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Title: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on October 30, 2014, 10:06:38 pm
http://www.mealsquares.com/

If you live in the US, you can be a beta tester.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 10:17:34 pm
Crowd funding for this, lol

You'd be better off protesting in front of fast food shitholes
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on October 30, 2014, 10:30:26 pm
As usual, lombardsoup manages to completely misunderstand what he's criticising and what its purpose is.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 10:34:03 pm
As usual, lombardsoup manages to completely misunderstand what he's criticising and what its purpose is.

This thread is now about unhealthful food.

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Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Christo on October 30, 2014, 10:36:40 pm
Pic made me very hungary, 8/10

Interesting incentive though. Fits nicely into the futuristic idea of compact, "all in one" foods.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Bjord on October 30, 2014, 10:37:00 pm
Fuck off, lombardshit.

MealSquares look great, I would subscribe to such a service for a while at least.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 10:40:59 pm
Fuck off, lombardshit.

MealSquares look great, I would subscribe to such a service for a while at least.

They're about as good as Powerbars, a combination of dirt and chalk that vaguely tastes like lemons.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on October 30, 2014, 11:04:58 pm
Fuck off, lombardshit.

MealSquares look great, I would subscribe to such a service for a while at least.
Well, if it's successful and gets out of the beta phase and spreads, you wouldn't have to subscribe to it. You could just buy some whenever you want to replace whichever meal you want -- or all of them.

They say people assumed it's a dessert, so it should taste great too. Pretty much the perfect military/hiking food.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 11:06:42 pm
Well, if it's successful and gets out of the beta phase and spreads, you wouldn't have to subscribe to it. You could just buy some whenever you want to replace whichever meal you want -- or all of them.

They say people assumed it's a dessert, so it should taste great too. Pretty much the perfect military/hiking food.

The problem is that the market is over-saturated with similar products.

Also, reporting me...LOL
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on October 30, 2014, 11:07:52 pm
The problem is that the market is over-saturated with similar products.
There is only one other product like it, soylent.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 11:09:39 pm
There is only one other product like it, soylent.

And every other military/survival food product on the market.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Kalam on October 30, 2014, 11:10:15 pm
There is only one other product like it, soylent.

I was about to bring this up. What makes this different fromt soylent? Taste and texture, I'm guessing?
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 11:10:49 pm
I was about to bring this up. What makes this better than soylent?

Advertising, which is all they have.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Teeth on October 30, 2014, 11:13:37 pm
Interesting, hopefully it won't be long until the average joe finally gets convinced that 'natural' food isn't good and 'chemical' food isn't bad by definition, with these very terms being silly. If the research is legit it seems like a viable product, I wonder how they taste.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on October 30, 2014, 11:16:23 pm
I was about to bring this up. What makes this different fromt soylent? Taste and texture, I'm guessing?
I guess the biggest difference is that soylent is liquid and doesn't taste as good. It's a pretty big deal to me at least. It's much more "fulfilling" to eat something, as opposed to just drinking when you're hungry/watching a movie/reading a paper/whatever.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 11:21:13 pm
This is a very odd time to be marketing something like this.  Would personally scrap it for now.  The biggest hot ticket right now in the survival/military market isn't even a food product, its Ebola gear, in particular Class A suits.  Govts are the biggest buyers.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Bjord on October 30, 2014, 11:22:00 pm
Lombard, are you sure you're not actually in a vegetative state when you're posting?
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 11:22:55 pm
vegetative state

Most people can't type in one.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Bjord on October 30, 2014, 11:24:20 pm
Most people can't type in one.

You make me suspect it not to be entirely true.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 30, 2014, 11:27:40 pm
You make me suspect it not to be entirely true.

I'm responding to external stimuli, there goes the makeshift medical diagnosis

Also upvoting you because your insults are of better quality than Cants
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Bjord on October 30, 2014, 11:31:28 pm
I'm responding to external stimuli, there goes the makeshift medical diagnosis

Also upvoting you because your insults are of better quality than Cants

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Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Kafein on October 31, 2014, 12:19:25 am
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Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 31, 2014, 12:22:33 am
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This'll mark the second time

Go for a third guys
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Jack1 on October 31, 2014, 12:27:25 am
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one fifth of your daily neutrition requirements

Yeah... Fuck that. I wanna fkn burger.

