Just tried huel and need help!
Trying to come up with quick, healthy meals that’ll help me lose some weight.
Have happily used various other pre-prepared meals and meal substitute products in the past, but I’m reactive to gluten and in recent years have become violently allergic to alliums (onions, garlic, leeks, chives… anything in that family of vegetables). Also my young daughter has coeliac disease so I won’t have gluten in the house for her safety.
Unfortunately the product I was using before has changed their recipe and are no longer gluten free, so I searched for something else to replace it. Ended up with Huel black edition as it seems to be GF and compatible with my allergies.
Ordered strawberries and cream flavour and tried it for the first time today. Wow. It’s the most indescribably repulsive thing I’ve ever put in my mouth. Mixed it up with water per the instructions, and one small mouthful had me retching immediately. Poured it down the sink, and made up another portion with skimmed milk in the hope that it would be better, but it wasn’t much improved. I choked down the portion as best I could, in between bouts of gagging, but there’s no way I could possibly face another. I’m still gagging and retching three hours later.
I am not used to overly sweetened or processed food, on the contrary because of my allergies almost everything I eat is made fresh from scratch, because manufacturers put onion or garlic powder in almost every premade savoury food product. I don’t sweeten my food and use little salt. However I’ve also travelled fairly widely and enjoyed a wide variety of foods over my life, including a lot of challenging flavours and textures. My palette is not at all restrictive.
I am not a naturally queasy person, either. I have a pretty strong stomach. I’m 40, and the one and only experience that has ever elicited this sort of reaction from me before was when I spent 3 days working on the gantry over an aeration tank at a New York sewage treatment works one hot July. And I’m pretty sure I feel more ill now than I did then.
How do people actually consume this stuff? I don’t expect a meal-replacement shake to be delicious, but I would expect it to be at least tolerable. The flavour and texture of this huel black edition are both so overpoweringly disgusting that I can’t imagine how anyone actually chokes it down on a regular basis. I have had a toddler vomit directly into my mouth, and that was nothing compared to this.
So, help! Any advice? Is it just the S&C flavour that’s horrifically disgusting, or is the whole range like this? Is there anything that can be done to mask or improve it? How do you do it?
Thanks!
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