Huel: The Future of Food ..

Almost on to my last bag of Huel. Only been using it this month (one a day along in addition to food) - the people who have tried the MP Vegan Fuel or whatever they've called it, would you recommend giving it a go?
 
MoNkeE said:
Sonny is implying that that nutrients don't get absorbed, but the calories must. It's called cherry picking your facts :p

Well I say facts, I'm dying to know where he has this information from.
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Aren't multi vits for instance widely controversial for instance in that they don't quite work fully?

Or has there been new studies suggesting all the vitamins from within multi vits get absorbed fine and naturally.

My thinking was the best way to absorb anything is to have it in it's natural state otherwise the body just sees it as fuel and absorbs the calories.
 
IIRC the best way to get the micro-nutrients to absorb is to ensure they are taken with something that promotes their absorption, fats, water, and salts all help out.

Huel feels very balanced in that respect, I get a bit of everything 2-3 times a day and I do feel good on it.

I prefer huel to the myprotein alternative but it's pretty good overall; huel feels/tastes more like food whereas the MP one feels like a shake and tastes like custard :p
 
I also find Huel fills me up more than normal food calorie for calorie. A nice bonus when trying to shift weight. A 600 calorie meal of normal food and i'm licking the plate and still hungry. The same amount of Huel and i'm good to go until the next meal. It's also particularly great post workout - I used to neck a protein shake immediately after finishing at the gym and it doesn't compare.
 
5KG Whole Fuel = £38.87
3.5KG Huel = £45

Am I working this out properly? The MP offering seems crazy value by comparison. I have tried to compare the ingredients, which seem broadly similar, but are they? Is Whole Food close enough to be considered a sound alternative?

Who has tried both? How do they compare?
 
Warbie said:
I also find Huel fills me up more than normal food calorie for calorie. A nice bonus when trying to shift weight. A 600 calorie meal of normal food and i'm licking the plate and still hungry. The same amount of Huel and i'm good to go until the next meal. It's also particularly great post workout - I used to neck a protein shake immediately after finishing at the gym and it doesn't compare.
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Liquid does make you feel fuller quicker but I find if I have a huel meal I'm hungry an hour later. Whereas the equivalent calories via food won't. Clearly that's because the effort required by your body to digest whole foods is more taxing. But I guess lots of low calorie huel shakes (400 cal) a day starts to fill you up but is then less convenient than having fewer sittings to sit and eat. It's a balance and what works for you.
 
Freefaller said:
Liquid does make you feel fuller quicker but I find if I have a huel meal I'm hungry an hour later. Whereas the equivalent calories via food won't. Clearly that's because the effort required by your body to digest whole foods is more taxing. But I guess lots of low calorie huel shakes (400 cal) a day starts to fill you up but is then less convenient than having fewer sittings to sit and eat. It's a balance and what works for you.
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Strangely, I find the opposite. I have my first shake when I get to the office at 0900 and I am fine then until 1200 when I have the second. When I get home around 1830 I feel hungry, but it's not ravenous. Huel is great at appetite management - zero snacking in over 3 weeks. I am so happy I read this thread and gave it a go because I was in a real rut with my weight and my attitude to doing something about it. Huel makes it easy.
 
I'm in agreement with George, I have mine at 0800 and 1230 and feel fine until mu main meal at 1800.

I haven't snacked or felt hungry during the 3 weeks I've been on it. The weight has kept steadily coming off which is nice. I'm going to try the MP Whole Food as it seems better value for me.

The convenience of HUEL is what drew me to it and for that purpose it has delivered.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Aren't multi vits for instance widely controversial for instance in that they don't quite work fully?

Or has there been new studies suggesting all the vitamins from within multi vits get absorbed fine and naturally.

My thinking was the best way to absorb anything is to have it in it's natural state otherwise the body just sees it as fuel and absorbs the calories.
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This isn't an area I know huge amounts about but starting from first principles (as it were) I'm not sure you can draw equivalencies between different types of supplementation i.e. not all supplementation is the same in how it is produced, how it is absorbed by the body nor is it the same in effect either in an individual or general sense.

I don't know whether Huel (or similar alternatives) are good for you but without some proper evaluation and academic research I don't think you can point to multi-vitamins and say that they are the same. It may be that the typical processing to make a tablet of a multi-vitamin has more of an effect of the ability of the body to absorb the contents that you get with a powdered drink which you have to rehydrate.

Natural/unadulterated/however you want to describe it may well be best but that doesn't implicitly mean that all supplementation doesn't work or doesn't have a use.
 
wozza2k said:
Freefaller did you fit Huel to impact your training in any way?
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My training at the moment is not great (i.e. just at the weekends) - but it is just food. I find it hard to get lots of calories in using Huel, and I use it on days when I've forgotten to bring my food in (I keep a bag at the office).

It doesn't make me feel bad/bloated or anything. It's just food. :)

George Hincapie said:
Strangely, I find the opposite. I have my first shake when I get to the office at 0900 and I am fine then until 1200 when I have the second. When I get home around 1830 I feel hungry, but it's not ravenous. Huel is great at appetite management - zero snacking in over 3 weeks. I am so happy I read this thread and gave it a go because I was in a real rut with my weight and my attitude to doing something about it. Huel makes it easy.
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I snack between meals but that's because I like to eat :D - also, I enjoy the snacks I have. However I'm not eating a lot of calories at the moment (only c.3000). I'd have to have 8 scoops a day to get close to 3000 cals, and even then I just don't find it that filling or satisfying. When I start training properly again and ramp up cals to 3.5-4k Huel will come in handy for a quick hit in between meals.

However, for losing weight or weight management Huel is great - but for me I just digest it too quickly and am left hungry within an hour or two - that's based on 3.5-4 scoops per helping.

JOSH86 said:
I'm in agreement with George, I have mine at 0800 and 1230 and feel fine until mu main meal at 1800.

I haven't snacked or felt hungry during the 3 weeks I've been on it. The weight has kept steadily coming off which is nice. I'm going to try the MP Whole Food as it seems better value for me.

The convenience of HUEL is what drew me to it and for that purpose it has delivered.
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I have breakfast at 6. I then eat again at around 9-10. I then have lunch around 1230. I have an afternoon snack around 3pm or so. Then a snack around 6pm. And dinner around 730-8pm.

Huel could be used at each of those meal times, but a) I'd get so bored of it. b) I like actually chewing and munching on various foods c) it's a faff!

But for me Huel is a "need a quick snack and forgotten my lunch, and don't want to spend ridiculous amounts of money for something that can cost me 1/2 of that if I bought the ingredients myself" solution rather than meal replacement.

It is good though - and I enjoy it more than protein shakes.
 
In terms of goals I want to achieve from being on it, it's all going well. Have noticed that I generally feel a lot colder than I usually do but guess it's just lack of calories and meat in the diet combined.
 
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