Meal Mix was blend of whole grain and protein powders, flavored with cocoa and cinnamon, to be blended into shakes.
Before the modern “Soylent” drink, I was experimenting with deconstructed nutrition, but in a whole-foods model. The experiment was to take the ingredients of nutritious whole-grain foods and blend them in a manner such that when you mixed them into a shake, they would taste…good enough.
I experimented with the blend, and put together a complete nutritional analysis, including micronutrients. In case you are wondering, the star of the blend was oat flour, which has both a strong nutrition profile, and a pleasant semi-sweet flavor.
I tried both 3-pound bagged product packaging, and pre-mixed bottles.
The shelf-life of the bottles was clearly not long enough. After selling some dozens of the 3-pound bags to “early adopters”, I decided that the flavor really just wasn’t where it needed to be.
Personally, I repurposed the remainder of the Meal Mix and made weekly batches of muffins, and at the office I became the muffin-guy.
After seeing where the modern incarnation of “meal replacement shakes” has gone, I’m happy with setting this project aside.