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Comment author: jtolds 11 May 2013 06:59:07AM *  45 points [-]

There's kind of a growing movement around Rob Rhinehart's Soylent thing, dunno if you folks have heard of this.

Basically, he got tired of making food all the time and tried to figure out the absolute minimum required chemical compounds required for a healthy diet, and then posted the overall list, and has now been roughly food free for three months, along with a bunch of other people.

It seems awesome to me and I'm hoping this sort of idea becomes more prevalent. My favorite quote from him I can't now find, but it's something along the lines of "I enjoy going to the movie theater, but I don't particularly feel the need to go three times a day."

There's small reddit community/discourse groups around getting your own mixture.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 11 May 2013 08:13:34PM 6 points [-]

Soylent Orange (with new and improved recipe. Okay, I just added marmite, but it's significantly more nutritionally complete than before)

This is a less radical version of the idea using store bought ingredients to achieve roughly the same ends.

Comment author: Unreal 15 June 2013 09:03:12AM 0 points [-]

I'm curious about how you make your Soylent. Do you just take all those ingredients and mix them in a blender? Do you have another page with more information?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 15 June 2013 09:14:26AM *  1 point [-]

There's a cell with directions on the spreadsheet. But essentially yes. Part of the appeal is that it takes less than 5 minutes.

This is also a reminder for me that I should really turn it into an infographic or at least make a more complete blogpost.

Comment author: Unreal 15 June 2013 10:35:07AM 0 points [-]

Oh I see the directions now. Yes, it would help if you included all of this into a detailed blogpost and explained what other meals you consume (and how often) to get a complete picture of how to adopt the diet oneself. I would like to experiment.