Remember water? How you used to drink it? So tedious right? You have to gulp so many times and sometimes it dribbles down to your chin ruining your shirt. Don't you wish you could just snort water? I mean now you can! One line of water is equivalent to drinking 3 cups of water. Why waste time drinking water like an idiot when you can snort it and get the same amount? I mean it's a no brainer honestly if you think about it. Obviously, this level of ingenuity comes at a price. What? Of course it's more expensive than water you can get anywhere, because you can snort it.
How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month
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Re: How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month
#182The 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…
it depends on where you live, over here a medium sized bunch of organic kale is $2.99 at whole foods by itself, and $0.20 won't get you that many oats, let alone honey or cinnamon. The advantage of things like Soylent is that the price is the same no matter where you live, whether you are in a small town with great produce where it's cheap or whether you live in an expensive downtown with limited access.
20 cents wont get you a serving of oats? Oats are like 80 cents a pound, dry! A quarter pound of dry oats is plenty of food for breakfast...
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#183Man, how about a startup that just teaches people how to cook. How about an app that teaches you to cook with and while on a date?
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Surely not every meal you eat is such a delight. An awful lot of food is just calorie stuffing to maintain energy. It is? Not really for me and people I know. You can still make calorie stuffing enjoyable. Even if I'm alone I can whip up a 10 minute meal that tastes damn nice compared to what Soylent is supposed to taste like. E.g. heat a wok with a bit of oil, dump in a package of pre sliced wok vegetables and a h…
Wait, you only soak the noodles, don't cook them? Isn't that... crunchy? (Sorry for derailing the soylent debate, but having a recipe is more interesting to me than debating nutrient transport vehicles :)
Dry noodles just require hydration and cooking. Soaking and then stir frying takes care of each respectively.
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#185For discussion: instead of EBT/food-stamps, how about a Soylent subscription? Everything a body needs, relatively inexpensive, no allegations of abuse (lobster, cigarettes, junk food).
Maximum food stamp benefit is $189/month. Soylent subscription is $255/4 weeks.
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#186i'd rather eat insects grown in a lab.
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#187i'd rather eat insects grown in a lab.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
it depends on where you live, over here a medium sized bunch of organic kale is $2.99 at whole foods by itself, and $0.20 won't get you that many oats, let alone honey or cinnamon. The advantage of things like Soylent is that the price is the same no matter where you live, whether you are in a small town with great produce where it's cheap or whether you live in an expensive downtown with limited access.
I don't know how anyone can afford to shop at Whole Foods! If you want fresh veggies and fruit for cheap, go find an Asian supermarket. If you walk in and realize you're the only non-Asian, then you're in the right place. I can easily buy enough fruits and vegetables to last a week for $15. We're talking multiple serving of both for lunch and dinner for 7 days.
Or at farmers markets! Can't upvote this enough. I go to the indian and asian markets and only buy certain things at costco where the quality is slightly better (fruits) or I get more quantity for the $.
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#189Isn't it unhealthy to drink your food, sugar, and nutrients?
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well then what is the point? If you're eating one or two balanced real meals a day, eating something ready-made for the calories is very easy and cheap. There's no need for anything like soylent. Have a coke and a pickled egg for lunch everyday.
I think the point is that Soylent also accounts for all the various nutrients you would want in a balanced diet, and does so conveniently and affordably. I would have to consult my doctor, but my guess is that a Coke and pickled egg would meet those requirements.
Actually eggs contain a lot of the things you need. They are mainly missing carbs (his coke) and fibre. His meal suggestion does not appeal to me. However, as part of an otherwise balanced diet it could be perfectly healthy.