Ordered XL but needed a Small, they delivered an XL!
Edit: this reminds me of the gallon of milk on Amazon with the funny reviews https://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Dairy-Whole-Vitamin-Gallon/dp/B00032G1S0
A quick 30 second explanation of what Soylent is:
Most people start with food and then decide which foods one should eat. Soylent started the other way- their founder made a list of all the substances an adult human body needs to operate, and put that in a shake. The result is a drink that's nutritionally complete- that means 2000 calories of Soylent contains everything your body needs to be healthy, including carbs, lipids, protein, micronutrients, etc etc.
What you've got is Soylent 2.0- the latest version of Soylent that comes in pre-mixed bottles. Each bottle has 400 calories, so it's about the same as a single meal. Most people seem to like the taste- I drink the stuff every day and couldn't be happier.
The way most people seem to use them is to replace meals of necessity- meals where you have no particular reason to eat (not going to a special restaurant, not meeting friends, etc) but are still hungry. This is how I use Soylent- if I'm craving some food or another I go eat that food, but if I'm just generically hungry and have nothing else going on, I grab a Soylent. This is both cheaper than most food options and better nutritionally.
Hopefully you like it! If you like it you can order more from Soylent's website or it's also an Amazon Subscribe & Save product. It's about $3/bottle, which (compared to a fast food or deli meal) is pretty competitive.
I would rather see Jolt cola make a comeback. I hate all this Red Bull energy drink junk (and the copycats). It makes me feel like shit after a few hours.
Apparently, they still make it, but it's not in any stores here.
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Hmm. I was looking up Jolt Cola stores, and I saw Amazon is selling Surge. They're selling Jolt also, but it's super expensive.
Surge is working hard to come back, Their twitter is pretty active. you can get it from Amazon too if you want. And sold here on Amazon, notice it's usually bought with munchie foods.
Ugh. You just made me flashback to a moment back in the aughts when a buddy of mine drank Surge until he puked. Remember Surge? It remembers you, and it's back - https://www.amazon.com/Surge-Citrus-Flavored-Soda-16fl/dp/B00M2OGS08
Surge*
Edit: I'm so fucking edgy and cool I buy surge from amazon I drink 5 a day to make sure to get my full daily recommended value of carbohydrates.
Amazon just updated their TOS on October 3rd this year (thankfully) to stop sellers from giving free items in exchange for reviews.
With that said, most sellers, including mega corporations (until October 3rd, 2016) on Amazon tried to get as many fake reviews as possible on their products, which boosts their search rankings, in turn get more sales, and the cycle continues.
If no one has read the amazon reviews for this coffee, they are an absolute goldmine.
Protein "milk shakes" are also a great way to sneak in extra nutrients.
Orgain's Vegan Creamy Chocolate Fudge is my go to. Blending it with some spinach, milk, half a banana and some ice always tricks me body into believing it is drinking a chocolate milk shake- it tastes that good!
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You can get a large tub for around $20 on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J074W94/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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PS- As a fellow twin I just wanted to say how lucky your sister is to have you. <3
Out of curiosity, I checked to see how much they cost...per Amway’s website, it’s almost $30 for 12 8.4oz cans, or about $0.28/oz. Comparing to my search on Amazon, almost every other energy drink I found cost less per ounce, except for one curiously named Pussy Energy Drink ... at $0.41/oz
I commented earlier in the thread but I'm a strong proponent of Soylent as well.
I suggest trying both the powder and the liquid. Powder is much cheaper($1.83 powder vs $2.63 liquid per 400kcal), but that won't do you much good if it just sits in your pantry because you don't want to clean the container to mix up a new batch and wait for it to sit.
If you end up going liquid, it's now available on Amazon Launchpad - https://www.amazon.com/Soylent-Ready-Drink-Food-Bottles/dp/B01EUEIL3E?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
If you set up a subscription for either the powder or the liquid on soylent.com, you get 5% off. If you subscribe to the liquid on amazon, it's 5% off, but if you subscribe to 5 items on amazon it goes up to 15% off.
