[jonathanjaeger]

"...soon I wouldn’t be in Boston to benefit from the group’s joint purchases of 50-pound sacks of maltodextrin."

Everybody seems to be harping on the issue that they like eating food, so why replace it. I'd love to have a great on-the-go shake that's better than meal replacement alternatives, however all this emphasis on maltodextrin as the main carb source makes me reconsider ever buying these Soylent, or similar, products.

[zachalexander]

I'm not particularly interested in maltodextrin either – haven't used it in either of the two recipes I've written. That was a sort of rhetorical stand-in for "bulk ingredients I might not otherwise have access to".

Honestly I feel like a lot of soylent people are overengineering it, using obscure, industrial carbs like maltodextrin when there are plenty of varieties of flour, starch, and sugar already available at supermarkets everywhere.

[DanBC]

> I'd love to have a great on-the-go shake that's better than meal replacement alternatives,

What are meal replacement alternatives? (Things like Ensure or slimfast? or something else?)

What would make Soylent or OSSoylent better than meal replacement alternatives?

[jonathanjaeger]

Well best case scenario I would go to the trouble to get out a blender and make a shake with ingredients that I think are optimal: oats, banana, natural peanut butter, whey protein, or a number of other ingredients that cover my nutritional needs in "shake" form. If I'm in a hurry I've picked up meal replacements from the store, but most have sugar alcohols, sugar, or other processed ingredients that are fine once but you don't want all your meals like that.