Best Amazon Launchpad Food
Living off a diet of frozen corn dogs and ramen, they grew frustrated with the effort and cost associated with purchasing, preparing, and consuming food that was neither healthy nor enjoyable. Recognizing an unmet need, CEO Rob Rhinehart, alongside co-founders Matt Cauble, John Coogan, and David Renteln, developed Soylent as an experiment. The product was aptly named in homage to Harry Harrison's 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! The Soylent team is continuously iterating on its formula to improve this new, engineered food staple, ranging from sourcing the most sustainable, efficient ingredients to adjusting the taste, texture, and balance of nutrients. Soylent is supported by a passionate community that embraces our mission of expanding access to quality nutrition by improving the food system through innovation. Each bottle of Soylent Drink is more than just 20% of your daily nutritional requirements, it’s the freedom to let you choose how you want to spend your time. Ingredients include isolated protein from soy, sunflower oil, slow-burning carbs from beets, and all essential vitamins and minerals. We’ve come a long way, and Soylent is today’s future food: nutrition engineered for function, not excess. Soylent Drink is a nutritionally complete, ready-to-drink meal replacement in a bottle.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"These drinks saved my life while I was on chemo and all I could tolerate was liquids."
"Although it does have a slight chalky aftertaste that we've all come to expect from meal replacement liquids, it tastes really good!!"
"I love these drinks but easily need to drink two a day to maintain my weight. I would love to continue drinking these but I've had to switch to myoplex which has 300 calories per drink, is half the price, but just doesn't taste as good."
"I am not a very hungry person and often struggle with trying to get myself to eat, or I just totally forget about eating sometimes. I can not for the life of me eat breakfast most days and Soylent ensures that I’m getting a good start of 400 calories in the morning."
"While this was my first time purchasing from Soylent, as a cyclist I'm no stranger to meal replacement shakes or protein powders."
"I think that was as good as it was going to get for me because I could feel myself getting hungry so I just ended up eating. This is good to have on hand on busy days, particularly during lunch, when you don't have the time to buy or make food to bring to work/school."
"However, my husband has been cutting back on Soylent now that he started getting paranoid with the idea of consuming too much soy and increasing his estrogen levels. I am not sure about the research and how much Soylent affects one's estrogen levels, but he started cutting back because of this."
"I've drank Soylent in the past using the older formula that you prep yourself so I figured I knew what to expect."
Living off a diet of frozen corn dogs and ramen, they grew frustrated with the effort and cost associated with purchasing, preparing, and consuming food that was neither healthy nor enjoyable. Recognizing an unmet need, CEO Rob Rhinehart, alongside co-founders Matt Cauble, John Coogan, and David Renteln, developed Soylent as an experiment. The product was aptly named in homage to Harry Harrison's 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! The Soylent team is continuously iterating on its formula to improve this new, engineered food staple, ranging from sourcing the most sustainable, efficient ingredients to adjusting the taste, texture, and balance of nutrients. Soylent is supported by a passionate community that embraces our mission of expanding access to quality nutrition by improving the food system through innovation. Each bottle of Soylent Drink is more than just 20% of your daily nutritional requirements, it’s the freedom to let you choose how you want to spend your time. Ingredients include isolated protein from soy, sunflower oil, slow-burning carbs from beets, and all essential vitamins and minerals. Soylent Drink is a nutritionally complete, ready-to-drink meal replacement in a bottle.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I knew what my problem was; I eat at McDonald's two or three times a day sometimes, I like to eat a lot of sweets, and I practically held the saltshaker upside down. I am mentally lazy, I don't have time and I'm not going to take the time to do that. Unscrewing a bottle and drinking it is about all the mental energy and time I am willing to expend."
"Once I didn't have the time to meticulously prepare everything I ate, I began gaining weight and losing energy. I put off trying Soylent because I am a picky eater and wasn't willing to drop $40 on something I may not be able to take two sips of, but I decided to take the risk. I wouldn't drink it for every meal, but being able to satisfy my hunger throughout the day with Soylent, a nutrition bar, and fresh fruits and veggies allows me to take the time to cook a simple healthy meal for dinner when I get home, and gives me easy energy for a quick workout in the morning."
"It's pretty tasty if it's people."
"When ever I feel that I drink a Soylent and what ever nutrient my body was craving Soylent has and the craving goes away. Again I want to stress Soylent isn't a miracle, drinking it isn't going to have you shed pounds. However you will most likely feel more alert and better (I pegged myself at about 15% better). You can use it to monitor your calorie intake easier and through calorie management lose weight,but that isn't Soylent causing you to lose weight it's strictly the fact you're counting calories."
Best Lards & Shortenings
The difference between Ghee and clarified butter lies in their flavor and shelf stability: Ghee is superior on both counts Ayurveda recognizes ghee as an essential part of a balanced diet and is considered to be the very best oil one can eat. Comprised of full spectrum short-, medium-, and long-chain fatty acids, Ghee contains Omega 3 and Omega 9 essential fatty acids along with vitamins A, D, E and K. Our Ghee is one of the highest natural sources of CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) because we use only the highest quality organic butter of pastured cows. CONTAINS TRACES OF OMEGA 3, 6, 9, VITAMINS A, D, E & K. MADE WITH BUTTER FROM GRASS-FED AND PASTURED COWS.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I have cooked with both of them and although I couldn't detect much of a difference after I cooked with them, I would be able to tell the difference if I just put them on toast. I used to cook with grass fed butter until I learned that different cooking butters and oils will oxidize and create free radicals if they are heated above their allotted temperature. This makes it a much more stable fat to cook with and it can be heated to a much higher temperature than almost all other fats/oils without compromising it (485 degrees F)."
