Well, specifically I think that refers to it being 400 calories, so whether that’s really 20% of your intake depends on a lot of things. You are right that most meal deals - however disgusting - will usually contain more than that although as it will often mainly be white carbs and sugar they probably won’t keep you full for longer, and nutritionally they are junk food.
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Huel claims to be balanced daily nutrients (30% proteins, 30% fats, 37% carbs and 3% bits and minerals) and containing complimentary nutrients which activate each other.
It’s also vegan.
They sell chocolate, vanilla and berry at my local Tesco.
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OK, I’m with you now 
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I’m back on the Saturo! Just ordered another 12 pack of original 500ml.
It’s been a while, but I had some Jimmy Joy when I was in Holland last week and was reminded of how convenient it all is, and how I’ve slipped back into some bad snacking habits.
This is definitely the trade off!
The calories matter a lot less if you are using the powder, as you can just mix as much or as little as you like. I do find Huel pretty filling though compared to Yfood.
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This is also true, although it does depend on your diet. The reason I had to move back to Huel from Yfood was that I was put on a low sugar diet by a dietician after a liver issue, and one bottle of Yfood was more sugar than I could have in a day. (also note, there’s no chemical difference between added sugar and sugar, it all pretty much immediately breaks down into sucrose or glucose)
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In my case, the specific issue with sugar is that sugar causes quite a bit of work for your liver. It probably isn’t an issue if it’s a healthy liver though! I’m not a dietician or doctor so… I can only say what advice I was given in my situation and that in some circumstances a low sugar diet is necessary.
As far as I understand the reason the advice is all focussed on ‘added sugar’ is that generally the foods that include natural sugar (fruit!) also has a lot of other benefits (polyphenols, fibre, vitamins etc) that avoiding them isn’t recommended even though they might be high sugar. Added sugar is empty calories and a big contributer to weight gain. The general NHS diet advice is targeted at ‘the general person worried about their weight’, who lets face it probably isn’t getting fat off apples and blueberries. There is quite a bit of controvesy over fruit juice though, because it’s natural sugar content is extremely high and it’s other benefits pretty limited.
Again I think it just depends on your overall diet. One consideration might be that high sugar food does digest in your upper colon, meaning it’s probably not doing much good for your gut microbiome, whereas things like oats digest much lower and have been shown to improve gut health.
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The sugar found in milk (lactose) is not harmful to most people (i.e. it’s not an added sugar which can increase your intake of calories). It can cause issues if you’re lactose-intolerant and this is why Yfood add lactase, which is an enzyme that breaks down lactose into its component sugars (glucose and galactose). That’s what gives it its sweet taste and it allows lactose-intolerant people to consume it, too (because they can’t produce their own lactase).
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I much prefer Huel. Yfood is way too sickly for my taste.
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Tried Huel for a while, but the cost started getting quite prohibitive. Especially when it was imo glorified pot noodles.
Wife and I have been using the MyProtein range of shakes, specifically the vegan ones (they come out thicker and taste better oddly) and they do really nicely for breakfast when mixed with regular or soy milk.
Edit due to sneaky a sneaky spy infiltrating my auto correct
Well not really, pot noodles are obviously junk food and huel isn’t, it’s blended whole foods with a solid nutritional profile.
Protein shakes, I have them too for the gym goals but they aren’t the same thing either, they are generally like 100 - 150 calories, so not really close to a meal replacement, just an ingestion of protein.
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The cost of Huel was something which really turned me onto it. A shake costs around £1.30 and that’s cheaper than a meal deal, and substantially better for me too.
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What I thought too, really did not like it all!
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Does anyone buy the yfood powder? Is it nice when you mix it yourself or does it come out like thin gruel?
That’s brilliant thank you, I didn’t like the texture of huel either and I don’t fancy lots of plastic bottles from yfood.
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Barebells protein bars are pretty good. Always get the banana ones when in Scandinavia. I think I have started to see them pop up in more shops over here now too.
They’re actually pretty good around here - never had any issues and the driver is a nice bloke.
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Yes. No. Huel scoop is a different amount (can’t remember what, both the scoop size and the total volume are different). You’d have to do some light math if you were calorie counting.
Annoyingly though, YFood sends a plastic scoop in every single bag 