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[Skyrunner]

It'll taste like meat, look like meat, and if you want we can stick a speaker in it so it can moo.

I can't tell if I should be insulted or not. :/ D: O_o

[Rose]

Actually soy beans are pretty much that... They are just protein, and then some more protein, topped with protein.
I kind of live off them right now on the basis that they cost almost nothing, and aren't too bad if you cook them correctly.

You misspelled delicious.

Assuming you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein

That shit is the bomb.

[Max White]

No I mean this thing. The unprocessed bean itself... I havn't actually ever seen something like that, but it looks pretty good.

[Rose]

Yeah, never had the bean. Here you just get the soya chunks, and they are wonderful. dry, they resemble low quality dog food, but soak them in water, add spices, maybe fry a little, and they are awesome.

[Max White]

Soy beans taste like not much at all, and they are toxic if not cooked right... I've thought about frying them to see if that does anything but the risk of poisoning myself is a bit of a disincentive.

[Sigulbard]

Didn't Rhett and Link make a video about this?

[MaximumZero]

Bluh. I can't afford to drop $100+ all at one time. Looks like my soylent will have to wait.

[Skyrunner]

Bluh. I can't afford to drop $100+ all at one time. Looks like my soylent will have to wait.

Where? Whaa? O_o

[MaximumZero]

Bluh. I can't afford to drop $100+ all at one time. Looks like my soylent will have to wait.

Where? Whaa? O_o

The "poor man's" recipe from the latest link costs over $100US to make a month's worth, but you have to buy it all at once, apparently. I don't have that kind of money.

[Spitfire]

How much money do y'all spend on being fed each month?

I do 160$ and I'm living moderate. (Germany)
100$ for Soylent up front sounds expensive. If it doesn't work and you sit on your useless pile of vitamin pills, 100$ wasted is a lot. But if it does work, and you compare it to your monthly consumption, it's not much. Me for instance I'll have my money worth after 19 days.

[Descan]

Think about it this way: If it works, you're shaving 60 dollars off every month.

If it doesn't, you're up a hundred dollars for only one month.

And the only way to find out is to try it.

[Frumple]

How much money do y'all spend on being fed each month?

I do 160$ and I'm living moderate. (Germany)
100$ for Soylent up front sounds expensive. If it doesn't work and you sit on your useless pile of vitamin pills, 100$ wasted is a lot. But if it does work, and you compare it to your monthly consumption, it's not much. Me for instance I'll have my money worth after 19 days.

Somewhere in the range of 70-80 USD... if I'm being indulgent. Usually. Sometimes less... I think I spent maybe 50-60 on last month, but I got fed from outside sources a couple times and was splurging on some snack foods. Hundred a month would be a celebration month of some sort, heh. Most of the price points I've heard so far are definitely below national average, s'just, well, so am I. I'd be losing a notable amount of money, but presumably gaining on convenience and probably health.

Diet's not exactly balanced, which is part of the low expenditure. Covered that earlier in the thread, ha. Could get by around the same level in the area I'm living with a diet less reliant on vitamin supplements for health, though. Likely easily if you're living in an area you can do some low-key food gardening without a heavy water/etc. cost.

This stuff is kinda' tempting, yeah. Much less effort for something... complete. Definitely interested, but also intending to wait for a while and see how things go once it's settled into production and tested a bit more.

[MaximumZero]

How much money do y'all spend on being fed each month?

I do 160$ and I'm living moderate. (Germany)
100$ for Soylent up front sounds expensive. If it doesn't work and you sit on your useless pile of vitamin pills, 100$ wasted is a lot. But if it does work, and you compare it to your monthly consumption, it's not much. Me for instance I'll have my money worth after 19 days.

If I live moderately, my daughter, my girlfriend and I spend about $140 a month on food. We've lived a little bit extravagantly over the past couple months, but I'm running out of money quickly and that's about to end harshly.

[SalmonGod]

My wife is a spoiled foodie, so we spend waaaay too much on food.  She was raised through most of her childhood by her grandparents.  Her grandmother made multiple-course southern home-cooked meals every day, and many dishes completely from scratch.  Before her grandparents adopted her, she sometimes stole dog food from her neighbor's dog to survive.  Thanks to all that, she's super serious about food and will throw up if forced to eat something she doesn't like.

I go along with it, because eating separately from the rest of the family is too much of a hassle.  This stuff would make it easy for me to eat separately and cheaper.

[Spitfire]

How much money do y'all spend on being fed each month?

I do 160$ and I'm living moderate. (Germany)

If I live moderately, my daughter, my girlfriend and I spend about $140 a month on food.

Damn! Makes me question my buying habits. I always have fresh fruit around and substituted milk with soy milk, but that can't be it. I'll blame it on vast differences in living expenses...