For those of you stupid or insane enough (count me among you) Soylent is now available in reasonable and relatively affordable quantities from Amazon.
Both in bottle and powder form. For those unfamiliar, Soylent is liquid food intended to be able to replace all meals, though you don't have to.
Not an advertisement. Soylent doesn't really taste like anything, good or bad.
Only the green one.
Do I have to eat this with right hand for a balanced diet?
Shipping from the US. I was hoping there would be local stock. I'm curious how it compares to Aussielent. Their drinks are decent with chocolate being good.
Yeah, "soylent" is an extremely simple concept and there are plenty of sufficient clones that have been accessible to Aussies for years. There's nothing special about the original these days.
Not sure what the market's like these days, but when I trialed it in 2018, Aussielent was perfectly serviceable taste-wise, from my research quality/formulation was great, and I found the price fair. Unfortunately I discovered that I value variety in taste and texture too much to keep it up, but I'd definitely recommend just going with Aussielent or another local business if the Soylent concept piques your interest.
I was more curious about the taste. Aussielent vanilla was like off soy milk
Oh I was just branching off from your comment to share my thoughts on Aussielent, since you mentioned them. As far these meal replacement goos go, all else being equal, I feel like the ideal tastewise is tolerable and inoffensive; they'll never be delicious. As such, I didn't want to ruin the flavour of chocolate for myself. But I guess it's still good to have a variety even if it means shopping around.
Vanilla was my favourite, funnily enough. It seemed fairly unnotable to me personally. I went through a bit of the "natural" too, but that was a little too much like what I imagine we'll receive daily rations of out of a pipe in the ceiling in the underground resistance bunkers after Biden turns on the 5G signal that activates the zombie code they hid in the COVID vaccine, so I switched back.
Soylent pricing is criminal, but unfortunately I prefer it to Aussielent and Primalkind.
I think I'll get another Aussielent sampler and try it because screw paying those prices.
Soylent doesn't really taste like anything, good or bad.
Then what is the point?
If you aren't a foodie then ensuring you're always eating a nutritionally complete diet is frequently unintuitive and tedious, and often results in eating far too much expensive and unhealthy convenience food. If you aren't really fussed about taste, it's extremely convenient to have the option to just rapidly guzzle down a bottle of inoffensive beige sludge and get on with whatever you were doing.
It's not for me, but I get it.
That's pretty much it. I'm unfortunately a workaholic sometimes and having easy food is sometimes the difference between eating and not eating.
Y'know, I read the book that "Soylent" originated in, a pulp novella titled "Make Room, Make Room", anticipating that it was building to that iconic twist the whole time. And then… it just ended.
Turns out they made it up completely for the 70s movie adaptation. The original story has nothing to do with cannibalism, soylent is literally just soy and lentils and not even an important part of the plot. Who knew?
The book is just about inequality and assisted suicide?
Unless it tastes exactly like chocolate milk, and not like all the reviewers said it actually tastes, then you're better off just making nutraloaf.
Personally I just mix flour with vegetable oil and crush a multivitamin into it.
@AustriaBargain
Do you have any good recipes for nutraloaf?
Method
Do they have Soylent Green ?
I've been using ALDI's Slim & Trim for awhile now at $1.99 a serving. Doesn't seem like Soylent wins out on price or calories, but maybe more so on nutrients and sugar. Kinda depends on what your goals are I guess, for weight loss it doesn't seem like the right pick.
I liked soylent simply because it tastes okay, is convenient and because all the other options in Australia were terrible. Oh my god what a response to the thread. I'll read and respond individually soon.
Soylent Green is people!
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Better to get Super Body Fuel - shipping is subsidised big time.
The only one I can find is about $210 including delivery for a week. What do they make it from, people?