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Rishkoi said: I make excellent People Chow DIY Soylent (Most popular recipe) Id sell. I've been living off it exclusively for 3+ months, never felt better! IT'S PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEE. /soylent green Rishkoi said:

I make excellent People Chow DIY Soylent (Most popular recipe) Id sell. I've been living off it exclusively for 3+ months, never felt better!

Just remember one more: "I was going to a have a media appearance to talk about Soylent but had to cancel because it didn't arrive in time!"

I'd also be interested... any chance you'd take someone else up on the offer? I tried finding a way to PM you but I couldn't.

People all across this forum are justifying their impatience with so many reasons it's almost laughable: "I'm timing my diy ingredients/groceries to run out this week, I need my Soylent now!" "I have health issues, where's my Soylent?! I'm going to complain…

You have it all figured out, don't you? If all those lazy fat people would just get up off their dead posteriors they wouldn't need Soylent right? If you've never lived through poor health or have dealt with the previously mentioned health issues, you…

I add about 3.25 Tbls for each 1 bag of Soylent. Since I always mix it a bag/pitcher at a time, that's the only measurement I really know.

Just use fish oil I won't tell anybody

If I wanted to just use canola oil, what amount would I have to use each day?

The regular oil blend is canola + fish oil, with the latter there mainly for the EPA and DHA forms of omega-3. There's another post on here somewhere which details the amounts of EPA and DHA provided (may be on the soylent.me website also). I think you…

I plan to stick with Canola oil at this point, even though it may not actually be "nutritionally complete". I got to try some Udo flaxseed-based oil courtesy of @NoFlames but I'm personally not wild about the taste change it imparts.

As a vegan who is interested in using Soylent, I am not planning on buying it with the fish oil. The website says to be sure to replace it with a plant-based oil, but after an hour of searching the forum I have found myself unsure of how to go about this.…

Make sure you post here, that would be really cool

To date, I've lost about 20 pounds drinking Hacker School Soylent for two meals a day. I'm looking forward to alternating between official Soylent and the Hacker School variety. Height: 5'10" Starting Weight: 230 lbs Current Weight: 210 lbs Goal Weight:…

@gilahacker I think Soylent will be an excellent way to get control of your situation. By eliminating so many variables, you can really just focus on your own health instead of what your next meal is. If the food allergies go away, which seems very likely…

Gila, having lost a fair amount of weight before let me tell you your assumption is right on. When you get less bulky moving gets sooooo much easier, dare I even say fun? I hope this is a good solution for you, and for me too!

1) I need to live long enough to spend all the money I'm saving for retirement. My current diet isn't going to get me there. 2) Blood pressure is too high (don't remember the numbers). Assuming a proper diet will fix that. 3) I'm 5'9" and ~245 lbs.…

If I visit enough posts, firefox stalls each time I visit a post. There is definitely something massively leaky about this forum.

Yeah, 1 year old birthday parties are supposed to be when they can eat cake and get messy.

last day of the 12th week...tee hee

The mobile version of the site NOW works. It used to be a huge mess, but @codinghorror has done a great job at updating the mobile side of it.

I'm quite impressed with Discourse. I don't understand Reddit at all, but Discourse just works. plus the mobile version of the site looks great, which is always a plus.

Heh, I'm very much "a computer guy" and I find it a bit "wonky" as well, so it's not just you. =) But yeah, I've gotten fairly used to it now, but there was a definite adjustment period.

Haha! Well ... I was serious! Gif is still cool though. It's not quite as wonky now that I've made a few posts, so maybe it's just me. It's a confusing format to get used to. I'm a chemist, not a computer guy, so I don't know the ins and outs of what…

I nominate this thread for the "most drastic subject change" award.

Yeah. I prefer the reddit style. So much easier to keep track of conversations.

I'm not crazy about this discourse thing either personally... it's OK, but I find myself having to click around an awful lot in order to do stuff. But yeah having also run WP-based forums myself, I'd kinda have to go with the "nays" on that one!

I'm not sure a month would be enough to register much change but certainly you would need a pre-test to be able to recognize any change. I am 2 months in and can't wait to see my test results in another month. I've got a unofficial bet with my endo about…

ZombieSymmetry said: The discourse.soylent.me forum here feels a little wonky to me. Have you considered using something like Wordpress for the forum? I've administered WordPress discussion forums. Oof. (If you ARE serious, I apologize for the goofy…

And I dont think Vegan's are unhealthy per se, but I do think they are forced to think about what they are putting in their bodies which goes a long, long way for better health. I dont think the diet is better because its Vegan in that respect. Most Americans…

Not vegan at all. One of my weekly conventional meals is a big fat steak and I use milk in my DIY. While I'm not an expert in any way I don't think this is enough calories for an athlete. I believe they would need to supplement in some way. Most likely…

I thought that a baby just generally starts wanting to eat solids as time goes on. I did not think it was a forced thing at all. If anyone has seen game of thrones, you know how long weening can last though

Practically vegan is why its healthy. Its not all vegan. Just messing with you. I know most vegan folks use the diet as a moral high ground and point of pride, so they are sensitive about it. Not sure if that is you, but I will be more careful in the…

Not my point, not looking to argue.

