Really wish they would focus more on SHIPPING Soylent instead of redesigning their website. I am aware that these tasks are not mutually exclusive but still it's been a ridiculous length of time and often without clear/timely updates from the Soylent team. If I knew what I knew now I doubt I would have pre-ordered it.
I have to agree. I've lost interest, which is disappointing. I was really psyched to try it out when they announced what now seems like ages ago. Then the ship date kept slipping and slipping and slipping, until the magic moment was "end of March". And now, I see it's 10-12 weeks for new orders. So it's another 3 month wait, which is just sopping any interest I had in it.
I'll try it eventually - and I'm still looking forward to that - but not until I can order it and it'll arrive a few days later.
Now that they are (claiming to be) shipping, it seems like a perfect time to introduce their new site. It has new ordering options for getting it sent to you monthly. Once people get their orders, they will have an easy way to order more. The Crowdtilt powered "campaign" site isn't meant to stay long term. This is their transition from it. Makes sense to me.
Also interested on feedback from someone already using it. Any biological changes (stool, urine, sweat, etc.)? Still hungry after using it? Using Soylent only? If so, how are your energy levels?
I'm a maniac about time management and do everything possible to not waste even a moment of the day (e.g. if I'm doing any trivial physical activity, I'll be listening to an audiobook at 2x speed). However, I would never want to get rid of eating. Since marrying a French woman, I've come to understand the importance of enjoying what you are eating...we aren't simply machines that need to be fed.
$4 dollars per meal is expensive!! My wife and I eat for the 2 of us on less than that in a day...and we eat fresh tuna, organic rice and loads of great vegetables. Just walk through the fresh produce section of your local supermarket...the cheapest stuff in the store and the healthiest is in the produce section.
What time has wasted in all of this exposure to inexpensive, healthy nutrition? None.
One of the biggest wastes of time in one's life is being sick and the other is early death. While I can't speak much about the latter, I'm sick once per year at the maximum and I have not had a debilitating sickness for the past 4 years that has prevented me from working, studying or coding for even a moment. I attribute much of this to my wife's refusal to eat food that is crap.
Maybe that is why the French are healthier...they don't try to reinvent the wheel and replace the thousands of healthy, inexpensive and delicious items that already exist for our pleasure...food!!
I don't usually eat breakfast but I know I should. Usually the reason is that I am not really hungry when I get up or before I leave for work. I could probably eat breakfast later after I get to work but then my choices are not as good/healthy. I usually just skip it. I am going to try this as a breakfast once I get to work.
I usually spend $8-10 a day going to lunch. I could certainly save some money by packing a lunch but I don't do it. So I eat out. I also don't always make the right choices at lunch. I often pick convenient over healthy. And I tend to eat too much of it. I am going to try this as a lunch at work. I think it might help me.
We usually have a decent home cooked meal for dinner at my house so, other than an initial attempt to go a few weeks on 100% Soylent, I am probably not going to have this for dinner very often. It won't really save me time/money as I'll already be cooking for the rest of the family.
Soylent appears to mostly target the tech crowd, concentrated in SF/NYC. $4/meal is incredibly cheap in those places - raw ingredients of fresh produce will usually cost more than that. Not to mention that not everyone has time to cook.
Its fairly disingenuous to call $4/meal expensive and then spend time cooking - especially after you talk about the importance of not wasting time. You go from valuing your time above all else to claiming that its worth almost nothing.
Why would anyone want to do that? For me, if I listen to an audiobook at 2x speed, it saps all enjoyment from it. We're not simply machines that need to consume information, how we consume it is important too.
Only half in jest. To answer your question: for the same reason someone might choose to double the speed of an audiobook.
I can't tell if this an ad for France or not! First of all, $4 per meal is not that expensive. Are you saying you eat for < $4 a day? Or < $4 per meal per day? Either way, have you ever lived or visited any major American city? $4/meal would be welcome by many people who live in NYC.
The whole point of Soylent is to ENCOURAGE healthier eating. This is a meal replacement with all the vitamins and nutrients you need to live a healthy life. There are plenty of people outside of your worldview who are looking for a $4 meal that takes no thought or preparation time. I don't think Soylent is trying to eradicate home-cooked meals, but they are trying to create a healthy meal supplement for busy people.
I enjoy a wonderful and varied diet since I moved near the coast in Australia... some days I would just rather not have to eat though (various reasons). For these days, why not use Soylent?
I haven't tried Soylent; but, its price range and ease of use is making me start to consider it for nights / weekend times that I'm not working and don't feel like going out to eat.
How does it taste? Do you still feel hungry after eating it? And, is there a way to supplement it with other foods, like ... 2/3rds a regular portion + oatmeal, or something? Or maybe flavoring like those syrup pump bottles?
They don't address how it tastes, but from the articles I have read, it isn't super tasty. That's not the point though. As long as it's palatable enough to get down, it's good enough for me.
If you could snap your fingers and never have to worry about eating food again, would you?
I've always been more of the 'Eat to live, don't live to eat' mindset, but thats not to say I don't enjoy eating, its just at times I find it to be a chore.
I think I'm going to try Soylent to substitute a majority of my meals, dropping in a few real meals here and there, and see how I fare.
Interesting. I think about it in the reverse. I'm more interested in eating the majority real meals, but dropping in Soylent for the times when eating is a chore, or is inconvenient, etc.
Prices seem to be going up. I ordered a week supply yesterday off of their crowdtilt for $65 (3 meals/day => 21 servings) and the same is now $85 on this site. It is still available[1] so may want to save money while you can?
