[Afforess]

...compared to eating out. His comparison was eating out almost every meal. $230 is cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for a lot of people too.

[dragonwriter]

> $230 is cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for a lot of people too.

Put probably not cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for one person, unless that person has particular food tastes that Soylent isn't going to address.

[papsosouid]

Show me a shopping list that provides 100% RDI of all vitamins and minerals (without dangerous excesses of any of them), a reasonable balance of protein, fat and carbs, sufficient omega3s, and 2000 Kcal/day. You don't even need to worry about making actual meals out of this random assortment of ingredients, just the ingredients themselves. I do not believe you can do it for $230/month.

[Avshalom]

  Multivitamin ~10$
  1 gross eggs ~20
  30 cans refried beans ~20
  ~100 small tortillas ~7
  5 lbs rice ~5
  3 lbs sour cream ~9
  salt ~.7
  pepper ~1
  garlic ~2
  10 lbs potatoes ~10

spend the remaining ~3/day on whatever you feel like. suggestions include: pasta and sauce at ~1 a meal. whole fat chocolate milk at about ~2 a day. a pint of olive oil a day. a case of ramen a day. a pint of ben and jerry's (there's 2000 kcal by itself).

Prices sourced from an H.E.B. supermarket in Austin Tx. Oh, also, I've been living on less than 3$ of food a day for the last year, so this isn't exactly theoretical. 230 per person per month would the height of luxury for me.

[papsosouid]

Read the requirements again. You aren't even approaching them.

[Xanza]

I'm a college student -- I live off of ramen noodles, and whatever I can steal at my parents house. $230 per month simply isn't in my budget. I was excited because ramen isn't healthy, in fact I've gained about 30-40lbs because it's basically all I eat; and it's becoming a serious health issue.

[kkty]

as someone who has been in your situation, ramen is actually really expensive, both in terms of $/cooked oz and $/nutrition.

I highly recommend you switch to brown rice, wheat pasta, beans, produce, and cheap cuts of meat. Add in a slow cooker if you don't have much time.

Oh, and as for this soylent product, I would run screaming away. I only read his recipe up to the carbs section, and the fact that he thinks all carbs are the same because they end up as ATP is mind-boggling. It's as if he isn't aware of the huge problem with HFCS. Any biochem undergrad can tell you about the incredible complexity of the feedback and regulatory mechanisms of the body; to focus only on the end product of a mechanism is ignorant at best.

[Afforess]

I understand - but why are you mad? He never misrepresented the costs, you misinterpreted them.