I really heartily dislike the protein shakes on the market here, they all have a distinctive taste.

Meal replacement shakes you have to be careful of. I continue to use Optifast - the vanilla one - because its well balanced and with some fruit blended into it makes a good breakfast for a bandster - I can eat in the morning, but like most, its not my most hungry time of day. The thing is with a meal replacement rather than a protein supplement, you've got a host of other important vitamins and minerals. I'm not a low carber, I defend my carbs, lol, but its nice to have a breakfast you know is high in protein to get you through the morning, chocful of vitamins and minerals and has my daily requriement of two pieces of fruit blended into to it to boot. So many things to not have to think about at my other meals.

Not sure if our Slim Fast is the same as your Slim Fast here in Australia - but reading the label, its a pretty worthless food - crappy amount of protein, like 3grams, heaps of carbs all of which are from sugar. I'd avoid that one. Same with most of the other ones available in the supermarket.

We have Tony Ferguson and Celebrity Slim which are both pretty identical going by the labels and very similar to optifast, and much more tolerable taste wise.

I guess its down to what you prefer taste wise, and then you have to read the labels carefully if you go for a meal replacement shake.

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Jacqui