Now with real fruit!

Schmoylent: Day 5
Breakfast: Vanilla Schmoylent with MCT oil + a banana

Oh man, my first weekend on Schmoylent was a 3-day holiday weekend. I didn't even think about eating anything powdered over the weekend and that was pretty nice. It was also nice that I went camping with my friends and got fed some amazing campfire dinner by David. Mmm, food I didn't have to plan, shop for, cook or clean up after. I love my friends!

But last night I got my act together and prepared my Schmoylent again. Mixing it up I actually kind of got excited, it's so filling and easy! That was a weird feeling.

Then this morning I did something really strange. I added a very mushy banana* to my blender bottle. That's right, I decided to HAND BLEND a banana into my sludge just by shaking. I took my impromptu shake-weight into the car with me and just went to town at every red light on my way to work. My arms are sore from working out again yesterday (I'll get to that in a second), and I'm now 2 hours post mixing and my arms are still kind of shaky and weak. In the car it sort of seemed like this was going to be a TOTALLY failed experiment and that I was going to end up eating the banana out of the bottle with a fork. However, I broke the banana into about 4 pieces when I put it in the bottle and I managed to pulverize about 2.5 of them. I ate the rest and then had a remotely banana flavored and textured sludge to drink!

I love banana in smoothies. In fact, I refuse to make them at home without banana, and if I order something from a smoothie shop that doesn't have banana, I add it. I think it makes the texture correct and without it, it feels like I'm drinking juice or a slushie, neither of which I want most of the time.

The banana DID improve the texture of the sludge. It was less gritty and it felt much nicer to drink. I think if I had actually blended it using a blender, it would have been even better. The taste, however, not really improved. Apparently there are some artificial sweeteners in the schmoylent and they became extremely apparent to me when I added the natural sweetness of the banana. I might give it one more go in a blender, but mostly this was a failed experiment. I kind of think adding stuff to the Schmoylent is just a bad idea.

Now, I drank half a normal portion of the sludge for breakfast. My lunch plans fell through because of illness and now I'm debating if I should get real food or just try another day of one portion for two meals. But I'm not going to eat out of the vending machine, that's decided anyway. I will go out for food if I'm hungry later I guess. 

*Why did I add a banana? Because the little child demanded a banana this morning so I gave him one. I followed behind him with a second banana to give to the big child, but he already had a banana. Eric didn't want it, so that left me with a mushy and open banana to deal with. This was mostly an exercise in not wasting food.

Since starting this:
Schmoylent meals: 7
Real meals: 12 <-- I didn't eat more than 2 real meals a day over the weekend.