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I've eaten a meal replacement shake twice a day for two years (2019)

Huel — a competitor to Soylent — is my breakfast and lunch. This is what I get out of it.

When Soylent debuted in 2014, it quickly became associated with the tech community — first because it received both backing and support from startup incubator Y Combinator, second because of a crowdfunding campaign that earned over $1 million, and third because of its basic concept: By adding water to a nutritionally optimized powder, you could successfully hack food. As Andy Murdock explained in a 2017 Vox article about using diet to fight climate change: “Eating an average-sized steak for dinner has a comparable carbon footprint to driving about three miles in a standard gas-powered car. I didn’t want to have to continually organize a pile of perishable breakfast and lunch components into meals that left me satisfied (not hungry, gassy, or bloated), with the right balance of proteins, carbs, and fats to keep me focused for the rest of the workday.

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