Norm Drinks Soylent, Day 2
For the second day of soylent drinking, Norm begins to experiment with adding flavor enhancing ingredients to his life-sustaining beverage. Soylent doesn’t recommend switching to a soylent-only diet immediately, so we’re still in the easing in period. Plus, a special guest appearance by a Tested family member we haven’t seen in a while! To support Norm in his new healthy living initiative, sign up for a Tested Premium Membership by clicking here.
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You missed out on the perfect title for this episode: Soylent 2: Norm Goes (Chloe) Bananas.
@ dammit you beat me to it.
Should the audience get the chance to compare Chloe Bananas poops and Soylent Bananas poops? That’s premium content!
Chloe looks like she wants to try it too!
I really like this series, just for the banter.
I feel like should keep track of the various items that he adds to his vanilla sludge. Two medium bananas are roughly 210 calories. Did he blend in a few more that night? If he did, that is even more calories added to his liquid diet.
These are things that we should know.. 😉
Seems like Will’s dog liked the soylent.
What should they add to make it turn a nice vivid Green?
As someone who has been seriously considering trying Soylent, I very much appreciate this experiment. Thanks to Will, I even get a preview of how my friends will act when I attempt to forgo food for chemicals.
canned spinach.
Since it’s all chemicals anyways, a few drops of green food coloring would seem appropriate..
“Good luck with the poops chan!” xD
This is the sitcom that Tested was meant to be
Norm should make a poo spreadsheet 😛
My favorite quotes “it couldn’t have made it worse”! The commentary really helps it go down.
Will is kind of like The Hyneman, he likes to see Norm (Adam) in pain.
Episode title: Soylent Destiny.
Is Chloe’s real last name bananas?
Just noticed Vader on the micro :O
No. She just *is* bananas..
I think Norm is still in the optimism stage, also still committed. I feel like after mixing that next batch the trouble will set in. Or maybe Norm will give himself over and be too weak from lack of nutrients to think about it.
Will jests here, but this really is the sort of silly shit that makes Tested great and got me hooked during the Whiskey days.
In the verge they added some chocolate syrup and reese`s for a more desert-ish beverage. Might wanna try that Norm, instead of your regular unwieldy recipes.
“If you put in enough food in there, it’ll be like food”
I think Will gets the best line of the video award.
Norm, I have a challenge for you.
At the end of this week, if you feel that you are up to it I challenge you to do a whole second week of Soylent. The catch is no additions, only pure Soylent. I’ll allow water and coffee, no pop(a challenge has to be challenging). Your reward: a care package of new SpaceX shirts and a model rocket. I think I’ve seen you wear that one twice, we need to get you some upgrades.
Still funny!
did a little reading and I ran through the nutritional info. It’s not bad, I’m sort of impressed with the numbers they managed to get with the oil/powder set up.
I’d recommend against adding banana or berries to be totally honest. This stuff has a significant amount of fiber, it seems to be balanced appropriately as far as carb/protein/fat. Adding in the extra sugars from the fruit is going to make it into a less balanced and less ‘healthy’ diet.
Regarding the diet coke, other than the chemicals if you’re really worried about that sorta thing, the only real bad bit of soda is the sodium content. Luckily it looks like the Soylent is ‘low’ on sodium overall.
If it’s meant to be a proper, no shit, meal replacement, I’d recommend following the directions as closely as possible, avoid adding too much ‘extra’ stuff into it. If you want to add flavor, go for nutritionally neutral flavorants. I’d say some vanilla extract or any flavoring extract actually… almond extract does a wonderful job of hiding that weird soy protein flavor that’s prevalent in most protein supplements and most likely in the Soylent as well.
If you DO add something like banana or some peanut butter, what i’d do is prepare the Soylent per instructions, then determine what you want to add to it, find the calories of that addition, and remove 66% of those calories from your total soylent volume. I say 66% because you’ll be dropping some of the nutritional portions from your daily diet this way, but by removing at least ‘some’ of the total soylent you’ll keep the calorie content closer and not end up getting fat in an unhappy way (drinking crap).
So, for example. If you want to add 2 bananas that’s going to be ~500 calories. If 2L = 2000 Calories, you’re looking at a ML per Calorie basically. So you’ll want to remove about 2/3’s fo that or 333.3~ ML. which is just over 11 ounces.
That’ll take you down to ~1677 calories worth of Soylent and about 500 calories worth of banana in your total volume so only 2177ish in the actual total volume if you were to drink the entire thing in a day. At Norm’s age and height, given he appears to be in decent shape and actually has some muscle mass, 2200 Calories isn’t a terrible number if he adds at least a little bit of exercise into his day, it’d be easy to just shave off the excess calories by dumping some of it down the drain 🙂
I’d still say, use non caloric flavorings to make it taste better without adding more calories or effecting the nutritional content of the Soylent itself.
I’m totally interested in this stuff now, I’m debating grabbing a week and trying the 1 week total meal replacement thing with it. I’ve done a few funky crash diets in my life and honestly, this one sounds pretty interesting, you’ve got an easy, volumetric method of counting calories without any ‘hidden’ calories. I’ll have to use that blog feature if I end up doing it lol.
Best of luck, Sir.
“I might just stay in and have some Soylent.”
I smell a new slogan….
Wait, that’s not how you open a banana?
you guys need a better blender
spirolina or any algae should do that for them 🙂
if you open it from the bottom where the seed is you don’t get the stringy stuff stuck to the banana.
HEY WILL. You never said, That’s Bananas!!! in this episode. Why????
The zoom on Norms face just as he admits to farting was hilarious
Norm said he opened the banana wrong. If you open it from the bottom up, you’re not supposed to have to deal with the ‘phloem’. Pholeam are those little annoying strings that we see when eating a banana.
“oh gross, i got it on me” Hah!