![]() ![]() Escape from Obesity: Medifast Foods: Tips and Recipes. This page is for folks who, like me, are using Medifast as a weight loss tool. ![]() On the New Lifestyle Diet, you’ll lose weight fast with delicious low carb, high protein, liquid diet shakes, bars, and gluten free snacks. Our self-guided diet plans and meal delivery program makes WonderSlim an easy to follow diet program for weight loss - Weight Management Made Simple. Medifast diet food recipes. Lyn I am 38 years old, female, a degree-holding stay-at-home-mom, and I weigh 278 pounds. Buy Protein Smoothies from Diet Direct - Protein Smoothie Coupons and Reviews. Shop a Wide Selection of the Best Weight Loss Drinks - Get Free Shipping on Protein. ![]() I wanted to create a page with some favorite tips and tweaks to get the most (and the best favor) out of your Medifast meals. When you're eating from a packet, you want to get the best results possible by the way you prep the food. 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New Lifestyle Diet provides protein and liquid diet program including meal replacement diet, bar, shakes & puddings that helps in weight loss. HealthWise has been creating and manufacturing delicious food and neutraceuticals for over 21 years, drawing on the expertise of weight loss professionals. You can find my detailed Medifast food reviews with pictures here: Medifast Foods: Best and Worst and here: New Medifast Food Reviews. You can also read even newer reviews here: Spiced Pancakes, Syrup, BBQ Bites, and Cheese Pizza Bites and newer still: Soft Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies, Vegetarian Sloppy Joe, and Orange Blend Drink. The new Puffs and Pretzels, I am not a fan of at all, but some folks like them. The Cereal Crunch, both flavors, is great! I love either one in the morning with unsweetened almond milk (1 gram carbs per serving = 1 condiment). The Mac and Cheese is okay, is reviewed here, and has some tips listed below. You can see actual photos of most of the Medifast meals on my Pinterest, here: Medifast Meals. I also have a board of Lean and Green meals here: Medifast Lean & Green Meals. Here are all the important information sheets you need to successfully do the Medifast program: Quick Start Guide. Lean Options List. Green Options List. Meatless Lean List. Condiments and Healthy Fats List. ![]() Optional Snacks List. Vegetarian Guide. Transition and Maintenance Guide (old version)Maintenance Guide. Allergens List. Product Nutrition Guide. ![]() Other guides, including exercise, seniors, dining out, diabetics*Scroll to the bottom of this page for current Medifast Coupons.*Save 5% on your Medifast orders with ebates! It is free and easy to use and gives you cash back on your online purchases. Hot Drinks: The most common complaint with the Hot Cocoa, Chai Latte and Cappuccino is LUMPS. No one likes lumps in their drink! To get a smooth, creamy texture, put the powder into a large mug. Measure one cup of cold water and pour in *just enough* water to make a smooth paste (3 Tablespoons or so). Use a fork or a mini- whisk to get it smooth. Then boil the rest of the water (microwave or mini water boiler) and add slowly while stirring. No lumps! I like to make the Hot Cocoa with coffee instead of water to create a mocha. You can also add 1 Tbsp of any sugar free syrup (caramel, hazelnut, raspberry, etc) OR a few drops of any extract (peppermint, orange, coconut) OR a few shakes of cinnamon (mixed in with the powder) to make a flavored Hot Cocoa or Mocha. In the summer I pour the mochas over a big cup of ice cubes for a Starbucks style iced mocha. LOVE it! I also like to make a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Hot Cocoa. Just mix 1 Tbsp of powdered PB2 into the cocoa powder before mixing and making into hot cocoa. Excellent! You can also make any of the hot drinks into a shake by putting the powder in the blender with 1 cup of cold water and a handful or two of ice. Hot Cocoa also makes great frozen truffles. Just put the powder in a bowl, add 3 Tbsp of water (or you can use 2. T water and 1. T any flavor sugar free syrup), mix until smooth and drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper on a plate. Freeze until firm (at least an hour). These are amazing if you also add 1 Tbsp peanut butter (optional snack) OR 1 Tbsp cream cheese (healthy fat). Chai makes decent truffles as well, same method. Cold Drinks: The most common issue with the Cranberry Mango drink and the Tropical Punch is: too sweet, too strong. I personally like them both over ice, or made in the blender with water and ice to create a slushie. Try adding extra water until they suit your taste. You can also freeze them to make popsicles out of them. If you blend a Cranberry Mango drink with 1/2 cup water and 8- 1. Mountain Dew with some ice cubes, it is really good! And I don't usually like Mountain Dew at all. Puddings: The puddings are one of my favorite Medifast foods because they are so versatile! You can make a lot of different things with them! As pudding: The puddings can be lumpy if you don't blend them well. They set up faster if you use very cold water. You can also add flavorings to the puddings, like sugar free syrups or spices. For custard: add 1 beaten egg white or 2- 3 Tbsp Egg Beaters to the cold pudding and then microwave it in a large bowl in 3. I love the chocolate pudding this way; reminds me of cooked Jello pudding. For the