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Comment author: [deleted] 25 May 2013 08:52:12AM 0 points [-]

(I was about to ask about the value of the time spent cooking, but it turns out he's already answered that.)

Comment author: Vaniver 25 May 2013 05:36:54PM *  0 points [-]

He has; for me, cooking is about three minutes of effort spread out over the course of fifteen minutes each day.

The main benefit to a Soylent-style diet is that you get all the micronutrients and so on that are normally locked away inside vegetables, which take an inordinate amount of time to prepare and consume, in one quick drinkable source, without any concerns about pesticides or fungi or so on.

Comment author: gwern 03 July 2014 01:11:52AM *  3 points [-]

that are normally locked away inside vegetables, which take an inordinate amount of time to prepare and consume

Use frozen pre-sliced vegetables. They're usually competitive with, if not cheaper than, fresh produce; you save a lot of time preparing them; they taste just as good to me (and better, in instances where it takes a long time to eat your way through a purchase and the fresh vegetables are, shall we say, less than fresh by the time you eat them). You can easily dump them into crockpot recipes, or you can just put them in a bowl, microwave with some herbs/spices and butter, and reheat as necessary.

Comment author: Vaniver 03 July 2014 08:07:44PM 0 points [-]

Agreed. I use frozen vegetables for anything I cook that has vegetables in it, but that's pretty rare. Mostly I eat raw sliced sweet potatoes (where the time is in the peeling and slicing) and microwaved kale (which has gotten much less time consuming now that I buy the precut and prewashed version, rather than bunches).

Comment author: gwern 03 July 2014 10:07:13PM *  0 points [-]

I dislike kale, so no comments there, but why would you peel sweet potatoes? The skin tastes fine and I assume like regular potatoes has a lot of the nutrients in it. When I harvest my sweet potatoes, I just slice them.