The narrow minded elitism on display here is rather sad. There are millions of people that struggle with eating healthy for one reason or another. Soylent solves a lot of them. A lot of these comments remind me of people being incredulous over people not giving a shit if they have a nice car. I don’t give a shit about nice cars. I can appreciate a ride in a nice car, but I am pretty happy to be a few k richer by driving my reliable beater.

My own personal issue is time. Often I am short on time. Yes, the ideal solution is to make time and prepare ahead. I have proven without a doubt that I am bad at this. An alternative to a slab of pizza is a godsend. I don’t need to make every meal Soylent, but I sure as hell would be a lot healthier if all my shitty meals were replaced. If that offends your sensibilities, fuck you.

As for why not Ensure, it is because it is crap for you, expensive, and makes concessions to taste by adding in more crap.

I have been doing DIY low carb high protein and fat Soylent for about a month. I dropped off 5% of my weight and feel great. Yeah, that might have also been accomplished with healthy eating and a few more pounds of meat each week than I really don’t want to eat, but the Soylent rout made it easy, painless, something i can stuck to, and cheap.

So, hurray for you if you are healthy, slim, and eat good home cooked meals every day for all your meals. Have a gold star and realize that you are in the minority. If the health of others can be vastly improved with a method you find icky, don’t fucking do it.

For a pile of geeks, a lot of you sure are narrow minded and easily offended by a fantastically effective body hack.