I'm also going to do a 21 day vegan meal plan starting next week...excellent Groupon thank you!

GreenLite Meals?

I bought the CVS variety yesterday because I'm having some yeast issues but the directions do not say whether to take them with or without food. Google isn't helping either.

Anything I should be on the lookout for? I'm planning to do a 30 day course and am hoping for good results.

I always took them without food, but that's just because I took them with my other supplements first thing in the morning (which I take on an empty stomach because I'm not hungry when I first wake up). I don't think it matters hugely, and I can't recall reading anything about when to take them. Although I just got this month's Yoga Journal (an Xmas gift from my yogi mom) in the mail and it has an article on probiotics, so I'll skim that and see if it says.

GreenLite Meals?

Yes! Do you have experience with them, Hil? My one worry is that I can't do onions and I suspect their stuff is prepared in bulk without a lot of room for variation.

Although I just got this month's Yoga Journal (an Xmas gift from my yogi mom) in the mail and it has an article on probiotics, so I'll skim that and see if it says.

Cheers!

Since the pearls are supposed to keep the probiotic intact through the stomach, I am hoping it doesn't matter, but also thought that more acid might speed up the breakdown of the shell.

Any insight is appreciated.

The Yoga Journal article ended up being about topical skincare products with probiotic ingredients. ??? I have never heard of this, and in any case, it's not relevant to your question anyway.

I guess I'm going to stick with my position of "it probably doesn't matter if you take them with food or on an empty stomach."

Yes! Do you have experience with them, Hil? My one worry is that I can't do onions and I suspect their stuff is prepared in bulk without a lot of room for variation.

Yeah, I was ordering their meals for a while. It is prepared in bulk -- unless you get one of the custom meal plans, then they just send you whatever meals they happen to make that week. I usually thought they tasted OK, but not spectacular. I often added hot sauce or spices to them. The portion sizes felt kind of small at first, but after a few days, I wasn't hungry anymore.

Mucho~ma to the Nora D family!

Data point of one, bonny, but I always took my probiotics without food - like Steph, when taking all other vitamins and supplements - and seemed to have good results.

Oh, also, the customer support people at GreenLite are great -- if there's an issue with the food (when I was getting the meals, they were in the middle of an expansion, and sometimes they didn't plan everything well enough and ended up sending me five of the exact same meal or something), just email them, and they'll email back pretty quickly and usually offer a free week of food.

Congrats, Juliana!

Also, much med~ma to Nora's family.

Didn't need to be said twice.

We seem to have skipped Spring entirely. It's in the 90s for the 2nd day this week, and the pregnant lady is not pleased.