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This is probably a more appropriate thread for this discussion: discourse.soylent.me Donkey Milk Is the Drink of Choice http://munchies.vice.com/articles/ass-milk-is-the-drink-of-choice-for-european-babies-and-elderly-chinese/…

iEnvisionary said: Also how about using organic chia seeds instead of the ones you are currently using and updating all your recipes on ur site that use it? Organic chia seeds? What is wrong with conventional? Seems like all that would do is drive…

This is very interesting.

Yup they recently redesigned it after so many complaints of the lid being hard to clean. Both of mine have the new lid.

SoylentJesus said: Cleaning the lids is such a pain, that using them every day is becoming a drag. its nice that they seal and all, but to me, its not worth the hassle. Interestingly, one of our Contigo bottles had an issue with the lid dripping ever…

the soylent shipment tracker forum shows the latest order receipt was June 3. I think we've all seen the email apologizing for the 'roughly' two week delay (roughly?), and saying orders made before 05/06/2014 are being shipped, but they were saying that…

For what it's worth, the "data" in that thread is pretty thin and there was a very sane post made very recently, that casts pretty reasonable doubt on maltodextrin being as evil as it's made out to be in the original post. As for this post, it seems…

I specifically want to accurately track the amount of Soylent consumed. Since I drink from a 20oz bottle that I simply refill at any odd interval, I often have only a partial bottle consumed at the end of the day so it goes into the fridge for morning,…

Here's an article I read the other day about using electric current to help teeth 'self heal' cavities. Apparently this tech could be available via dentists in a mere 3 years. Beats the drill!

Hey, I copy/pasted from the article!

Ass milk... They gotta work on the marketing for that

@ww2098If you read my opening post, they delivered to me and my wife. If you check the shipping tracker on DIY, they're delivering to a lot of people. Of course, that's completely off topic.

Archangel said: or the kickstarter entitlement crowd and their nonsense. lol what a joke. you wouldn't even know about soylent if it wasn't for the crowdfunding group. Archangel said:

Coconut oil is almost all Saturated fats. What is your inclination to go with this as your lipids source?

Ingredient suppliers provide us with varying levels of nutritional information. The FDA does not mandate that they disclose a lot of this information and, as a food, we are not allowed to put most of this data on our official label. Below is a breakdown…

http://munchies.vice.com/articles/ass-milk-is-the-drink-of-choice-for-european-babies-and-elderly-chinese/

I wish you had posted this earlier in the week. I just bought a contigos (technically an AVEX, but they're the same products under two different brand names), but am probably going to stick with my Nalgene OTG for drinking out of, but getting a bottle…

I bet you get your vessyl before you get your Soylent....

I have one of these and also their larger thermos. They both work very very well.

I found this chart online and it shows that a lot of thing in Soylent may lean more towards the acidic side. Items that fall into the moderately acidic category - Purified water - Oats - Brown rice - fish (don't know if this would apply to fish oil)…

My concern with powdered oil would be texture—the oil in Soylent is one of the things that makes it smooth. Lipids and water already dislike mixing. A liquid fat source, at least, can form a nice emulsion. A solid fat source is going to have a particle…

I initially started drinking 15x100 calorie meals a day, had zero bloated or bubbly feeling, was never rver hungry and I'd poop around every 1.5-2 days but I still got the gas. Now I usually drink 3x400 calorie drinks and finish off the rest in 3x100…

BriBy said: Laws concerning food sales are there for a reason. We need moar big gubbmint to keep us safe.Death to raw milk.Lock up hemp growers.Pig farmers' strange varieties will be rounded up and terminated.You don't have the right to buy granny's…

Trent said: www.ikea.com KULLAR Steel vacuum flask - IKEA IKEA - KULLAR, Steel vacuum flask, Can be used both for beverages and for food like soup.The insert is made of metal and is therefore resistant to impact. …

I think the new style is aesthetically fine, and on my resolution it shows up with reasonable visibility -- but I could see how on a bigger one (or from further away) it would be a lot harder to see. +1 for @nickp's "themes" suggestion, if possible.

