Adding Milled / Ground Chia Seeds to Queal Steady

[trtr]

Been adding Psyllium husk to my meals for a while for added fibre.
Bought some ground / milled Chia seeds a while back to try as an alternative, but never got around to it.
Just seen a post on redit about Chia that's reminded me, so thought I'd ask here what people think about adding Chia to Queal Steady?

[Miranda]

I add chia seeds to my Queal every day. My chia seeds aren't ground/milled though, they're the whole ones. I like thick shakes so it's great for me. I eat my Queal with a spoon. I mean, it's not crazy thick but adding chia seeds definitely makes it thicker and chunkier, which I like. I know from snooping on the soylents/lents/complete foods subreddit and from other forums of other brands that there are a lot of people who dislike thick shakes and want smooth, watery ones, but for me that's the complete opposite of what I like, heh.

I usually add in 10-20% chia seeds per amount of Queal (for example, when I do small Queal meals of 50g, I use 5-10g of chia seeds depending on how I feel). Though I am careful not to exceed 20 grams of chia seeds per day as a number of sites recommend that to be the daily limit.

Since I'm short and my TDEE calorie budget per day (for losing weight) is not very high, I don't do a "full" Steady but rather about 100 grams of it in total, divided into two glasses of 50grams because I found that I liked that better than a bigger shake. Plus I get to have 2 different flavors every day if I want.

[Miranda]

Oh yeah. I forgot to say that I hydrate the chia seeds separately from my Queal. I don't put them in immediately into the Queal but in a different small container and then add the seeds into the Queal when I've let the seeds expand for at least 15 minutes. Since I'm adding extra water, I use a bit less in the Queal shake so it doesn't become too watery after adding the chia seeds.

I've also begun to experiment with using soy milk, almond milk, rice milk, cashew milk, etc. in place of water when doing up my shake. Using the plant milks instead of water definitely makes for a thicker shake too.

[trtr]

Thanks vmfor that info.

Ive just tried one for lunch. Used 350ml water / 4 scoops Queal - roughly 140-150g iirc / 2 teaspoons of milled Chia.

Put Chia in first, then powder, good shake up and drank within a couple of mins.

Didn't notice any taste difference, could feel the Chia 'grounds' but surrounded by the start of gel process.

May experiment with Chia in water for more time and see how that goes, but tbh Queal is about timesaving as well as health and taste benefits, so I'm not sure I'd leave it too long.

Then again as its milled, it wont take as long to absorb water as full seeds.

Alternatively it can absorb in my stomach

Also be interested if the Queal team have any thoughts / concerns - about Chia/Queal interactions.