There are a lot of ideas in this thread
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/idea...-part-7-a.html
A good website to find products is Nashua Nutrition.
Most Quest powders are a good substitute for the IP drinks. The protithin and protidiet drinks are also good, also most of the Proti-thin bars are OK.
Also Syntrax - Nectar drinks.
EAS Advantedge Carb Control - I think you can get these in many grocery stores.
The Quest bars mostly are not protocol since they changed the formula recently, unless you can get the Canadian ones (which are still the old formula).
There are others, but that should give you a start. Do check out the thread I linked (you'll see it's part 7, you can also go back to the earlier ones
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The most important thing is to check to make sure they fit protocol
---> how to pick an alternative product:
- under 160 calories = Unrestricted (though MOST IP packets range from 90-120)
- 160-200 calories = Restricted (once/daily)
slightly over 200 cals (or 30% fat) is super-restricted (once/weekly)
- less than 30% cal from fat (multiply cals from fat x 3; OK if lower than total cals.)
- under 8 g net carbs - unrestricted
- 9g-16g net carbs - restricted
- 17g net carbs - super restricted (only once/twice per week)
- above 17g net carbs is too high to be good for Phase 1
- at least 12-15g protein (don’t go much above 20g regularly)
* NET = Total carbs minus fiber