I just got my two starter bags (side question - how can I tell which version Huel I got? I ordered it shortly after the new year), super excited to try a new powder. Even after 5 weeks on one Soylent meal a day, my body wasn’t adjusting, and I eventually needed outpatient help to clear all the gas out and get flushed. Not cheap over here.
I’ve always had a terrible diet. I’ve never been good at planning a week’s worth of meals, networking flavor profiles, whipping things in the fridge together willy-nilly, so things rot, I don’t like leftovers for days on end, and I always end up with too much cheese in everything. After I lost most of my cooking time to home business and keeping this house from collapsing and my two hour round trip commute, I just started eating cheap TV dinners. $1.29, human levels of salt, 400 calories a pop, the basic math said that between these and a giant tub of rice and a bottle of multivitamins, I should be able to survive on $120 a month. But that just doesn’t work - creation only knows the horrors visited on the animals in those dinners and the people making them, I found myself snacking too much, and the cartons produced a lot of waste.
An extra $40 means not much left going into the emergency fund, but my finances are fubar anyways, and $160 a month for 1400 vegan calories a day rounded out with something is a much better choice than the track I’m on. I’d like someday to go 100% and have other food just be the odd night out with the missus every couple of months, but close to $300 a month is more than I’ve ever spent on food.
There’s a bit of indigestion, but no more so than with this current diet, and after having had my first few shakers of Huel my hunger has become insatiable! I have to be careful now or I’ll eat several meals. I think my diet was just that void of certain nutrients. I also have to do something about the oral fixation - I feel satiated and can work on a shaker, but my mouth gets restless.
I’ve always been of the opinion that consumer response to the lackluster processed food industry should not be a reactionary retreat into a mythical golden natural-cooked yesterday that didn’t exist (and required someone to be practically tethered to the kitchen), but to demand, healthier, higher quality, more ethically sourced and manufactured processed food. I’m looking forward to this transition.
I’m also glad I can address a bit of the envy I feel for our dogs since we just pour them some chow and they want for nothing
edit: spelling