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[Tack]

So does 1.5 still cost the same as the previous iterations?


Actually... This kind of ruins the point but... can it go into pancakes?

[Angle]

It did when I ordered mine.

[forsaken1111]

Actually... This kind of ruins the point but... can it go into pancakes?

I don't see why not. I've seen people bake it into cookies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAvOoqC7Fbc

[Bauglir]

So does 1.5 still cost the same as the previous iterations?

I dunno, but it's pretty expensive. Just under $10/day, and that's with the subscription discount. I'm happy to pay it right now, because I can, but it's steep.

[Spehss _]

So does 1.5 still cost the same as the previous iterations?

I dunno, but it's pretty expensive. Just under $10/day, and that's with the subscription discount. I'm happy to pay it right now, because I can, but it's steep.

That's assuming you go through one full pouch a day. And even then, it'd be ~3 meals a day, or ~$3 a meal.

I mean, that's about what I came up with when I tried crunching numbers last time this was brought up. Assuming the prices haven't changed, it should be about the same.

Has anyone tried living purely on Soylent for a few days? I tried one day of just drinking it but I found that if I didn't constantly have a cup nearby, I'd get feeling hungry, like "my stomach is utterly empty" hungry. Couldn't just go with a cup for breakfast, wait for a cup for lunch, etc.

[Descan]

Just to be clear, you were trying to eat a days worth of calories of the stuff, right? A whole pouch, if I understand correctly. Because "one cup three times a day" doesn't sound like it'd be enough.

[Bauglir]

Yeah, that amount is for 1 pouch/day. Many people can get by on less, I hear, some prefer more. Since I'm more used to $4-$5 per day, it's a bit of a jump, even though I'm still cooking a big meal each day to dilute the costs.

[SalmonGod]

Yeah, that amount is for 1 pouch/day. Many people can get by on less, I hear, some prefer more. Since I'm more used to $4-$5 per day, it's a bit of a jump, even though I'm still cooking a big meal each day to dilute the costs.

What are you eating that's so cheap?  It would take $4-5 per day to feed me on nothing but lowest quality ramen noodles.

And yeah, I typically get 4 meals out of each pouch.

[Helgoland]

Could be local price differences: Urban vs rural, Europe vs US, that sort of stuff.

[forsaken1111]

At least where I live, eating on $10 a day is not easy to do in a healthy way. I mean I could buy a case of instant noodles sure but that isn't a good long term solution and doesn't contain all of your nutrition. I currently am using soylent to handle my morning consumption and sometimes lunch and then I cook a nice dinner myself. So far it's had little to no digestive/gastrointestinal consequences beyond  acertain "huh I feel hungry and full at the same time"

[Bauglir]

Yeah, that amount is for 1 pouch/day. Many people can get by on less, I hear, some prefer more. Since I'm more used to $4-$5 per day, it's a bit of a jump, even though I'm still cooking a big meal each day to dilute the costs.

What are you eating that's so cheap?  It would take $4-5 per day to feed me on nothing but lowest quality ramen noodles.

And yeah, I typically get 4 meals out of each pouch.

Vegetables in pasta or rice. Cheap stuff bought at a cheap grocery store (ALDI is good for this). Eggs or cheese for protein. Onion, carrot, celery are cheap fresh, and broccoli and spinach are cheap frozen. Maybe some mushrooms and/or peppers. They're all good in ramen, too, actually.

Prices may be lower here (we're both in the Midwest but I'm in a smallish university town, so maybe that's it?). I also only have to feed one.

[frostshotgg]

Between just feeding one person, buying in bulk, and actually cooking yourself, it's not impossible to get the cost per meal down to $1 per. This comes with the caveats of eating the same thing for a week, probably missing a handful of nutrients that come with a balanced diet, and a lot of time lost to actually cooking/prepping.

Stuff like soup, stew, and rice where most of the volume is water and it's just a matter of tossing spices, vegetables, and a ham hock or whatever into a broth and you've got a week of meals is entirely viable. It's not something you're going to enjoy for months on end, to be sure.

[Moghjubar]

At least where I live, eating on $10 a day is not easy to do in a healthy way. I mean I could buy a case of instant noodles sure but that isn't a good long term solution and doesn't contain all of your nutrition. I currently am using soylent to handle my morning consumption and sometimes lunch and then I cook a nice dinner myself. So far it's had little to no digestive/gastrointestinal consequences beyond  acertain "huh I feel hungry and full at the same time"

Go to grocery store and write down all the produce prices (also meat/eggs/etc).  Include any dry goods as well like beans, flour, anything you would use.  If you know of regular deals of those, make sure to note it.

I'm sure if you do this and share the list here we can help you step thru nutrition and costs, but I hope you like soup cause thats probably whats gonna be suggested   (I can make a good cabbage/veg/beef soup at about $1.00 a bowl or less)

As for Soylent itself, I'm doing a home-mix keto version now... or at least prepping too.  I tried someones premade keto-chow and liked it, and it didn't make me violently ill/messed up like regular soylent did, so soon as I clean out my fridge I'll get on that and see how it does over a month or so.  Daily cost is ~$4.50ish.  https://diy.soylent.com/recipes/keto-chow-103-master

[SalmonGod]

Here's a bit on the legal stuff going on with Soylent right now from both perspectives.