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I live in Spain. We have good food at cheap prices and restaurants everywhere. I see absolutely no reason to try overly processed crap like that.
Where are you based? I'm moving to Madrid with my fam soon and looking to making some friends in the "community".
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Joylent/JimmyJoy shakes cost 1.83€ per shake. They provide 45g of protein per shake, 33% of daily vitamins and minerals, and 700kcal. They take about 2 minutes to make, and another 2-3 to consume. I challenge you to find the same benefits any other way.
I prefer spending 50min eating a 10 euro menu and relaxing out of office. Or eating the meal I have prepared in my house. Perhaps Soylent/Joylent/etc is good when you're in a hurry but I wouldn't like to base my general diet on them
It is a mystery why people in tech thought that "meal replacement liquid" was a fundamentally new product. It's not http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/weight-management/meal... https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/browse/default.aspx?... Perhaps, a victory of marketing over experience and existing knowledge of nutrition?
Earlier meal replacement products were either marketed for weight-loss purposes or medical purposes, mostly as supplements for people who, for various reasons, can't consume their full daily recommended intake of calories and nutrients. They were typically to be found in pharmacies and health-food stores.
Not sure what your purpose is in rallying against this, anyway. Soylent has been around for a while now. It's no longer a new product.
Over half of it is filled with her millenial look-at-my-silly-millenial-face selfies or "hilarious" tumblr gifs.
Another quarter-"review" is dedicated to (almost literally) going LIKE OH MY GOSH THERE'S SO MUCH LEFT! I HAVE TO DRINK ALL OF IT LOOK AT ME LIKE OHMAGAWD I'M SO BRAVE FOR DOING THIS! EVERYONE!! LOOK AT ME!!!! also here's a shot of my incredibly-effeminate husband xDD btw I only drank 2 bottles in 4 days even though I bought 12 :( but I bet you want to know about my "Emotional state" now because consuming a food product is an incredible endeavor!!!!
By her own self-reporting, she clearly has no clue about living healthy since she reports going on meme diets and workout routines. So what exactly is it that makes her qualified to "review" this product?
We have a line of products here in Netherlands from a company now called JimmyJoy (formerly Joylent... and the name change was probably inevitable). I've consumed dozens of their shakes, with banana being my favorite. 700kcal, 45g protein, and about 33% of the usual daily recommended vitamins and minerals. Oh, and vegan. I can highly recommend them.
My understanding of Dutch culinary customs is that they eat mostly food that is "kant en klaar", either precooked or neatly organized to be quickly prepared (fixed portions). Even meat tends to come with a bag of spices and a manual. Edit: I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just seemed to me like this reduces time spent in the kitchen quite well (part of the idea behind Soylent/Joylent and w/e). The Dutch don't cook mo…
This is humor and viewpoint. HN wants, or at least pretends to want, analysis and figures. Maybe if they stripped all the CSS from the site and made the blog look like it was made by a dysfunctional highschooler in the 90's it would get a bit more respect.
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Joylent/JimmyJoy shakes cost 1.83€ per shake. They provide 45g of protein per shake, 33% of daily vitamins and minerals, and 700kcal. They take about 2 minutes to make, and another 2-3 to consume. I challenge you to find the same benefits any other way.
Not OP. My meals in Spain cost 1€ on average and it takes me around 5 minutes on average to prepare. Example: Premade spanish tortilla with olive oil, for 1.75€ in Mercadona, 798 kcal[0]. Just heat in the microwave for a minute. (spaniards say premade spanish tortilla is awful but I think the Mercadona one, while not as good as home made, is pretty good) [0] https://www.mercadona.es/detall_producte.php?id=80772
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If you rely on "menu del día" for lunch, you are probably doing a poor dietary choice. I know very few restaurants that offer a healthy lunch menu.
What do you consider unhealthy?
At least in Barcelona, now I can find equilibrated menus
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I prefer spending 50min eating a 10 euro menu and relaxing out of office. Or eating the meal I have prepared in my house. Perhaps Soylent/Joylent/etc is good when you're in a hurry but I wouldn't like to base my general diet on them
I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Joy (Joylent) is still better-balanced food than what you prepare in a house or buy in a restaurant.
Mediterranian diet has no bad problems
But to each their own
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Not OP. My meals in Spain cost 1€ on average and it takes me around 5 minutes on average to prepare. Example: Premade spanish tortilla with olive oil, for 1.75€ in Mercadona, 798 kcal[0]. Just heat in the microwave for a minute. (spaniards say premade spanish tortilla is awful but I think the Mercadona one, while not as good as home made, is pretty good) [0] https://www.mercadona.es/detall_producte.php?id=80772
I'm not keen on Soylent either, but I think you're forgetting about the micro nutrients. Macro nutrients are rather easy to get on the cheap, but micro nutrients can be somewhat of a hassle.