BEST shakes: use 1 packet of pudding + 1 cup of water + 1/2 cup of small ice cubes. Rich and creamy and once again, you can add flavors. I like coffee in my chocolate shakes. Banana pudding makes a delicious shake, and it is great with PB2 added if you like peanut butter and banana. For a . I blend everything with a half can of soda first and then when it is smooth, add the rest and blend. The chocolate + root beer tastes like a Tootsie Roll to me, and the vanilla + root beer tastes like a root beer float. The vanilla is also good with a diet orange soda (tastes like creamsicle!)You can also make soft serve ice cream with the puddings, similar to a Wendy's Frosty. Just put 1/2 cup cold water + 1 packet pudding + 1 cup small ice cubes in a mini blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Great stuff as is, or you can add flavorings, coffee, peanut butter, or cream cheese. My favorite is the peanut butter (1 Tbsp) but I don't do it too often. Packs in too many calories. I sometimes add 1 tsp plain unsweetened cocoa for a dark chocolate effect. I am not a huge fan of vanilla pudding, but it can be made into shakes and frosties and then you can add flavors, like sugar free syrups, Walden Farms strawberry jelly, or a spoonful of Matcha powder for a green tea shake. My favorite is the French Toast shake. You can make a totally simple, on plan meal that is the same size as a regular candy bar and, if you use chocolate pudding, looks much like a Crunch bar. This recipe uses no additional condiments so it is a real winner! Mix up one packet of pudding according to package directions. Place one Medifast Crunch bar in a bowl and microwave it for 1. Smoosh up the crunch bar with a spatula or spoon and then stir in the pudding. Mix and smoosh well until it is all incorporated. Spread this mixture into a container the size of two candy bars, or two smaller containers. I line my glass pan with wax paper. Spread it out and freeze for 2 hours. Remove from container and if you used one larger container, cut the big bar in half and wrap one for later use (keep frozen). This makes 2 Medifast meals and they keep well in the freezer and are even better after freezing overnight! The flavor combinations are endless. For a Crunch bar flavor I use a caramel crunch bar and a chocolate pudding. Some other yummy combinations: chocolate pudding + peanut butter barchocolate pudding + mint chocolate barbanana pudding + peanut butter barvanilla pudding + lemon meringue bar + 1/2 (or more) of a Medifast strawberry lemonade calorieburn infuser packet = strawberry lemonade calorieburn bar! So good. Try different combinations and enjoy! Soft Serve: I tried making it with crushed ice. I tried using a snow cone maker and then adding the mix. I just never liked the texture. And when you freeze it to make it harder, it gets solid as a rock. Give it a shot with crushed or shaved ice. A lot of people do like it that way. But I finally got awesome, creamy, real ice cream- like results when I started using a Mini Ice Cream Maker. It's tiny and makes single serve portions of ice cream or frozen yogurt, so I just mixed my Medifast Soft Serve packet with 3/4 cup of cold water and put it in the fridge to chill for a half hour or so, then poured it into the ice cream maker, turned it on and had ice cream in under 1. I eat it right out of the little frozen bowl it's made in, so it stays cold and doesn't melt as I eat it. Be sure the lid is seated properly and then press down on it every so often so that you don't have this issue. I also like to make the Soft Serve into a shake. Just add about 3/4- 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup of ice in the blender. Pretty good shakes. You can also make cookies out of the soft serve. I found this recipe on the Medifast forums. They are pretty good and filling; they turn out flat and wrinkly and soft/chewy. When I first tried one warm I thought, ? I thought they were fantastic! So I highly recommend freezing these. Soft Serve Cookies. In a bowl, combine 1 packet of Soft Serve (I used chocolate mint), 1/2 tsp baking powder, 2 Tbsp Egg Beaters, and 3 Tbsp water. Mix well and drop onto parchment paper to make 7 cookies. Bake at 3. 50 degrees for 1. Cool (and freeze if you can!)Soups and Chili: ALL of the soups benefit from . The cream soups can be fine with a short soak, but unless you want to break a tooth on a bean or pea you ought to soak the chili, chicken noodle soup, and wild rice soup for a few hours. You can add the boiling water and then put the soup in a thermos for later. You can add the water the night before and keep it in the fridge overnight, and reheat when ready to eat. But please soak the soups. They are so much better. Flavor can be brightened by using low sodium broth instead of water when making the soups. You can add black pepper, hot sauce, onion powder, etc, but remember to count the condiments. Also, you can add veggies to your soups but remember to subtract them from your Lean and Green. So, if you use a half cup of veggies in your soup, remember you only have 2 veggie servings left for dinner. You can add some of your Lean to a soup as well, such as cubed chicken, but remember to subtract it from your dinner later. Cream of Chicken is excellent with some fresh spinach added, or some chopped cooked mushrooms for a . It's also great with a bit of curry powder added.
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