powdered breakfast mix options

If I am in a hurry, I drink warm Ensure with non-fat milk powder added. If I am in a super hurry, I drink it without warming.

–B.G.–

"What do y'all mix up?"

Ensure is about the cheapest off the shelf mix I have run across. If you get a drug store's private brand, e.g. Walgreens, it is even cheaper. It is somewhere in the mid 120's calories/oz, and you could easily beef it up with more protein if you so desire. An even cheaper option is to mix maltodextrin powder with protein powder in the proportions you prefer to get the protein you want, and add flavoring to taste. It works out to about 110 calories/ox or so. For higher calorie density, mix it with Nido full fat powdered milk, which contains ~140 calories/oz.

Take a look at Nestle Nido Fortificada. It is basically dried fortified whole milk and can usually be found in the Hispanic foods. It is intended for babies and young children, but is quite commonly used in backpacking recipes. You can use this as a base and add other ingredients to suit your purpose. I haven't sat down to compare the nutritional values of Nido, nonfat dry milk and Breakfast Essentials, but I think that it will compare favorably. A mix of all three might keep the sugar levels down and the protein and fat levels up.

I predict no one will do this, but it is the everyday breakfast for the friend I got it from, and when I whipped up my own version it was downright comestible. It is sludge, flour sludge, essentially. For mine I chose whole oat flour and Bob's Red Mill malted barley flour. Hence some maltodextrin built in. Add Ovaltine. Add powdered chocolate mix. Add Nido, or the like. You can toast the flour. The key, of course, is to add the water to the powder, but more, to do this in a plastic bottle you can shake like crazy. Because you might drink this over a morning, it does somewhat dominate a water bottle.

Sounds pretty good- I'll give it a shot.

Chocolate milk with flour added. I'm just not real clear on what he point of the flour is, though… is it s'posed to be good for you? Make it more palatable? Add caloric density?

Nutritional value of flour is the same whether in drinkable liquid sludge or baked into bread. High.

You just reinvented Atole, a mexican drink that incorporates flour or corn meal with different flavors, sometimes chocolate. Good stuff.

Atole is usually made with corn flour, but I wonder if it might be more nutritious if it was made with masa. I made blue corn atole once, but wasn't all that wild about it. I often add blue corn masa to my cereal. I think that the masa may have a finer grind than the flour and may not taste gritty when used in a drink. Atole may be an acquired taste.

Another thing to consider in a breakfast drink is soy milk powder.

Roasted barley flour, Tsampa, is a possibility if people are allergic to wheat products and very nutritious.

Myoplex?

2.7 oz. foil packets have 300 cal.: 6 g. fat, 21 g. carbs (3 g. fiber, 1 g. sugars), 42 g. protein (mostly whey).

Mixes with water pretty easily although you really have to shake it well and tastes wicked good.

Ingredients list is a mile long and loaded with stuff you've never heard of, but it's made by Bil Philips's EAS, so it's got to be good, right?

Also comes in bars: 3 oz., 350 cal. I think

Can I mix these up in my cook pot and spoon or would I need to bring a special bottle to mix it up in?

If you are just doing drinks, you can make them in a bottle – or even in a sandwich bag. Add water, seal and shake.

We used to eat instant oatmeal (dry) and swish it down with cold water as we walked. It was horrible but sure made for a fast pre dawn start to climb a peak. I guess it had sufficient calories to power the legs. I never learned to love it.