Do you use them when you don’t have time to cook or don’t want to? Do you use them to avoid gaining weight? What is your opinion about their potential health implications?

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I use them to not lose weight to my cancer 🤷‍♀️

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Soylent is great. I don’t use it on the regular but it works for all the things you’d want one to work for. 400 calories downed quick and satiates for about 3 hours.

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I second this, though the powder isn’t as good in its current rendition it helps control my portion sizing and helps me focus through the post lunch shift

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Isn’t that people?

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I used them when I had covid and lost my sense of taste. When you can’t taste, all food is just a gross mush in your mouth.

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I drank huel for a while, then plenny. I switched because plenny doesn’t add thickener, which makes it way easier to drink and use in smoothies and stuff

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I tried to get into it, but between finding recipes and washing the blender, it wasn’t less effort or money than just making a sandwich. I did not find it helpful as a diet aid, because I would still be hungry after a “meal replacement.” If I don’t have time to cook, I don’t have time to blend. If I make a bunch in advance, I can just as easily make a bunch of salads in containers.

I’m already fat and disabled, though, and I work from home, so factor that into my experience.

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