Hello, he will is my first experience with a meal replacement. I’m using it to try to gain weight. I am overjoyed so far. I mix as described, except in the place up regular ice cubes are use my frozen wheatgrass cubes. It tastes great with the vanilla powder. I had trouble drinking it when I first got it, but have found that if I drink it through a straw it goes down easy. I like the taste. I also tried a bag of unflavored, trying to avoid the artificial flavoring. I’ve used various essential oil’s and other “natural” flavorings to the unflavored powder, but cannot get it to taste as good as the vanilla. I just signed up for a subscription, two bags every four weeks of vanilla. Now I have to figure out how to get through that bag of unflavored that I have. I did try vanilla Bean already - Any suggestions? 