Huel: The Future of Food ..

hardkore

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Huel is definitely better ice cold in my opinion. I've found if I make it in the morning, I use 2 scoops of huel with 400ml of water and a handful of ice cubes. Blend it for 30 seconds then bang it in the freezer for 20 minutes. Keeps ice cold until lunch then :)
 

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faceman123 said:
how is huel ? does it have any health risks related to long term consumption?
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You'd have to define what you mean by long term. The product has not been around for more than a decade, but there's plenty of people that use 100% huel without any issues.

Personally I couldn't do it even if I wanted to, I love proper food way too much and while I do like having easy healthy calories during the day, I always look forward to dinner (my only food meal of the day) every weekday.
 

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I was thinking of trying it out for a month with nothing but 4 servings of Huel each day throughout March to see what would happen. It's presumably similar to what you have to do when you have bariatric surgery.
 

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The hard thing about going 100% Huel is you actually miss eating. I guess that is habit forming in itself so after a couple of weeks of some moral fibre it would be quite easy, apart from the social side of things when everyone is going out for dinner having a nice time and your sat their with a bottle of wine all to yourself.

Huel like anything is life is best done with moderatio, past couple of week i have been using for breakfast and Lunch and the odd evening when i get home late. I actually miss porridge... I really need to get out more :)
 

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Proving a bit of a lifesaver these past couple of days. Having been struck down with flu, got no appetite nor energy to do anything cooking wise. So a few glasses of Huel has been just the ticket.
 

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faceman123 said:
how is huel ? does it have any health risks related to long term consumption?
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If there are any risks I’d imagine they’d be outlier cases in components of health other than physiological; like mental/psychological health - the person who won’t eat socially because it’s only ever Huel-o-clock, the person who is afraid to eat anything else because it’s harder to track calories/nutrient intake etc, the person who never learns to eat healthily because of a reliance on Huel etc.

Might seem far-fetched but people reach religious cult wacko status levels when it comes to all sorts of diets, and while I don’t think there’s a complete powder food one yet, never say never...
 

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Yeh I think I'd agree with that.. It's a very complete meal but I like normal food too much!

In my usage it's simply a way to have a quick healthy balanced (lunch in my case) without having to put any thought into it or, even worse just getting a dirty burger and cheesy chips for lunch.

To that extent I think it's excellent, but i can't imagine living off it 100% of the time long term, although theoretically you could I suppose.
 

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Great post @Somnambulist I can already see an obsession developing with me. I’m thinking I should nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand. I did pretty well last year with healthy eating (clean keto) so I should probably just go back to that and stop being lazy and unfocused.
 
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