I’ve been using RTD for one meal a day most days, and also adding Huel powder to my morning porridge. Recently I started making kefir - mainly because my son had left me his kefir grains to take care of while he was away - they’re like a pet hamster, you have to tend them.
I like it on its own, but it’s even better made into a smoothie, with the usual additions of fruit, spinach etc. It’s done wonders for my gut microbiome. I was wondering how to make it sufficiently nutritious to replace RTD sometimes, as it’s quite hefty for a snack. Then I had the brilliant idea (I bet you’re ahead of me here) of adding in a scoop of Huel powder. It was yummy - I can leave out the banana as it thickens it quite a lot. I’ve only used the Black U/U because that’s what I have, I can’t really experiment with flavours, as I don’t get through it fast enough.
I’ve looked and there aren’t many recent posts about kefir, so I just thought I’d post this to encourage anyone who would like to add some more natural probiotics to their diet. Making kefir is easy, and homemade is much better than supermarket ones.
My only problem so far is that my nutribullet leaks - it’s done that twice now, even though I’d screwed it up as tight as I could. I mean WTF… what’s the point of it eh? 
I guess chia seeds for texture, gut health, fibre and Healthy oils. Also possibly could have it with good brand multivitamin and possibly good brand omega 3 . Just limit chia seeds to like 2 tablespoon from what I read.
Yes!! Kefir + Huel is a combo I haven’t thought of trying before, but it’s now officially top of my list 
MY kefir did not work out, I put in the culture and oat milk but did not happen… after a few days started smelling bad instead of fermented…What is your secret?
No secret! - kefir grains work by consuming lactose and converting it to the useful stuff (can you tell I’m not an expert). So the non-dairy milks such as oat will not sustain them. You can feed your grains on regular dairy milk (any kind), and they will thrive, then once they are happy you can use non-dairy for a couple of ferments, but then you have to put them back in dairy milk to feed them again, otherwise they will just die. 
If you want to minimise your use of dairy, you can just feed them small-ish amounts of dairy milk in the fridge, in between fermenting your usual quantity with non-dairy milk.
I’ve learned most of what I know from online groups - the one called Kefir on FB is good, and also Donna Schwenk’s website, she has loads of helpful information, including a starters’ guide.
I’m not an expert on this but I think you can make vegan kefir with something called water kefir, sugar and coconut water. I also think the vegan kefir you can buy in wholefood stores (and some bigger supermarkets) are using those ingredients. I’ve never tried making it, but have drunk vegan kefir. I’ve never drunk dairy kefir though so no idea if it tastes similar, and the properties are possibly different.
Oh yes, I’d forgotten about that! I’ve not tried it, but I’ve seen that it uses a different type of grain, and comes out more like a soda drink, without the nasties and with probiotics. Good stuff I expect, but very different.
Ah right, gotcha. Not really something I’m over familiar with but interested to try all sorts of (vegan) things so have done so. I liked it but yes it was more of a soda, whereas from what you say fairy kefir is not? Is it more like a milkshake?
It’s like a drinkable yoghurt, and you can vary the level of how sweet or tart you like it, also can add flavours of course.
PS I’m going to call it fairy kefir now 
Lol. That was obviously meant to be dairy but flat thumb and small keyboard and Fairy it shall be.