Barley Malt Complete - RC1

It has taken me months to come up with this recipe, it has been through many many versions but I think this recipe is my first RC so please tell me what you think. I have tried to keep things in a good balance with good ratios and without excess of any particular elements. There is currently only a recipe for Men ages 19-55, I am thinking about making a version for woman, older people and pregnant woman if the demand is there, if you are interested please leave a comment and I might get to it a bit sooner!

I have fantasised about being food free since I was about 10. I hate eating and having to waste so much time preparing, buying and consuming food. My days are always very busy and will often sacrifice eat so I can carry on with what I am doing without interruption. I have always wanted to be free from eating and be able to really enjoy making and eating food on an occasional basis, say at the weekends, rather than the daily hassle of having to make one of your standard mid week recipes that you don't care about just because you have to.

So along can Soylent and I have been following it closely for a long time. It sounded perfect but then the price was announced and that put me off big time. My daily spend on food is no where near that much! I eat pretty healthily for the record lots of fresh veg and the like with meat several times a week. So that gave me the idea of trying my own recipe with the focus on being cheap but without tasting grim.

Taste:

It has quite a pleasant taste once well blended. Quite smooth and easy to consume. The malt extract is the main flavour if I had to pin it down but overall it is quite neutral. It goes down well and doesn't coat the mouth. It leaves you feel full and I haven't experienced any negative reactions to it.

Nutritional Information:

I designed my own nutrition profile to base my recipe on. It is the UK official figures for nutritional requirements NOT RDA (apart from in a couple of cases where I couldn't find the data). It also has the maximum figures taken from a paper published in 2003 which details the safe maximum daily intake for each vitamin and mineral. You will see that these numnbers are much lower than a lot of the other figures on Soylent DIY. For more information on the profile you can find it here:

UK 19-50 Male Nutritional Guidelines 2500Kcal - UK Gov figures

Mixing:

As with most soylent DIY you will get the best results by blending the ingredients. I got a cheap blender for £9.99 and it works perfectly well. My suggestion is to blend the dry ingredients first (i crushed my tablets in it too but you can take those separately if you want), then half the water, then the malt extract and the oils, then the rest of the water. A total of 2 litres works well for me and gives a good texture, feel free to add more or less as you see fit.

5 days recipe:

Combine all the dry ingredients and mix OPTIONAL - Crush all the tablets and mix the powders together and THOROUGHLY mix into the dry ingredients The oil and barley malt can be mixed and kept in a separate container

To mix each days drink:

5 tbsp of powder mix 2 tbsp Thoroughly shaken oil mix If you didnt add your tablets to the dry mix then get those ready to take separately. 1000ml water and mix 1000ml water and mix