Hi @geak
Essentially, that will be correct, but, just to reiterate for people who haven’t read my previous post; the number of servings as per the label is now 17 x 100g/400kcal and will still be.
Got there in the end, will now withdraw from the thread satisfied. Cheers everyone. 
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It would’ve been a nice gesture and soften the blow of the price increase if Huel rounded up to 18 servings per bag and gave us the extra 200 calories (every half meal is valuable to us skint Huellers!) instead of rounding down and taking 200 calories out.
@JamesCollier what’s the reasoning behind a 17 serving bag?
I’m guessing it’s because originally the bags had 14 servings which was one meal a day for 2 weeks?
And 17 servings is the closest you can get to matching the same weight / volume with the new formula?
Why not go for 20 servings though?
A nice round 2kilos…
(Please don’t know rethink their 17 servings per bag and decide to downsize to 15 to match the number of bars in a box 
… then we really will feel ripped off!)
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Oi, that’s my idea.
So at the moment my statement that a reduction in filled weight does not equal a reduction in calories is correct because the ingredients change results in a more calorie dense product.
However there will be a reduction in calories and filled weight coming shortly when the packs are adjusted to contain 17 servings x 400kcal and not 17.x servings that they do currently.
I agree with @ChristinaT that 17 servings seems like a strange number. I can see the logic for 14, 21 or 28 to fit with a subscription interval based on varying servings per day and frequency of subscription based on weeks, but 17 seems odd and doesn’t appear to tie in with anything. At least the 7000 calories per bag and two bag minimum order made sense if you were working on 2000 calories a day and two bags = 28 servings or 1 weeks supply. Although in reality how many customers are a) 100% Huel and b) On 2000 kcal a day?
I think you’ll find I suggested it before you 
I said that 2 days ago. Then the day after you stole it. So I was just taking it back again 
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oh… 
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I’m staying with 500 cal servings, so 6800 calorie bags will contain 13.6 servings, which is totes bobbins.
Just to be clear: I don’t care.
Just to be clearer: obviously bigger bags are better and I agree with whoever thought of it first, which will probably turn out to be me.
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I also prefer 500 calorie shakes. Cos i find 120g powder plus cacao and boosters and 600ml water fills the shaker to the brim.
I don’t always drink it in one go.
I like having some left over for later.
100g doesn’t make a full shaker and that just seems silly. Then if I want a snack later I have to make more. Or eat a bar. Except the new bars are too yummy and I end up eating five.
So instead of having 500 calories of Huel I have 400 plus 200 x 5. If I went with 400 calories I would get fat fast.
So 500 it is.
Me and @hunzas and @David all agree a 2kilo bag makes more sense.
But without the price going up. Seems a legit request 
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I know my maths is probably suspect, but is it not 125g for a 500 calorie shake if 100g = 400 calories?
I’ve had a tension headache all morning so numbers are being tricksy beasts and running away from me right now…
I’ve been diddling myself out of 20 calories all this time
Nah - I just round up. The 4 calories a gram is an estimation anyway.
And I add 6g cacao and 4g of fb which probably adds a few calories so I just call my shake 500 calories for the sake of simplicity, but I actually use 120g powder.
But yes, 125g for 500 calories.
These precise numbers have become critical all of a sudden on the forum lately !!
To change the subject completely I just realised I’ve been sitting with two chocolate orange huel bars on my lap for the last half hour and I’ve got the electric throw on full heat.
Do I dare open them?!
It’s gonna be very messy 
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@Coup was wondering how to heat them without a microwave. Good sciencing, there! There are lots of other methods to be tested, like what if you leave them in the exhaust pipe of a Harley Davidson, or what if you take one to have in the bath but you fall asleep and then you wake up panicking because you slipped under the water an hour later, or what if you fire one into space and catch it decades later when its orbit brings it back to Earth?
I’ve found that keeping one in my jeans pocket does a pretty good job - body temp makes them just the right amount of soft.
@Coup you could always drop a bar into a mug of hot water for a minute
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Yeah that’s more convenient than him keeping them in your jeans pocket.
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Or start an argumentative thread on the Huel forum, wait for it to start getting heated and lob a bar in for 10 seconds, or maybe 12 seconds, or 2 hours.
Any of those numbers will clearly be wrong and open to challenge…
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It’s really an ‘evolved’ thing. When Huel was launched we sold it as a ‘week’s supply’ (or '‘two week’s supply’, ‘four week’s supply’, etc). Two pouches on 2,000kcal per day = 14,000kcal = 2 bags. We changed this as, of course, most people didn’t have 2,000kcal-worth of Huel per day and instead sold it by the ‘meals’, with the same pouch size.
We’ve had this standard pouch from day one and, sure, there’s a bit of room to fill a bit more, but, due to the force when the machine puts Huel into the pouches, there needs to be headroom*. We’re looking at new pouch material (to solve the sustainability bit) and too large would mean they could be more susceptible to splitting. Plus, they wouldn’t fit comfortably into most people’s cupboards, possibly. So 17 servings has come from this. 20 servings would definitely mean a larger pouch.
17 servings is fair to question though. but why 20? There’s an arguament that 14 would make more sense.
*Julian filmed me on this machine once; I was useless and got Huel all over the floor and myself! 
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From what I read on the forums etc - so not based on any hard data - I think many people use Huel on weekdays only. That’s the way I use it - breakfast and lunch from Monday to Friday (with “regular” food in the evenings and weekends).
So pouches sold with servings/meals in multiples of 5 (rather than 7) make more sense to me. Two pouches with 20 servings each should last me a month (well, four weeks but you get the idea).
And multiples of 5 are easier to add up than multiples of 7 (from a marketing perspective).
I do enjoy this forum and I enjoy reading about other people’s experience with Huel but surely the amount of servings per bag isn’t anything to worry about.
I buy my Huel and when I finish a bag I open another one. If I need to open another bag halfway through making a shake then so be it. I have a subscription set up and if for any reason I need to move this then it’s easy enough to do so. It therefore doesn’t matter to me in the slightest if there are 17, 20, 28 or 19.36 servings and I’m confused why anyone would see it as an issue.
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I’d love to see that video