https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjA38cUd4BZBdGZ...

The ingredients list is published and available, there's even a spreadsheet up with online locations where you can buy everything.

I can understand being dissatisfied about cost - but it was never claimed that you could receive this delivered to your door for $100/mo.

I'm not certain who's maintaining or how up to date this is; but here is the one I'd previously seen. There may be better data sources around.

I think I remember him saying that the recipe was "open source", maybe you could just make it yourself to save.

I can see his saving time argument though. Although there are days I gladly spent an hour or more in my kitchen, some days when I'm busy or lazy I would consider it.

Sidenote - calling this "corporation", I don't know if it's a joke or just poor marketing.

I remember when I first read the creator's blog post and how little it costs to make. Now I come and see it costs about the same amount it costs me to purchase food for a week.

Put probably not cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for one person, unless that person has particular food tastes that Soylent isn't going to address.

  Multivitamin ~10$
  1 gross eggs ~20
  30 cans refried beans ~20
  ~100 small tortillas ~7
  5 lbs rice ~5
  3 lbs sour cream ~9
  salt ~.7
  pepper ~1
  garlic ~2
  10 lbs potatoes ~10

Prices sourced from an H.E.B. supermarket in Austin Tx. Oh, also, I've been living on less than 3$ of food a day for the last year, so this isn't exactly theoretical. 230 per person per month would the height of luxury for me.

I highly recommend you switch to brown rice, wheat pasta, beans, produce, and cheap cuts of meat. Add in a slow cooker if you don't have much time.

Oh, and as for this soylent product, I would run screaming away. I only read his recipe up to the carbs section, and the fact that he thinks all carbs are the same because they end up as ATP is mind-boggling. It's as if he isn't aware of the huge problem with HFCS. Any biochem undergrad can tell you about the incredible complexity of the feedback and regulatory mechanisms of the body; to focus only on the end product of a mechanism is ignorant at best.