The new Creamy Chocolate mix (that replaced Cacao) is fucking amazing, it tastes exactly like high quality chocolate milk.
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Soylent / Meal Replacements | It's cool if you like food just don't post here
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I was on Soylent when it first came out (not the powder, the bottled version) and it gave me constant stomach aches and diarrhea.
as I mentioned, I was new to Soylent and it just so happened that they put out their new Optimized version. I was excited to try so I bought Vanilla, Banana, and Creamy Chocolate. Here's my review
Have you tried the Huel Bar? I loved the Soylent Bar before they pulled it.
I might give Huel a try but Soylent banana flavor sounds very yummy.
They seriously must be doing some dark magic to achieve that reduction, Creamy Chocolate tastes way more chocolatey than Cacao.
Oh man, your vanilla review gets me excited. It's the flavor I've been wanting to be good but could only sort of stomach of the original group. I guess I need to buy a case of all of them now.
If you're calorie counting, there's no better way to ensure you're getting exactly 2000 calories daily.
Do you or anyone else know how comparable this is satiety-wise to eating a Healthy Choice (or similar-type) meal that's around a similar number of calories? I know the nutrition would vary from HC meal to HC meal, but does it provide a similar or better sense of hunger relief?
I've been eating 400 calorie or so frozen lunches and cooking higher calorie dinners (often stuff like fish, sweet potatoes, greens, etc) as of late, but if this provides a better sense of satisfaction compared to frozen lunches, I may give it a shot.
I haven't tried any of the bars actually but I can say that huel has grown on me. They also haven't been a month and a half late like soylent
Oh man , I used to love Soylent. Was a great stopgap when I didn't have enough time to eat between lab and classes. Shame it isn't being shipped to Canada anymore.
Does anyone know any good alternatives to soylent that ship to Canada besides Runtime ? It's good but it's a tad expensive to ship
Does anyone know any good alternatives to soylent that ship to Canada besides Runtime ? It's good but it's a tad expensive to ship
I am going to give Huel a shot. Nice of them to give out a free shirt and shaker for your first purchase. Going for the powder first and if I enjoy it I am going to try the bars.
They started shipping to Canada again. They announced it like a month ago.
Nutritional content. Especially related to sugars.
One bottle of chocolate Ensure has 220 calories with 14g of added sugars. To get the same 400 calories that Soylent has, that means you'd be consuming 25g of added sugar. If you're going to go with a meal replacement type of schedule, if you had 4 bottles of ensure for 880 calories vs 2 bottles of Soylent for 800 calories, you'd be consuming roughly 50g of added sugar vs 2g of added sugar for Soylent.
The new vanilla really impressed me. Today for lunch I mixed creamy chocolate and vanilla and it was excellent.
If you want to see how optimized has changed, their variety pack has 3 flavors, 4 of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry...on their website. I hated Strawberry 2.0 but haven't tried Strawberry Optimized.
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Been on and off for a couple years and its great for meal replacements or if money is tight. ~$4 (after discounts) for a relatively nutritious meal and feeling full is damn good value. Recently bought about 50 meals worth which will last me a good 3 months or so.
Some days I can drink one and be good until dinner too if I just snack on a bit of fruit for lunch.
I get an Australian brand called Aussielent. They're local to my state so they ship ridiculously fast to me as well. Only thing I don't like is the amount of plastic it produces when buying the bottles, would love it if they offered for me to return the bottles to them for reuse.
Some days I can drink one and be good until dinner too if I just snack on a bit of fruit for lunch.
I get an Australian brand called Aussielent. They're local to my state so they ship ridiculously fast to me as well. Only thing I don't like is the amount of plastic it produces when buying the bottles, would love it if they offered for me to return the bottles to them for reuse.
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Hmmm I just got a Plenny Drink. I drank half of the little 33cl carton. Shit made me bloated and dizzy. Horrendous taste, sort of like drinking actual paint.
Is there any of these things that genuinely tastes nice? Not like the least gross but actually nice? I might just give up on this idea as I feel sick to the stomach from the damn Plenny drink.
Is there any of these things that genuinely tastes nice? Not like the least gross but actually nice? I might just give up on this idea as I feel sick to the stomach from the damn Plenny drink.
I got an 18 pack of the Atkins milk chocolate protein shakes and those actually taste really good to me. Have been using those for my breakfast and I'm usually not even that hungry when lunch rolls around anymore
I have only tried Soylent Original, Strawberry, Chocolate, Huel Vanilla, and Huel Chocolate. Soylent Chocolate was the best, tasted like chocolate milk, I love it so much I even had it for dessert some times.
