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http://soylent.me/
Anyone here try it? I ordered a small batch to see how it goes. For those that don't know, it's basically a "food replacement" shake. I only plan on substituting a lunch or dinner here and there. I'm not so sure humanity is ready to give up food just yet.
Josh said he was following it some time ago
I don't understand the difference between this stuff and, like, Slim Fast or Carnation Instant Breakfast, but I have a feeling the word for that difference is "marketing."
That it's sweetened with sucralose is a bummer, too. Splenda in every meal is not enticing.
Apparently this shit is FULL of faulty bro-science. Forget the fact that this uses a lot of really really awful unnatural chemical products (which isn't a death knell in and of itself)... the "science" behind food is way more complicated than getting daily nutrients.
TLDR: We know things are healthy. But not always why they are esp when it comes to disease prevention.
it's all about the macros brah
Cheaper food has some appeal to me because I spend more than almost anyone on earth on food, but I probably wouldn't go this route
I can agree about the marketing. I don't remember where I first heard about it, this link had me look into it more.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2013/08/20/soylent/
I get a huge kick out of the critiques of this. There is absolutely NO WAY you could ever hope to put fruits or vegetables in the blender with this stuff. IMPOSSIBEL. Nutritional yeast? NEVER. Brotein powder? NOT A CHANCE!
Also, you can ONLY drink soylent if you purchase any. There will be ZERO eating or drinking of anything else. CAPS
For me the word is "milk protein" and that's not even a word.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
Facing Josh and his problem solving skills.
It's made out of people!
People are full of nutrients.
They started it. If it's just another smoothie base, that's cool, but don't market it as a replacement for every meal that has everything your body needs right out of the pack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
You can make your own. They published the ingredients when they first went public with it. There's something like 1400 recipes now.
They didn't market it is a replacement for every meal. Bloggers did that for them. The very first video they put out made it clear that they weren't saying to replace every meal with soylent.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
Seems the opposite to me, with regular food just being for fun like cookies and alcohol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=allQuote:
He imagines that, in the future, “we’ll see a separation between our meals for utility and function, and our meals for experience and socialization.”
You're right in that they aren't advocating for the complete removal of food as we know it, but he does heavily imply that people can live entirely on soylent as a complete meal replacement (at least, once they've created enough varieties to cover different situations and needs) even though regular food would realistically never go away.Quote:
I noticed a bag of baby carrots: food! Rhinehart, who refers to food that is not Soylent as “recreational food,” explained that one of his roommates had bought them as a fun snack.
If it does work for everyone and catches on, I'm imagining reverting back to the days of skinny = poor and fat = wealthy and that amuses me.
Fuck that, I want to eat $1 cheeseburgers every day, not Food Substitute every day and $20 Recreational Food on the weekend/holidays.
Soylent makes complete sense for people in places where growing or shipping real food is costly or hard. Disaster relief for example.
But this goal—to separate healthy eating and food nutrition—I think is fundamentally misguided. One of the pleasures of food is the textures—crunch, ooze, juices, etc as well as the taste. There's a mental component to it. So to me the idea of separating the nutrition part from the enjoyment and experience might fundamentally kill a product like this for widespread adoption. I hope whole foods will always be king.
The way Josh describes it is probably more realistic. I've read a lot on these guys and watched their keynotes at YCombinator. They absolutely believe this will take over as the new norm for consumption. But that's ambition. They very much know the short term success of a product like Soylent is in dire circumstances normal food isn't able to get to.
I think they are going to sell a lot of this to crazies with bunkers.
I'm not that crazy, but yeah, solyent and canned veggies for emergencies. I'm not prepared for the apocalypse, but the weather has been known to knock out power for weeks at a time here.
Josh,
Do you personally feel any different consuming it?
They shipped me a scoop, a pitcher and (allegedly) a tshirt, but no Future Food yet.
Eat the t-shirt.
If it comes to it
probably tastes about as good
They say it tastes like cake. Do your t-shirts taste like cake?
Update: I ate nothing but Soylent yesterday. I will eat nothing but Soylent today. It tastes pretty ok, I mean, if you're used to protein powder then you'll have no issues with this stuff. There is a faint smack of coffee maybe? My farts are mind bogglingly rank, but I feel pretty good. You drink a cup of this stuff and hunger immediately vanishes. It's really weird.
But does the hunger stay away for as long as, say, if you ate a meatball hero?
Mmmm... meatball hero....
Soylent is the future! Unfortunately, the future smells.
It's the same as if I had eaten any other meal, yeah. It's pretty weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
Isn't this basically just hipster Ensure?
No, and I'm not going to do the google research for you.
No. It's Carnation Instant Breakfast for survivalists who play Another World and listen to F♯ A♯ ∞ every day.
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protip: compare nutrition.
I can't help but think of Charlton Heston: It's people!
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Let's not forget the Strogg version from Quake 4!
You know, if you people would get over your silly morals you'd see that eating people is actually pretty healthy. What has more nutrients that people need than people?
A modest proposal.
I may or may not have a license to ill.
Mine hasn't shipped yet.
I get that it's nutritionally superior to Ensure, but unless you're planning on giving up food forever this just seems like an experiment for its own sake.
I am doing a one week experiment, yes. I will probably continue it whenever v1.1 comes out. Honestly, I could (and probably will) do this for at least two meals a day. It's just so fucking easy, and a $3 nutritionally complete meal is hard to pass up.
Oh shit, I forgot about this. I had a doc that put me on ensure for a week a number of years ago. It was fucking miserable. Soylent is not miserable. Anecdotal, but whatever.
Do you have enough to do 2 weeks?
Protip: Quaid would
Nah. I just went for the one week option when this thing was on kickstarter or whatever.
