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Not everyone is interested in taking the time to make themselves a whole meal every day. I know I'm not: I don't derive a lot of pleasure from food of any kind beyond a limited amount from a very small selection of specific food items. As a result, I find myself more, not less, aware of the effect my eating habits have on my health. If I could away with it, I'd eat McDonald's for every meal not because I find it to be some pinnacle of culinary superstimuli but because it's that much easier. I don't, because the health and mental effects of eating fast food much more than once a week are immediately obvious (to say nothing of the probable long term issues).

Food is a deep topic with really excellent geeking out potential, but it's not something I'm interested in reprioritising my life over in the way you suggest. To put it in an HN friendly metaphor, people like me are eagerly awaiting things like these squares or Soylent for the same reason Apple has been able to so hugely disrupt and capture the smartphone market: no one is selling a good experience to the people who aren't interested in revolving their life around the topic.

So yes, I can do better. I can shotgun a litre of Soylent and spend the extra time wandering foggy seashores with my wife, or tweaking up my RC airplanes, or working on something opensource. Not everyone wants to be a food geek anymore than you're going to convince your grandma to switch to Linux and then care what bootloader she's using (syslinux FTW!).