| Amount | Ingredient | $ / day | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 360 | g | Maseca® Instant Corn Masa Flour | $0.52 | Mi Pueblo |
| 18 | g | GNC Mega Men® Sport - Vanilla Bean | $0.83 | GNC |
| 1 | pill | Calcium 600mg USP (CVS brand) | $0.08 | CVS |
| 56 | g | Soybean Oil (CVS brand) | $0.22 | CVS |
| 42 | g | "Body Fortress" Whey Protein (Chocolate) | $1.21 | CVS |
| 1 | pill | Nature Made D3 1000 IU tablets | $0.11 | CVS |
| 4 | g | Iodised Salt | $0.02 | Mi Pueblo |
Amounts for: Total Daily Cost: | $3.00 | Add Ingredients to Amazon Cart | ||
This is a practical chow recipe, at least if you live near Palo Alto. Aside from the GNC powder, everything comes from a grocery store (Mi Pueblo) and a chain pharmacy (CVS). There's a GNC store across the street from Stanford. They actually had a "2nd jar half off" deal on the thing I bought, but I held off on that because I want to try this out first for a bit.
Even the measures are practical: 360g of Masa flour is exactly 3 cups, 56g of soybean oil is 4tbsp, 18g of GNC powder is one scoop, and so is 42g of whey protein powder (it comes with a rather bigger scoop). Only the salt is slightly fiddly: a whole teaspoon is too much. This should get fixed when I switch to Lite Salt.
All that means you can get started without waiting for an Amazon order and without getting a precision scale!
Potassium
I need to get "lite salt", though, and I'll update the recipe for that. I picked up some potassium supplement at CVS assuming that would do the trick, not realizing how ridiculously low the dosage is. It seems "lite salt" is the only locally available source of potassium that even approaches the amount needed. This is especially important for me since I take blood pressure meds that can lower potassium as a side effect.
Morton's Lite Salt shows up in various folks' Soylent recipes as not containing iodine, but that's bunk. The Morton's web site clearly states it's iodized just as much as their regular iodized salt.
Sulfur
Sulfur content is not completely accounted for because the Whey Protein stuff doesn't list it; you could calculate it because it does list amino acid composition, but I haven't bothered. I'm pretty sure that if I did, there'd be plenty of sulfur.
Choline
Choline, whatever it is, does not seem to available at CVS. I didn't ask when I was at GNC, but I imagine that between them, the Vitamin Shoppe, and Whole Foods, I'll find it somewhere. Gotta leave some room for improvement. I may look into this later this week.
Calcium / Vitamin D
These two are very commonly combined in tablets and I should probably have gotten the combo tablets.