Features:

  • POWDERED NUTRITIONAL DRINK: Snack or breakfast, drink with skim milk or add to smoothies, Carnation Breakfast Essentials Powdered Drink Mix provides 13g of protein when mixed with 1 cup of fat-free milk.
  • CARNATION BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS ORIGINAL: The nutritional drink you love at breakfast, available in two easy forms: a powdered drink mix, or a shake in a bottle, in vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry.
  • POWDER DRINK MIX: Mix Carnation Breakfast Essentials Powder Drink Mix with skim milk or mix in a smoothie for a tasty, easy snack or breakfast drink & start the day right, with protein & other nutrients.
  • GOOD NUTRITION FROM THE START: Carnation Breakfast Essentials helps families get the vitamins & minerals they need to start the day, from powdered drink mixes to high protein ready-to-drink shakes.
  • BALANCED NUTRITIONAL DRINKS FOR BUSY LIVES: It's hard to balance a healthy lifestyle & a busy day. Carnation Breakfast Essentials nutritional drinks make it easy to start your day with good nutrition.
Love it, look at the per packet price before you buy, they change a lot

Been using this for years and still stand by it 100%. Make sure that you are looking at the price of the pack you buy and dividing it by the number of units, there can actually be big price differences on a per serving basis. This was the best deal at the time, and ironically the 30-pack had a higher per-packet price so just make sure you check the different sizes before you commit, higher quantity does not always mean the best unit price. It tastes great and has a nice little protein and vitamin boost that makes it easy to drink before heading out in the morning and avoid that empty feeling before lunch time. I mix it with protein powder post-workout for a nice shake and it tastes great. Highly recommend this for people that like to sleep as long as possible and rush out of the house but still get something in their stomach.

Good cheaper alternative to nutritional drinks.

Can't beat the price! I have a hard time eating most days until after 4pm or so. It was suggested by my nutritionist that this would be an affordable way to keep something going in, even when I wasn't up to eating. This works great. Now, I pour my milk. Add an envelope of the vanilla breakfast and a tablespoon of instant espresso.... I can take my pills and wait until hunger finally has me eating more normally later in the day. I even look forward to my morning drink now.

Shakeology for those on a budget

Friend convinced my wife to try out a Beachbody workout with Shakeology. After reading up on Shakeology I found this to be a much more affordable alternative with little difference in ingredients. If you're buying Shakeology then give this a try - you might just like it and save yourself some $ in the process.

Works as a meal replacement every now and then.

Very good taste. No scary ingredients. Decently priced. Works as a meal replacement every now and then. In a 24oz Blender Bottle, I put Nestle Nido sufficient to make about 16 ounces, an envelope of vanilla Carnation Breakfast Essentials and a scoop of Optimum Nutrition vanilla flavored Natural Whey powder and take it with me. To prepare add about 1 and 1/2 500ml bottles of water and shake for about a minute. The ON whey powder is very low carb/high protein and helps avoid the carb crash from the other ingredients. This is usually enough to get me through a day without eating anything else. I would like to try the other chocolate and malt flavors Carnation makes, and probably pair them up with some chocolate ON whey protein powder and another brand of whole milk powder. The Nido is ok, but not great. The Carnation and ON products taste great.

Still Great After All These Years

We had this in the house growing up in case we were all running late and couldn't make breakfast. Fast forward and I'm back to these. I used another morning "shake" that came in individual plastic bottles for my weekday morning meal. I made a New Years resolution to radically reduce my use of plastic so I tried this. I love all three flavors and they go well the accompanying banana I eat. This also saves me money I didn't know I was wasting. I will be ordering again and again and again.

Great drink mixes, easy to make, very yummy.

My teenage daughter loves these and it's the only way I get her to have something for breakfast. She's iron deficient and usually isn't hungry when she first wakes up, but then is starving hours before lunchtime at school if she doesn't have breakfast. These have been great to get her some nutrition first thing and hold her over until lunch. They mix well with milk, we have a shaker cup that works great. For warmer weather, I make milk ice cubes and mix everything in the blender for a frozen slushy. Sometimes she adds a spoonful of instant coffee for a frappe type creation. My mother also drinks these, it's something quick and easy she can make between meals to keep her going throughout the day.

Excellent taste

I'm a very senior citizen who doesn't really follow a good diet so I drink one packet of the Vanilla flavor Carnation Breakfast Essentials every morning and I love the taste, it is delicious. I also take Patriot Greens every day and occasionally add it to the milk and Carnation and blend it for a few seconds in the single serve unit of my Ninja mixer. The two tastes blend well together. You can't beat the price of this Amazon deal. I am also on a gluten free diet, and have never had a problem with this product. They manufacture it on the same equipment they use for the Chocolate Malt flavor Breakfast Essentials so add that it is made on the same equipment used for a product that contains gluten. I am fairly sensitive to gluten but maybe anyone who is VERY sensitive to it would prefer not to take the chance. This is a five star product in my opinion.

Keeps my son Healthy & Growing! Nutritionally Awesome!

This is the staple of my son's diet. Our nutritionist said he it has the same nutritional values as Pediasure but at about half the cost so we have been getting the Carnation Breakfast Essentials and using it since our son came off Formula. He has some medical needs that require us to supplement what he eats to make sure he gets enough protein and calories. He has between 1-4 'shakes' a day with the Carnation Breakfast Essentials in varying flavors and his weight is increasing and/or stable which is what we want/need. It has helped keep him healthy, out of the hospital and growing and he LOVES his 'shakes'! I don't know what I would do without this product! We certainly couldn't afford as much Pediasure as he is drinking of the Carnation Breakfast Essentials!

Update - Discontinued Flavors as of 8/15/2018

I talked with Carnation this morning (1-800-289-7313, M-F from 8AM-8PM). The lovely person I spoke with informed that all flavors aside from the basic Milk Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry Sensations have been discontinued. That's right: No more Cafe Mocha, Dark Chocolate, and Classic Chocolate Malt! She told me that they really do listen when people contact them. So if you want these flavors back (and how about Eggnog, y'all!?), call and let them know. She said they've brought back flavors before, so don't let hope die!

Makes life easy, great taste

Hadn't had this stuff in over ten years. I used to get the protein shakes from Sam's, but they've been discontinued for about a year, and I haven't found a suitable replacement until now (I'm not willing to pay $2-$4 for a drink!). If you buy in batches, this stuff is the best price for a meal-replacement or snack type drink (including the milk to blend it with), and it's good. I get the Milk Chocolate and Strawberry flavors. I like to use 12oz of milk or almond milk instead of 8oz so that it's more filling, and I think the flavor is still plenty strong enough. I bought a set of tupperware tumblers with lids on Amazon for mixing, but you could just mix it with a spoon in a glass -- that's one upgrade that came with the "Essentials" label; it mixes more easily than it used to.

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