Then there is an issue with those policies, not with food. Its already perfectly possible to non-traumatically ween children, we don't need to invoke soylent as the solution.

Yes that is part of what I'm saying, the other part is that "childcare professionals" have actual policies in many centers about how they are required to essentially force certain foods on the children no matter how upset they get about it. It can be…

I'm in the same boat as you...I think Soylent will help a lot of people break their addicition to food.

No, I'm on Chrome. It could be in part just that I'm not used to this type of forum. Maybe it won't feel so klunky after awhile. Looking forward to trying this concoction. Hope I don't have to wait to the last day of the 12th week! But I imagine the…

If you really believe this, then why are you here? Soylent is practically vegan. According to your logic, you will not be getting a more healthy diet.

@Mystify I think what @Vanclute is suggesting is that many parents improperly wean their kids off of liquid diet, and so there could be trauma. Many parents do it out of ignorance or convenience. I think formula is basically what many use to help with…

Baby led weaning is huge. There's no trauma with it. It's basically what you're talking about, except with continued milk/formula and no soylent.

How do normal parents manage this without traumatizing kids then?If this truly is a problem, soylent does not seem like the right solution. We have managed to raise generations upon generations upon generations of humans while transitioning them to solid…

Have you tried the masa alone? If you have gluten sensitivities, you should look into the gluten analogues in Oats and Corn. Lots of gluten sensitives and celiacs can't do even gluten free oats (which contain gluten but in a different form that fewer…

We are opportunistic eaters. We do what we need to survive and we have the intelligence to make that happen. If you're on this forum, chances are you live in a part of the world that's modernized and affords you options for your survival. As long as…

My latest blog Video, SOYLENT, ONE MONTH AND COUNTING!!! Original blog post here: http://soylentforlife.blogspot.com/2014/05/soylent-one-month-and-counting.html

Not one program, that's what I'm saying. It was every place ever working with infants & toddlers. Varied somewhat with the individual caregivers of course. But again, not my personal experiences so I'm not going to share her stories.

1 program doing something is not a general thing.

13 years working in childcare with infants & toddlers, and it was routine. Including working for a major government-run program for low income families. Yeah, it's a general thing that goes on.

I had never heard of that before? Is this actually a general thing that goes on? that sounds like its either a misrepresentation of what is happening or a very specific occurrence, not some general problem that needs fixed.

woah woah... I never said anything about removing all risk, and I'll be the first person to say that all this anti-bacterial nonsense (not that it doesn't have its place) is responsible for a TON of problems. I'm strictly talking about the near force-feeding…

Dangerous line of thinking. You can also try to spare a kid the trauma of getting sick by sterilizing everything, and all you really accomplish is tanking their immune system. We need various forms of trauma and strife to develop properly. We need to…

I just pushed a styling update that brings the DIY site more inline with the forum and new website.

We are omnivores. I think that Vegan is more healthy only because it "forces" you to watch what you eat. If you ate a balanced, omnivorous diet, youd be even more healthy. I know the vegan community will be out for blood, but remember, I'm an animal…

Generally speaking, we already know the outcomes of a Standard American Diet. If I eat what everyone else eats, I'll get what everyone else gets. Around 12 years ago I went vegan. It's not a perfect diet, but it's an improvement. As convenient vegan…

If someone actually gets offended by the term "Muggle food" I would just have to shake my head and laugh. Really? How emotionally fragile would someone have to be? Seriously. Don't sweat the petty things pet the sweaty things. LongLiveMuggleFood

For anyone following this thread, just wanted to let you know that my quest for non-headache-inducing, non-fatigue-inducing soylent continues here! Current hypothesis is a food allergy or intolerance. Stay tuned...

I don't even like Harry Potter movies (and I'm not about to read a bunch of books). The best thing to come from those movies was Alan Rickman's satisfying portrayal of a magician. But I do like the term Muggle - it's charming in a neat way. Aside from…

Another meal of Ax Chow for lunch, this time with about a tablespoon of nutritional yeast. Feeling similarly to yesterday at lunch - not completely exhausted, but definitely not as good as I should be. Looking forward to testing the preservative hypothesis…

Switching over to private message...

Okay, should I assume conventional carb/protein/fat ratios, like 50/20/30 then? I think the official Soylent uses that. I use less carbs and more fat myself... Maybe I should just give you my recipe anyway. The oat flour I'm using is gluten free. Masa…

My current diet is unpredictable. Plus too much chocolate. The main thing is that any oat flour would have to be gluten free. Mass harina is grittier right? Actually I could add the gluten free oat flour after the fact since it is a special item…

I use olive oil; some people use soybean oil. I find it's a lot easier to add the oil as a later step (like official Soylent) rather than trying to add it to the powder ahead of time. What's your current diet like? I can adjust the carb/protein/fat ratio…

Haha, glad to be of service, @The! So, this morning I had my Ax Chow with a bowl of spinach salad. Not feeling quite as foggy as the last two mornings but still definitely tired. I'm definitely suspecting it's something I'm eating rather than something…

I can supply it if you tell me what I need.

