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I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Joy (Joylent) is still better-balanced food than what you prepare in a house or buy in a restaurant.
by zelo 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Joy (Joylent) is still better-balanced food than what you prepare in a house or buy in a restaurant.
- Oletros 9y agoFine, I prefer something not perfectly balanced and enjoying it than some prefectly balanced with micronutrients measured to the microgram and being just a shake. Mediterranian diet has no bad problems But to each their own
- jazzyk 9y agoA lunch meal at a restaurant with friends/coworkers is just so much more civilized - and satisfying - than eating some melee out of a plastic container. And the Mediterranean countries are just masters in this area (thank you Spain/France/Italy!)
- blunte 9y agoI don't think anyone suggested that it's an either-or proposition. When you need something fast, or you need something fast AND you want a good amount of protein, these shakes are great. I'd certainly rather have a nice several course meal with friends; but if I have little time, these shakes are a great solution.
- Oletros 9y agoThis was my comment > Perhaps Soylent/Joylent/etc is good when you're in a hurry but I wouldn't like to base my general diet on them it was followed by this > I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Joy (Joylent) is still better-balanced food than what you prepare in a house or buy in a restaurant.
- shubb 9y agoI'm pretty sure joylent lost me a job once. I was there consulting but they were making good noises about an extension. Then I tried a week on joylent. I emitted smells I have only previously come across in a hospital. The putrid reak of a gut in very great distress. It goes away in a few days, said the internet. So I kept faith and held on for a week, then a second. One morning I came in to find my desk had been moved to the break area. 'we noticed that your are ill so we thought it was better all round if you weren't here with the team' I dropped joylent after that, and my bowels went back to normal. But the damage was done (indeed I had to bin some of my trousers as the damage seemed embedded in them). So I say, joylent, okay, but only if you work from home and don't cohabit.
- blunte 9y agoToo bad about the problems you had with your colon. But guts are complex systems, and it sounds like yours was not prepared for the stuff in those shakes. Fortunately I've not experienced what you experienced... and I'm on my 40th bag or so (3 shakes per bag).