I'm very excited to hear your report on it. What's the price/meal at right now? Something like $2.50 I think? It seems to me I remember reading about a pretty big "DIY Soylent" community that sprung up after the Kickstarter ended. Might be worth it trying to make your own without Sucralose? Edit: http://diy.soylent.me/Unfortunately, Soylent uses Sucralose as a sweetener. That is a deal breaker for me. I avoid artificial sweeteners, and I am not going to be consuming them on a daily basis. Even if I enjoy Soylent, this will probably be my first and last batch for that reason. It's unfortunate. The drink could stand to be less sweet. I would like to try it without the Sucralose.
I know that there are DIY Solylents, but the main attraction for me is that I can get a reasonable healthy meal with minimal effort. I often find myself resenting the time and effort that I have to put into food, especially in order to eat healthy. I do like a nice meal every few days or so, but on most days there are other things I'd rather be doing with my time than buying food, preparing it, and then cleaning up afterwards. The price is now $85 for a 3 week batch, so it's actually $4.04 per meal without shipping. I think I paid 60-something for it though. If you order 28 bags on their monthly plan ($255/mo), then you can get the cost down to $3.03 per meal.
Still too high for me, and I think higher than advertised (at least according to various articles I read last year). The inventor claimed that it was healthier, faster and cheaper than preparing your own meals. Price will probably go down though. So about the sucralose, why on earth is that in the baseline meal blend? That's ridiculous. Do all of the options you can choose from when ordering have sucralose?then you can get the cost down to $3.03 per meal.
How the... what...? Twenty-five hours? You don't have breakfast, so that's 107 minutes per meal (or three hours supermarket time per week and 87 minutes per meal). What are you making -- roast turkey? I cook dinner form scratch a few days a week. Any longer than 30 minutes to cook and 20 to clean and I'm annoyed. Lunch is ten minutes of cooking and five of cleaning. I would like to understand how you cook.
Oh, not me, but my wife comes close to it. She likes to have three prepared meals a day. Also, she likes Chinese food, which takes a lot of prep, mostly cutting vegetables. Dinners take more than an hour from beginning of prep to the end of clean up, and breakfast and lunch are probably near an hour each.
Because my wife works slightly later hours than me on a consistent basis, I do almost 100% of the cooking. A lot of days it feels like by the time she gets home and I get everything prepped and made, we wrap up at 10:30 and the night is pretty much done. Easily the biggest time sink on my personal time every weekday. I'm lucky because I really like food I guess, but when I have things to do it's rough because I can't opt out, -I have to feed her :)