I think the plastic bag is good but should be bigger in size. You should offer bottles of tetrapack with an specific opener to maximise the space in the deliveries and in our houses. Bottles of 2-2.5L all square, like the milk ones.
What do you think?
I prefer the idea of a powder refillable Huel Tetrapack. The idea is to have the bags as refills and the bottle to serve the huel powder. That would be very appealing to use.
PS: I tried to use a Joylent Bottle as a refillable huel powder and the Huel powder because of its density, gets stucked all the time in the opener. The opener is 2,5cm width.
Bottles full of the huel powder. The soylent drink system is horrible. But the only way of using the tetrapack would be with bottles of 2 liters or more.
Interesting thoughts, what are your reasons for wanting to use Tetra packs? Iâm not sure that they would save space as the volume would still be the same. Do you mean these?
Also, I think you are the only person to request larger packaging! We are exploring alternative packaging options at the moment though.
How many liters or volume is in the huel bags? Like 4 liters each one? You could offer other solution to make the usage more accesible with 2,5 liters tetrapack. Or even a refillable tetrapack style bottle that you could create and sell in your online shop.
A very strong tetrapack style with a big mouth or opener to serve the huel and easy to refill from the bags.
You could make those 2 aproach:
Try and offer a solution of big tetrapacks (normally very reciclables). But they have to be big because Huel is related with the sustainability. It wouldnt make sense to make 1 liter huel.
Create a product in colaboration with tetrapack to make people aware of the Huel relation with the environment and create a Tetrapack refillable. The good thing of huel is that is not a liquid, so it doesnt pollute or mess the tetrapack. The thing is that in this case, the whole product would be critic to the food system of nowadays of creating tons and tons of packagings everyday for very small quantities of food. This would be a reminder of from where we came, the enormous waste in the food logistic system of today and the goal of the future, using a tetrapack as something âvintageâ. The huel tetrapack would be something durable, at least 1 year and of course biodegradable. You could send as a gift for the subscription, for the 1 or 2 years customers or as something you sell. The aim would be to substitute those gallons and gallons of milk, water and juices that we buy and waste everyday and have only one tetrapack in our houses, like I said, as a critic to our non sustainable society.
I like the big bags of huel, is efficient and I dont like the Joylent style of lots of tiny bags. I think food is serious, and the environment is something that we should care and have in mind in all our movements, specially for companies.
The bags system are good, but it seems like an alpha, like a beta product, something not finished or established. I like the idea of using big bags to reduce the used packaging but the system to serve the huel from the bag feels very like a protein shake or something for the gym. Thats why I think the bags should be a refill system of something you havent created yet.
The Tetrapack system is one aproach, is not the best, but could be very attractive. Also you could send a Huel dispenser when someone buys the anual subscription. That would make Huel much more stable and profesional and less crafty.
Not mixed because that would be the same system as Soylent and that is super inefficient. One bottle per meal is crazy. I prefer a big bottle of Huel without being mixed. Specially if its refillable. Then you only refill twice a week.
All depends how you want to use it I guess. For me, Iâd be really happy with a fridge full of bottles / tetrapaks that I grab as and when I need them.
I donât see any big sustainability issues so long as the packaging is recyclable. But aye, would take up more space than bags of powder. But I got along ok with storing lots of ânormalâ food before I switched to sacks of powder
Besides, those that use soylent RTD tend to have subscriptions with smaller amounts arriving more regularly, they donât have to order 120 bottles in one go every time.
And what about the price? Soylent drink is almost 2,5⏠per bottle, making it more than 350⏠per month. The whole concept of affordable, easy and sustainable food is out then
Iâve been eating Huel since not long after launch. I recommend it all the time. The powder is awesome, but that doesnât automatically discount ready mixed being a good idea.
It might not appeal to you but itâs where the market is going and ready mixed will appeal to far more people than powder ever will
Thatâs not my point, my point is your suggestion fundamentally contradicts one of Huelâs aims as a business, which theyâve stated multiple times. One of their core priniciples is being kind to the environment. Packing a lorry full of ready made product when they could be shipping powder completely goes against that.
To make nutritionally complete, convenient, affordable food, with minimum impact on the environment and animals.
Under âWhat weâre all aboutâ
Being environmentally friendlyâ being vegan and producing zero food waste means we have much less of an environmental impact on the planet than many other food products.
Ready to drink Huel still delivers on both of those. Powder is âbetterâ than RTD, but both are better than normal food production and in the end itâll come down to mainstreaming the category - your average person on the street simply wonât buy a sack of powder for a meal, but they will buy a bottled drink.
That choice will be better for them and for the environment.
Rubbish. It might well sell but it will never be enviro friendly. Sorry but no rational person could conclude otherwise. AIUI The team behind Huel genuinely care about such issues so I can guess their response to you but itâd be nicer to actually read it. I wonder where Tim isâŚ
