This is not meant to be a counter, I’m curious: have you? Cause I haven’t, and I’ve always wondered who the target audience for that stuff is. Everybody I know thinks it’s stupid, and I’ll at most use drinkable food for health reasons (as in, if they have really sore teeth and can’t chew or sth like that, or can’t keep solids down) or if they’ve misplanned and can’t have real food (like between two appointments).
I used to make my own soylent because it was dirt cheap and I couldn’t be bothered to spend all that time in the kitchen every day. I still cooked once a week, did meal prep and whatnot, but breakfast would be a carrot, lunch would be a nap and dinner would be a cold oaty soylent most weeknights. I just enjoyed not cooking and cleaning more than I enjoyed food. And because it was diy, I could make the soylent powder the way I liked it.
that’s where i’m at, too, but i’ve known a few people who view their body’s need for nutrition as an impediment to their ability to be productive. they’re very sad people…
I mean, I sometimes view nutrition as an impediment to my bed rotting, but that’s because I have depression
Also, I would kinda like to be able to skip lunch, because meal prepping is tough when you work til 0930 and takeout add up, cost wise
I don’t often feel hungry or have a drive to eat, until I am literally dizzy from low blood sugar. I have found in my life that the need to prepare food can often be a stumbling block to me actually eating. For a while my go-tos were instant oatmeal or cup of noodles. I also have no problem eating the same thing repetitively (see my hummus and cheese sandwich lunch for over a year).
Soylent was bland, but pretty much instantaneous. I could notice that it was after a certain point in time, have a soylent shake ready to go in less than a minute and sip on that while doing other things.
I’m not still doing it because now I have a partner who will (sometimes) ensure that food ready to eat is shoved in front of me in a semi regular basis. (Additionally sometimes it is easier to think “I need to prep food for partner” and then there’s dinner for me too, than trying to make the time to make dinner for myself).
Did you ever find anything that tasted like food and wasn’t just sugar or protein powder for weight gain? I never did and dirty bulking makes me feel gross but adding the things to protein supplements to make them more foodlike increases volume so much and then I’d just end up with worse versions of regular food.
Hm, if we’re talking protein shake, I like to buy unflavoured pea or soy protein powder then mix with soy or oat milk and blend in fruit, nut butters, frozen berries.
This is not meant to be a counter, I’m curious: have you? Cause I haven’t, and I’ve always wondered who the target audience for that stuff is. Everybody I know thinks it’s stupid, and I’ll at most use drinkable food for health reasons (as in, if they have really sore teeth and can’t chew or sth like that, or can’t keep solids down) or if they’ve misplanned and can’t have real food (like between two appointments).
I used to make my own soylent because it was dirt cheap and I couldn’t be bothered to spend all that time in the kitchen every day. I still cooked once a week, did meal prep and whatnot, but breakfast would be a carrot, lunch would be a nap and dinner would be a cold oaty soylent most weeknights. I just enjoyed not cooking and cleaning more than I enjoyed food. And because it was diy, I could make the soylent powder the way I liked it.
that’s where i’m at, too, but i’ve known a few people who view their body’s need for nutrition as an impediment to their ability to be productive. they’re very sad people…
I mean, I sometimes view nutrition as an impediment to my bed rotting, but that’s because I have depression Also, I would kinda like to be able to skip lunch, because meal prepping is tough when you work til 0930 and takeout add up, cost wise
I don’t often feel hungry or have a drive to eat, until I am literally dizzy from low blood sugar. I have found in my life that the need to prepare food can often be a stumbling block to me actually eating. For a while my go-tos were instant oatmeal or cup of noodles. I also have no problem eating the same thing repetitively (see my hummus and cheese sandwich lunch for over a year).
Soylent was bland, but pretty much instantaneous. I could notice that it was after a certain point in time, have a soylent shake ready to go in less than a minute and sip on that while doing other things.
I’m not still doing it because now I have a partner who will (sometimes) ensure that food ready to eat is shoved in front of me in a semi regular basis. (Additionally sometimes it is easier to think “I need to prep food for partner” and then there’s dinner for me too, than trying to make the time to make dinner for myself).
I tried it back when I was trying to gain weight. The powdered Soylent was absolutely awful.
Did you ever find anything that tasted like food and wasn’t just sugar or protein powder for weight gain? I never did and dirty bulking makes me feel gross but adding the things to protein supplements to make them more foodlike increases volume so much and then I’d just end up with worse versions of regular food.
Hm, if we’re talking protein shake, I like to buy unflavoured pea or soy protein powder then mix with soy or oat milk and blend in fruit, nut butters, frozen berries.
Same here but add raw oats in as well
Not really. I ended up following the P90X diet which basically meant I was eating 5 full meals a day.