So crushed by capitalism that you don't even have time or money to prepare a healthy meal for yourself? Buy this human kibble.
Also they call their users "Hueligans"
The distain for food Adderall gives you does make this the perfect programmer fuel.
The marketing for this is extremely, hey single dudes cooking is too hard, amirite? watch this bro eat this bowl of red porridge and say how good it tastes.
I did it for a while it was chill. Life was griding me down so that a ready made nutritional shake meal option was a nice stress relief.
yeah. I ordered pizza or salads or other actual fucking food. or went hungry because I forgot food was a thing. or sat down with a giant bag of granola or....
or literally anything but this.
It's like the same price as McDonalds per calorie. The marketing is "Drink this instead of buying fast food".
It tastes like shit too. Horrid, sickly steviarol aftertaste. Worst thing I ever did. It's like it's made for people who have more money than taste. I understand being too burnt out to cook. I don't understand hating the act of eating so much you'd resort to this.
I understand being too burnt out to cook.
Honestly, the cooking is the easy part. Cleaning is the real bitch.
Either way, if you've got access to chicken thighs, aluminum foil, a pan, salt, pepper, a little oil, and an oven, you can make something far more edible and the clean up is just balling up the aluminum you put under the pan when you're done. Throw on some chopped carrots and broccoli while you're at it.
Delicious, cheap, easy. And if you want to change things up a bit, there are a million variations you can do with pork or shrimp or zucchini or something. Just throw it on a covered pan, toss on seasoning, oven at 400, cooks in about 20-30 minutes. And clean-up is pretty painless.
Is it sweet at all?
I had bariatric surgery and am struggling to get enough protein in and I can’t drink the protein shakes I liked before surgery because they’re too sweet.
You can get unsweetened which tastes like oats. Personally the sweetness doesn't bother me so vanilla suits me well
I don’t understand hating the act of eating so much you’d resort to this.
laughs in eating disorder
The powder is not great but their dehydrated stuff is actually good
Blechh, sorry, I can't imagine that awful taste in any capacity
It's like quinoa and vegetables and stuff with seasoning, no fake sweetener. Totally not a huel shill, I swear
Ngl even if I weren't crushed by capitalism I'd be in for using a non-perishable premade balanced meal once in a while. I'm not someone who enjoys cooking, so idk why after clawing back some personal time from my employer I'd spend it on that.
Had a friend who used it for a while. Found her alone in her room crying. When I went in to comfort her, I was not prepared for the smell. Her farts were like a dead groundhog that's been laying in the hot southern summer sun for a week. And she could NOT STOP.
Not gonna lie, drinking RTD meal replacements got me through depression.
I’m not a nutritionist but I think it’s healthier than eating takeout and microwave meals and probably costs about the same.
I survived largely on meal replacement shakes when both my physical and mental health started to deteriorate. Once I finally got diagnosed with celiac disease, I had zero nutritional deficiencies, which is extremely uncommon because untreated celiac literally destroys the part of your intestine that absorbs that stuff. I'm not a nutritionist either but that's good enough evidence for me.
Better/cheaper than some diets, sure. I drank Soylent (while depressed, coincidence??) for a bit - and it was okay, but cost more than groceries and was almost as time-consuming as cooking: getting powder out of pouches, mixing with water, cleaning up spills, shaking, washing the oversized container...
Looked this up and the first video was two white people with dreads and arcade machines behind them.
comments were turned off because they were obviously getting the bullying they deserved.
edit: oh god they're trying a thai curry one, and not only do they say "I've only had indian food once". But the guy says "the green curry one isn't up my alley, I guess I don't like indian food." THATS NOT INDIAN FOOD OH MY GOD PLEASE STOP.
sharing because I shouldn't be the only one feeling this pain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNMYeUknrXg
A friend bought me 21 days worth of soylent for me cause "you're a programmer and this is what programmers eat". Anyway they came in today, it tastes like what you'd expect it to taste like and it is pretty filling. But this shit is like $140, and rice and beans are so much tastier and offer variety for less.
Food is meant to be lovingly prepared and enjoyed, slowly.
But that gets in the way making money for some corporation, doesn't it? Especially since feminism got rid of domestic division of work without overthrowing capitalism. So now we eat soylent
this shit would have been a gift from heaven to my teenage anorexic self. Can't wait for the first anorexia related Soylent/Huel death.
there's a tech writer who writes bragging articles about the fact she eats two meals of Huel a day - in a bowl with a spoon and "the texture of melted ice cream". I read one of them once and nearly threw up.
Huel customers probably make fun of Soylent customers when it's all the same gruel
Excuse me, I eat my nutrient slurry with a spoon. This makes me superior to the people who DRINK their nutrient slurry like savages.
The design looks like something i whips out in 30 minutes for an assignment I puts off since two months ago
Nothing more anti-establishment than eating nothing but gruel so you can make more profits for your boss. Right my fellow hueligans?