I mean what can it even be made of? Air?
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 31, 2014, 12:32:06 am
Yeah... Fuck that. I wanna fkn burger.

I mean what can it even be made of? Air?

Air and an old thread made a month ago with similar content
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on October 31, 2014, 01:02:59 am
Yeah... Fuck that. I wanna fkn burger.

I mean what can it even be made of? Air?
WHAT'S IN IT?
Our recipe is composed of whole foods rather than the powders and vitamin pills many similar products use. We chose a combination of micronutrient dense foods like eggs, oats, sunflower seeds, and orange juice to reach our nutrient goals. See our nutrition page for a complete breakdown of the micro and macro nutrient profile of MealSquares.

Eggs, orange juice, gluten free oats, milk, dark chocolate chips (chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, milkfat), whey, rice bran, sunflower seeds, dates, vegetable glycerin, moong flour, carrots, coconut oil, tapioca starch, xylitol, iodized sea salt, potassium citrate, cinnamon, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2, lactase
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on October 31, 2014, 01:06:39 am
WHAT'S IN IT?
Our recipe is composed of whole foods rather than the powders and vitamin pills many similar products use. We chose a combination of micronutrient dense foods like eggs, oats, sunflower seeds, and orange juice to reach our nutrient goals. See our nutrition page for a complete breakdown of the micro and macro nutrient profile of MealSquares.

Eggs, orange juice, gluten free oats, milk, dark chocolate chips (chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, milkfat), whey, rice bran, sunflower seeds, dates, vegetable glycerin, moong flour, carrots, coconut oil, tapioca starch, xylitol, iodized sea salt, potassium citrate, cinnamon, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2, lactase

You advertized for them last month, go home
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: LordBerenger on October 31, 2014, 02:29:27 am
http://www.mealsquares.com/

If you live in the US, you can be a beta tester.

Best Xant post ever. 10/10
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: cup457 on October 31, 2014, 02:45:38 am
this lookedo k until i saw it was 90$
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Kafein on October 31, 2014, 05:32:14 pm
Honestly this seems to be an excellent way to eat healthy, fast and care-free. I would definitely prefer eating things like that when I need something easy, rather than pizza. I do enjoy eating good things, but sadly I can't eat nicely every meal.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Bjord on October 31, 2014, 05:37:06 pm
Honestly this seems to be an excellent way to eat healthy, fast and care-free. I would definitely prefer eating things like that when I need something easy, rather than pizza. I do enjoy eating good things, but sadly I can't eat nicely every meal.

Indeed. Took the words out of my mouth.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Torben on October 31, 2014, 05:58:02 pm
Might be similar to home made protein/nutribars.  Till you can actually get your hands on one of these,  look up some recipes and try yourself on them if you like. 
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: WITCHCRAFT on November 04, 2014, 09:24:24 pm
It's cool in an astronaut food sort of way, but like astronaut food it is also crazy-expensive for what you get. Eating them at home or at work as a meal replacement seems silly. Spend 15 minutes in the morning making food, you manchild. If you're hiking or something like that this product makes more sense.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on November 04, 2014, 11:46:09 pm
It's cool in an astronaut food sort of way, but like astronaut food it is also crazy-expensive for what you get. Eating them at home or at work as a meal replacement seems silly. Spend 15 minutes in the morning making food, you manchild. If you're hiking or something like that this product makes more sense.
Pretty sure it's going to cost more for most people to try and eat nutritionally complete "normal foods" than to eat MealSquares. Healthy food in general is really expensive.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on November 05, 2014, 12:02:01 am
Pretty sure it's going to cost more for most people to try and eat nutritionally complete "normal foods" than to eat MealSquares. Healthy food in general is really expensive.

My budget is lower middle class, and its easy enough to grow food and prepare it for long term storage.  Aside from the military/on the go angle (which by the way is an extremely difficult market given just how many competitors are involved), I don't see where you're coming from with this.

