I highly, highly recommend Huel or alternatives for anyone. I feel way better and have much more energy when I'm regularly consuming them. I think liquid food in general is really good for energy levels because the body has to expend way less energy breaking the food down to absorb it.
I especially recommend it for anyone who suffers from depression. The ability to just make a nutritionally complete meal that isn't full of complete shit in less than a minute is a godsend for maintaining your physical health on bad mental health days.
Another tip for healthy meals in under 5 minutes. Buy the following:
- A bag of mixed salad leaves
- A bag of pre-shredded coleslaw veg
- Microwave rice, cous cous or grain blend
- Cooked chicken breast (or get a whole chicken from the shop and strip it all)
- Some ready made sauce or dressing like peri-peri mayo, pesto mayo, honey-soy-garlic dressing etc
- A seed blend (optional)
- Some fried shallots/onions (optional)
- Wasabi peas (optional)
Put the salad and coleslaw veg in a bowl. Put the rice in the microwave for 90s, and the chicken in the microwave for 60s. Add the rice and chicken to bowl, add the optional toppings if desired and drizzle a bit of sauce (don't go overboard) on it.
You've now made an exceptionally healthy meal in under 5 minutes. For some reason the added carbs and the heat in the chicken and grains really makes the it way more palatable than a cold salad. Poke bowls for the win.
As someone with anxiety (diagnosed) and a strong bit of OCD (diagnosed) of the particular flavor that makes cooking *very stressful* I am grateful for Huel and use it for many of my meals. Relatively reasonably priced, good-enough tasting (better with added spices and such), low stress, low commitment, way healthier than eating out for every meal.
I second this recommendation.
edit: to be clear, I mean their "ready to eat" or "just microwave" meals. Their shakes are good too; but the microwavable meals are where they really shine, in my opinion.
Use a high quality blender (I have my old roommates vitamix) and add:
Frozen blueberries (for the antioxidants), frozen other fruits (to taste). One banana. Add enough oat milk to cover all the fruits. I like Oatly full fat. Blend thoroughly, adding a little more oat milk if needed. Then add a few heaping tablespoons of pea or soy protein and blend in thoroughly. I add it at the end as it is less likely to stick to the walls of my blender this way, but probably depends on your blender.
With the vitamix you can fill it about 2/3 or 3/4 full at most but it might overheat if it’s too full, needing to cool for 5 mins before you finish blending. I’ve done that too many times to count and the blender still works, tho I try to avoid it.
Pour it in to several mason jars with wide lids. I tend to end up with three jars. I drink one right away (in the morning after my oatmeal when I am getting ready for my day), put one in the fridge as an easy meal later, and take one with me wherever I am going. They keep all day, and if you don’t finish it you can put it in the fridge at night and it’s still good the next day. Vegan stuff keeps really well usually. And it’s super tasty!
I noticed today that I like the vanilla soy milk Jamba uses in their shakes, so I may try that some time for a little extra flavor, but honestly fruit blends have loads of flavor so maybe not.
Don’t skip the protein powder! It really gives it a satisfying body.
The Human body is designed to eat all available material. meat, vegs, fruits, leaves, nuts, shells, skin, bones, flowers, insects and much more We can digest almost everything and we should. Our stumic needs to work. Our chewing muscles need to work. We should not eat easy lazy food. We will turn into weak beings with allergies and zero resistance.
Eat healthy, but also a bit unhealthy.
I especially recommend it for anyone who suffers from depression. The ability to just make a nutritionally complete meal that isn't full of complete shit in less than a minute is a godsend for maintaining your physical health on bad mental health days.
Another tip for healthy meals in under 5 minutes. Buy the following:
- A bag of mixed salad leaves
- A bag of pre-shredded coleslaw veg
- Microwave rice, cous cous or grain blend
- Cooked chicken breast (or get a whole chicken from the shop and strip it all)
- Some ready made sauce or dressing like peri-peri mayo, pesto mayo, honey-soy-garlic dressing etc
- A seed blend (optional)
- Some fried shallots/onions (optional)
- Wasabi peas (optional)
Put the salad and coleslaw veg in a bowl. Put the rice in the microwave for 90s, and the chicken in the microwave for 60s. Add the rice and chicken to bowl, add the optional toppings if desired and drizzle a bit of sauce (don't go overboard) on it.
You've now made an exceptionally healthy meal in under 5 minutes. For some reason the added carbs and the heat in the chicken and grains really makes the it way more palatable than a cold salad. Poke bowls for the win.