# How did you discover Huel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Experiences\ **Created:** [February 5, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928 "2020-02-05T18:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indigo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/indigo/32/8157_2.png) [@Indigo](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Indigo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/1 "2020-02-05T18:10:40Z")
While working a food stall at Glastonbury 2017, a woman approached 8am ish eating handfuls of Huel granola frantically out of a bag, while eyeballing chips. Chips? I ask. No, chomp chomp this has all the chomp chomp nutrition I need. She explained everything Huel while eating non stop and eyeballing chips and everything else. It was her first time hueling, I can’t imagine her bowels with alcohol and Huel and other tings for 4-5 days. That’s how I learned of Huel. ---
**Author:** ![KarlBerg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarlBerg](https://discuss.huel.com/u/KarlBerg)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/2 "2020-02-05T18:25:23Z")
My colleague recommended it, I was eating other ‘complete foods’ at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Huel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/tim_huel/32/11195_2.png) [@Tim\_Huel](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Tim_Huel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/3 "2020-02-05T18:47:24Z")
> [@Indigo](#): > > he explained everything Huel while eating non stop and eyeballing chips and everything else. @hunzas was that you? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/tristan/32/7986_2.png) [@Tristan](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/4 "2020-02-05T21:58:03Z")
I read [Rob Rhinehart’s article](http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298) about living without food back in 2013 and got super interested in the idea and loved that the future was finally here. Then when the Soylent Kickstarter went US only I hoped someone in the EU would take the idea and run with it and I found Joylent, liked it, then Huel launched pretty soon after with less maltodextrin and a nicer sounding recipe and their very first Facebook ad. Pretty sure I was customer number five or six lol. ---
**Author:** ![Phil\_C](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/phil_c/32/8494_2.png) [@Phil\_C](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Phil_C)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/5 "2020-02-06T01:57:01Z")
I looked around for options after I had to take some drastic dietary and lifestyle changes - I think it was on one of the websites like Wired or T3 that I first read about it. I never really trust these sites too much - especially ones like T3 who favour anyone who is paying them at the time - but at least it prompted me to dig deeper into it. ---
**Author:** ![Error](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/error/32/6276_2.png) [@Error](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Error)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/6 "2020-02-06T08:29:28Z")
I found out about it because my friend was severely malnourished and Huel was recommended to them by a nutritionist to help get them back into a healthy place. ---
**Author:** ![Indigo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/indigo/32/8157_2.png) [@Indigo](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Indigo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/7 "2020-02-06T08:56:18Z")
Did it help your friend? ---
**Author:** ![mae24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@mae24](https://discuss.huel.com/u/mae24)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/8 "2020-02-06T10:18:59Z")
I remember seeing the website when it first launched and basically following it and wanting to try it without my parents thinking I was trying to go on a mad diet lol. Then I got a job with long hours about 4 years ago and thought that would be the perfect time to try it: the rest is history! ---
**Author:** ![DvdVgt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/dvdvgt/32/11932_2.png) [@DvdVgt](https://discuss.huel.com/u/DvdVgt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/9 "2020-02-06T13:09:30Z")
The commercials kept in popping up on my instagram. I was so annoyed I had to check the website… 🙈 ---
**Author:** ![David](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/david/32/6981_2.png) [@David](https://discuss.huel.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/10 "2020-02-06T13:12:26Z")
I followed the same route as @Tristan, but after trying Joylent and Huel I gave up for a couple of years because I didn’t like them very much and kept wasting shakes by leaving them in the fridge too long. I tried Huel again a few years later and liked it a lot more. ---
**Author:** ![hunzas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/hunzas/32/8275_2.png) [@hunzas](https://discuss.huel.com/u/hunzas)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/11 "2020-02-06T13:16:11Z")
It wasn’t me, although for the past 2 Glastonbury’s 17 and 19 (it wasn’t on in 2018) I did exist primarily on Huel Powder first one and powder and bars second one. It really is an excellent product for using at festivals… Anyway as I have said on the forum several times before I read about it in an Easyjet inflight magazine when I was flying to Lisbon. It wasn’t a 100% favourable review but enough to pique my interest. I had never heard of meal replacements before (apart from Slimfast), although did use vegan protein powders. That was in August or Sept, but I didn’t actually start drinking Huel until the following March, and since then have drank it pretty much every day for breakfast and lunch. ---
**Author:** ![David](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/david/32/6981_2.png) [@David](https://discuss.huel.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/12 "2020-02-06T13:19:03Z")
> [@Phil\_C](#): > > I think it was on one of the websites like Wired or T3 that I first read about it. I remember there was a spate of nerd articles after Soylent and its clones first hit the market. Pasty dorky weeds were the early adopters! It certainly piqued my interest and I am the pastiest weedy dork around. ---
**Author:** ![hunzas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/hunzas/32/8275_2.png) [@hunzas](https://discuss.huel.com/u/hunzas)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/13 "2020-02-06T13:20:57Z")
> [@David](#): > > I am the pastiest weedy dork around. I am not weedy or dorky but I do like pasties. ---
**Author:** ![David](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/david/32/6981_2.png) [@David](https://discuss.huel.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/14 "2020-02-06T13:21:20Z")
> [@hunzas](#): > > I am not weedy or dorky [citation needed] ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/tristan/32/7986_2.png) [@Tristan](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/15 "2020-02-06T13:50:16Z")
> [@David](#): > > kept wasting shakes by leaving them in the fridge too long Ha I went through a lot of that! Either forgot about them in the fridge or I left them in my car in the sun. I bet about a third of them were undrinkable. Funny really, a lot complain when recipes change but Huel today is far superior than when it first launched - it’s nice to be able to look away from it and still be able to drink it when I look back. I ended up trying every brand I could find and swapping between them all whilst writing a bit of a blog to keep track of them, that’s how I ended up making [EatComplete.co](https://eatcomplete.co). ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/tristan/32/7986_2.png) [@Tristan](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/16 "2020-02-06T13:54:15Z")
> [@David](#): > > Pasty dorky weeds I think you meant to say _Tech savvy biohackers_ seeking efficiency and convenience through a new kind of functional beverage 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hunzas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/hunzas/32/8275_2.png) [@hunzas](https://discuss.huel.com/u/hunzas)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/17 "2020-02-06T14:00:44Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > or I left them in my car in the su I did that too many times…now not so much as I don’t have a car ---
**Author:** ![Darrenbryan10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/darrenbryan10/32/3330_2.png) [@Darrenbryan10](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Darrenbryan10)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/18 "2020-02-06T14:00:45Z")
I heard about it on Radio 2 about 2-3 years ago, tried it straight away and have never looked back. I lost 3 stone in the first 12 months and now just eat it as a normal food. I’d always wanted to have a simple single item to use as food that contains everything a human needed (this was after watching cartoon characters eating a tablet for a meal in the 70’s) so this was and still is perfect for me. Im also liking it better with every incarnation, v3.0 is the best yet. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/tristan/32/7986_2.png) [@Tristan](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/19 "2020-02-06T14:07:22Z")
> [@hunzas](#): > > I did that too many times…now not so much as I don’t have a car Drastic solution, but I can see how that’d help 😉 I ended up getting very attuned to the difference in the sound of the ‘pop’ when uncapping my shaker. ---
**Author:** ![David](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/david/32/6981_2.png) [@David](https://discuss.huel.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928/20 "2020-02-06T14:15:44Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > Tech savvy biohackers I need good nutrition in my couchside mini fridge when I’m in the middle of a 16 hour Starcraft 2 marathon. [Next page](https://discuss.huel.com/t/how-did-you-discover-huel/16928.md?page=2)