The cost of the product alone, let alone the cost to ship it, is enough of a deterrent.  I can see governments buying this en masse but that's about it.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on November 05, 2014, 12:51:18 am
My budget is lower middle class, and its easy enough to grow food and prepare it for long term storage.  Aside from the military/on the go angle (which by the way is an extremely difficult market given just how many competitors are involved), I don't see where you're coming from with this.

The cost of the product alone, let alone the cost to ship it, is enough of a deterrent.  I can see governments buying this en masse but that's about it.
Do you live in an apartment in a city? How are you going to grow enough food? Even if you grew lots and lots of different stuff, you still wouldn't have a good deal of the stuff you need to have nutritionally complete food.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on November 05, 2014, 01:36:36 am
Do you live in an apartment in a city? How are you going to grow enough food? Even if you grew lots and lots of different stuff, you still wouldn't have a good deal of the stuff you need to have nutritionally complete food.

For $85 monthly?  That's a very tough sell.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on November 05, 2014, 01:41:23 am
For $85 monthly?  That's a very tough sell.
It's obviously not the final price tag it'll carry.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on November 05, 2014, 01:49:19 am
It's obviously not the final price tag it'll carry.

That's the biggest problem with these types of portable food, they're very expensive to make.  Hence that price.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Bjord on November 05, 2014, 12:49:32 pm
It's cool in an astronaut food sort of way, but like astronaut food it is also crazy-expensive for what you get. Eating them at home or at work as a meal replacement seems silly. Spend 15 minutes in the morning making food, you manchild. If you're hiking or something like that this product makes more sense.

Saving time is not a crime.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Kafein on November 05, 2014, 04:14:15 pm
Build your own house, you vain non-Amish person.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: [ptx] on November 05, 2014, 05:46:33 pm
I have an eating disorder and this looks like something i would pay very good money for. Do want!
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Clockworkkiller on November 05, 2014, 08:45:17 pm
I have an eating disorder and this looks like something i would pay very good money for. Do want!

Obesity is not a eating disorder

#gottem
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: [ptx] on November 06, 2014, 02:08:44 am
I'm underweight.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Bjord on November 06, 2014, 09:07:48 am
Obesity is not a eating disorder

#gottem

an*
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: lombardsoup on November 06, 2014, 09:18:58 am
an*

#gottemrightback
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: sF_Guardian on November 07, 2014, 04:41:41 pm
Ugh. The idea of "saving time" on making food seems shitty to me. It's not that hard to make a decent meal of fresh ingredients that actually tastes good.
I consider food to be something I enjoy for it's taste, not not something I have to eat a certain amounth of to stay healthy.
I despise the idea of "saving time" on lunch.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on November 07, 2014, 07:00:10 pm
Ugh. The idea of "saving time" on making food seems shitty to me. It's not that hard to make a decent meal of fresh ingredients that actually tastes good.
I consider food to be something I enjoy for it's taste, not not something I have to eat a certain amounth of to stay healthy.
I despise the idea of "saving time" on lunch.
It isn't just about saving time, it's really hard to actually prepare nutritionally complete food.

And some people don't have the luxury of time.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: sF_Guardian on November 07, 2014, 08:19:39 pm
It isn't just about saving time, it's really hard to actually prepare nutritionally complete food.

And some people don't have the luxury of time.
Mostly time is a matter of priorities. Some people just need the stress of having "no time at all".
And if you put some effort in the food you eat it isn't hard to stay healthy and not lack anything.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Kalam on November 07, 2014, 10:37:40 pm
It isn't just about saving time, it's really hard to actually prepare nutritionally complete food.

And some people don't have the luxury of time.

It's also surprisingly expensive, especially if your life includes a lot of physical activity. Admittedly, it would probably be cheaper if you stuck to tuna for protein, brown rice/decent homemade bread/cereal for carbs and a large variety and quantity of vegetables supplemented with nuts and fruits.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: WarLord on November 07, 2014, 11:05:50 pm
I would have to eat 10 of these things every day, no thanks.  :D
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Kafein on November 07, 2014, 11:38:24 pm
Ugh. The idea of "saving time" on making food seems shitty to me. It's not that hard to make a decent meal of fresh ingredients that actually tastes good.
I consider food to be something I enjoy for it's taste, not not something I have to eat a certain amounth of to stay healthy.
I despise the idea of "saving time" on lunch.

