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I'm hoping this was a one time fluke with some other explanation but figured I should share it here, just in case. Early this morning while having her usual Soylent, my gal commented that it tasted "like cardboard". Not knowing what cardboard tastes…

Aww, I ordered a week in March 2014 and haven't seen anything. You guys are making me antsy

Oooo that is very exciting to hear! Thanks @ana and @rolf!

great article indeed

Just got notification for mine. I am NOT in backer list, having ordered single week a day after closing (I had problems trying to order and I ran out of time) So I guess Soylent is finally catching up.

Just got my address confirmation email. 1 week order may 6th 2014, SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!11111one

Yep, sorry - reversed the ratio above (fixed now)Omega 3: 14 gramsOmega 6: 7 grams So the ratio of "O3 to O6" is 2:1If I should be expressing it as "O6 to O3", then it's 1:2In other words, twice as much Omega 3 as Omega 6.

snakethejake said: Beano didn't do a thing for mine, and it's not long term solution anyways. I've had to significantly reduce my intake just to get the gas under control. sadrobotsings said: I'm almost through my initial order, I don't think I'm…

Do you have some typos, here? The numbers and the ratio seem off, to me. Omega 6 is usually higher, and the ratio is usually Omega 6 to Omega 3. The net effect is that I'm not sure which one you're asking about. For what it's worth, I don't typically…

I think there should be a Soylent app that can share nutritional data to the health app. I would love to be able (once I get my Soylent) to tell the app when I've had each glass of Soylent, and it share all the nutritional data with the health app.

Which whey protein are you using? I all depends what enzymes are being used.

I am a type2 who started a keto diy version of soylent in January. It has been a great help to my blood sugar control. I eat my diy for breakfast and lunch every day and then try to have a sensible dinner. I also tested 1 bag or 3 meals worth of official…

Update: Just received an email saying they shipped my order and it will be delivered next week!

Well the U.S. government DRI, male 19-50, 2000 calories has a target of 17g for omega 6. I don't agree that you want that much, but probably means you won't have to much at 7.

I'm well aware of the discussion on omega 3/6 ratios, but I'm wondering if there are any absolute maximums to the omega 6 intake. I've heard that there are (I've seen people suggest that 6 grams per day of omega 6 should be considered the max). I ask,…

Just got my address confirmation email. 1 week order at the end of may (non-backer). Says it will ship in a few weeks!

Just got my tracking email! Should have my 1 week order by Tuesday I assume, I'm in IL and its coming from the PA location!WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Edit @MattCauble Only 1 concern, the "This shipment was sent to:" address is missing the Street info... tho I…

Yep, it's been pretty obvious that shipping has been steadily picking up. Great work!

Over a year for me as well. More like WTF.

Quick update - we've shipped over 300,000 days of Soylent!

We are shipping out extremely more than we are taking in - we have shipped over 300k days of Soylent (yay a new milestone!) and are getting close to being through all domestic initial backer orders (very excited!).

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Is there any update on how to pause my subscription? Or must I cancel and resubscribe later?

You have woken the ancient nonsense demon, now we are all screwed into oblivion.

Will there be a way to check the status of your order soon?

Nice--a dietician who says "To each their own" and doesn't freak out at the idea that some people aren't as comfortable with conventional food preparation as she is. Yep, a reasonable article.

Fiber's the main thing it's short on, and you could add or take a fiber supplement, lots of options there.

I still have the reciept from 6/14, same day as my bank was charged. I just thought I remembered seeing a May order date in BackerKit and was curious. But RL was kind enough to PM me and let me know my order is shipping today! So who cares when I ordered?…

I know mine because of my receipt. In case it helps searching: the email came from info@soylent.me with the subject "You just made a payment!" It also said "Soylent Corporation" in the body. If you deleted that one, well, I can't help you.

Try this flaxseed oil or any of these vegan/vegetarian oils

I am just barely pre-diabetic. My A1C is 5.7%. I have formulated my own soylent recipe and plan on drinking it for the majority of my calories. My nutritional goals is to lower my A1C and put on a little muscle. One thing that concerns me about my recipe…

I have found that pickles work well for me. Go through a jar of them a week or so.

smeggot said: Holy thread necro. I did not even notice. O_O @tylutki Why would you bring the hordes of this conversation back to life?!?!? What have you done?!?! smeggot said:

It's been a while and I see they still haven't finished initial backer orders..... Now what about the orders since then and to date? I see they are still taking orders with a 2-3 month lead time.... I guess this all doesn't really matter as the most…

Sure, I understand. Then there's those who are trying to run on an all-or-mostly soylent diet and haven't even had a chance to get any yet. Also LOL @ "starving". I'm sorry for my tone, but that's honestly very silly. I've got that on par with hipsters…

Holy thread necro.

