Molly Chow
Nothing in this article constitutes as nutritional advice. Talk to your doctor before making silly diet changes.
Did you know that the preamble for a lot of those recipie websites are there so that the author could copywrite on the recipe? Online cooking blogs make up a slimey industry filled with folks up to no good, and it's no doubt gotten nastier with the rise of AI content. You can look to the backstory to based.cooking for more information. Anyways, I hate cooking and shopping for ingredients but I do love spreadsheets and searching for the cheapest ingredients possible. Out of these desires came the interest in doing soylent diy. In this article are the notes from the fruits of my labor in no particular order.
Current recipe as of Dec 10th 2023
1/3day | 1day | I | Ingredient | $/day |
---|---|---|---|---|
67 | 200 | g | Organic Blue Corn Masa Flour | $1.06 |
27 | 81 | g | Whey Protein (Chocolate) | $1.97 |
8.5 | 26 | g | Bob's Red Mill Chia Seeds | $0.36 |
8.5 | 20 | g | Organic Raw Cacao | $0.54 |
4 | 12 | g | Soy Lecithin Granules | $0.22 |
1 | 4 | g | Ceylon Cinnamon Powder | $0.25 |
3 | 3 | g | Potassium Citrate | $0.09 |
10 | 29.5 | ml | Olive Oil | $0.36 |
10 | 29.5 | ml | MCT Oil | $0.56 |
500 | 1500 | ml | Oat Milk | $0.70 |
The original recipe was based off this article from complete foods: QuidNYC's Superfood for Him / archive.org backup.
I've settled on this recipie and not one that uses oat flour, instead of corn flour, and those recipes tasted miserable. Texture and taste were off. If I was interested in oat like that I would just do overnight oat. I saw others use Maseca Corn Flour, which is readily available and much cheaper from most groceries. I plan on trying it eventually.
I purchase these ingredients off Amazon. I use CamelCamelCamel to track the prices and buy when things are cheap, since shelf life isn't relevant to any of the ingredients. $/day calculations were made at an arbitrary point in time a few months ago at time of writing, and not price accurate.
This recipe is nice enough but was not working out in half day increments. I was originally consuming the soylent in two goes, but have since broken it down into three meals. It's made it much more enjoyable and easier on digestion.
The inclusion of oat milk instead of water was a huge increase to palatability. I would highly encourage anyone to use some sort of plant based milk substitute for this. I'm not sure how this changed the nutritional profile.
I read on Reddit that it was important to have the cinnamon be Ceylon because regular cinnamon could pose health risks when eaten in such quantities. I decided to take their word for it, and didn't dive any deeper into verifing this information.
An important addition was the inclusion of a multivitimin. If you plan to replace every meal with this slop, then please include one.
I've experimented with a few blender bottles but the one that I've settled on was the BlenderBottle. It's relatively cheap off Amazon, mixes my soylent well, and is easy enough to clean. My rotation of three has held up for three months now. I usually pre mix multiple meals and store it in cheap knockoff tupperwear in a cabinet.
After replacing all my meals at home with this or ceral I've experienced some physical changes. These changes have included breast development, reduced and slowed growth of facial and body hair, softening of skin and decreased skin oiliness and acne, decreased muscle mass and strength, and redistribution of body fat in a feminine pattern amongst other changes. Me making these dietary changes have roughly coincided with me starting HRT, so these changes might not be relevant to everyone.
-Molly B.
Dec 10th 2023