Next time.
I did Ensure for a week to forget what food tastes like as a chef. I feel that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
My shits are the same colour as Soylent. What a time to be alive!
Josh! You're not dead yet! Congrats, dude.
Josh: 1) did you try the salt fix, 2) do you fart less potently, & 3) are you shitting less than normal?
I'm shitting about the same amount. The farts are way intense, but I've decided the world should suffer with me. I'll try the salt whenever I get another shipment.
Did you notice any decrease in energy or effects on your alertness for the first day of adapting? Just wondering if your body initially reacted at all to changing your diet like that.
Totally gay yet or still just partially?
I feel better than I do when I'm cooking and eating food. I'm pretty surprised. I'm not going to go full Soylent all the time, because I like food, but maybe 10 or so meals a week. Also, I guess I was carrying around 15 pounds of shit in my intestines, because that's how much weight I lost this week while still eating 2000 calories a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Why, you need a good mouth fucking?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Now I know where I'm getting my next batch of Soylent. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
So you're up to 40% then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Everyone on eBay is selling it for more than it costs to buy it direct from the company.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
:/
So My new batch of Soylent v1.1 shipped today. I'm hoping the new probiotic fortified jam keeps the Funk of Forty Thousand Years from trumpeting out of my asshole.
I'll report back once it arrives.
LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Well....it IS time for Thriller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Awesome. Get rid of the horrible fart issue and this sounds like it could be the perfect thing for work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I'll report back on my 1.1 farts. It should be here in a week or so.
1.2 came out last week.
We'll see how this update works out. My first shipment has not arrived yet.Quote:
Today, we take another step towards achieving this goal with the launch of Soylent 1.2. All shipments leaving our facilities now contain the updated formula.
Soylent 1.2 no longer uses fish oil as a source of omega 3 fatty acids. These essential nutrients are now provided by algal oil, which results in a formula produced with increased efficiency and without the use of animal products.
After further evaluation, the enzyme blend introduced in Soylent 1.1 has been removed from the 1.2 formula to increase satiety.
1.1 fixed the farts but added some queasiness and didn't really do much for hunger. I'm excited about the new oil blend.
They shipped me a free 2 weeks of 1.1, so I'll go through that and then get to 1.2
I finally contacted them about my shipment. It got lost in the shuffle somewhere and they immediately sent out my starter kit.
I have version 1.3 in the fridge now. It'll be ready for consumption in a few hours. I'm going to start off with snack sized portions today.
I will update later.
Soylent Log, 9 May 2015
Someone stole my 1.3 from the fridge and I will get the new 1.4 instead. I will update later
but seriously, what sorts of things are they doing between versions
Reducing fart potency.
The noblest science.
It is funny to talk about food through version updates.
1.3 - Potassium gluconate has been replaced with dipotassium phosphate. This change has reduced the mass of a Soylent 1.3 pouch to 432 grams.
I had my first snack sized portion.
It doesn't taste any different to me than any other powdered meal shake. In other words, tasteless. Perhaps I'll go nuts and add some banana and berries to it for my next meal.
1.3 has a vegan omega-3 source, a different colour, and a slightly different flavour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
I had it for lunch and as an early evening snack. I became fatigued for the rest of the day, more so than usual for me.
Keep trying it for lunch for a week and see how it goes. Are you adding oil?
The new formulas are not as filling as 1.1 was. I don't know why.
Yes. I'm adding the oil blend that comes with the package.
By the end of the day yesterday, I had bags under my eyes and I looked and felt like I hadn't slept for six days.
Knock on wood, all other bodily functions seem normal at this point. I do plan on going through my supply.
How many calories do you normally eat in a day?
Going by my best guess right now, somewhere in between 1,500 and 2,000.
Dunno. They do recommend easing in to it. Maybe have a tiny lunch with 8oz of soylent for a day or two and then try replacing a meal with it? Also, it might not be for you. Everyone is different, mostly.
I had soylent for lunch and dinner today and it ruled.
Yeah. I'm using it as a snack for the next few days. Even with three regular meals yesterday, the fatigue was there, mind you not as much.
I got my order of this. I got the drink because I want to sample it and don't want to mess with mixing.
I'm thinking about trying it as a breakfast replacement. I don't eat a lot, but I also want to avoid hidden sugars and the like. I think breakfast is my weak link right now.
It was really hard to find this thread btw. Search function is fucked.
What do you think? I couldn't figure out how to describe the flavour of the pre-mixed, until Pacrappa said it tastes like cereal.
It was like drinking a Triscuit. But, I liked it. Felt full afterwards. Provided my stomach doesn't explode I think I can make this work.
Got to lunch without feeling hungry or anything. That's a good sign!
Don't quit your day job to go into sales. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
If you're just having 400 calories of it a day you're not gonna bang your stomach up. It's when you replace food entirely that things get interesting for a day or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
So is this stuff made of people yet or what
I hope so.
Got a 12 a while ago, it does the job. Beats the hell out of drive-thru. The sensation of being fulfilled with one bottle is something I strongly felt as well. Thankfully I haven't had the need to indulge in it lately, but it's good to know the option exists.
Corn meal was my thought. Liquified corn bread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
So hey, if you PM me your email I can get you a case of Soylent 2.0 for 50% off, provided it's your first case. Say word.
So, I have my first serving of people juice sitting here on my desk. I just took a sip of it, shit is revolting, I need to add something to it. It's better than the protein shakes I used to drink though.
The key is to swallow while climaxing.
I appreciate your assistance, Doc.
You're a pussy. It mostly tastes like nothing.
You don't even have a tongue.
Your taste buds are suspect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
It tastes like really muted cracked wheat, nothing great but not terrible either.
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