Bushwalk Australia

So this just came up on my RSS feed today:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/12/ ... elease/#p3

I enjoy a good meal, but I can definitely see value in this when hiking. Perhaps not as a sole source of nutrition but it could be a good compliment to other foods to help get a little extra fuel into your body.

Has anyone here actually tried this stuff yet?

Have a read of this prior discussion

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12786&p=174542&hilit=soylent#p174542

Strider wrote:Have a read of this prior discussion

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12786&p=174542&hilit=soylent#p174542

Thanks.

Interesting, almost every comment on the previous post seems to very strongly dislike the idea (or focus on the infamous book connection). On that basis it is perhaps naive of me to expect someone to have tried it before it's available through "normal" retail channels.

I personally kind of like the idea, but I have some very strong reservations about how well it could work for people who are extremely active. I find getting the 13,000-14,000kj I need per day when hiking requires me to be eating a lot more of the day than I care to do.

Bubbalouie wrote:Interesting, almost every comment on the previous post seems to very strongly dislike the idea (or focus on the infamous book connection). On that basis it is perhaps naive of me to expect someone to have tried it before it's available through "normal" retail channels.

I personally kind of like the idea, but I have some very strong reservations about how well it could work for people who are extremely active. I find getting the 13,000-14,000kj I need per day when hiking requires me to be eating a lot more of the day than I care to do.

Agree..I find it strange that the most of the rubbish available in supermarkets designed purely for taste, shelf-life and profitability only is seen as superior to something that is solely designed for optimum nutrition. That just seems to be the way it is on the internet, any new idea is always shot down. Compared to the very limited food that is often taken on bushwalks I find it hard to believe that something like Soylent wouldnt be vastly superior in nutritional terms.
Whether you would eat it permanently or enjoy eating it is something different but I do think it could be very useful in particular situations. To me it is just taking the same approach to food as is taken to ultralight gear.
Maximum benefit for minimum weight/effort.

Google a commercial / Industrial food product called Promate. A texturised soy bean isolate, long and stable shelf life and the protein is easily assimilable