[Closed] Huel. Anyone tried it?

I've ordered. 2 bags and a free t shirt for £45. If it's awesome I'll let you all know and you can all tell me I'm wrong. We will see!!!

My Mrs has bought into this - "encouraging" me to use it for breakfast - i tend to eat breakfast at my desk (I get to work for 0715) and readily succumb to the cheap bacon rolls that are available around Glasgow City Centre.

So far - it's filled a gap, vanilla is better than the berry stuff. Will see how long I can stick it. I tend to snack on fruit during the morning as well, but it's generally quite filling (600ml portion)

I bought some last month following this thread. I really rate it! I bought new Vanilla GF and unflavoured GF. Unflavoured is fine by me, tastes very oaty & a quite neutral obviously but I could drink it on it's own. (Whenever I've bought whey powder, etc before I've always gone for unflavoured and never had a problem, I know some people say they can't stomach it though!)

Actually quite like the flavour of the new Vanilla. Would (and do!) happily drink it as-is. Maybe [I]slightly[/I] too sweet for my tastes (I do not really have a sweet tooth though!) I guess you could always mix it 50/50 with the unflavoured but not actually tried that yet. Made an awesome shake by whizzing up the Huel along with a couple of scoops of peanut butter & a banana in my NutriNinja! Other than that not tried any mixes or recipes though.

Bought some of the flavour powder sample sachets for £1.50 (you get 10 I think). They are all OK, didn't get one I didn't like, thought the mint chocolate chip was especially nice though so will probably get a bag of that next time I order.

Fills me up for a bit so makes a perfect quick brekkie/lunch/snack etc. Think it's about 450 cals or so with 3 scoops so not really a meal replacement (except brekkie maybe). Seems to do what they claim, assuming it's as healthy as they say. I've had one a day pretty much every day so far. There's actually a lot of nutrition info on the website you can read through, does make a lot of sense although obviously they're putting maximum positive spin on it.

If anyone is interested they can PM me for a referral code so we both save a tenner 😀 Happy to start a "referral chain" so everyone can benefit from the offer once!

I was thinking of this for Lunch only, but was wary of the "fill you up" factor as I tend to graze if I'm not full.

So, it works then - it really does fill you up?

Food is one of life's joys, why would you want to replace it with some 1984esque gruel?.

How much do you tend to eat for lunch? It's about 450 cals and IME fills you up like the equivalent amount of food, maybe a bit more but it's not magic - if you're smashing 1000 cals+ of sausage rolls etc for lunch currently it will still leave a hole (at least until you get used to eating less!). Obviously you can supplement with a salad or some fruit, nuts etc.

This stuff just sounds analogous to having sex with a plastic doll instead of another real human being.

Huel’s bought by the sort of people who would buy a manual machine instead of actually riding their bike and practising manuals.

These are my two favourite bits of this thread so far. More like this please. We have standards to maintain.

It definitely fills you up, I have it for lunch most days and don't graze until I get home and start preparing dinner. For me it's convenience and I actually like the taste. I add a spoon of instant coffee to the vanilla, makes for great coffee/caramel sort of flavour which I happily gloop down.

The point about food being one of life's great pleasures is one I get flung at me often. My lunch options are popping and spending 5 quid on something tasty but calorific or spending time (which I don't have) preparing something at home or making a cheesy butty which is not great nutrition and becomes very uninspiring. So works for me, but each to their own etc....

Just had some for lunch.  It's an OK, easy replacement for a £3 meal deal and probably more healthy.  Think I will be tired of it by the time I'm through the two bags

This stuff just sounds analogous to having sex with a plastic doll instead of another real human being.

Is that a good or bad thing 😉

Well. Three weeks in of two huels a day....

A. You fart a lot. They smell real bad.

B. The vanilla flavour is sickly sweet. I think I like plain.

C. You feel full on three scoops.

D. I've lost 2/3 of a stone.

E. I'm eating what I want one meal a day as long as it's not crazy bad. Drinking wine and beer etc as well. Snacking on fruit only.

Not bad. I'll keep at it.

For people asking how processed this stuff is, well worth reading that Guardian article posted on page one.... Might be an eye opener. 😉

Seems to be about as processed as it's possible to get.

No thanks.

I would take that Guardian article with a pinch of salt. Some of the points regarding ingredients/labelling are not valid as it is out of date info. Also the “expert” consulted has an extreme bias given the books she writes & promotes. There are a lot of scary words/phrases used but zero science. “These are very, very technologically altered hi-tech ingredients.” what like milling oats?! (There are more involved processes too of course) Yes, obviously Huel is processed. If you only ever cook food from scratch then the point is valid. Most processed food sold in the UK is made with similar, or much worse, industrial processes. Bread, for example. And if you eat anything with vegetable oil in it, fuhgeddaboudit!

TL/DR: is it processed? Yes. Is it “as processed as it’s possible to get“? No.

The texture takes a bit of getting used to but it's not bad.