Hippie Juice dry, in progress. It's incomplete. The macros look decent. I didn't apply the proper conversion factors for vitamin A supplied as carotene. From my other recipes, it's probably around ten-fold lower. Manganese is a little high. Low sulfur…

Monsanto isn't the only one who produces GM crops, though. I agree that Monsanto is kind of a butt, most predominantly due to their role in allowing life/DNA to be patented. However, many GM crops have a positive impact on us and our environment. For…

ProPA said: Oh, btw... individuals speak out and give opinions. Companies, corporations and governments spread propaganda. Please get your terms correct. Err... propaganda has nothing to do whether its an organization or an individual... just saying...…

I'd be interested to see how your macro's level out after simplifying your recipe to powdered kale. and most importantly, how does it taste?

So glad somebody picked up on that

Most of us search for the higher level of protein in blends in quest for muscles gain.We already know that our body has a limit for protein intake, but this explanation by Dietitian helps with deeper understanding of insulin release mechanism and it's…

For me staying away from GMOs means staying away from Monsanto. Regardless of whether or not the food will harm me, I do not want to support a predatory monopoly that has begun to take over the FDA and actively use that authority to make it harder for…

Hi Nwoll27, Thank you for the feedback.I will try integrating what you have said in the next extension.

Hi Kryptic, Appreciate your feedback. I take the data from the website directly. Couple of weeks back I was checking Soylent and new orders were taking from 4-5 months. Recently, it has been around 2-3 months so I just wanted to do something that gives…

Phytonutrients are a special class of chemical compounds found within many plants and grains, and they usually are what give these their natural coloration. As such, they occur only in trace amounts. The point of the phytonutrient complex is not to consume…

For what it's worth, I'm a large male who hasn't eaten red meat for over 20 years, so I don't get much non-heme iron. Most of the iron I get is heme iron, the kind affected by tea and coffee.I drink a lot of coffee and tea. (Too much coffee and tea.)…

I'm in the same boat. The first backerkit email I have is from October 2013, asking me to fill out a survey and make sure my information is up to date. I'm pretty sure I signed up long before that, I was watching Soylent pre-backerkit and signed up for…

Thanks for the tags. I recall having ordered sometime in May 2013. The first emails I have from them are when they charged my card on June 14th. My BackerKit invite din't show up until October. Guess I'll just have to wait an see.

Try before you buy anywhere you can Axchow is a great place to start simply because he can offer you a fair variety of things. I ended up donating well over $150 in ingredients for recipes that I ended up not liking. The problem with DIY is to get…

I can't really see much need for this since the estimates don't change too often and are usually accompanied by an email when they do; I suspect that many people would probably prefer not to install a third party plugin for something that can be handled…

How much tea are you drinking and are you drinking with your soylent? If your worried have your iron levels checked. If they drop below a normal level only then i would consider adding iron to your soylent. You don't want to accidentally poison yourself…

For reference: my order #1733 (5 days, banana), ordered on August 29, has been completed today and will be delivered tomorrow.

Hurray for print journalism! How about some more comments at the Post?

Whatever DIY recipe you chose I would suggest stoping by the Nutrient Calculator to see what it recommends the calorie intake should be for someone your size looking to lose weight. I can almost guaranty it will be more than 2000 calories. Cutting to…

For once not a smear campaign.

Actually, thinking back on it, you could check your email for your original backer confirmation too. Should be able to figure it out from there.

I'd tag @MattCauble or @ana for that question

To be fair, broccoli is 91% water, by weight. So just removing the water from a 91 g serving of broccoli brings it down to just over 8 g. And if you have an effective way of removing the "stuff" from the fiber, you probably reduce that by another 2 g.…

Pretty reasonable article, IMO.

I have a really hard time finding multivitamins like these appealing - if you look at what's in there, you have to ask, what is the nutritional benefit of consuming 48mg of dried broccoli powder? (I'm using, e.g., double X) A serving of broccoli is 91…

I'm sure someone will find this useful, I just don't see the point of it. Are you getting the data directly from the Soylent website? Or do you put in when you ordered and if it was new or reorder and it gives you a countdown?

www.washingtonpost.com Nutrition Q&A: Pros and cons of Soylent With Soylent, there is no planning, shopping, chopping, cooking or cleanup. But is it healthful?

Hello All, I am Ashwin and I have created this extension for chrome that tells you how long the wait time for new orders and re orders is going to be. If you guys could perhaps give me an outlook on the usefulness of this plugin, I would be grateful.…

I see that there are some one week orders that received shipping emails in the tracker. I'd like to know where I stand but can't remember my original order date. For a while I was able to login to Backerkit and see my order details. Now when I do that…

I bought a lifesaver bottle to use on the trip, and I plan to use it for making up soylent in per meal batches, into a 600ml shaker bottle, which I will rinse out in between meals using sterile water from the lifesaver bottle. I will probably be using…

livingparadox said: And I agree, especially as it doesn't seem to be a problem in most DIY recipes I tried a few of the popular DIYs and they gave me gas. My Soylent should be arriving in the next 20 days and I'm already resigned to the fact that…

I started with the base dose of one before each meal, and eventually upped it to three just to see. It had a short term effect, but later that day the gas was back full swing. Soylent has become a snack instead of my primary food source for now. But…

That's unfortunate... How much did you use? And I agree, especially as it doesn't seem to be a problem in most DIY recipes; so clearly, it's fixable.