This is what I do on my busiest of days.
I really liked Jimmy Joy much more than Huel. I liked the smoother texture, whereas Huel is much thicker and harder to get down. I ended up having to let the Huel in the fridge overnight, which does make it a lot more smoother. I think I will subscribe to Jimmy Joy going forward.
I just started drinking Huel yesterday and I added more liquid to make it smoother, worked out well enough. I do say though, the blender bottle they give you is terrible and I have had to rely on blending my mix in a blender because there was a ton of chunks from just using the bottle.
Got two bags of Huel Black, one chocolate and one vanilla. The chocolate tastes okay to me, basically vaguely chocolate flavored cardboard, but the vanilla is repugnant. Terrible aftertaste with every gulp. I ordered a sample of flavor boosters so I'll give those a try for improving the vanilla. I don't know if I'll finish the bag without modifying it somehow.
This stuff does a good job at making me feel full, though, and I feel like I have more energy throughout the day. I've mostly been eating garbage for the past four months
This stuff does a good job at making me feel full, though, and I feel like I have more energy throughout the day. I've mostly been eating garbage for the past four months
As a huge Huel fan previously, I have kinda gone off it and almost can't eat (drink) the stuff anymore for some reason.
However I just noticed they are now doing 'food'! https://uk.huel.com/products/huel-hot-savoury
Going to order one of each flavour, does anybody have a £10 off referral code?
However I just noticed they are now doing 'food'! https://uk.huel.com/products/huel-hot-savoury
Going to order one of each flavour, does anybody have a £10 off referral code?
So this is not available in Canada?
EDIT: it is. However, after checking their website, they only have two flavors? What's the reasoning behind not offering the same selection as in the US? Also, can anyone tell me if the Canadian chocolate flavor is the same as the new creamy chocolate flavor that's available in the US?
EDIT: it is. However, after checking their website, they only have two flavors? What's the reasoning behind not offering the same selection as in the US? Also, can anyone tell me if the Canadian chocolate flavor is the same as the new creamy chocolate flavor that's available in the US?
Each product has to go through an individual approval process so my guess is they did not want to wait to get them all approved:
Canada Q&A
Your questions and feedback have really helped us. I have pulled together some of the top questions we have gotten over the past week.
www.soylent.ca
Alright, thanks. I'll keep an eye out for the newer formulas.Each product has to go through an individual approval process so my guess is they did not want to wait to get them all approved:
Canada Q&A
Your questions and feedback have really helped us. I have pulled together some of the top questions we have gotten over the past week.
I was surprised to see individual bottles of this for sell at my local grocery. I picked up Vanilla and Strawberry to try out. I often don't have much appetite after just waking up, so this could be a good breakfast alternative for me.
So I got an ad email
I'm like what, soylent is selling vaccines or something?
Is the "COVID 19" lbs of weight gain a marketing term now.
Fucking disgusting.
I'm like what, soylent is selling vaccines or something?
Is the "COVID 19" lbs of weight gain a marketing term now.
Fucking disgusting.
Trying to lose some weight cuz of the psychological effect of my BMI labeling me as obese. lol
Have gone a few weeks with the chocolate lover's pack and the flavors are all pretty good and it helps me count calories. Mint chocolate is pretty much what you'd expect out of like a mint chocolate chip ice cream shake. Creamy chocolate reminds of the leftover milk you'd have if you just had a bowl of cocoa pebble or other chocolate cereal. The other one is just a blander mocca flavor. Ordered a case of Strawberry as well but I'm not liking that flavor as much.
Anyone try banana?
Have gone a few weeks with the chocolate lover's pack and the flavors are all pretty good and it helps me count calories. Mint chocolate is pretty much what you'd expect out of like a mint chocolate chip ice cream shake. Creamy chocolate reminds of the leftover milk you'd have if you just had a bowl of cocoa pebble or other chocolate cereal. The other one is just a blander mocca flavor. Ordered a case of Strawberry as well but I'm not liking that flavor as much.
Anyone try banana?
I tried the banana flavor recently in their sampler bundle and if you like the artificial banana flavor used in candy, you should like it.
Mint chocolate has been my fav. You could maybe pay a little more for a sampler for a first order to see which ones you like or if you even like it at all.
Hmm I like mint sometimes, but can't see myself drinking it everyday unless it's mind-blowing. Variety pack is a good suggestion, I'll try that.