I use it as a replacement lunch on days when I'd normally buy a sainsbury's meal deal so as far as I'm concerned the 'processed' argument holds no weight.

I use it for lunch replacement after walking the dog! Saves me staring at food I can't really be assed with but I am hungry. Keeps me full until dinner where I cook properly.

Nicely put zilog, I was trying to write a reasonable response to those points and you got it spot on. I think it challenges the "normal" so people are bound to want to pick holes in it.

I’m giving it a go lunch and breakfast for December (well until the 25th anyway). Will report back!

Gave it 10 days @ 2 shakes per day, but stomach cramps and bloating have forced me to take a break from it. ☹️

Could anyone send me a referal code please?

Designed for folk with excuses, if you have an excuse someone out there will rip you off.

So....it’s a nutritionally complete food but you lose 2kg per week if you eat it....so it’s not then.

So….it’s a nutritionally complete food but you lose 2kg per week if you eat it….so it’s not then.

In that if use it as a lunch replacement at work instead of a greggs/McDonald's etc.. Yeh.
It's too easy to (for me anyway) just grab a high fat, high carb chippy or a chicken burger n fries etc.
If you have a healthy balanced diet and a an exercise portion control.. Then it's obviously unessasary.

@mattyfez. you have mail

Cheers dude 🙂

We had an intern who used it. His diet consisted of the following:

Free Waitrose coffee and sometimes a pastry for breakfast.
Nothing all day, except for possibly some popcorn or Haribo.
Huel for his evening meal.

Needless to say, he was possibly the most unhealthy looking person I've met. He was also a complete loon.

JP

I'm just planning on using it as a lunch replacement a couple of times a week.. It seems like a good alternative to spending a fiver every day on junk food, and i don't really want the hassle of preparing a pack lunch every day... Makes sense to me, but I guess I'll see how it tastes, although historically I've quite liked vanilla protein shakes etc. The kind you buy in 5kg tubs. So hopefully this will be similar but a more nutritional shake, I. E. Not just protein and tonnes of carbs.

Reading back, I may have changed my point of view.

Food is one of life’s joys, why would you want to replace it with some 1984esque gruel?.

Food can be one of life's joys, but cooking isn't, necessarily. And the more delicious lovely food I eat, the more I want. There's something to be said for removing olfactory stimulus if you want to lose weight.

Can you survive only on Huel? I'm wondering if it might kill interest in food enough for a month or so to lose some weight, as a crash diet. And blablabla don't lecture me on crash dieting, I've heard it all before, and I don't crash diet anyway, I'm just musing over it so just don't even. Ok?

🤷‍♂️@ Molly

Can you survive only on Huel? I’m wondering if it might kill interest in food enough for a month or so to lose some weight, as a crash diet. And blablabla don’t lecture me on crash dieting, I’ve heard it all before, and I don’t crash diet anyway, I’m just musing over it so just don’t even. Ok?

I managed to mostly transition my lunches to pre pack salads and you do get used to the blandness after an initial few days of missing 'nicer food'.. Figured I could do the same with huel and it's a lot cheaper than £3.50 a meal, so a decent saving over the year.
That said the salads I'm eating are about 350-400 calories.. How many calories in a recommended huel serving?

A level scoop of Huel holds roughly 38g which is about 153 calories

https://uk.huel.com/pages/how-to-use

I'm still on the they're complete shysters fence -

If you want an easier tastier (probably cheaper?) that isn't created by achingly hip millennials then whizz up 50g of oats, a couple of scoops of protien power, 2 tablespoons of peanut butter & some almond milk.

Or - 50g oats, 1 table spoon chia seeds, 1 x banana, some chunks of frozen pineapple & raspberries, fill with 50% almond milk & orange juice & you have a delicious breakfast shake.

I think I mentioned this earlier on in this thread, but a bloke at work has been trying this for lunch replacements. He must have been having it for 4-5 months now. I'm not sure how often he has it, but at least 3x a week for lunch would be my guess.

He's currently training for a marathon & still bringing it into work. No noted side effects.

Food can be one of life’s joys, but cooking isn’t, necessarily

I make lunches whilst making dinner at night, or my wife does of she's in before me, it's really not a chore. It's a no brainer - saves money, keeps choices healthier.

Huel is just another stupid fad.

If you want an easier

Can you survive only on Huel?

Can you survive only on Huel?

Might be worth stockpiling for post Brexit......

I make lunches whilst making dinner at night, or my wife does of she’s in before me, it’s really not a chore.

I find it a chore.

Bless.

Might be worth stockpiling for post Brexit……

Ha! That's partly why I thought now was as good a time as any to try it. Been half thinking about getting some for a while.
Thanks for the code... Ordered 3 bags of it today. Hope I get on with it, if I do ill order more on payday, but worst comes to worst I reckon I can live about 2 months on 3 bags, I'll be running a big calorie deficit but better than nothing eh.