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How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by hvs »

cblock811 wrote: post #79

The value prop that people will save money is kind of funny to me. My diet: Breakfast: Oatmeal, honey, cinnamon $0.20 Lunch: Large Salad(spinach, carrot, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, bell pepper, sometimes almonds) $2.50 Dinner: Steamed Veggies and Seared Tilapia (kale, carrot, tomato, capers, tilapia) $3.50 If people just budged properly they would be fine. That being said, I'm curious to try soylent and have purchas…

I upvoted you because I agree that it is actually pretty easy to eat healthily for pretty cheap if you are willing to manage it correctly.

I will say that you seem to have a surprising low daily caloric intake, though. I have a high metabolism, but sit in front of computer all day and I still need 2500 calories/day to maintain my weight.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by Shivetya »

cblock811 wrote: post #79

The value prop that people will save money is kind of funny to me. My diet: Breakfast: Oatmeal, honey, cinnamon $0.20 Lunch: Large Salad(spinach, carrot, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, bell pepper, sometimes almonds) $2.50 Dinner: Steamed Veggies and Seared Tilapia (kale, carrot, tomato, capers, tilapia) $3.50 If people just budged properly they would be fine. That being said, I'm curious to try soylent and have purchas…

I would purchase a days worth but I am not going to toss eighty odd bucks on something I might not like. At least mealsquares has a sample pack at twenty five that is about my threshold for trying specialized food products.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by cblock811 »

hvs wrote: post #81
cblock811 wrote: post #79

The value prop that people will save money is kind of funny to me. My diet: Breakfast: Oatmeal, honey, cinnamon $0.20 Lunch: Large Salad(spinach, carrot, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, bell pepper, sometimes almonds) $2.50 Dinner: Steamed Veggies and Seared Tilapia (kale, carrot, tomato, capers, tilapia) $3.50 If people just budged properly they would be fine. That being said, I'm curious to try soylent and have purchas…

I upvoted you because I agree that it is actually pretty easy to eat healthily for pretty cheap if you are willing to manage it correctly. I will say that you seem to have a surprising low daily caloric intake, though. I have a high metabolism, but sit in front of computer all day and I still need 2500 calories/day to maintain my weight.

Yeah my roommate has commented on this as well. I'm thinking of adding in more nuts and other calorically dense foods. I've only been doing this for a few months so it's a bit of an experiment.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by cblock811 »

Shivetya wrote: post #82
cblock811 wrote: post #79

The value prop that people will save money is kind of funny to me. My diet: Breakfast: Oatmeal, honey, cinnamon $0.20 Lunch: Large Salad(spinach, carrot, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, bell pepper, sometimes almonds) $2.50 Dinner: Steamed Veggies and Seared Tilapia (kale, carrot, tomato, capers, tilapia) $3.50 If people just budged properly they would be fine. That being said, I'm curious to try soylent and have purchas…

I would purchase a days worth but I am not going to toss eighty odd bucks on something I might not like. At least mealsquares has a sample pack at twenty five that is about my threshold for trying specialized food products.

Given that it's sort of bland, I imagine you can easily flavor it and make fun beverages. Part of why I want to get it is to experiment. My coworker drinks soylent and I bet I could make it taste fantastic after playing with it a bit.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by yellowapple »

MrUnderhill wrote: post #12

For Europeans wanting to try it, check out Joylent[1] as well, a Soylent fork based in Netherlands. They do a few different tastes too (vanilla, strawberry, banana, chocolate and soon mango). [1] https://joylent.eu

Do they ship to the U.S. by chance? Their quantities per order look much more approachable than Soylent's.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by seanflyon »

cblock811 wrote: post #79

The value prop that people will save money is kind of funny to me. My diet: Breakfast: Oatmeal, honey, cinnamon $0.20 Lunch: Large Salad(spinach, carrot, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, bell pepper, sometimes almonds) $2.50 Dinner: Steamed Veggies and Seared Tilapia (kale, carrot, tomato, capers, tilapia) $3.50 If people just budged properly they would be fine. That being said, I'm curious to try soylent and have purchas…

I've always seen the value proposition as saving time vs cooking yourself and saving money vs buying prepared food.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by yellowapple »

sanswork wrote: post #69
Raphmedia wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would be worried of buying food secondhand. Nobody can prove for sure that I'm buying Soylent powder and not ... powdered caffeine mixed with whey and anthrax

You buy food second hand every time you shop at a grocery store. A kid in the store room replacing your pancake powder with caffeine, whey and anthrax is about as likely as someone selling a box of Soylent on eBay.

On that note, pancakes made of caffeine and whey would be... interesting, to say the least.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by Animats »

apsec112 wrote: post #13

I think they mean "billion", not "trillion", two words that are sadly very close together. A typical person might consume 60,000 calories a month, so a trillion calories a month is the equivalent of 17,000,000 people consuming nothing but Soylent. Soylent's not that popular.

OK, so that's about 17,000 users, or maybe twice that many orders if the typical order is the 2-week size. That's about 1000 transactions a day, or about 2 transactions a minute.

That transaction volume could be handled on a shared server with CGI programs. Why do they need so much computer infrastructure?

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by comrh »

hvs wrote: post #81
cblock811 wrote: post #79

The value prop that people will save money is kind of funny to me. My diet: Breakfast: Oatmeal, honey, cinnamon $0.20 Lunch: Large Salad(spinach, carrot, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, bell pepper, sometimes almonds) $2.50 Dinner: Steamed Veggies and Seared Tilapia (kale, carrot, tomato, capers, tilapia) $3.50 If people just budged properly they would be fine. That being said, I'm curious to try soylent and have purchas…

I upvoted you because I agree that it is actually pretty easy to eat healthily for pretty cheap if you are willing to manage it correctly. I will say that you seem to have a surprising low daily caloric intake, though. I have a high metabolism, but sit in front of computer all day and I still need 2500 calories/day to maintain my weight.

Whey protein & milk and he would be fine I think.

Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

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Post by yellowapple »

bane wrote: post #52
vermontdevil wrote: post #2

Has anyone tried the drink? Is it good?

It tastes like liquid pancake batter. You get used to it pretty quickly. But I wouldn't call it "good".

As someone who very much enjoys the taste of pancake batter, you and I seem to have differing definitions of the word "good".
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