Well, sometimes saving time is inevitable. This doesn't mean you can't enjoy cooking and eating, just that there is a good solution when you really can't, or don't want to.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Clockworkkiller on November 07, 2014, 11:48:18 pm
Lol microwaveable Mac n cheese and hot pockets erryday Masterrace
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on November 08, 2014, 12:05:30 am
If i wanted to live off of them, it's 3$ a piece, times 7 to reach 2800 calories, equals to 21$ a day, and subsequently 630$ a month! Hmmm, that's not cheap at all, considering you still need to eat some fish and fruits.
 
If they could push the price down to, let's say, 1.5$ for a single 400 cal square, that would make it an acceptable breakfast and lunch. Since it tastes like it looks - judging by the information provided on their page, it's not something you would throw money on for gastronomical pleasures :) So the economical factor is very important here imo...

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And of course, it would have to go through the local food-control authorities, to make sure it is what the developers claim it is.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Xant on November 08, 2014, 09:04:52 am
It's also surprisingly expensive, especially if your life includes a lot of physical activity. Admittedly, it would probably be cheaper if you stuck to tuna for protein, brown rice/decent homemade bread/cereal for carbs and a large variety and quantity of vegetables supplemented with nuts and fruits.
Yep, already mentioned how expensive it is. Tuna isn't cheap anymore, at least here, it was ten years ago.

Eating healthy costs a ton, and you have to know what you're doing. Just looking at what's in a MealSquare, I probably don't eat a half or more of that stuff, also because of laziness.

If i wanted to live off of them, it's 3$ a piece, times 7 to reach 2800 calories, equals to 21$ a day, and subsequently 630$ a month! Hmmm, that's not cheap at all, considering you still need to eat some fish and fruits.
As said before a few times, it's in beta stages. If it gets into mass-production stage, it will be much cheaper.

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Since it tastes like it looks - judging by the information provided on their page, it's not something you would throw money on for gastronomical pleasures
Huh? Judging by what information? The information where they say people thought it was a dessert?
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on November 08, 2014, 10:45:44 pm
Huh? Judging by what information? The information where they say people thought it was a dessert?

 
Well, I believe that, if an exquisite taste was one of the product's strong sides, there would be more focus on it on their homepage:
 
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Imo it's uncommon in 2014, to eat something that tastes bad. All of them protein powders, "ecological"/organic and diet products, etc. - they are all "tasty" if you keep in mind why you eat them. But they are not as tasty as a fat-dripping footlong kebab-dürum or a bacon cheeseburger! My wife eats root-vegetables with chicken breasts most days of the week, and they taste like ass imo. I bet them squares will not take me on a gluttony rollercoaster either, judging by the list of ingredients :)
 
I could be wrong though, and would gladly eat a few to form a proper opinion.
 
As said before a few times, it's in beta stages. If it gets into mass-production stage, it will be much cheaper.


Haven't seen anyone mentioning it's price, so i though i would join a discussion :)
 
At the very least, this will sell good in gyms and such, as the vending machines are filled with overpriced nutrition bars and drinks. A tiny protein bar can go for up to 5$ here. Just need a flashy wrapping, and a poster featuring few sweaty actors and well known athletes, who are munching on the meal-squares after what seems to be a long training session.
Title: Re: MealSquare
Post by: WITCHCRAFT on November 09, 2014, 02:58:41 pm
tuna for protein

as long as you do not go over your quota of 3 cans per week (chunk light/yellowfin) or 1 can per week (chunk white/albacore) for mercury exposure

One can a week. For An Adult Human Male. Less if you are any other combination of human variables. I prefer sardines or smelt if I am going for canned fish. They also got skin and them crunchy lil bones that turn into sand when you bite them.  :twisted:

In college I had a full time class schedule and worked 50 hours a week between two part time jobs, and I still had time to make my own healthy food. A lot of it was unpalatable, but I was going to the gym every other day back then so I was kind of a health nut. Tons of eggs, sardines, lentils, veg, and occasional brown rice or oatmeal. Very inexpensive, very healthy. These mealsquares probably taste better but cost quite a bit!

Also I keep reading the thread title as "Meatsquares" and think that it's a parody of this thread before I click.