Beano didn't do a thing for mine, and it's not long term solution anyways. I've had to significantly reduce my intake just to get the gas under control. It's definately something they need to address directly, if it's happening in a large percentage…

I had no idea that you could overdo it on nutritional yeast. I haven't eaten it in years, but have thought about it as I contemplate complete whole food menus. I'll be sure to check the DIY if I start using it (unlikely, but I have thought about it…

The Beano is a no-thinking solution, that pretty much solves the problem. How much did you order?

I did nutritional yeast on everything following the example of some young friends. It eventually gave me gout. A vegan with gout. The diy app showed me that only a few grams of each is needed. I'm also convinced that juiced chard and beets gave me a…

I'm almost through my initial order, I don't think I'm going to order any more until they have fixed the gas problem. It's gotten to the point I'd just rather not deal with it.

If you can't keep it cold, you definitely want to mix smaller batches, and drink it when you make it. Unrefrigerated soylent goes quickly after rehydration. And don't drink it from anything with a built - in straw. It doesn't rinse off easily enough.…

I'm guessing you've got about a decade on me (I'm 42). In the late 80s/early 90s I had quite a few acquaintances who were vegetarian, some vegan. I stayed a weekend with some vegan friends and they included nutritional yeast flakes in or on almost…

Filters and UV light are the typical methods used by backpackers for making water safe. Tablets introduce bad flavors to the water and are less effective than these options. Backpacking web sites always have sections in which water safety is addressed,…

At that time for me, 1978, I had never heard of veganism. I tried it once without success. I had to get into what was then the scene to learn how to do it. I think that it may be especially difficult for young women who don't eat enough of the right leafy…

I was a sullen teen too... and a lacto-ovo for about 2 years, 'round the same phase (I don't attribute the sullenness to the vegetarianism, it set in before that). The Weston Price site is very interesting, that may not have been the best article on…

It may very well be a significant variation. My cholesterol level is easily high enough to treat medically, and the only concentrated fat I typically consume is a tablespoon of Udo's Oil each day. It's clearly much easier for some to be vegan than others.…

I haven't been super-charged in recent memory. I don't mind eating the same thing every day, but the carb cravings are stronger than I expected (even when I'm full). Hopefully that is a withdrawal symptom that will lessen over time. The body produces…

It's very low cost, and one could even keep chickens from underprivileged backgrounds if so inclined. Does it super-charge you? With the extra energy, the work has become a labor of love for me. I also don't mind eating the same thing everyday. I'm…

Haha, awesome ravenvii. I'm liking those one day delivery times for people in northern California. (I'm in SF)

I returned home yesterday from a visit with my parents to find Pennsylvania's harvest in full mode. The display of produce by my grocer almost made me cry. A wall of beautiful, local, organic vegetables. Napa cabbage, kale, broccoli rabe, dandelion greens,…

As someone who takes psych meds it would be important for me to know if anything like that was at noticeable levels.

Rosa Labs is not currently shipping international orders except through reshippers. That's pretty much all the data I'm aware of at this point.

Still waiting! I am a Packer fan. I'm used to waiting.

Hi I've just joined the forum, I'm an international backer from Oct '13, I havn't seen any information on where international backers stand. Is there an update as to when these might begin shipping? Thanks

Some examples of powdered fat that are currently in production: Coconut MCT powder (high in Saturated Fat) - http://www.truenutrition.com/p-959-mct-medium-chain-triglyceride-powder-1lb.aspx Sunflower powder from Sensory Effects - https://www.dropbox.com/s/oab57qestj50vzr/Nutrition.pdf?dl=0…

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Mother of God. There's activity on the shipment tracker, folks.

1) where can I get those aluminium bags this cheap?!!2) even if you mix the oil with e.g. corn meal it powders quite well. Why use maltodextrin if its more or less shugar with high GI?3)is oxidation really that fast and bad that even in a vacuum sealed…

It's a cup, the standard USA measurement. (I happen to have some drinking glasses - repurposed jelly jars, actually - that measure exactly one cup, 8 fluid ounces, which makes it easy.) It costs a few dollars per day; the apricots are the most expensive…

I'd also put money on all of those items containing vanillin. Depending on how it's produced, vanillin can be called "natural flavor" because the active flavor molecule is the same as produced in nature... but some people report adverse reactions, depending…

It's a great resource! I would go into withdrawal without it.

Yeah, the Soylent DIY site is really good. Without it, I probably would not have tried to DIY.

This is very interesting.

Saturation is a term mostly used in chemistry.

That's kind of where I went. I eventually just ordered a week's supply on eBay (at a significant premium...) to see if sticking it out for the official stuff to get here was worth it or not.