Or something. I legit almost gagged.

Busted out the blender and added frozen cherries and a little honey. HOpefully I can actually consume it now.

Why even deal with it if it tastes so bad you have to essentially make a smoothie to begin with?

Well at this point I have 7 bags of the stuff and will need to do something with it.

Even blending it, I can make 2-4 meals in a handful of minutes. Including cleanup. It's still SUPER time saving even if I have to supplement it with frozen fruit or other flavors.

The truth is, I'm never going to cook actual meals.

Yeah, that was my wife's experience with it, too. You're not alone in the flavor/texture area. I'm personally okay with it, but it's definitely not for everyone. I've had a few people try it out and it's about

50/50 on who is okay with it and who insta-gags.

My personal experience has been that some of the experience is mental. I know it's largely oat flour and it should taste kinda like pancake batter. It's a flavor I know and kinda like. So, my mental prep was

largely positive, in those terms.

And I was prepared, but I think, as with anything, no matter how you prepare it can still take you by surprise. I really wanted to like it, but it smelled funny. Which probably changed things for me.

BUT, once I added the fruit, it was perfectly consumable. So, kind of weird. It didn't necessarily taste "good", but it was at least edible for me.

Yep. That's fair. I'm a month in on the stuff, and it's basically a neutral thing for me. Not good, but not bad either. It's a baseline where I know I'm getting adequate nutrients.

I will say that Soylent + Sriracha is not great. I tried it so you don't have to.

Ha ha ha!!

My plan is to figure out some savory seasonings to Soylent. My motivation is that my wife is still eating solid foods, and every damn time she cooks something, the kitchen smells amazing.

So, I need to figure out how to get flavoring into Soylent to subsititute some of that stuff, 'cuz otherwise I'm just gonna get fat consuming Soylent plus whatever awesomeness she's making.

Ha ha ha ha ha!! Yeah. I'm okay with sweet versions, but I'm sad I'm one of those people who think it's disgusting alone. /sigh

I would not consider that a problem. Even during my very first taste of Soylent, I could totally see how it would not appeal to everyone. It's going to take additional tweaking before they get a formula that

can be mass-marketed.

I really, really appreciate that their marketing message is, "Figure out how this can work for you."

Yeah. The truth is even if I just make 2 servings with fruit in the blender, I'm doing so in less than 10 minutes. It's still time-saving. I can't be mad about that.

It's time saving and is probably better nutrition than what you were doing before.

Personally, I think I've settled on 3 servings. I just need to figure out how to contain my snacking urges to not totally derail my good intentions.

Definitely! And that's really the thing, I'm not eating very well. I know I'm not. I can exercise all I want, but if I don't do something about food, I'm gonna stay fat and unhealthy.

I guess I can see that logic. Personally, I just ended up learning to do a bunch of different things with rice, and then always have a few cups of rice cooked.

I like the taste of rice by itself so that works for me. But I can see not wanting to spend even that much time on it... Soylent just seems so expensive by comparison to that method.

Like I see $85/week and I'm like, for that much it better at least taste decent, because I'm spending half that right now.

I suppose I should really be adding a multivitamin, since no way am I actually getting all the nutrients I should be, but even that wouldn't bring the cost up to that range.

Vitamins don't work. There have been numerous studies to this effect.
Eat more fruit.

like beef

lots of good nutrients there

Oh, anisoptera, I'm not gonna be spending $85/week though. That's gonna be for a month for me. I'm only wanting to sub 1-2 meals/day. It's not 100% of the nutrition, but even then I'm doing better than normal.

There are certainly cheaper foods, but not cheaper ways of matching the nutritional value.

Also, $85 per 21 meal supply is about $4 per meal. That's on par with TV dinner costs.

And depending on your tv dinner preferences, even cheaper! I sometimes guy the Amy's Kitchen which is $5-7/meal.