The Slim-Fast 1-2-3 diet plan includes replacing your breakfast and/or your lunch with a 200-calorie shake. The shakes come in powder form (where you add your own milk) or ready-to-drink, in a can. This review is for the Canned French Vanilla Flavor.
The cans are very convenient for taking lunch to work, or grabbing a quick bite on-the-go. While they're best served cold, even at room temperature they taste pretty good. So they really are very convenient.
Each can is 11 oz. Not huge, by any means, so I drink them very slowly, one sip at a time, trying to stretch them out over ½ hour or so. Drinking them this way does help me feel satisfied afterwards, as if I've eaten a full meal. While I wouldn't say they necessarily hold me for 4 hours (as they claim), I am sated for quite a while.
Each can provides 180 calories, 6g of fat, 200 mg of sodium, 5g of fiber, and 18g of sugar.
As far as nutrition goes, the shakes are designed to be meal-replacements. Thus they are chock-full of vitamins. There's a long list of them, and many are listed as 35% of the recommended daily dose.
The first three ingredients are fat free milk, water, and sugar. I have noticed that Slim-Fast is changing their formulas lately. I have bought shakes a couple weeks apart and had them display different contents. You can check out slim-fast.com, but I don't know if their website is up to date when it comes to their changing formulas. Therefore, I would suggest that you check the product carefully, before you buy it, to decide if it's right for you.
As for me, I enjoy this product very much. I find it delicious. Even though I am usually a dedicated chocolate-person, the occasional vanilla shake makes a nice change of pace. Note that its texture is not aerated like a real milk shake would be. It's smooth and creamy, something along the lines of a Yoo-Hoo.
I like knowing I can have a very easy, nutritious, and tasty lunch or breakfast for under 200 calories. At less than $1 per shake, this product is a winner, for me.
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