I know this looks like a shill post, but I really have no association with soylent other than finding their product to be a real benefit to me. With that said, check out /r/soylent as well, because one thing that really makes me love Soylent is they really don't care about people making DIY copies or even competing with them, so there are a lot of soylent clones out there and if you're not in america some of those other ones will be easier to get. A lot of the clones have more flavor options which I'd love to try, but if you are in america, most of the clones are much more expensive to ship here.
You can of course flavor soylent yourself however you want as its very neutral, both powder and liquid. With the liquid I like to squirt in some chocolate syrup and just shake it in the bottle. With the powder, flavored protein powder works well if you know what you're doing (e.g you arent depending on the bottle being 400kcals /trying to use it to track your intake closely), and blending the powder with some fresh fruit is a good way to go. Though I most often just drink it as is, it's not bad, it's just not good, it's just..what you need.
I drink soylent bottles from Amazon and the only deficiencies I had last blood test were Vitamin D ( from sunlight? ) and it was winter.
Each bottle is 20% daily requirements . And 400 calories and taste like a mixture of left over Cheerio milk and pancake batter. (Not sweet, but neutral enough and can be mixed with stuff). It’s like almond milk consistency or a tiny thicker, not too thick.
pea protein powder. you can add it in dairy free milk, oatmeal, and dairy free yogurt! :)
my local walmart & vitamin stores carry this brand as well pea protein
I ordered my last kit off amazon and honestly its been the best! My Kombucha! The last starter I got earlier this summer I sadly killed due to an error and then going on vacation. Anywho, here is what I got to start over: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N7S1CV5?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details
I got in in August and would def recommend!
Just curious how many people are you feeding with this and how much do you spend? From what I have seen buying food on amazon seems expensive. I saw a gallon of milk on there for $74. I'm sure this is the exception but even so food seems pricy in general on Amazon. I'm sure some people could afford food for one on Amazon or maybe even a decent crowd if bought in bulk but a normal family (4) would probably cost a fortune especially for people who make minimum wage and probably get a 10% discount at whatever fast food place they are working.
Go here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EUEIL3E/
Click the Subscribe Now button, fill out all the info then "confirm subscription", this adds one box on the interval you selected. Hit back a few times to get back to the product page and repeat at least 4 more times to get 5 subscriptions into your queue and it'll take off the 15%. Then just wait for your ship date to roll around.
You can add more, skip a few, skip entire months, whatever you want and as long as you have 5 at a time on a single month you'll get 15%.
Amazon store card will get you an addition 5% off in a statement credit.
As quinn said you can add each BOX as a subscription item. Here are some directions I wrote on another thread for someone that was having issues:
Go here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EUEIL3E/ Click the Subscribe Now button, fill out all the info then "confirm subscription", this adds one box on the interval you selected. Hit back a few times to get back to the product page and repeat at least 4 more times to get 5 subscriptions into your queue and it'll take off the 15%. Then just wait for your ship date to roll around. You can add more, skip a few, skip entire months, whatever you want and as long as you have 5 at a time on a single month you'll get 15%. Amazon store card will also get you an addition 5% off in a statement credit.
You were probably looking at listings from unauthorized resellers, which is a common mistake because Amazon does fuck-all to clarify if you're looking at the real listing or not.
You're better off bookmarking the correct page since Amazon makes it so difficult to find: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EUEIL3E/
Any other 2.0 listing you might find is an unauthorized reseller, and at the current time any listing for any Soylent product other than 2.0 is also unauthorized. They did have bars officially listed for a while, and I think they're working on Coffiest. Also, if the page doesn't say "Amazon Launchpad", you're definitely in the wrong place.
The base Amazon price and the base website price are always identical. The Soylent website offers a 5% discount for subscriptions; Amazon offers a base 5% discount for subscriptions but it rises to 15% if you have 5 or more Subscribe & Save items shipped to you in your monthly shipment. You can do this with 5 boxes of 2.0, but you have to do 5 individual subscriptions; it won't count if you do 1 subscription with a quantity of 5.
