Back again with the Huel products. As I have said in my previous post, I remain very impressed with the amount of options that the Huel brand can offer regarding vegan food. Their entire range is plant based and vegan friendly, including all of their ready meal packets, their protein and their meal replacement smoothies. Now personally, I am not a big fan of meal replacement smoothies – calories aside, your body needs certain nutrients that come in food and turning that into a smoothie usually removes a lot of these, plus you should never drink your calories – but I am still impressed by the wide range of other products they have on offer.
I am slowly making my way through their entire hot and savoury meals. I am currently focusing on my fitness goals as a priority this year, so finding meals that hit my macros and also require as less prep as possible are winners in my books. I am more focused on the nutritional make up of my food, rather than how good it all tastes. I use these are my lunch, as it means I can have a very nutrient dense meal without having to worry about prepping it every single day of the week and having to carry it to work. These bags sit in my office desk and I can make the meals up with minimal clean up afterwards. Winner.
Unfortunately this mac and cheese is my least favourite so far. Now it is still tasty – the cheese sauce is indeed very creamy and it has a vey rich cheese flavour to it which means that it is actually a very nice lunch meal. The pasta does take slightly longer to cook I find. The instructions say to add boiling water and leave it to cook and solidify for 5 minutes before eating, but I have found it needs about 10 for the pasta to be fully cooked. Otherwise it can still be quite crunchy and this ruins it for me.
The main issue I find with this is the texture of the cheese sauce. I find that the sauce always has this powdery texture to it, no matter how much water I add or how much I mix it. It isn’t a major deterrent, as the meal still tastes very nice, but it is a downer when I think about how well the other meals all mix together smoothly and do not leave any sort of grainy feel in your mouth.
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