dry Crystal Light™ Raspberry Ice flavor powder mix and the Medifast Strawberry powder.

I blend it for a couple of minutes to make it really creamy and smooth. I add one and a half cups of crushed ice and whirl until icy and smooth. Love it! I’ve also used the Strawberry-Orange-Bananner tropical blend of C.L. in a strawberry shake and it was mighty fine, too.

Hah! Regarding Vicky’s berries growing in her kitchen…I had a tsunami of sorts myself when I made my first Shake Float…

to <safely>make a shake using diet pop – you need a really tall glass, not just a shaker jar!

Do NOT shake a skaker jarful of pop with the shake powder or you will not be a happy loser! The dog will be lickin’ the kitchen floor…

To make a shake float, pour a few ounces of diet pop into the blender, dump in the shake packet and blend on low until the shake is smooth.

Slowly add a bit more of the diet pop. Whirl and add crushed ice until it is thick and frosty.

You can make the disgusting French Vanilla shake into a frosty Root Beer float in this manner. I had one the other day and made it in our Magic Bullet. Because the mug is not huge on the MB, I didn’t use the entire can of diet Barq’s.

Once I got the float blended and as icy as I wanted it, I took it to my desk and after I slurped down some of it, I poured some more of the diet pop down the side of the mug. Not bad! It definitely needs a bendy straw.

Bendy straws even make egggag* semi-palatable!

P.S. *I cannot stand egg-gag-nog…