Anyway, I've found a delicious way to take fish oil. Barlean's Omega Swirl comes in a bunch of flavors, but I have the lemon twist and you can literally take a teaspoon right out of the bottle and eat it without tasting even a hint of fish. I sound like an advertisement, but I was really surprised by this find, and now I drink a smoothie every day with it.
I use ice, a handful of spinach, a couple of teaspoons of the lemon twist, chia seeds, almond milk, and a scoop of protein powder. (I use Jay Robb Whey Protein. It's made with stevia so no sugars.) With the vanilla protein powder it tastes like a lemon cream pie!
This small size is my snack size. Sometimes I have it for breakfast and then I make about twice as much. (I still use the same amount of fish oil, though.) Yesterday I made the big smoothie for lunch, but I accidentally used half and half instead of almond milk. Yikes! That was a 700 calorie smoothie! It was super tasty, though. I didn't even realize what I'd done until I had finished it. I won't make that mistake again.
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I think I have had a sample of that kind of fish oil--I know it comes in a variety of flavors. I'm glad you are finding it palatable. I think I remember it being pretty good. There's another brand of liquid fish oil that I like, also in a very mild flavor. It's called Nutrasea. The flavor I liked to get was green apple. I may start getting the liquid fish oil again because it's more concentrated and, sometimes, more cost effective. I had a tremendous struggle for quite a long time, with my daughter, when I would try to get her to take fish oil. She couldn't swallow capsules yet so I had to force her to take it. I tried every flavor I could find and she still screamed and cried every time I gave her the supplements. Later, she was able to swallow pills and that helped a ton. I mixed them all together with cocoa powder and almond milk and stevia, to mask any weird taste, which helped a lot. Now she doesn't fight me anymore, thank goodness. Anyway. What an ordeal. They have helped so much to keep her healthy, though.
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I started taking it to help with my eczema, which, now that I think about it, is doing really well lately, then I read about it being helpful for depression and weight loss and so many other things, that I decided it would be really good to get more regular about taking it. I'm just glad I've found a way that doesn't gag me. lol Now I need to find a B complex that doesn't make me want to throw up. I've read there are some pleasant tasting supplements out there. B complex makes a huge difference for me. So much so, that when I was taking them regularly I would really notice a difference in my mood if I skipped a couple of days. My husband noticed too. ;-)
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