Okay, so maybe two weeks of DIY, at cheaper-than-official-Soylent prices? Can you supply the oil, or do you need that too?

I am thinking about a hundred bucks worth? Chocolate would be nice.

Cool. So if and when you decide exactly how much you want to order, and what kind (as close to official Soylent as possible, my own recipe, flavored or unflavored, something else), then let me know and I'll see if I have time to make it for you, and…

Me too! Happy to help with any kind of study

halo3 said: good god just say food and soylent. if you insist on calling it muggle food like you're LARPing harry potter or something at least do yourself a favor stick to the internet cause out in public with normal (or should i say regular/real/non-wizard?)…

every community has its jargon. I dont go around telling people about Soylent and say "muggle food". I think we are being oversensitive.

The thing is, it IS muggle food

Since I've devolved this into a general "Soylent Cooking" thread, I'll post some of my latest beauties in here. Hopefully later today. Seriously, this stuff just gets tastier the more I experiment with it...

You must be the fittest man on earth.

I want to get a good idea of what I like, taste and texture-wise, THEN learn how to make it... Just like I would with conventional food... "Ooh, that's yummy, can I get the recipe?". I do have official soylent on order, but we are also moving overseas…

UPDATE: Thanks to this thread, I've started selling DIY at my new website, Custom Body Fuel! Please check it out if you're thinking of buying some... As a DIYer, I'll tell you that it's not as much work as it might seem. But sure, if you only want…

While I wait 10-12 weeks for product, my impatience is escalating quickly. However, I don't want to spend a few hundred bucks on recipe components, scales, etc. I just want to sample some stuff. Priorities would be non- gritty, non- chalky, and gluten…

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good god just say food and soylent. if you insist on calling it muggle food like you're LARPing harry potter or something at least do yourself a favor stick to the internet cause out in public with normal (or should i say regular/real/non-wizard?) people…

The full sentence doesn't change the meaning behind my post which is why I left the rest out. The biggest negative reaction from people I have seen has been that folks assume that Soylent is meant to replace food and the ceremony behind it. People…

sharkerty said: I choose to think of Soylent more as food If you are only going to take snippets of someone's words, of course they are easy to manipulate to show a point. See how your snippet sounds? Pretty elitist.If I were to use the full quote…

axcho said: And it's forcing me to reevaluate my life and make an effort to actually do fun things again, instead of depending on food for an easy dopamine hit I don't think I've ever read my problem with food in a way that's manifested itself from…

Lighten up, its a joke and fun. Muggle food it is!

web_kunoichi said: I think I might use "conventional food" in conversation with people new to the idea (because I don't want to sound like a member of a cult) and "unsoylent" on the forums. Sure, that's along the lines I was thinking. "Conventional…

Yep. The reason I'd avoid using "traditional food" in a general sense is that most of what passes for "conventional food" these days is very far from what you'd call a "traditional food" culture, in a Michael Pollan sense. Like, the Standard American…

FWIW, Conventional/traditional Food are my top alternatives from this list. As stated previously, none of the terms are likely to be taken as offensive, and there's nothing inherently "elitist" about them. I will probably use them interchangable

Certainly don't want to brand Soylent as food for poor people as gruel implies, even though it is reasonably priced for many at the lower income levels. I like the idea of making Soylent's image upscale and trendy even though it's not upscale in price…

Gruel isn't bad. I got to try some not long ago. (Our Archives Department was doing a "Victorian Healthcare Lunch." I did not try the bread jam, ugh.) It's just cornmeal, honey, and water. Like thin grits, I guess.

Thankfully, Soylent is so not gruel. If it was I wouldn't be anywhere near it.

I'm super okay with this.

Hmmm, yes, it may also be useful to do some isolated food challenges - like eating masa harina (with water) on an empty stomach, doing the same with the whey protein isolate, and so on. I definitely have experienced the "gluten coma" effect as well,…

I'd be happy to help if I can.

The definition you linked: You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument. I didnt do either one so I'm not seeing how thats a great example of an ad hominem attack. If I stated that he never leaves…

You could also try this: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/quidnycs-significantly-more-realistic-diy-rendition-of-the-official-soylent

Predator said: While you should never resort to namecalling, you hear alot worse than this out in the world, makes me wonder whether you ever leave your computer. Discussions sometimes turn into heated arguments which can lead to anger and frustration…

Me as well. Im 40/Male, grossly out of shape and eat very badly. Soylent is going to be great for me.

@BriBy also has one close to the 1.0 Soylent: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/bulletproof-soylent-people-chow-with-oat-flour-similar-to-official-soylent

If I would have infinite time and motivation, I may have tried that one ... but I'm not in that position

Check out this: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/quidnycs-overly-faithful-diy-rendition-of-the-official-soylent

I want this thread for DIY products that make it easier to get so close as possible to the real soylent.So products that don't contain 5000% of every B-vitamin or all kind of superfoods, or additives, whatever.I think you get the idea. Of course, you…

I would also be interested in this, should it occur.