- Vanilla Meal Replacement Shake, Ready-to-Drink Plant Based Protein Drink, Contains 20g Complete Vegan Protein and 1g Sugar, 14oz, 12 Pack

Hi guys - this is going to be a longer review so bear with me. I am a college student who came into college at 215 pounds and began gaining weight freshman year. My weight peaked at 255 pounds during January of 2019 (the winter break of my sophomore year). When I went over 250 on the scale, I knew I needed to change something. The problem was, I was an extremely busy student, had a social life, and was going through job recruiting at the same time. My eating habits were horrible - I wouldn't walk to the dining hall and would buy snacks from the convenience store or order food every night. This led to a horrible relationship with food where I was constantly binge eating, eating only once per day, and only eating carbs and sugar. I felt awful, had no energy, and no confidence. I couldn't find a diet that I could fit into my schedule and stick with - tracking calories at a dining hall was way too much commitment for me. While doing research, I stumbled upon a YouTube video of someone who claimed that Soylent changed their life, so I ordered a box on Amazon. Every day I would drink 4 bottles of Soylent. That's 1600 calories. No meal planning, no walking to the dinning hall, no cooking, no tracking my meals, no hassle. That's where Soylent really shines. It allows you to portion your calories and get the nutrients you need without the hassle of traditional meal plans. I would do this throughout the week and then eat and drink how I wanted to on the weekends. Soylent really changed my relationship with food, by making me understand that my body only needed a certain amount of calories each day. During the spring of 2019, I lost 20 pounds and I really gained the knowledge and confidence that I was able to lose weight and control my eating. In the summer of 2019, I drank Soylent for half my meals and lost an additional 15 pounds. Eventually I transitioned to full solid meals again, equipped with the ability to control my eating and understanding of what my body needed. Since then (it's been almost a year and a half), I have lost over 60 pounds! I weighed 193 earlier this week. While Soylent wasn't the only cause of this, the product let me take a step back and took the stress out of dieting. When I started to see that I could lose weight and started eating solid food again, I was able to control myself a lot better and continue on my weight loss journey. People may laugh at you when you tell them you're on a liquid diet, but who cares. Soylent really changed my life and redefined my relationship with food. It's cheap - compared to normal meals I was spending an equivalent amount of money on soylent. Also - IT TASTES GOOD. You can't force yourself to drink this if it tasted bad. I actually really enjoyed every flavor I tried, and would buy all 3 main flavors (vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry) and the chai coffee ones so that I would have a selection depending on the mood I was in. I think the stuff actually tastes really good - trust me, I've had plenty of protein shakes in my life and this actually tastes like a drink you want to drink. If you have any questions feel free to send me a message. Weight loss is a really tough journey and it requires a lot of work and self dedication, but Soylent can help you get on the right path and relieve you of the burden that traditional diets cause. SPECIFICALLY REGARDING VANILLA: Vanilla was probably my favorite flavor. It has that good tang of a vanilla flavored drink, while not tasting too artificial.

Good flavor,not chalky

I make no claims towards the nutritional value of this product, so the only real review I can give is the taste. I drink mine warm, so take that into account. The taste is like... a depressed vanilla milkshake. You can almost imagine that it tastes good, but it's got a kind of grainy, metallic taste to it that is ever so gently masked by the vanilla. The aftertaste is very... unpleasant. However: There is one huge factor that makes this weird taste worth it, and that is the burp you have afterwards. The burp tastes like the most delicious vanilla milkshake you've ever had in your life. I'd argue that the whole experience is worth that burp. I've had 3 other people try it and have received the same feedback, but my sister claimed it tasted "too sweet" which I find almost impossible and downright wrong. It's definitely more water/vitamins than food, and I think if you consider it in that way, it's tolerable. It's marketed as something you drink when you don't have time to make a meal, and I agree, it's exactly like a vitamin supplement for when you can't make your own food. Not terrible, not great, exactly perfect for the purpose it has set for itself.

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I don't like the taste, but my husband goes nuts for these...so oh well, lol.

This is my absolute FAVORITE plant based nutritional drink. As a vegan who really missed drinking vanilla ensures when life got too busy and I didn’t have time to eat a full meal. I was super disappointed with when I tried ensures vanilla plant based drink. It was awful and tasted nothing like the original! I went ended up trying a few others that were all disappointing to say the least and then I tried Soylent. Bro…game changer. Literally if you enjoyed vanilla ensures at all when you had dairy then buy the vanilla Soylent NOW! It taste very similar but in my opinion better. My husband also enjoys the ensures and drinks them often and I always encourage him to give the vegan versions of things a try and he said he loved it way better as well. We both agree it fills you up (we’d usually have to drink 2-3 ensures to even feel full) and doesn’t leave you feeling bloated unlike ensure. I would absolutely recommend this product no matter your dietary preference it’s delicious!

I have never before felt so compelled to leave a review on a product I purchased through Amazon, but, and I truly cannot stress this enough, no one should ever again purchase the vanilla flavor of soylent. If you have never tried soylent before, and think that vanilla might be the least offensive flavor profile to try out, you would be sorely mistaken. The initial vanilla flavor is great, it tastes like a vanilla shake from Dairy Queen, but within about 1 second of hitting your taste buds that vanilla goodness fades away and is replaced by a truly awful, indescribable aftertaste (or, I guess in this case, during-taste) that reminds me faintly of what I think drinking plastic would be like. I have been drinking soylent for the last month as an easy, no fuss lunch option at work and school and have tried both the chocolate and strawberry flavors. Neither of those had any aftertaste at all, so I don’t know what science experiment went wrong in the soylent labs when they concocted this monstrosity, but you should be wary and stay far away from it. I got through roughly half a bottle of the vanilla soylent (an act of sheer determination to have not wasted money on something so awful) but truly cannot force myself to consume the other 11 bottles in the package. Please, do yourself a favor and try a different soylent variety, but do not subject yourself to this cruel punishment.