Feed: more meal replacements - Review

Feed are another company creating meal replacement drinks and bars. They were kind enough to send me some products to try (as well as a nice hat). Here's what I thought of them and how they compare to other products.

I haven't tried meal replacements bars from any other company yet, but I thought the concept of these is great. Less fuss and mess than a shaker and powder. You don't look weird eating them and you don't end up needing to pee all the time because you drank loads of liquid. I spend too much time in my car, and I can even eat a bar driving along. I can't do that with a shaker. These bars tasted great too. My favourite was the chocolate one, a sort of fudgy middle coated in a layer of chocolate. It's hard to believe that they're vegan and that they're nutritionally balanced. The lemon one was less crumbly - more like a regular snack bar with a texture quite like a nakd bar. Each of the big ones is around 400kcal and 20g of protein. It was really handy to have one in my bag just in case - like going to an unplanned concert in the evening after work. It saved me buying unhealthy and expensive sandwiches at the posh cafe.

The smaller 'light' ones are around 250kcal so better for a snack rather than an entire meal. They tasted great too. They were especially handy for when I knew I was going to eat really late but still had to cycle to another job.

Now for the drinks. I haven't tried Huel's ready-to-drink formula, only the powder, so I can't make a direct comparison. Feed do a powder too which I haven't tried. I had a bottle of the vanilla flavour drink with me when I had a long day of organ playing. I was sat on a bus to a train station, anticipating my liquid lunch to be something like a vanilla milkshake. However, it was gross. I could taste the sweetener and the texture was too thin. I had a few sips but couldn't finish the bottle (luckily there was a Greggs nearby for a vegan sausage roll, cheap but not quite so healthy...). The chocolate one was better, a bit less sweet. I couldn't drink the vanilla one chilled as suggested and I did managed to chill the chocolate one. Perhaps this made the difference to the texture. However, the chocolate still had a slightly strange after taste.

I really liked the bars for convenience and taste. However, I probably wouldn't buy them. Priced at £3 per meal (the drinks are more), that's more than double the cost of Huel bars which are currently just £1.30 if you sign up for their subscription service. In a rather competitive industry, I think all of the Feed products are priced a bit high. I'd happily make them part of my life if it weren't for this.

Are you a meal replacement fan? What other products should I try? Comment below and I'll give them a go.