A serious competitor to soylent

We will get to what Soylent is in my next post. It's not people. But this story starts a few months ago when Trina had a friend over and I decided to make pork ribs. 1 hour before the friend arrives, Trina reminds me that she's a vegetarian. So I decided to try some fried tofu. I've been thinking of trying to replicate Annie's shake and bake tofu. So I go to the store. It's the first time in my life that I've bought the stuff, so also the first time the price tag sinks in. $1.39. "Fuck!!" I say to myself, "If I could find a way to make this that I like, that would be a lot like finding money." So I fry it, and it's way too salty, takes way too long and isn't very good, but the price tag and the nutrition info sticks in my mind. So I give it another try, this time in the oven so that I don't have to do any flipping and I can just let the oil do the work. I cut it into sheets about a half inch thick and then I cut those in half like so.

Then I cover the bottom of a sheet pan with garlic powder, salt, pepper and chili powder. I lay the squares on top of the powder and apply the same powder mix to the top. Then dribble olive oil over them until each square is about half covered in it.

Then bake at 350 for an hour. Later I made that 2 hours, and that's how I got this batch which I just scarfed down. I've made it about once a week since, 50% of my household loves it. There are 4 of us, so it's a really good money saver.

It has fat, fiber and protein, add some dried fruit and a multi-vitamin and you could live on this. It dehydrates you like nothing else, drink plenty of water and don't eat it right before bed