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While the early versions had a sort of wet-cardboard taste, the 2.0 (powder) and the bottles taste pleasant to me. You have to compare it to what you'd eat oth
by tlb 10y ago
While the early versions had a sort of wet-cardboard taste, the 2.0 (powder) and the bottles taste pleasant to me.
You have to compare it to what you'd eat otherwise. It may be possible to eat better, but the default for most people is to eat much worse.
- M_Grey 10y agoSurely people who can afford Soylent can afford to buy decent ingredients, a rice cooker, and a crockpot right?
- whorleater 10y agoI mean a bottle of Soylent 2.0 is a lot less work to me when compared to making breakfast, and it tastes like Cheerios milk anyways.
- M_Grey 10y agoCereal is expensive, and not a great thing to eat most of the time. Make your own breakfast bars, cookies, or muffins. They'll taste better because you can tailor them precisely to your tastes.
- maxerickson 10y agoCereal is 1/5 or 1/10 the price of the Soylent 2.0 the GP mentions. Name brand cereal.
- CuriouslyC 10y agoGet a decent blender, and you can turn frozen fruit and yogurt into delicious sherbet. Quick, healthy and _much_ tastier than soylent.
- M_Grey 10y agoAlmost certainly much better for you too.
- thatswrong0 10y agoHow so? Most yogurt has a ton of sugar in it.
- CuriouslyC 10y agoI didn't specify regular, plain yogurt rather than the junk food version because I assumed people were smart enough to know that junk food yogurt is junk, and there is plenty of sweetness from the frozen fruit. I would make a terrible contract lawyer.
- M_Grey 10y agoThe yogurt I eat has... yogurt in it. No added sugar, no added anything. Yogurt is also really easy to make yourself.
- thatswrong0 10y agoMost yogurt (even plain Greek) I see in stores has a lot of sugar in it. And the whole point here is that we don't want to make things ourselves.
- pmlamotte 10y agoI'm one of the few people that bounces between 70-95% soylent each month. I do the powder which is the cheapest option and it comes out to around $230/mo if it was my only source. The average per person spending in the US is somewhere close to $300 per person if I recall correctly. Taking that into account with the time savings, and it's really quite cheap as a pure fuel source.
- M_Grey 10y ago$220 on groceries (not eating out or takeout) for one person is enough to buy good stuff. You could make your own protein/fiber bars, yogurt smoothies, slow cooked foods. A freezer and a slow cooker will free you.
- pmlamotte 10y agoI guess I was taking the "people who can afford " part of your comment as "it's for well off people" when it's actually a reduction in spending for many Americans. It matches up with the "Low cost plan" from the USDA for 2014: https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/usda_food_plans_cost_of_food/CostofFoodJul2014.pdf https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/usda_food_plan...
- M_Grey 10y agoI can see how'd you'd draw that conclusion from what I wrote, sorry for the confusion. I just mean that your money can be better, um... eaten, not that it's some kind of expensive luxury.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoThis depends greatly on where you live. I grew up in a middle class town in CT but now live in NYC. The price differential for groceries is huge. And compounded by the fact that you don't have a car, so you're limited in the stores you can reasonably go to and bring groceries home from.
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