I get home and the last essential package is waiting for me. Its my Omega-3 Fish Oil pills and the Emergen-C. Everything else was delivered over the weekend and all I’m missing is the 7lb bag of brown sugar but luckily I had some in the pantry.
Lets get mixing.
Using a baking scale and a few bowls I began adding the ingredients per my hackerschool varient. Its surprisingly easy to measure everything. I took my time and was careful after my mishaps.
The mishaps:
I thought it would be easy to just add stuff to one bowl and add the weights together. That is until I added 10g of Choline Bitartrate instead of Sodium Gluconate (hint: Choline Bitartrate smells like ass). Well 10 grams of Choline Bitartrate is 5 days worth of Choline so to lessen the mishap I doubled up the recipe and made two days worth. Each with double the Choline Bitartrate but less than a daily max dose.
Second mishap was using old brown sugar. I ended up having to pick out the chunks and crush them up by hand.
All right. Things have gone fairly well so far, no major mishaps. Now time to bag it.
My idea was to be able to carry my Soylent around with me in powder form. Mixing it up when it was meal time. I wanted three handy bags per day, each about 633 calories, with the olive oil on the side. I measured the weight of the powder, which came out to 700 grams, dividing it by 6 gave me approximately 116g per bag. Using small zip lock snack bags I separated the Soylent into five bags and put the rest of the powder in my blender bottle to mix and chill for breakfast.
Here’s tomorrow’s Soylent. 1 Vitamin D-3 Tablet, 1 Fish Oil Tablet, 2 bags of soylent (five pictured), and 1 ready to go in a blender bottle.
I didn’t give it a taste. I’ll leave that to tomorrow. I won’t lie though, I’m a bit anxious. I imagine that I will take a swig and immediately gag, but hopefully with the amount of sugar and cocoa powder I put in I’ll have a nice chocolately drink. I’ll let you guys know how it tastes tomorrow morning.
Other than that I figure I’d fill you in on me:
- Male
- 5’8″
- 215 lbs as of last weighing (will weight again tomorrow morning)
- Relatively healthy with no medical issues
I don’t think Soylent is dangerous, especially combined with regular meals. There are a lot of people out there who put way worse things into their bodies (100% fast food and junk food diet) who survive. Hopefully giving my body exactly what it needs will help me feel better overall. Lets see what happens.
Meanwhile here’s a blog post by Rob presenting counter arguments to popular criticisms that arise around Soylent.
