Amount | Volume | Ingredient | $ / day | Source | ||
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0 | ml | ½ | cup | Coconut Milk | $0.00 | Amazon |
21 | g | 1 | tbsp | Raw Honey | $0.21 | Amazon |
16 | g | 2 | tbsp | Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein | $0.38 | Amazon |
40 | g | ¼ | cup | Nutive Hemp Protein Hi Fiber | $0.65 | Amazon |
9 | g | 1 | tbsp | Psyllium Seed Husk Fiber | $0.13 | Amazon |
12 | g | 1 | tbsp | Bob's Red Mill Potato Starch | $0.10 | Amazon |
5.6 | g | 1 | tsp | Potassium chloride | $0.17 | Amazon |
1 | g | ½ | tsp | Choline bitartrate | $0.03 | Amazon |
2 | g | ½ | tsp | OptiMSM Sulphur Powder | $0.06 | Amazon |
2.8 | g | ½ | tsp | Calcium Phosphate | $0.09 | Amazon |
1.5 | g | ¼ | tsp | Morton Iodized Table Salt | $0.01 | Amazon |
1 | pill | Nature's Way Alive Once Daily Women's | $0.22 | Amazon | ||
0.5 | pill | Vitamin K | $0.03 | Amazon | ||
360 | ml | Water | $0.00 | |||
0.5 | pill | Concentrace Trace Mineral Tablets | $0.06 | Amazon | ||
2 | pill | PB8 Probiotic supplement | $0.21 | Amazon | ||
3 | pill | Nature's Bounty Cranberry Fruit | $0.20 | Amazon | ||
2 | pill | Nordic Naturals Prenatal DHA | $0.37 | Amazon | ||
1 | pill | Astaxanthin | $0.16 | |||
15 | ml | Oil, canola | $0.00 | |||
Amounts for: Total Daily Cost: | $3.08 | Add Ingredients to Amazon Cart |
Substitute this for one regular meal. This is a single serving and supplemental to a normal food diet. Eat regularly for your other meals. Do not drink more than one serving of this per day. Do not drink in addition to another soylent product. If you want a soylent recipe that covers 3 meals a day there are hundreds of others to choose from ;)
Personal Backstory: I designed a single-meal replacement because after using soylent for several months it became clear that I would never drink it for all of my meals. But my diet was still lacking in many nutrients. Because my calorie needs are pretty low, I would usually only have 1/3 of a daily soylent serving, plus 1 additional meal. It was difficult to eat enough to get the micronutrients I needed without eating too many carbs/calories. With this single serving soylent I can get almost all of the nutrients in one meal, while having enough space on my calorie budget for "real" food (which supplies the additional micros and macros). But it also gives me enough macros to be fine on those occasional days where I forget to eat anything else, or only eat junk food >.> Hey, it happens. Obviously this supplement was designed to fill a specific need in my life, but I think it may be helpful to others in a similar situation.
Reasons I'm not worried about overdosing on micros while drinking this and eating real food too: It is difficult to overdose on vitamins and minerals when they are all from natural sources. Most of the micros are from the Nature's Way Alive multivitamin which uses natural forms of the vitamins rather than synthetic (which I guess is why they go so overkill on some of them). It is safe to be taken at 1 pill per day in addition to a regular diet, and this recipe only uses a half pill. I will probably not be drinking a bottle of this every single day (more like 4-5x a week) which also lessens my concern of overdosing. This method may not work if you eat a lot of "enriched" and "fortified" processed foods, which may use synthetic forms of the vitamins, and may put you over the limits. (Research your common dietary components and make your own decisions on this!)
The supplements listed below water on the ingredient list (Concentrace, Probiotics, Cranberry, DHA and Astaxanthin) are optional/my personal preference to include for my personal health patterns. The gel capsules can be taken separately or dissolved into the drink with enough blending, or dissolved into hot water or tea to add to the soylent when cool.
For prenatal supplementation: use 1 full Nature's Way Alive multivitamin and include the 2 DHA pills (or other DHA pills of your choice.)
Gut Happiness: This recipe includes insoluble fiber, soluble fiber and resistant starch (prebiotics) for gut microbiome health. Include the probiotic pills if you have reason to believe your flora are diminished or after taking a round of antibiotics.
Nutrition values of coconut milk vary widely depending on brand, especially the fat content, so check how yours compares if you use a different brand!
TASTE NOTES DURING TESTING
the first test: it tastes worst than expected. i think it's the coconut milk. this might be correctable with spices, additional sugar (which i'd like to avoid for calorie minimization), or removing it and using oil, almond milk, or something else. the coconut milk adds 200 calories, almost all the fat (20g), a few grams of protein and carbs, 44 mg magnesium, 10 mg choline and a bit of many other micronutrients (none too badly affected by it's loss.) this is unexpected because the coconut cream tasted great, but i mixed the coconut water back in and that probably has a more sour flavor. maybe less coconut and added sugar (thought i really wanted to keep the carbs lower). i thought it might also be from all the vitamins being more concentrated (same amount but not spread over 3 bottles) but no i'm pretty sure it's the coconut water.
i added 2 tsp white sugar which neutralized the sourness but wasn't enough to make it sweet or change the flavor otherwise. i then added ~6oz sweetened vanilla almond milk which thinned out the strength of the flavor. i still wouldn't exactly call it "good". i should probably look at using a different flavor base, which will probably require adding oil, though i wanted to limit the number of liquid components. :\
next try: removed 120 ml coconut milk (1/2 cup), added 15 ml canola oil (1 tbsp). same sour taste that i attributed to the coconut milk. hmm is my hemp protein rancid? no idea what to change from here :\ i never had this flavor in my other soylents with the same ingredients so maybe it's a density problem.added 4 tsp white sugar, cinnamon, cardamom and vanilla to make it palatable.
troubleshooting:
thought it might be the lactos fermenting making the sour taste. did a test of 2 probiotic pills + a spoonful each of psyllium husk and potato starch in a glass of water. it did not have the sour flavor.
tried one with only hemp protein. it was fine.
tried one with everything except hemp protein—only whey protein. it was fine. maaaaaaybe that sour taste BARELY.