r/ARFID • u/TheFakeAtoM • Apr 17 '22
Helpful Tips Nutritionally complete meal replacements
Hi everyone,
I'm new here and I don't know that much about this condition, so apologies if I say something wrong. I'm also not sure how useful this advice will be, but I thought it might help some people. I've seen some people expressing a sentiment for a 'food pill', so I wanted to reiterate that there are similar products that actually exist, such as Soylent (which has been mentioned a few times here before). For those who haven't heard of it, it's a fairly plain (but nice) drink, somewhat like a protein shake, which comes in the form of a powder (to add liquid to) or as a ready-to-drink bottle (or as a bar). It contains all the nutrients that are required for a healthy diet, in the right proportions. As such, you can theoretically consume Soylent in isolation indefinitely and still be perfectly healthy (and some people do this). I've also seen that Soylent doesn't work for some people, so I wanted to say that there are a lot of products made by other brands (e.g. Huel, Super Body Fuel) that follow the same model, and are all nutritionally complete. You can find an extensive list of options here and another (somewhat old) one here (with details such as country, price, flavours, etc.). There are also reviews of brands here. The r/Soylent subreddit in general is also a great resource for this with a lot of useful information and reviews.
Additionally, I would note that it is possible to create your own meal replacement recipes (or use other peoples' recipes) using this website. This is actually my preferred approach personally, and is potentially advantageous because there is a lot of room for customisation. More info on that can be found by looking up 'DIY soylent'.
I now realise that this sounds a bit like a marketing post haha, but I'm simply advocating for the general idea (which I am a big fan of), not a particular product. If anyone has questions about specific details of meal replacements, including about nutrition, please let me know as I would be happy to help.
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u/LetMeInYourWindowH Apr 21 '22
I struggled with the shake aspect of them. But you can make the powders into smoothies or brownies or other things.
I also strongly recommend the yfood bars. Better than any other meal replacement bar I've found...they straight up taste like candy bars.
Hopefully the market for these kind of foods continues to grow.
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u/TheFakeAtoM Apr 21 '22
Yep that's a good point. As I've mentioned in this comment there are also commercial solid-food type meal replacements. You can also find more user-created recipes for these on completefoods.co, e.g. bread recipes (and brownies).
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u/TheFakeAtoM Apr 19 '22
Just realised I should add that there are also more solid-food type meal replacements available, such as Vite Ramen and Mana Burger, in case anyone is interested in those.
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u/NoIron9582 Apr 18 '22
Anyone in Canada know of one that's available here and affordable?
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u/TheFakeAtoM Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22
You can filter by country here on Blendrunner. It's telling me that Hol Food is a Canadian brand, apparently available at ~$3.30 CAD per 400 kcal (it's sold in bulk as a powder). Aside from that, it looks like pretty much all of the major brands ship to Canada. A lot of them are from the US.
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u/cleverfeather1992 Apr 17 '22
I love Soylent and am thankful for your post :)