I'd get some good gum while you do this! I recall reading somewhere on these boards that the maltodextrin combined with the small interval between drinks means that your teeth are basically swimming in bacteria food constantly, rather than your saliva…

Flagged for insulting. People are still "crying" because there are some very concrete issues here. This is not an echo chamber. Not every comment has to be positive or supportive. I agree with you on a purely selfish basis that I wish more of the inane…

I'm guessing the big attraction is the passive data collection that you don't have to think about, it just "happens' without you being aware of it. Imagining the water tracking will be a good thing too. I recall reading a while back that most people…

I starting a little test this weekend to see if there is a big difference in the gas issue when drinking slower. A little background: I've been drinking Soylent for 75% - 100% for a little over 1 month now. When I first started I was drinking a full…

Haha, thanks for the injection of sanity, @austonst!

Hello The Nutrient Profile Calculator at diy.soylent.me asks me how often I exercise, and I do so daily, but my exercise is moderate - an hour-long brisk walk, albeit with hilly gradient - rather than intense, like jogging or cycling. Is the Calculator's…

What would this tell you about Soylent, other than how much is in the glass? It looks very cool, but beyond the cool factor I can't figure out how it would give me any info that I don't already have. Right now I use Blender Bottles when I drink Soylent,…

Woah, woah. Hang on, guys. What's with all this talk about getting rid of maltodextrin? Let's quickly summarize what we've found in this thread so far. One person's dentist claims maltodextrin is a sugar and is causing tooth decay. The same dentist…

Yeah, I've recently started experimenting with rice flour, which has much smaller micros, so it could be a replacement for maltodextrin nutritionally. Of course, it's not sweet like maltodextrin... I guess that's kind of the point.

Yeah my guess is that Soylent would just be 100% vegan if they went with a powdered oil... at least that's what I've always been expecting.

undervillain said: "Seal the pitcher and shake for 60 seconds" underneath a picture of a pitcher of Soylent being mixed with a spoon From the picture it looks like they spoon is for after you've shaken, and are now topping off with extra water (i.e.…

One potential problem with using a powdered fat source; I've seen a couple of people say they were supposed to get the vegan version but they were shipped the oil bottles (not a big problem, just inefficient because they could just not use the oil). If…

I like the change. Didn't mind the old.

Improve the texture, if possible. Leaving the oil out until morning helped a lot (that should be the instructions given) but it's still fairly chalky. As for powder-only (like powdered oil) I wonder if that would affect the texture.. Something to think…

This is exactly what I do, I also keep the bottles in the fridge to "cool down" the powder before adding cold water to shake and drink straight away.

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Darnit, I didn't notice it was off center until you mentioned it. Now I can't unsee it.

There are plenty of DIY recipes that don't use maltodextrin. Using all oat flour can be a bit of a problem since some of the micros end up very high, but using different types of flour can alleviate this. Using all flour instead of flour + maltodextrin…

Remove maltodextrin as a carb source?

I'm the same. As it gets later in the day, I just start feeling like something different to eat.

Yes, as stated in the original post, this applies to non-backer orders. However, an interesting point is it does apply to subscription orders by backers that are still waiting on the backer order to arrive. As the order timeline was given as 10-12 weeks…

Yes, you guys can have my spot in line too. :-p

This wouldn't apply to the original backers, as the nature of the crowdfund investment was not the purchase of a product, but an investment followed by the promise of a reward. Different rules apply... but to the pre-orders and current buyers, these rules…

I like one pouch = one pitcher.

Interesting, just read through it. Any owner placed on the new website looks like it would fall under the rule. It looks like by delaying shipping this long may cause a large number of canceled orders from non responses.

There is a discussion about this in another thread, but this point is important enough to deserve discussion entirely centered around it: Regarding the recent 8+ week delay that has been added to non-backer orders, Rosa Labs must do the following to…

Filterdecay said: If they had limited amounts why would they push early backers into buying more product to get it sooner and que them up based on how much money they spent? Why wouldnt they of shipped and let reorders take care of things? They created…

Higher protein, less carbs. Something along the lines of Zone diet - 40-30-30. The powdered mix is readily digested and assimilated by one's system and thus I see a fairly large blood sugar hit.

