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Kibble?
OK.
I know this isn’t GQ but I already pointed out that people kibble is already made and available almost anywhere. It is called Ensure and you can by it at almost any pharmacy or in supermarkets although there are store brand equivalents and other name-brand knockoffs. It comes in small bottles and doesn’t have to be refrigerated or heated and it will fit in existing vending machines. It comes in multiple flavors and takes just a few seconds to drink and tastes fine. If you are too lazy to drink it, you can just have it pumped straight into your stomach. It will keep someone alive indefinitely and it is cheaper than regular food.
The other alternative is military MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat) and you can buy those as well online or in sporting goods stores and they keep for years or more. They are nutritionally complete meals that you just open and they have everything in them.
I am getting irritated because Dopers are once again dreaming of a super-lazy lifestyle that already exists yet paradoxically they are too lazy to follow through with it.
NO WAY! :eek:
(fires up the charge card…)
Ensure is not a meal replacement. Try going on Ensure for an extended period of time. You will feel sick.
We have evolved to want variety in our diet. We may claim we want People Kibble, but as soon as we have it, we’d be complaining about how there’s no variety.
Actually getting nutrients pumped into you, and getting your stomach deadened would work a lot better. But even then you’d be missing the dopamine response.
I am not directing this at you specifically (although you more than welcome be included) but this thread is one pointless exercise for delusional, ignorant, world-class lazy people that happens to be posted on a board dedicated to fighting ignorance. I know this isn’t GQ but I can’t let these things get past us without comment.
Ensure has no milk. It has plenty of fiber (12% of the recommended daily allowance per bottle). It has 250 calories and most of the essential fats, protein, and vitamins you need as well so just drink 8 small bottles a day and live the dream life. Throw in some gronola for crunch. They make different versions and flavors for people with special needs and it really is designed to be pumped straight into your stomach for people in the ICU.
If you want something more substantial in pouch form that you can just open, the military had that nailed a long time ago. Stock up on some MRE’s for the buffet at Sunday brunch.
Now only if I had some device that would allow me to see pictures moving pictures of people moving and talking from far away, I would be happy. Does anyone know when they will come up with something like that?
Food even easier than already exists didn’t work out worth a damn for Violet in Charlie in the Chocolate Factory and that is a moral for the ages.
Thank you for fighting ignorance.
Ensure is what they give to people who cannot or will not eat. I believe you can live on it indefinitely.
Yes, I had a patient that was on liquid nutrition via a stomach tube. She had the most beautiful skin and hair because it was so well balanced nutritionally. 6 cans a day and water and your good to go for life.
Two conditions of People Kibble are that it must taste good and it must give the feeling of having eaten something.
Ensure tastes like ass. Plus, while it does satisfy nutritional requirements, a bottle of Ensure (or Ensure knockoffs, which taste like rotten ass) don’t feel like meals.
While MREs feel like meals, they’re unpalatable.
If people kibble was merely about nutrition sufficient to keep someone alive, those would be worthwhile suggestions. Ensure doesn’t cut it. I’d rather eat something non-nutritious or cook.
I’m on People Kibble right now – diet supplements. They’re packets of “shake” powder. Add less water and it’s pudding! Lactose-intolerant is A-OK! There’s hot cereal, too, with dried fruit in it – that stuff is nice. There’s MREs and bars, too.
If you’re not trying to lose a boatload of weight it’s not exactly worth it – and it’s bleeding expensive – but the food is good enough to make the diet possible to stick to.
Yes. I could see myself happily living on such a thing exclusively for the rest of my life.
If it’s makes its own gravy, I’m in.
I think we are looking for something dry and chewable. Also pretty bland, as the whole point is to maintain nutrition while incredibly busy. I’d love to have such a thing for work days, as I seldom get breakfast and almost never lunch.
I do keep nuts and cereal bars near at hand, and grab water whenever I’m up. But cereal bars tend to be sticky, and then I have to go wash my hands.
Yes, I’m looking for something easy and convenient and cheap, but it’s precisely because I’m so hard-working, I resent the “lazy” comment.
I could never use it as an “all the time” replacement, but I’d definietly use it about 10 meals per week.
I’ve been saying for years that if they ever come out with People Chow, I’d buy it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I thought it was one of those dietary supplemtents that you have with milk. Hence me saying it requires milk - I never said that it has milk. (There are other milks than cow’s milk, but that takes away some of the convenience).
And it’s sweet. I know you’re enjoying correcting me, but one of the main objections people have to things like Ensure is that it’s sweet. The same goes for diet) supplements like Slimfast. They also do not crunch, do not have much (if any) fibre, and they don’t fill you up. Granola with Ensure would be one of the most disgusting things I can never imagine eating.
So it’s a bit odd saying that ‘people kibble’ doesn’t exist when it doesn’t meet several of the requirements listed in the very post you’ve quoted.
MREs aren’t easy, nutritious foods - they’re ready-meals that last a long time. Personally, for a bit of variety I’d go wild and actually eat a meal, since buying people kibble wouldn’t mean you’re banned from eating proper meals too.
The Matrix strikes again. This appeared in my inbox today:
