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Jun 30 2014

The first impressions of Schmoylent, my new Soylent imitation, have hit the web! :D

My first Schmoylent customer, @tomatobasil, posted this Saturday to say:

I drank my first glass of Schmoylent this morning. I like the slightly sweet, oaty, slightly vanilla flavor. The fine grittiness present immediately after mixing is mostly gone, replaced by a smoother but still gritty texture. It’s not smooth like a milkshake, but it’s definitely not a problem, at least for me. For what it’s worth I mixed it by hand in a big plastic pitcher using a whisk since I don’t have my Soylent starter kit yet. I let it chill overnight in the fridge and added vegetable oil this morning, followed by another quick whisking. It didn’t separate at all overnight and I didn’t notice any sediment in the bottom of the pitcher before whisking, and there were no clumps or unmixed spots; it looked and tasted homogeneous. My wife had a sip and said it tasted just like pancake batter. It’s too sweet/vanilla to be neutral, but I like the flavor and smell and can see drinking it without getting sick of it, or caring.

No gastrointestinal issues so far, and I don’t feel hungry. Great job @axcho! @tomatobasil’s first glass of Schmoylent!

Soon after, @qgroff posted a detailed report of his Schmoylent encounter:

Sitting here with my first glass of Schmoylent. Got my box yesterday (thanks @axcho, you rock!) but was too tired to mix it before I went to bed (I also neglected the animals and my teeth, and left the lights on, so… yeah, mixing food wasn’t going to happen) but I did mix it when I got up at 8:30 and waited until 1:40 to drink it so it was well-chilled and settled. Overall, I pretty much agree with everything @tomatobasil said, but I’ll list all my observations for completeness, even where they repeat:

Let’s see, what else… I’ll have to get back to you on intestinal issues, hunger, mental & physical, etc. Nothing yet on the gas front, but it’s only been 25 minutes and I only just finished the glass. Plus I already have a lot of gas in my normal diet (though at least half of it doesn’t really smell) so baseline may be a little skewed. I’ll post a review to your site when it’s been a day or two :)

One thing of note, I was so craving something crunchy/savory/spicy that I ate a couple of spicy Doritos Fiery Habenero Dinamitas that I had open. So the bad news is that I did cloud the data a tiny bit (I’ll have to specifically resist to get clean data another day this week), but the good news is that just 2 of them** was enough to completely satisfy that craving.

Sorry for being long-winded, but congrats if you made it this far. I like to be thorough!

*about 3:2 ratio of soybean and olive, will switch to all-Canola when I get my container of it back from work where I had brought some DIY ingredients
**approx. 20 calories, 1g fat, 2g carbohydrate… not very significant next to a whole day’s recipe of soylent, except that they have MSG which can be a migraine trigger for me.

The next day he posted his equally thorough followup:

I’ve now been on 50-75% Schmoylent for 2 days and it’s looking like that’s going to be my sustainable level. I have more frequent social eating than I realized :) plus craving different textures, and to a lesser degree different flavors, would be a real issue if I were to try to go closer to 90-100%. Some days will be more, some less, but this seems like a good place to be for now.


One thing worth noting: yesterday late afternoon I was getting hungry. It wasn’t too long before dinner but long enough that I didn’t want to just wait, so that’s when I mixed up the chocolate version. Even despite the great flavor I raved about above, I only had about 1/3 of a glass before I was feeling satisfied, so I put the rest back in the fridge. This might seem like a small thing to most people but to me it was a big deal–because I rarely put things back. I finish all of whatever portion I fix for myself, of anything, unless it’s really terrible. It’s a struggle to force myself to bring half my restaurant portion home in a doggy bag, even when it’s a huge portion that nobody but triathlon runners should probably be eating. This is one of the biggest reasons I wanted to get on soylent in the first place: portion control. But I was perfectly happy putting this great-tasting stuff back in the fridge, knowing it would be there for me later. Awesome! Looks like it’s already serving one of the main purposes I was looking for!

I’ll keep adding updates when I have something worth saying.

**My vision is only 20/50 (so not that bad) but I have one eye nearsighted and one eye farsighted. Without my glasses I only focus with my right eye and sometimes it’ll cause headaches, even migraines.

Edit: Yeah, texture definitely better if you let it sit and the oil doesn’t mix into it as well if you can’t shake it like hell. But even so: it’s drinkable and the flavor is still fine.

And finally, @timmyf, posted his impressions of Schmoylent Clean:

Taste is not quite like Soylent: it’s sweeter and the vanilla taste is… different? It doesn’t read as vanilla to me. This is especially odd given that Schmoylent has, I believe, natural vanilla flavor.

Texture is pretty similar, a slight grit or silty feel, though it is a fair bit thicker than official Soylent, even with the same quantity of water. If you’re a fan of a more milkshake-like consistency, you’d be a fan.

I’ve only been drinking it this morning, so I can’t really comment on long-term effects, but I’ll be sure to report in over the next days and weeks with updates on gas, poop, and whether it triggers my allergy response like Soylent did. So far, I’m very satisfied.

So cool! :) I’m really eager to hear how things go over the next few weeks, so I can be confident that Schmoylent will be a superior long-term solution than Soylent, especially in terms of side effects like gas.

If you haven’t tried it yet, you can get it here: Schmoylent and Schmoylent Clean! :D







