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We're Eating Nothing But Bottled [Aussielent] For A Week
We're Eating Nothing But Bottled Soylent For A Week
Over the next five days, myself and Kotaku editor Mark Serrels will be replacing all meals with bottled Aussielent; a liquid substance that contains all the nutrients and minerals needed to sustain life. This means no solid meals, no snacks and - horrifyingly - no coffee or porridge for ...
Two members of the staff of LifeHacker (Australia) are going 100% AussieLent -- only they insist on calling it Soylent -- for a week. The URL linked here is the announcement of the project, and short bios of the two dudes.
This is their second post in which they take their first tastes.
If you want to follow the rest of their week, use one of the many various media links they include.




Well, I didn't mean to follow this up, but the next post from these two is kind of dazzlingly stupid: Our Week On Soylent Day 3: Hump Day Grumbling.
Stupid because of the rigid way they are doing this. Both have taken the "challenge" in an extreme way, consuming nothing but Aussielent (one hopes, also water?). For one, Chris, it means no caffeine, and he is having serious discomfort from caffeine withdrawal. Who thinks you can't have coffee or soda on a Soylent diet? His suffering appears to be real, but it's self-inflicted and not relevant to the meal replacement product he's supposedly testing.
The other, Mike, has a different problem: "Each shake I’m drinking contains 2000kjs. When I finish I feel like I have consumed nothing" and he's grumpy about being hungry "all the time for nothing". People don't usually report hunger pangs -- specific cravings, yes, general hunger, no -- so it's hard to say what's going on with Mike's appetite. But in a realistic test, one designed to answer the question, is this product a reasonable meal replacement -- you know, the kind of question that LifeHacker is supposed to address -- the answer to "I'm still hungry" would be "then eat something." But no, he has to stick to his rigid program and grump about it.