Life Hacking Using Meal Replacements: Nutrition, Time, and Money

I’ve found a cool life hacking idea. After a few days, it seems like it’s possible to sustain the vegan meal replacements: Vanilla Huel and Chocolate Soylent.

The nutrition is awesome and I REALLY can’t believe I’m actually consuming vegan. I’m craving a huge T-bone steak, double Whopper, and Buffalo wings even just thinking of “vegan” food.

My focus also is the time and money savings. Each 400-calorie “meal” takes about 1 minute to make by just pouring water and adding powder into a mixer bottle and shaking, and it’s dirt cheap:
- $1.78 for Huel
- $1.50 for Soylent

Since I plan on alternating between them for flavor, the weighted average is $1.64 per “meal”.

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I’m planning to get 1,000 calories per day from them, which is 2.5 “meals”, and comes out to only $4.10 per day! (2.5 * $1.64) I consume probably 2,500 calories on normal days and 3,500 calories on running days (15…