![]() My dad does, however, “miss the taste” of Boost Plus and I was able to “devise” my own version, which he drinks now without incident.įirst, to make a one gallon pitcher, reuse a one gallon plastic milk jug (with the screw on lid). Since he takes a geriatric multiple vitamin, 2 400 IU’s of vitamin E, one calcium citrate, and 1,000 mg of vitamin C per day, he no longer needs the Boost. My dad, who lives with me and has Alzheimer’s, was drinking Boost Plus (4 cans daily) chocolate. If you need to gain some weight, drink milkshakes. If you are too busy to eat, reevaluate your lifesyle or try to eat things that are easy and portable, such as sandwiches. Why are you drinking Ensure? If you are normal weight and don’t have any appetite problems, take a vitamin (even 1/2 a vitamin is usually sufficient). It is also fortified with vitamins and minerals, much like your typical breakfast cereal. Ensure is used quite extensively in hospitals and nursing homes for tube feedings. It is high in protein and calories….things which most Americans get way too much of. Ensure was originally meant to help those with serious illnesses who have trouble eating and keeping on weight. A few years ago some marketing guru was trying to increase sales and did a pretty good job at finding another market niche. Those ads on televisions which depict healthy older adults drinking Ensure to seemingly “enhance their lifestyle” or “be young again” are totally ridiculous. I hope this gives you a nice healthy start! You can vary the fruit used such as banana, pineapple, or other berries. Puree and enjoy with a squeeze of lime if desired. Sugar to taste (start with 2 tablespoons)ġ/4 cup cooked (and cooled) beans (garbanzo, pinto, navy) ![]() ![]() Add remaining ingredients and blend again. Place milk and oats in blender and let sit for five minutes. I have two recipes.ġ/2 cup fruit, fresh or frozen (strawberries, bananas, peaches, etc)Ģ-3 tablespoons quick oats (I’ve even used regular oats use not more than 2 tbl or soak them in a bit of milk for your specific consistency)Ģ-3 tablespoons sugar or honey (I prefer honey because it is a natural nonprocessed item you can get a less processed sugar but it can be expensive unless you know how to shop for it) I don’t know how close of the substitution this is in comparison to the vitamins and minerals and other nutritive factors on the label what I do know is that it is cheaper and healther without additives and artificial this and that.
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