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I know that when my mental health starts to become a problem again the first thing that goes is any desire to cook. Which often leads to gettin take out, frozen meals, or just constant snacking.

I have had basically zero desire to cook (or really do much of anything in complete honesty) for the last couple weeks and I am super thankful for "processed" things like Huel.

Edit: Also I am 100% going to reach for that frozen meal from Trader joes that gives me a brief amount of joy and makes me feel good.

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> I have had basically zero desire to cook (or really do much of anything in complete honesty) for the last couple weeks and I am super thankful for "processed" things like Huel.

I'd never heard of Huel. Just looking at the info on their bag of pasta bolognese:

* bag size is 721 grams but serving size is 101g!

* they put the "per day" measurement at 505g? But even there, you're be consuming 3200mg of sodium-- 139% of the daily recommended value

Honestly, eating a 101g serving sounds to me like attempting to eat 1/8 of a bag of M&Ms.

If I open that 721g bag for lunch, it's going to be gone by end of day, guaranteed. (Probably with half a baguette for dipping.)

Edit: I forgot it's for lunch and dinner in my example. So make that a whole baguette. :)

Yeah so I don't do the Huel hot meals, I just never liked them.

I do the Huel Black which is a meal replacement shake with extra protein. Which if I did 5 servings of would be about 2,250mg of sodium a day. However personally I do it 3 times a day (the extra protein helps) and then a couple snacks like an apple or something else throughout the day.

However I will say regarding eating the entire bag in a day. It is fairly dense and filling (even though I didn't like the taste). So I would be surprised if you would finish it in a day. (then again it is only 7 meals to a bag compared to the 17 meals in a bag of Huel Black so maybe I am remembering wrong)

Hope you feel better soon :)

But this shows that theres no eating processed food --> get depressed causation, just a correlation. Otherwise a perfectly happy person who eats a lot of tv dinners would inexplicably get sad with nothing else in their life changing.

Thank you!

I have an appointment with my psychiatrist tomorrow! Yay mental health.

Exactly, I don't want to reject the study personally. Mental health is a complex beast and it was worthwhile to look at, but there is also a lot of stigma around processed foods that I think make something like this very complicated and it doesn't address why people may use the processed food in the first place.

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