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Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitami

Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitamins and minerals) would be great. Preferably without ridiculous quantities of preservatives and artificial flavours.

stcredzero 18y ago
There's Clif bars. You can't live off of those full time, though. Colcannon? If this is made with turnips, kale, and lots of buttermilk, then it covers a lot of macronutrients. Then take a multivitamin.
- msg 18y ago
  Speaking of which, I was really getting into those Clif Mojo bars at one point, then we got a box of Nature Valley fruit and nut bars at Costco, so I forgot about them for a few weeks. When we ran out of the box, I went back for my Clif Mojos and found out they were recalled in the peanut salmonella thing. It looks like I missed eating potentially contaminated food by a few days. </adventures in eating>
- Erf 18y ago
  I was eating two Clif bars a day until I discovered that they caused gas. If I discovered a Clif-like bar that didn't, I'd pick the habit up again.
Oxryly 18y ago
You'd get sick of them right quick... the human digestive system craves variety too much for this to be viable. In any case there are a lot of meal replacement bars out there already. To give you 1/3 of your requirements it has to be a huge bar...
- staticshock 18y ago
  What if Bachelor Chow varied in taste and consistency from can to can?
  - Oxryly 18y ago
    Imagine a Clif bar the size of your fist. Even if you vary the taste from bar to bar (I'm not sure how you'd vary the consistency meaningfully), wouldn't you get sick of eating such large globs of undifferentiated foodstuff?
charlesju 18y ago
I would love to just drink my meals and be full.
- icey 18y ago
  Do you have a blender?
  - charlesju 18y ago
    haha fair enough, let me rephrase. "I would love to drink my meals, and still be a healthy human being."
    - chuffwaffle 18y ago
      you can do that. take whatever normal healthy food you were going to eat and put it in a blender with water or milk. then drink it.
    - khafra 18y ago
      I eat my morning cereal with Muscle Milk instead of milk. The stuff actually tastes good, unlike the ~10 other protein powders I've tried; and the nutritional information list looks like a multivitamin.
      - icey 18y ago
        Pretty much daily now I drink a shake that contains 1 cup of dry oatmeal, some yogurt, a few cups of fruit, a banana and a tablespoon of peanut butter. Oh, and skim milk and occasionally some protein powder. It's pretty good and it helps me keep my caloric intake at the right level.
ibsulon 18y ago
The healthier TV dinners come pretty close. Vitamin fortified cereal in the morning, tv dinners for lunch and dinner, and vegetables for snacks.
- deleted 18y ago
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showerst 18y ago
In the US at least one of the latest trends (advances?) are these microwavable single-serving bags of rice (and now pilaf, curry, etc). A few companies make them, and they're a large enough for a small meal, and pretty good for being a 90sec meal. If they could add a bit more substance (and significant nutrition) and variety we might be able to call this one a win in the next few years =)
dave_au 18y ago
If I remember correctly the Dilberito was designed along those lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
- electromagnetic 18y ago
  I believe I only ever had one Dilberito when on a vacation to the US, now I'm living in Canada I might be able to help turn Scott Adams into a major food mogul. Screw you 'Chef' Boyardee, hello Chef Catbert!
jaytee_clone 18y ago
This is ideally a great product, if you can solve three practical problems. 1. Nutritional needs depend on age, time, body, activities, etc. 2. The desire for tasty food often greatly out-weights the desire for nutritional food. 3. Evolutionarily, we were designed to want more than what we need.
- electromagnetic 18y ago
  Well there are some solutions to those problems, #1 is simple, they do it with dog food. You just need a junior, adult, senior and light varieties (which may help in regards to #3 by being able to eat larger portion sizes if you're hungry). #2 might be a little trickier, although if it's sold how it's shown in the show (literally as human dog food in giant bags) you could easily include a dozen flavor packets. If the food on its own was fairly flavorless, preferably with a meat-like quality to mix well with different flavor packs. #3 is probably the trickiest. The solution is probably just like any food, moderation. However, when people receive adequate nutrition this behavior does tend to decrease, but evolution is a harsh mistress and like most animals we've evolved to build up fat reserves to try and survive. Honestly #1 and #2 can easily be solved by standard market practices in both dog food and human pre-made meals. #3 is the stickler and aside from moderation I don't know what could help, except maybe a big sticker saying 'THREE MEALS IS ALL YOU NEED' might subconsciously stop a few of the gullible people who respond easily to suggestion (read: the people who keep telemarketers rich).

