Anyone on HUEL?

Will swap an unopened vanilla for a plain. Anyone London based looking for a swap? Vanilla too sweet for me...

Mrs Hefty told me this morning that Jeremy Vine is a user of Huel. Outed on a podcast of some sort apparently.

Should we stop now?

Made Huel cookies last night. 150g-ish of Huel, some rolled oats, cinnamon, salt, pepper, an egg, 25g maple syrup (more as a glue than sweetener), dash of milk, baking powder and a scoop of rye sourdough starter that would have otherwise ended up in the bin.

They're a bit dough-y, not at all sweet, devoid of any real flavour and they stick to the inside of your mouth. The flavour is best described as cardboard.
Having said that, they're totally edible and relatively healthy. I think adding fermented rye kind of fucked it up and made them bready.

Vanilla extract, more cinnamon and some ginger and no rye, made thinner and crunchier would be better.

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[disclaimer: this is not aimed at @Well_is_it just an observation in general]

I can't help but feel that the second you add anything other than liquid to the powder you're defeating the entire point of 'eating' it in the first place.

sure they include a nice page of recipes where you turn your 400kcal meal replacement into a 7-800kcal one full of tons of other shit but of course it's in their interest to have you using as much of the stuff as they can get you to and if they can get you into the habit of using it in everything they will double their profit from you easily.

it just seems odd of going to the trouble of buying something that is 100% nutritionally balanced and then unbalancing it by throwing whatever shit you can find in your cupboard in with it.

I think you're either replacing your meal with it, or fucking up what could have just as easily been a normal meal by trying to shoehorn it in where normal ingredients would have not only been fine but would have produced a much better result.

tl;dr if you are adding food to your huel, just eat real food.

The recipes thing feel like an oxymoron...thought one of the key benefits is that you don't need to waste time cooking (morning and lunch) or washing up to feed yourself. If you're going to bake something healthy there are other ways to do it without making cardboard cookies. Get thats its research though.

Pretty much! I made these more as a convenience snack to take climbing. They're still relatively balanced (minimal sugar, the egg probably enhances it and counters the added carbs etc). It saves me buying a bar of something or bits of chicken when finishing a session, basically. It's as close to plain Huel in solid form without shelling out for bars while taking-in less sugar (per cookie).

But you're right about the recipes defeating the whole point, in general.

These things took literally 10 mins to make, and I did it while making dinner.

Solid research then.

First delivery yesterday. One a day at first as my guffing is bad enough as it is.

You just wait.

I've just been putting a scoop of peanut butter in it for variation. I can't believe that's going to throw things off.

I agree though, cooking with it seems counterintuitive

Drank many a protein drink but wasn't expecting it to be so grainy? Don't mind a bit of texture though. Tried the advice found on the side of powdered Polyfilla boxes (add the powder to the liquid) and also changes to almond milk. 2 espresso shots and 1tsp of cocoa. Was unbelievably smooth out the blender. Not tried either vanilla or plain on its own yet. Don't really want to.

Changed my mind about coffee and unflavoured Huel not working. It's actually fine.

Back on it tomorrow, I'm looking like Cartman after playing too many video games.
Been on the beers of late.

Been talking to my wife about Huel and we decided we want to give it a go.

Should I order it from Amazon? Vanilla or plain?

Vanilla. Order from Huel. https://huel.mention-me.com/m/ol/nm5jc-jason-murphy

Order it from huel. I've been on it for breakfast for 2 weeks, went unflavoured as I'll probably do some savory lunch type ones for when I'm out on the work bike all day. It's pretty earthy and slightly dry but nice with some fruit and something sweet in, my wife thinks it's gross though. Probably worth grabbing one of each of you're unsure.

Cheers will order from Huel.

Do we need the shaker bottles and metal shaker ball? We have a nutribullet and just plan on using Huel at home.

I bought a brevel thingy for £20,works fine with some mixed in shaking. I'm sure your fancy London blender will do even better.

I am on a 2/3 normal 1/3 vanilla with the moccha flavouring stuff. really good actually; tried it plain "2/3, 1/3" again but not going back.
farts remain unbearable though.
small price to pay to be #beachbodyready in winter.
guess I should get my gf on it to not be the only one to inflate the sheets but she'll turn a skeleton so.
#streamofconsciousnessbecomingakward

Received just over two months worth of unflavoured today...

Just a heads up, they’ve tweaked the recipe to make it less clumpy. The thing they were using for calcium was interacting with the thickener so they’ve changed the source of calcium.
It’s still called v2.2.

I have taken to using different 'milk' to jazz it up.
Oatly is used mostly, just bought the chocolate one to see how nice that is.

Do let us know. I'm experimenting the next month or so with non-dairy as part of a 3 month training diet, starting with flavoured soya.

Almond is good, regular oat seems to make it much thicker than others do but I am happy to chug a bit and then top off with water to slacken for the rest.
I have cashew and chocolate oatly to try.
I think I used rice milk before with some success.
Not sure if I've ever used cow milk in it...

I have added hot chocolate powder or horlicks for added flavour (if you don't want to buy theirs)

Hot coffee works surprisingly well, if your having it for breakfast.

Barley malt extract and cacao powder are both good. I usually chuck fruit in, best one was an apple, half a peach, honey and cinnamon.

That all involves adding sugar tho.

Cheers!

Hot coffee works surprisingly well, if your having it for breakfast.

This is my go to at the moment, and then one mid-afternoon to keep me through till dinner. However I'm about to have no kitchen at home for 5 weeks so looking like I'll have to make do with Huel more often than I'm used to...