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Precisely this. I remember when I first read the creator's blog post and how little it costs to make. Now I come and see it costs about the same amount it cos

Precisely this. I remember when I first read the creator's blog post and how little it costs to make. Now I come and see it costs about the same amount it costs me to purchase food for a week.

Afforess 13y ago
...compared to eating out. His comparison was eating out almost every meal. $230 is cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for a lot of people too.
- Xanza 13y ago
  I'm a college student -- I live off of ramen noodles, and whatever I can steal at my parents house. $230 per month simply isn't in my budget. I was excited because ramen isn't healthy, in fact I've gained about 30-40lbs because it's basically all I eat; and it's becoming a serious health issue.
  - Afforess 13y ago
    I understand - but why are you mad? He never misrepresented the costs, you misinterpreted them.
  - kkty 13y ago
    as someone who has been in your situation, ramen is actually really expensive, both in terms of $/cooked oz and $/nutrition. I highly recommend you switch to brown rice, wheat pasta, beans, produce, and cheap cuts of meat. Add in a slow cooker if you don't have much time. Oh, and as for this soylent product, I would run screaming away. I only read his recipe up to the carbs section, and the fact that he thinks all carbs are the same because they end up as ATP is mind-boggling. It's as if he isn't aware of the huge problem with HFCS. Any biochem undergrad can tell you about the incredible complexity of the feedback and regulatory mechanisms of the body; to focus only on the end product of a mechanism is ignorant at best.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > $230 is cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for a lot of people too. Put probably not cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for one person, unless that person has particular food tastes that Soylent isn't going to address.
  - papsosouid 13y ago
    Show me a shopping list that provides 100% RDI of all vitamins and minerals (without dangerous excesses of any of them), a reasonable balance of protein, fat and carbs, sufficient omega3s, and 2000 Kcal/day. You don't even need to worry about making actual meals out of this random assortment of ingredients, just the ingredients themselves. I do not believe you can do it for $230/month.
    - Avshalom 13y ago
      Multivitamin ~10$ 1 gross eggs ~20 30 cans refried beans ~20 ~100 small tortillas ~7 5 lbs rice ~5 3 lbs sour cream ~9 salt ~.7 pepper ~1 garlic ~2 10 lbs potatoes ~10 spend the remaining ~3/day on whatever you feel like. suggestions include: pasta and sauce at ~1 a meal. whole fat chocolate milk at about ~2 a day. a pint of olive oil a day. a case of ramen a day. a pint of ben and jerry's (there's 2000 kcal by itself). Prices sourced from an H.E.B. supermarket in Austin Tx. Oh, also, I've been living on less than 3$ of food a day for the last year, so this isn't exactly theoretical. 230 per person per month would the height of luxury for me.
      - papsosouid 13y ago
        Read the requirements again. You aren't even approaching them.

Precisely this. I remember when I first read the creator's blog post and how little it costs to make. Now I come and see it costs about the same amount it costs me to purchase food for a week.

Afforess 13y ago

...compared to eating out. His comparison was eating out almost every meal. $230 is cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for a lot of people too.

Xanza 13y ago
I'm a college student -- I live off of ramen noodles, and whatever I can steal at my parents house. $230 per month simply isn't in my budget. I was excited because ramen isn't healthy, in fact I've gained about 30-40lbs because it's basically all I eat; and it's becoming a serious health issue.
- Afforess 13y ago
  I understand - but why are you mad? He never misrepresented the costs, you misinterpreted them.
- kkty 13y ago
  as someone who has been in your situation, ramen is actually really expensive, both in terms of $/cooked oz and $/nutrition. I highly recommend you switch to brown rice, wheat pasta, beans, produce, and cheap cuts of meat. Add in a slow cooker if you don't have much time. Oh, and as for this soylent product, I would run screaming away. I only read his recipe up to the carbs section, and the fact that he thinks all carbs are the same because they end up as ATP is mind-boggling. It's as if he isn't aware of the huge problem with HFCS. Any biochem undergrad can tell you about the incredible complexity of the feedback and regulatory mechanisms of the body; to focus only on the end product of a mechanism is ignorant at best.
dragonwriter 13y ago
> $230 is cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for a lot of people too. Put probably not cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for one person, unless that person has particular food tastes that Soylent isn't going to address.
- papsosouid 13y ago
  Show me a shopping list that provides 100% RDI of all vitamins and minerals (without dangerous excesses of any of them), a reasonable balance of protein, fat and carbs, sufficient omega3s, and 2000 Kcal/day. You don't even need to worry about making actual meals out of this random assortment of ingredients, just the ingredients themselves. I do not believe you can do it for $230/month.
  - Avshalom 13y ago
    Multivitamin ~10$ 1 gross eggs ~20 30 cans refried beans ~20 ~100 small tortillas ~7 5 lbs rice ~5 3 lbs sour cream ~9 salt ~.7 pepper ~1 garlic ~2 10 lbs potatoes ~10 spend the remaining ~3/day on whatever you feel like. suggestions include: pasta and sauce at ~1 a meal. whole fat chocolate milk at about ~2 a day. a pint of olive oil a day. a case of ramen a day. a pint of ben and jerry's (there's 2000 kcal by itself). Prices sourced from an H.E.B. supermarket in Austin Tx. Oh, also, I've been living on less than 3$ of food a day for the last year, so this isn't exactly theoretical. 230 per person per month would the height of luxury for me.
    - papsosouid 13y ago
      Read the requirements again. You aren't even approaching them.