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I'm going to bump this, as I'd like to know this as well. @MattCauble can you hook us up?

The off center 1 in a circle is driving me nuts.

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Shading the bubbles would be a good compromise and allow for the same effect, without being so subtle as to be invisible on hd monitors. The lines are miniscule on my screen, and while they're clean, they're not performing their task. Good to see some…

I actually prefer the new styling. But it'd be ideal if people could pick their own theme - that way everyone's happy.

I'm actually in agreement with @vanclute here. The new bubble-style is nearly invisible to me and I'm usually pretty observant when it comes to visual UI (real world, maybe not so much ).

@codinghorror, It looks like whoever is responsible for the styling of things in Discourse (don't know if that's you) has taken a page from the iOS style guide. I for one, really really really hate it. The new notification icons are so subtle that they're…

Sounds interesting if you have a blender, though I'd ask why use extract when you have the fruit already? Also personally I can't stand the alcohol taste of most extracts when mixed in my soylent. When I do get a blender I'm going to have a field day…

Using McCormick imitation extracts (found in baking aisle at grocery store) and frozen fruit, I've come up with a few tasty recipes. Each recipe uses 3 cups of ice water (Just a little ice to break up Soylent, kinda like a blender ball.) This makes…

Interesting... the funny thing is, I used to be quite the extreme night owl. In bed anywhere from midnight to 3am, wake up anywhere from 8am to11am. Since Soylent, I'm up and raring to go by 8am at the latest, and usually more like between 6 & 7am.…

I guess I'm the opposite. In the morning I love to make eggs and toast, sometimes hash browns (diced not shredded), and fruit. Then I have DIY soylent for lunch and dinner (at work and then after I get home and work out). Maybe it's because you're a night…

I've noticed something interesting for some time now. I tend to have one conventional meal most days. When I do, it's almost always at night. For whatever reason, that's when I have the urge for something other than Soylent. Never in the morning.…

Yeah Soylent is pretty dang flexible, and easily keeps fine in the fridge for 3 days, no problem. We tend to eat at least 1 conventional meal most days too, though sometimes it's a pretty small one. Which reminds me something I've observed and meant…

Hi uberjer, I won't make any claims about the accuracy of the profile I made. What I did was simply reference the Soylent nutrition label and multiply the percentages and the USDA RDI/RDA values, and then back-filled the things that weren't listed on…

In addition to antibodies, "Moreover, formulas do not change in composition as the infant ages. Thus, formula is not responsive to a growing infant's nutritional needs, which makes the digestive process more difficult."http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684040/…

Filterdecay said: If they had limited amounts why would they push early backers into buying more product to get it sooner and que them up based on how much money they spent? Because with limited staff to repack, label, and ship stuff out, it's a heckuva…

Just got this email as well. I placed my order on 5/13 and thought that the wait so far has been long enough, but this is just absurd.

Search for bottle cleaners on amazon. I bought one of the OXO brushes. The great thing about stainless steel is, very little sticks to it, even if it dries. A bit if warm water and the brush takes it all off. I run it through the dishwasher every…

after trying 2 contigos for about a month, I cant recommend them. Cleaning the lids is such a pain, that using them every day is becoming a drag. its nice that they seal and all, but to me, its not worth the hassle. And I see an issue with many of…

Today I was eating some soylent (Schmoylent, actually) that I mixed in Takyea and left in there over night, then transferred to my thermos. I think I've decided I quite dislike the thermos in general, but the approach was viable. It started cold and…

justjessee said: ...If a lot of people cut/run/refund...at least that means the queue gets shorter right? This... is true. Every time someone cancels their order, everyone else moves up one in line. I canceled, so, you're welcome! justjessee said:

If they had limited amounts why would they push early backers into buying more product to get it sooner and que them up based on how much money they spent? Why wouldnt they of shipped and let reorders take care of things? They created a incentive to…

Sharhanna said: 80.00? A shirt OR a pair of pants more likely! You don't know where he works. How do you know how much his kind of shirt and pants cost? www.amazon.com FunWorld Big Top Clown Costume About this item…

Filterdecay said: All of the seed money was spent and to output product for all of the kickstarter backers You really think so? At the end of October 2013, they had about $1.5 in backer orders, but they also got another $1.5 in VC money. They'd need…

That helps a lot. Thank you!