Hmm, according to the article in the new yorker the food costs for doing it oneself is 50 dollars a month and it was a significant time saving from making food or going out to eat, now if I figure out that it actually works as advertised - why wouldn't I just do what the original inventor did instead of buying it?
I think that should have been expected. Don't a lot of crowdfunding campaigns work by offering a slightly lower price for people willing to put up the money to get things started?
The site looks nice, but the loading indicator is disappointing. I expect they will lose visitors whose knee-jerk reaction is to back out instead of wait one more second.
I have been thinking of trying out Soylent. Are there folks here you have tried it consistently for more than a few weeks? If yes, then how do you feel about yourself?
Happened to me with FF 29. I wonder if one of their stylesheets/scripts didn't load fast enough because of the traffic. A reload fixed everything, but it drove the point home even more that I really hate the latest trend of having things zip around and animate as I'm scrolling down a page.
[+] [-] joshstrange|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] nlh|12 years ago|reply
I'll try it eventually - and I'm still looking forward to that - but not until I can order it and it'll arrive a few days later.
[+] [-] jack-r-abbit|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] astrowilliam|12 years ago|reply
http://blog.soylent.me/post/84472994397/5-1-shipping-update
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[+] [-] dominotw|12 years ago|reply
More here. http://www.reddit.com/r/soylent
[+] [-] bradfordarner|12 years ago|reply
I'm a maniac about time management and do everything possible to not waste even a moment of the day (e.g. if I'm doing any trivial physical activity, I'll be listening to an audiobook at 2x speed). However, I would never want to get rid of eating. Since marrying a French woman, I've come to understand the importance of enjoying what you are eating...we aren't simply machines that need to be fed.
$4 dollars per meal is expensive!! My wife and I eat for the 2 of us on less than that in a day...and we eat fresh tuna, organic rice and loads of great vegetables. Just walk through the fresh produce section of your local supermarket...the cheapest stuff in the store and the healthiest is in the produce section.
What time has wasted in all of this exposure to inexpensive, healthy nutrition? None.
One of the biggest wastes of time in one's life is being sick and the other is early death. While I can't speak much about the latter, I'm sick once per year at the maximum and I have not had a debilitating sickness for the past 4 years that has prevented me from working, studying or coding for even a moment. I attribute much of this to my wife's refusal to eat food that is crap.
Maybe that is why the French are healthier...they don't try to reinvent the wheel and replace the thousands of healthy, inexpensive and delicious items that already exist for our pleasure...food!!
[+] [-] jack-r-abbit|12 years ago|reply
I don't usually eat breakfast but I know I should. Usually the reason is that I am not really hungry when I get up or before I leave for work. I could probably eat breakfast later after I get to work but then my choices are not as good/healthy. I usually just skip it. I am going to try this as a breakfast once I get to work.
I usually spend $8-10 a day going to lunch. I could certainly save some money by packing a lunch but I don't do it. So I eat out. I also don't always make the right choices at lunch. I often pick convenient over healthy. And I tend to eat too much of it. I am going to try this as a lunch at work. I think it might help me.
We usually have a decent home cooked meal for dinner at my house so, other than an initial attempt to go a few weeks on 100% Soylent, I am probably not going to have this for dinner very often. It won't really save me time/money as I'll already be cooking for the rest of the family.
So that is why I want to use this.
[+] [-] thedufer|12 years ago|reply
Its fairly disingenuous to call $4/meal expensive and then spend time cooking - especially after you talk about the importance of not wasting time. You go from valuing your time above all else to claiming that its worth almost nothing.
[+] [-] adventured|12 years ago|reply
Why would anyone want to do that? For me, if I listen to an audiobook at 2x speed, it saps all enjoyment from it. We're not simply machines that need to consume information, how we consume it is important too.
Only half in jest. To answer your question: for the same reason someone might choose to double the speed of an audiobook.
[+] [-] mikegioia|12 years ago|reply
The whole point of Soylent is to ENCOURAGE healthier eating. This is a meal replacement with all the vitamins and nutrients you need to live a healthy life. There are plenty of people outside of your worldview who are looking for a $4 meal that takes no thought or preparation time. I don't think Soylent is trying to eradicate home-cooked meals, but they are trying to create a healthy meal supplement for busy people.
[+] [-] comlonq|12 years ago|reply
I enjoy a wonderful and varied diet since I moved near the coast in Australia... some days I would just rather not have to eat though (various reasons). For these days, why not use Soylent?
[+] [-] sukuriant|12 years ago|reply
How does it taste? Do you still feel hungry after eating it? And, is there a way to supplement it with other foods, like ... 2/3rds a regular portion + oatmeal, or something? Or maybe flavoring like those syrup pump bottles?
[+] [-] darkstar999|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] mentos|12 years ago|reply
I've always been more of the 'Eat to live, don't live to eat' mindset, but thats not to say I don't enjoy eating, its just at times I find it to be a chore.
I think I'm going to try Soylent to substitute a majority of my meals, dropping in a few real meals here and there, and see how I fare.
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[+] [-] h4tch|12 years ago|reply
Hilarious. Did anyone else catch that? At 1:10 in the video.
[+] [-] h4tch|12 years ago|reply
Is this intentional, lol?
[+] [-] itsravi|12 years ago|reply
[1]https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_...
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Scroll down, go to FAQ, then hit back. Blank page with header on top
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