New Madras + Mexican chilli (rice added)

adding rice to Madras and Mexican chilli makes sense - for all those folks eating it direct. I’ll definitely putting them in a thermos for long car journeys, like I do with Thai green curry, mac cheese and others.

But there was something I liked about the fact that Madras and Mexican chilli were carb free. In particular, as an active guy, a 400kcal sachet was never going to be a meal for me. But with these two I could cook some rice - usually with a veg or two on top - plate it and then tip the curry or chilli mix over the top. That did make a great meal and I’d do it a couple of times a week. Will miss that use case. I suppose I could prepare 2-sachets of the new rice-diluted Huel and add a few vegetables. But that would be basically twice as expensive / less good value and having separate rice was definitely a plus for the eating experience.

I mention all of this just in case you think this might be an interesting angle to explore with other people. Huel as a hot meal component - as opposed to Huel as a meal in itself.

Whut? Since when?

Yeah. I missed that version too.

OK i didn’t really mean carb free. More like they didn’t have loads of rice in them. Which made them very high protein, high fibre. And gave me space to double the energetic value by adding my own rice + some veg. A great way to make a real meal at home and something I’d happily do again if Huel brought out “meal component” type products. Think “bolognese” without the spaghetti (I can make better spaghetti myself with some Italian stuff and nicely al dente). Or “mexican chilli” but make your own rice. Or a whole range of vegetarian curries: imagine putting bowls of different ones on the table together with a big plate of rice and everyone tucks in…. It’s tricky to make well balanced vegetarian food but this would make it easy.