Nutrient mush: It’s Cheaper than water!

Nutrient Mush’s goal is to make a complete food that can fulfill your entire nutritional needs with things easily bought from Amazon/Walmart for $1 a day - cheaper than a bottle of water.

I hate cooking. As a software engineer who has been working remotely for the past year, I found myself feeling frequently under-nourished. I started eating a stew made of Pinto beans and whatever I could find for breakfast and lunch in order to fuel myself during the workday. My roomates started calling this my “mush”. Jokingly, I started putting my mush in a blender and squeezing it out of plastic bags. One thing led to another, and I decided to try and make this as nutritious as possible for as cheap as possible. I started grinding up vitamins, and spent at least 10 hours scouring Walmart.com placing nutrition facts into a spreadsheet. I decided my goal was to make something Macro-nutritionally complete for under $1 a day, because obviously that’s all I can afford on a Software Engineer’s Salary...

The goal isn’t to be able to live off this for months at a time, or for it to even taste good. The goal is to be able to treat this a fuel for my body which I treat like a machine/computer and replace a meal or two alongside a normal diet.

This is my first attempt, and I’d love feedback on any ways I can improve this, or ways I can source cheaper ingredients.