You can get the same 15% discount on the Soylent website with the 5% subscription discount + 10% coupon discount; there are permanent 10% coupon codes and occasional larger coupon codes, but they only apply to the first shipment of the subscription so you have to constantly cancel and re-subscribe. Amazon is a lot simpler, plus a lot of people have credit cards that give cash back on Amazon purchases.
I break out with acne every time I drink a whey shake, so I switched to plant-based protein powders a few years ago. I tried a few hemp powders and they tasted awful. I found a powder I really like from the Orgain brand. It's comparable in taste and texture to some of the whey powders I used to drink. They sell it at Costco in Southern California on sale at $24 for 2.74 lbs, which I stock up on, otherwise it's $30 normally. You can also get it off Amazon.
Note: Do not get Vanilla bean, it tastes awful.
Its making a comeback slowly, starting from the east side of the country and slowly going west. Sadly it looks like it died out at Louisiana, this is where amazon steps in.
I would like to make note that sadly they didn't have surge in liquid form in the coolers, but this will work for now.
/r/veganfitness
I do, I usually have a scoop or two a day. I like blends. True Nutrition vegan protein optimizer is my favorite (45% pea, 45% rice, 10% hemp). And it's cheap, $9/lb. You can also build your own blend on their website, it's super easy. And they have a coupon that saves you 5% off site-wide, never expires "GOVEGAN"
I also hear good things about Orgain, but haven't tried it. Saw it on amazon earlier for $17 ($8.50/lb) https://www.amazon.com/Orgain-Organic-Protein-Powder-Chocolate/dp/B00J074W94/?th=1
Orgain protein powder is $10.95/lb amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Orgain-Organic-Protein-Vanilla-Packaging/dp/B00J074W94?th=1
Truenutrition is $9.50 / lb (Plus $7 flat rate shipping, you choose how many lbs): https://truenutrition.com/p-1169-vegan-protein-optimizer-formula-1lb.aspx?
Non-whey and non-plant, so are you basically specifically looking for egg protein recommendations?
I usually recommend Orgain, but it's plant based. However, it tastes great! And it's easy to get at Costco or Amazon.
Orgain is the best I have tried.
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It's currently on sale for a great price, but from Amazon it's usually about $21-22 a container, which comes to $1.10 per serving, which is still much cheaper than what you're using now.
Chocolate is definitely the better flavor, and looking at the label it's not actually hemp. But it's cheap, tasty, and good enough.
Oh awesome.
You can hit a high protein requirement on a vegan diet. I drink protein powder too, and while I tried two vegan protein powder brands that were gross, Orgain Creamy Chocolate Fudge has been really good, and doesn't include soy. There's also Ripple brand Pea Milk, that's more protein dense than cow milk, which doesn't include soy, and there are nut milk which have a high amount of protein which are also soy free.
While tofu and soy based alternative meat are off-limits, there's Seitan, which is very protein dense (100 calories have 20g of protein) and apparently can be used to make a legit steak, which is still crazy to me.
They do sell em in 12 packs on Amazon. It’s been an Amazon exclusive for the last few years. They sell em in 16 ounce cans. Typically about 2 bucks a can, give or take depending.
I used to buy it now and then lol.
Surge Citrus Flavored Soda 16fl oz. 12 cans https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M2OGS08/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4P5fFbXFD9ZAC
Man. If anything though I wish Vault was still around as another option!
This one doesn't have that chalky taste. I tried it and recommend it.
Orgain Organic Plant Based Protein Powder, Creamy Chocolate Fudge - Vegan, Low Net Carbs, Non Dairy, Gluten Free, No Sugar Added, Soy Free, Kosher, Non-GMO, 2.03 Lb (Packaging May Vary) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J074W94/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_JE6M6DPC20H63SFKD5Y5
I also used the big book of kombucha, have it now. Found it at the library too, yours might have it. Got first starter on amazon and been going ever since. A little over two years ago: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N7S1CV5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1