Hello!
I'm new here, and hoping I can get some suggestions for a good meal replacement shake powder. work can make it impossible to get a decent meal, since I work on boats, and if I don't eat the food they provide, I don't eat at all. (One time I ate cereal for almost every meal for a week because it was better than what they served!) I already take a multivitamin and iron supplement when I'm working on the boats, but I want something that could help replace the vegetables that are often missing from diet. I've used Shakeology from BB before, and the chocolate is good, but it is sooooo expensive! Is there something else of similar nutritional value? Garden of Life makes something like I'm looking for, and I saw an Alive shake made by Nature's Way that looked interesting. I'd love some recommendations or reviews of these or other similar products!
Thanks,
Rachel
Best meal replacement shake?
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Re: Best meal replacement shake?
I presume the boat has one of those you get what you're given, we don't serve much healthy food because we're limited by budget, sort of arrangements and it's catering for the masses not the individual.
I may be wrong of course.
A good shake is a decent cheap one. Concentrate or isolate, with carbs and about 5-6 ingredients.
The expensive ones are all hype and marketing, too many ingredients with some at potentially poor amounts and they aren't worth the bother to be honest.
If I'm right about the way the boat serves rations / meals, is there any way for someone like you to work with them, to see if they can change the way they utilise their food budgets?
What sort of things do they serve?
I'm just curious as maybe there's a way to compromise on this situaiton, without you having to resort ot drinking too many shakes and taking multi-vits, as that's an ideal way to subsist, though I appreciate the circumstances are unusual.
I may be wrong of course.
A good shake is a decent cheap one. Concentrate or isolate, with carbs and about 5-6 ingredients.
The expensive ones are all hype and marketing, too many ingredients with some at potentially poor amounts and they aren't worth the bother to be honest.
If I'm right about the way the boat serves rations / meals, is there any way for someone like you to work with them, to see if they can change the way they utilise their food budgets?
What sort of things do they serve?
I'm just curious as maybe there's a way to compromise on this situaiton, without you having to resort ot drinking too many shakes and taking multi-vits, as that's an ideal way to subsist, though I appreciate the circumstances are unusual.
Re: Best meal replacement shake?
Hi Boss Man,
Asking them to make different food is not option. Food is expensive in Dutch Harbor since it is all shipped in. Sometimes the smaller boats will take you shopping, but that is the exception rather than the rule. If I want something else to eat, I try to buy it in town and bring it with me to the boat. The fishermen already don't want me there since I'm a daily cost for them. I get paid daily, and they only make money if there is good fishing, so I try to stay as low key as possible. I don't have much extra room since I have to carry own sleeping bag and pillow in addition to clothes, 3 months of toiletries, rain gear, and about 90 pounds of sampling and safety gear provided by the government. A meal replacement shake is the best option I can come up with.
Rachel
Asking them to make different food is not option. Food is expensive in Dutch Harbor since it is all shipped in. Sometimes the smaller boats will take you shopping, but that is the exception rather than the rule. If I want something else to eat, I try to buy it in town and bring it with me to the boat. The fishermen already don't want me there since I'm a daily cost for them. I get paid daily, and they only make money if there is good fishing, so I try to stay as low key as possible. I don't have much extra room since I have to carry own sleeping bag and pillow in addition to clothes, 3 months of toiletries, rain gear, and about 90 pounds of sampling and safety gear provided by the government. A meal replacement shake is the best option I can come up with.
Rachel
Re: Best meal replacement shake?
Oh no I didn't mean asking them to make different food, but maybe depending on what they spend money on and how they spend it, reccomendations could be found to provide healtheir food that stays within budget.
However I appreciate this isn't really your remit and you probably couldn't do much to influence this anyway.
How does your government decide where and who you should work alongside?
However I appreciate this isn't really your remit and you probably couldn't do much to influence this anyway.
How does your government decide where and who you should work alongside?