Not me! If it’s anything like some dog kibble it’s pretty gross. Humans are not cannibals by nature and there is probably a good reason for that.
My thought exactly.
I seriously hate it when Precognizant people steal my thoughts. :smack: stay out of my head.
…and yes, I could do with some Soylent Green.
I want Space Food Sticks back.
And if you’ve never heard of Space Food Sticks, get off my lawn.
Kibble? I want moist canned people food with gravy at a generic dog food price. It has to be no more than 100 mg sodium/serving, however.
Yes.
Around my house we call it Bachelor Chow, after Futurama. And then we talk about how I would eat it happily. Then we talk about how I used to take Tender Vittles with me hiking in the back country, on the grounds that you won’t eat Tender Vittles until you’re really hungry, but if you’re hungry enough to eat Tender Vittles, you’re gonna be damn glad to have them.
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As long as it pairs well with a nice, tall glass of Brawndo, I’d say yes…
It has what plants crave… it’s got Electrolytes
Bachelor Chow and Brawndo, the dinner of “champions” 
I guess Tender Vittles is much lighter in weight than Dwarf Bread, which is a serious consideration when hiking. On the other hand, Dwarf Bread doubles as weaponry.
Mmmmm, Space Food Sticks…
I remember chocolate Space Food Sticks tasted sort of like Tootsie Rolls, but not quite.
After one eats the Tender Vittles, I suspect one’s breath might also qualify.
I’d go for it - but it’d have to be meat-free, milk-free and gluten-free, so I probably wouldn’t actually be able to eat it.
Ensure doesn’t count, since it requires milk, is a drink (most people need to crunch something), has no fibre, has few of the required fats, doesn’t fill your belly and is always sweet (an area where cereal bars also fall down). It’s basically like washing down a multivitamin with a can of lemonade - you couldn’t actually live on it.
Hm. So you are more interested in a savory equivalent to a granola bar. Does it have to be vegan?
I could see something using buckwheat groats or barley, beef jerky nuggets, little bits and pieces of onions, garlic, herbs, diced celery, maybe some pieces of carrot and assorted flavorings, sort of like a solid form of beef veggie barley soup. But sort of granola bar textured. You could also make something granola-y out of the assorted grains, nuts and nut fats without the fruit, which would be sort of like a very high fat and reasonable fibre, with a tolerable amount of protein. Not sure what you could bind the ingredients together with, though. The sugars in granola form the glue holding it together.
If you work with this recipe as a base, you could add crunchie grains and nuts, bits of beef jerky and bits of dehydrated veggies to make a people kibble bar.
You know, I might just have to experiment - I don’t have that much of a sweet tooth, and granola bars to me are jaw-wrenchingly sweet. I could actually go for something savory. I was looking at the doggie bikkie recipe web page, and there are a lot of recipies that actually sound like they might be tasty [though made with defatted homemade broth instead of that salt laden bouillion]
There’s a lot of meat in that recipe. I don’t eat meat.
I don’t eat milk or gluten products for medical reasons - the products wouldn’t have to be vegan, but would have to not contain milk. Barley has gluten in it, btw. I’m not entirely sure what a granola bar is, but it doesn’t sound crunchy; there are cereal bars I can eat, but they’re basically mush - it feels like eating something that’s already been eaten. And yeah, they’re not just sweet, but sickeningly so, I totally agree.
It’s hard to be me. 
YES!
I want it to be healthy, so your body feels right after you’ve eaten it, even indefinitely.
I want it to come in a bag, including maybe 1 meal size.
And/or, I want it to come in mouthful-sized pieces, like cookies or donut holes, so you could count out a reasonable meal quickly and accurately, and eat it by hand without any special containers and without making a mess.
I want it to be palatable. I don’t see this as a way of amusing ourselves with food - leave that to restaurants and Sara Lee.
I thought about trying to create my own. A base of rolled oats and V8 vegetable juice, maybe with wheat germ or sunflower seeds or the like, rolled in balls, boiled and then baked, like bagles. They’d have a fairly clean durable exterior so you could eat them without dropping crumbs.
Human dog food, cheaper than real dog food
Yes, and could it be vegetarian? Doesn’t need to be vegan, but does need to be vegetarian, since I keep kosher.
Mr. Neville is out of town this week. Cooking for just yourself isn’t nearly as fun or interesting as cooking for someone else. 
I’d like something convenient so I don’t have to plan and prepare a meal for just me, without the huge quantities of salt, sugar, and calories that are in so many convenience foods. When I’m working, I’d like something that I could pack for lunch that is healthy, cheaper than eating out, can be eaten at one’s desk, does not require refrigeration, and requires no more advance thought or preparation than grabbing a scoop of kibble.
I haven’t had lunch yet. I’m getting kind of hungry, but I can’t figure out what to have. A bag of people kibble would solve this problem.
there is no meat in the original doggie recipe, just meat broth … but veggie broth could be used just as easily. granola is mixed grains in a matrix of sugar … it can actually be very crunchy. I thought of barley because i happen to like it =) but buck wheat could just as easily be used. You could sub in TVP granules for the meat for protein. Hmm, how are you with egg white? Perhaps egg white as a binder, because gluten is what tends to bind baked goods together.
Like I said, I would have to experiment a bit =)
TBH, one of the main advantages of ‘people kibble’ would be that I wouldn’t have to make it myself. If it requires cooking then I might as well make something tasty.
Bizarrely, baking with gluten-free flours has the opposite problem to what you’d expect - the ingredients bind together too well. For burgers, we use pastes of some sort, because then there is no binding. Of course, when I cannot be arsed cooking, I often end up eating just some mature cheddar cheese and cherry tomatoes like I’m on some accidental vegetarian Atkins diet.
Exactly. People kibble should require no refrigeration, freezing, or heating. Pet kibble doesn’t, and not everybody has access to a refrigerator, freezer, stove, or microwave in every situation where they would like to have a meal. Or maybe at work you don’t have access to a refrigerator where people don’t steal food, or a microwave that isn’t all grody.
It should also require no utensils to eat. Not everybody is organized enough to keep a collection of plastic utensils in their desk, and some of us have moral qualms about taking plastic utensils from restaurants.
The one-meal bags should be of a size that they could be stocked in vending machines.
Granola bars are in the right direction, but I’d like less sugar and more fiber and nutrients than most granola bars have. More fiber would also make it more filling, and make you less likely to get hungry again soon after eating it. Let’s keep the sodium reasonable, too.