“I really like the simplicity of the product and will continue buying it. The main product I buy is the Plenny Wake Up. I dont mind the flavour and its easy to make.
I only really have 1 negative and 1 positive:
The biggest thing I would change is improve the formula so that it gets digested more easily(and make you less gassy) through the addition of some enzymes or other changes. I find that after some time off not taking the product, the first week of Plenny you feel quite gassy and sometimes almost a bit dizzy, it's sort of uncomfortable. After that first week, the body sort of adjusts and then everything is good. If the change in formula could address this, the product would be perfect. Any other changes to flavour/appearance/etc would just be bonuses.
The one thing that I really love is the fact that the Wake Up comes in individual portions so you don't need to measure anything, making the entire process much quicker. I think if the other Plenny flavors also were packaged in the same manner, in individual portions, it would be fantastic. Maybe you could include the option when you buy the product as how you would package it (single/3 portions) per bag.
:)”
“Jimmy Joy saves me so much time. Banana taste was really good! Others could maybe be better. :) There were some mistakes in my delivery, but it all was fixes right away without additional costs.
I am going to order another time!”
“As a student who's living on his own and isn't terribly excited about cooking all the time, this saves me so much time, effort and money. I usually describe the taste as something inbetween a milkshake and oat meal/porridge, not the most amazing culinary experience but considering I'd say it's pretty good. I recommend it.”
“Joylent (or Jimmy Joy) is really good for when you are too busy or have to hurry out the door. It saves an enormous amount of time. People lose a lot of hours every week spending time in supermarkets (and perhaps even drive to the supermarket), preparing and cooking food and cleaning up afterwards.
And even then you cannot be entirely sure that you are getting all the macronutrients and micronutrients that your body needs.
But the biggest advantage for me personally is all the time it frees up for me to do other stuff.”
“Eating at the office can be a challenge sometimes, if you forgot or didn't have time or willpower to prepare beforehand, you will most likely end up eating fast food and spending a lot of money in vending snacks. For me this was the reason to order this product (Joylent/Jimmy Joy/Plenny Shake/whatever comes next). A colleague ordered it and I tried it, and to my surprise it wasn't bad at all. The thing is I heard some comments from early adopters back when it was launched and they told me it was impossible to finish a meal because it was too thick. I don't have this impression at all after trying it myself, I can finish it really quick and easy and the flavors are good enough, the only one I don dig in is banana (and I like the fruit for the record).
For me is a really good option for those days you are really stressed out and you have to think of healthy options for eating. This shake gives you the peace of mind of knowing that you are properly nourished and that for me makes a lot. Of course in an ideal world I would rather eat healthy foods with a ton of vegetables, but in practice I don't make that anyways, and , by using this shake, I stopped getting chocolate or salty snacks from vending machines and I don't feel I'm hungry or that my brain needs more power throughout the day. If I get hungry I just prepare a shake, the good thing is you can decide how much you want it. If i'm not that hungry I can make it with a couple of spoons. If i'm starving I can put four of the.
I must say this is not 100% of my eating, it should be around 30% to 50%, depending on the week and the workdays. I don't see at a 100% replacement of food, but as a healthy, easy, quick, non-perishable food that I can have at hand if I need it.
Now the two things I would change:
1. The bags. The graphic design is super cool I must say. But I would like to have the option to have the bigger for two reasons: protecting the environment and easy of serving. The first one is self explanatory. The lesser waste, the better, reduce over recycle. The second one is because there is a sweet spot with those bags to serve the scoops: when full or almost empty it's really messy to serve it, but when it's halfway through it get's better. So using bigger bags will solve this.
2. Price. I know this not exclusive to this company. To be honest, they have good pricing compared with other products in the same market segment. But I still think it's a bit elitist, at least from the perspective of a southern European with a country trying to cope with high unemployment figures and tons of precarious jobs. If we want this to be a revolution instead of an evolution this should be cheaper (e.g. 1 euro per meal). But probably this is not work for this company, because I can see that in a few years supermarkets will embrace this products and that will lead to the real impact in society.
In conclusion, despite it looks like a weird science-fiction thing that is going to end up with the pleasure of cooking and eating, in my experience I'm healthy now than two weeks ago when I started with this.
That's all folks ;)”