...If a lot of people cut/run/refund...at least that means the queue gets shorter right? Trying to find a bright side here.

Raw cacao , Cayanne Pepper , and Cinnamon would be a great blend but i am having trouble finding a mix, can you do some experiments on your end? Also how about using organic chia seeds instead of the ones you are currently using and updating all your…

If you have a large steel serving spoon, you can try mixing the soylent in the thermos, leaving it open, and putting the spoon handle inside with the head sticking out. Should act as a radiator. However, you're better off with the Takyea, because you…

Isosteel also does double-wall vacuum insulated steel bottles, and goes up to 51 ounce: www.amazon.com Isosteel VA-9560WQ 51 fl. oz. Double Walled Vacuum Flask, Extra Wide Opening, Plastic Srew Stopper, Quickstop System…

@axcho and me are actually trying to find out about the DIY community as a whole and what the customers think of all the different major and custom recipes they have ordered.A lot of people are sharing their insight into their experiences with different…

I'd be willing to bet, the valliant defenders are hurting Soylent and RL more than they are helping it. people are already angry and basically be told to shut up and wait...or the kickstarter entitlement crowd and their nonsense. That's just going to…

vanclute said: As for calorie amount, if you only consume 1500 in a day just consume the rest the next day. Is that problematic? We end up doing that every single day. If I was going more than 50-75%, perhaps. But each serving of my soylent is about…

Cias said: i still stand by my entry of Jan 1st 2015 even that is being optimistic honestly. I'm also standing by my Jan 18th. But who knows, maybe this time is the time their ramp up ramps up. Cias said:

Ah, didn't think to give it a good shakedown. I'll look into getting one of those brushes too from Target or something... thanks.

I'm in the same exact boat. I've been following and sent information about the original Soylent Kickstarter to a lot of people, I've been really excited. I just didn't have the money to give. Mid May things looked to be more official and I had the funds…

mountainstream said: For the chia seeds, would it help if I let the mixture sit overnight so they have time to absorb some liquid? I haven't used them myself and don't know, but based on what I read online, I suspect even a short soak will help - I…

The moment I saw this, I knew I had to have it. I still hesitated maybe half an hour or so. Then ordered two of em. Yeah it's a risk etc. But what the hell... no risk, no reward. And I have been utterly useless at manually tracking my Soylent consumption…

codinghorror said: Also anything you have an infinite number of has no value. Hmmmm, is there not an infinite amount of air available? I'm kinda thinkin' that has value... And what about parallel universes? Let's turn this into a discussion of…

Melon_Collie said: What I wouldn't give to get a "like" from a @vanclute or a @livingparadox, or even a @BriBy. That would make my day. LOL consider it done! Melon_Collie said:

Yeah, I'm basically trying to decide which DIY route is best for me.

marvin737 said: Do you guys have any tricks to clean bottles with these small necks thoroughly? I have the same thermos and can generally get it clean with a good rinse (put in some water & a dash of soap, close, shake vigorously) and a bit of scrubbing…

See http://blog.codinghorror.com/rate-limiting-and-velocity-checking/ Also anything you have an infinite number of has no value.

Thanks for the link to the coumarin article, @j8048188 - fascinating! Really interesting how it is like a polar opposite of Vitamin K... Yay, curious to hear how it goes, @LauraT! So far I think only Justin has been using Justin Fuel...

@snakethejake That looks like a fairly small opening at the head for cleaning. Do you guys have any tricks to clean bottles with these small necks thoroughly? I just bought: www.amazon.com Thermos Stainless King 40-Ounce…

I got the same e-mail...cancelled subscription and requested refund. Perhaps will try Soylent when they work the kinks out.

Or we could be like the rebel American Colonists and hope for the best when hitting the post button. Oh, I'm here in America too. Well, when in rome