stcredzero 18y ago

There's Clif bars. You can't live off of those full time, though. Colcannon? If this is made with turnips, kale, and lots of buttermilk, then it covers a lot of macronutrients. Then take a multivitamin.

msg 18y ago
Speaking of which, I was really getting into those Clif Mojo bars at one point, then we got a box of Nature Valley fruit and nut bars at Costco, so I forgot about them for a few weeks. When we ran out of the box, I went back for my Clif Mojos and found out they were recalled in the peanut salmonella thing. It looks like I missed eating potentially contaminated food by a few days. </adventures in eating>
Erf 18y ago
I was eating two Clif bars a day until I discovered that they caused gas. If I discovered a Clif-like bar that didn't, I'd pick the habit up again.

Oxryly 18y ago

You'd get sick of them right quick... the human digestive system craves variety too much for this to be viable. In any case there are a lot of meal replacement bars out there already. To give you 1/3 of your requirements it has to be a huge bar...

staticshock 18y ago
What if Bachelor Chow varied in taste and consistency from can to can?
- Oxryly 18y ago
  Imagine a Clif bar the size of your fist. Even if you vary the taste from bar to bar (I'm not sure how you'd vary the consistency meaningfully), wouldn't you get sick of eating such large globs of undifferentiated foodstuff?

charlesju 18y ago

I would love to just drink my meals and be full.

icey 18y ago
Do you have a blender?
- charlesju 18y ago
  haha fair enough, let me rephrase. "I would love to drink my meals, and still be a healthy human being."
  - chuffwaffle 18y ago
    you can do that. take whatever normal healthy food you were going to eat and put it in a blender with water or milk. then drink it.
  - khafra 18y ago
    I eat my morning cereal with Muscle Milk instead of milk. The stuff actually tastes good, unlike the ~10 other protein powders I've tried; and the nutritional information list looks like a multivitamin.
    - icey 18y ago
      Pretty much daily now I drink a shake that contains 1 cup of dry oatmeal, some yogurt, a few cups of fruit, a banana and a tablespoon of peanut butter. Oh, and skim milk and occasionally some protein powder. It's pretty good and it helps me keep my caloric intake at the right level.

ibsulon 18y ago

The healthier TV dinners come pretty close. Vitamin fortified cereal in the morning, tv dinners for lunch and dinner, and vegetables for snacks.

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showerst 18y ago

In the US at least one of the latest trends (advances?) are these microwavable single-serving bags of rice (and now pilaf, curry, etc). A few companies make them, and they're a large enough for a small meal, and pretty good for being a 90sec meal. If they could add a bit more substance (and significant nutrition) and variety we might be able to call this one a win in the next few years =)

dave_au 18y ago

If I remember correctly the Dilberito was designed along those lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito

electromagnetic 18y ago
I believe I only ever had one Dilberito when on a vacation to the US, now I'm living in Canada I might be able to help turn Scott Adams into a major food mogul. Screw you 'Chef' Boyardee, hello Chef Catbert!

jaytee_clone 18y ago

This is ideally a great product, if you can solve three practical problems. 1. Nutritional needs depend on age, time, body, activities, etc. 2. The desire for tasty food often greatly out-weights the desire for nutritional food. 3. Evolutionarily, we were designed to want more than what we need.

electromagnetic 18y ago
Well there are some solutions to those problems, #1 is simple, they do it with dog food. You just need a junior, adult, senior and light varieties (which may help in regards to #3 by being able to eat larger portion sizes if you're hungry). #2 might be a little trickier, although if it's sold how it's shown in the show (literally as human dog food in giant bags) you could easily include a dozen flavor packets. If the food on its own was fairly flavorless, preferably with a meat-like quality to mix well with different flavor packs. #3 is probably the trickiest. The solution is probably just like any food, moderation. However, when people receive adequate nutrition this behavior does tend to decrease, but evolution is a harsh mistress and like most animals we've evolved to build up fat reserves to try and survive. Honestly #1 and #2 can easily be solved by standard market practices in both dog food and human pre-made meals. #3 is the stickler and aside from moderation I don't know what could help, except maybe a big sticker saying 'THREE MEALS IS ALL YOU NEED' might subconsciously stop a few of the gullible people who respond easily to suggestion (read: the people who keep telemarketers rich).