Hot & Savoury Meal Pack Quantities Are Inconvenient

I’ve always approached H&S products as being the natural ‘dinner’ option in the Huel lineup.

Being an adult male, a 400 kcal dinner isn’t really viable, so I always have two. The H&S products being sold with an odd number of servings is therefore super inconvenient; it means each purchase is (for me) essentially 3.5 meals. Far from life-ruining stuff, of course - and it would never impact whether I buy H&S, but it might sometimes affect how many I buy, just because it slightly dilutes the convenience-focused nature of Huel products. This leads to me having more of a drive to consider other options at least some of the time.

As someone who has just returned after a two-year hiatus, I want some Huel Black Edition for lunches, some Hot & Savoury for dinners, some Daily Greens to plug any gaps, and probably some Complete Nutrition Bars for both the sake of having a treat, and occasionally just for the sensation of having something to bite & chew.

(And did I mention I’d rather not be limited to having literally the same flavour every day?)

For me, the advantage of Huel is it manages to be a convenient healthy option which interferes with my habit of lazily just ordering an unhealthy takeout after a long day because I’m tired and I can’t be bothered. The main disadvantage of Huel is not that it is inexpensive in a vacuum, but that the combination of the product quantities & various incentives (e.g. free shipping) means you always end up with bulk purchases to some extent. So in that context, the Hot & Savoury selling with an odd number of servings is disproportionately painful - the subscriptions are already a bit ‘spikey’ financially, so the instinctual “just buy two of each” doesn’t feel great…

I am trying to be quite specific on my use case, as I have no idea what proportion of Huel customers get most or all of their calories from Huel products (and I obviously don’t expect changes to be made just for me). If I’m statistically a weird edge case that it isn’t justifiable to cater to, fair enough - just wanted to offer my $0.02. :slightly_smiling_face:

No I hear you, and it’s a complaint that we saw lots of right from the start.

Of course, the initial feedback would be to used more than one but understand that financially this doesn’t really work!

It’s feedback that i’ll pass on for sure. The reason why we made the change was because we believe that this gives users better experiences getting the right balance of ingredients :heart:

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