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Surely people who can afford Soylent can afford to buy decent ingredients, a rice cooker, and a crockpot right?
by M_Grey 10y ago
Surely 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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