"I bought this a month ago based on an article in one of the "at the chekout stand" magazines. Women were losing an amazing amount of fat by adding 2 tablespoons of butter from grass fed cows to their morning coffee (using a blender). I expected to feel better by adding this butter, but didn't realize i would experience this wonderful side benefit as the women in the article did."
"I also can't see myself sitting her licking it off a spoon. What I lack in enthusiasm for eating it by itself, I make up for by being totally enthusiastic for cooking and baking with this. I could make a grilled cheese and just by buttering the bread with this Ghee, it's out of this world delicious. Apparently you can make it by taking a block of unsalted butter, getting it to boil at a medium heat, and running it through a cheesecloth. But judging from all the comments here, it probably wouldn't be near as good as Ancient Organics."
"My wife, mother-in-law and I are now cooking with ghee as much as possible and have greatly improved our health."
"This is the best Organic Ghee out there I have found."
"Many of my family members and even my medical doctors who practice Ayurvedic healing are now recommending and purchasing this themselves. I hope the quality, quantity, and price never changes because this is something I can be very loyal to!"
Best Yogurt Drinks
High in calcium and convenient for active people on the move, the Powerful Yogurt Drink is designed to fuel you at breakfast, post-workout and any time you need a natural energy boost. Contains 12 - 12 Ounce Protein Drinks (Packaging May Vary).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This drink was a little too sweet for my liking but I mixed it with the mocha espresso drink."
"These are great for on the go!"
"tastes great and easily substitute as a meal when I'm on the go."
"Excellent in coffee as a creamer."
"If you decide to purchase these, buy the smallest amount you can and try them first."
Best Amazon Launchpad Body
The LectroFan offers twenty unique digital sounds to mask noises, and you can choose from ten different electric fan sounds and ten variations of pure white noise. Provides ten fan sounds and ten ambient noise variations, including white noise, pink noise and brown noise.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I thought that it worked pretty well until I had a house guest that snored like a "Freight Train" and had a tendency to watch action adventure movies until late at night."
"Every time someone walks by, a bird tweets or an ant crawls these dogs go into barking hysteria. We did everything to talk to management to even bordering up our bedroom window with sheet rock!!! We had lost all hope at this point and began waiting out our year sentence until we could move. I read the reviews on this little machine and I loved the fact that is had 'various FAN sounds' and volume control. But lo and behold, one morning I got up from a great night sleep and walked in the living room and the dogs were barking at there normal level and not a peep was heard in the bedroom."
"Moved into brand spanking new office space that is so quiet you can hear every flatulence, chip crunch, carrot bite, soup slurp, (boorish) conversation, whisper or otherwise, every phone call (if I concentrate hard enough, both sides), keyboard click, mouse movement, tummy rumble, foot step (nicknamed a couple new clod hoppers), sniff, sneeze, coffee slurp, burp, soda can opening, staple punch, paper printed, knuckle cracking annoyance from every inch of the 4000 square foot expedient path to nightmarish hell ... Then the LectroFan arrived."
"Fans range from industrial, ventilation, house, air purifier, oscillating and a few others I can't pin point. The white noise simply starts at a low frequency, then goes higher through each selection. I think the highest can block out annoying birds with high pitched sounds, or even noisy household members. Compared to a video review I watched about a sound machine that uses a fan, this has more variety."
Best Amazon Launchpad Toys
Style: Kittens. Exploding Kittens is a card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This game would be worth $20 for a deck of cards IF it were a deck of cards that could endure the treatment of children. Not only that, but even when we first got the game, I did all of the card handling."
"Exploding Kittens is quite easily one of the most hilarious games I have played. My friends and I are constantly buying and playing new games to play and Exploding Kittens are quite entertaining. It would be a huge improvement for Exploding Kittens to expand the deck a bit more and to also start using higher quality cards."
"The first is that it is simply a card game. I would encourage the game developers to invest in a thicker card with a heavier wax like the ones many other card decks are made with."
"We've had the game for a few weeks and played it quite a bit, but that cards are literally falling apart already. The corners are peeling apart a couple are ripped a little bit, just from normal shuffling. It sucks, because I would seriously consider buying the expansion pack but the difference in the cards will be so noticeable, I'm not sure it would be worth it. Pretty disappointing because, like I said, it's a great game....the quality of the cards is just so low. They really should be more laminated, like a good set of Bicycle cards or something, especially because it's not like you can just go out and quickly (and cheaply) pick up another deck."
Best Amazon Launchpad House
The Anova Precision Cooker connects to your phone, so you can cook amazing meals by the touch of a button -- spend less time tied to the kitchen by relying on the app to notify you when your food is ready to eat. The Anova Precision Cooker brings sous vide to your home, so you can enjoy a cooking technique made famous by professional chefs for its incredible results.To help get connected through WI-FI, checkout our WI-FI Connectivity Troubleshooting steps in Specification Sheet [pdf ]. Sous vide cooking produces restaurant quality results that are impossible to achieve through any other cooking method.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"(Think of it like cooking with a crock pot... low temperature cooking over long periods of time ... slow and steady) . As you may know, one of claims of sous vide cooking is it can make the toughest cut of meat tender. Be aware that tough meats need to cook for a much longer period of time. Following the instructions for cooking a tough cut of beef to medium rare... we cooked ours at 149 degrees for 19 hours ( recommended time is 16 to 24 hours) . We then have a supply of ready to cook meals waiting for our Anova Culinary Bluetooth Precision Cooker, Black And "Yes" you can cook frozen food right from the freezer by just adding two hours on to the recommend cooking time. Just be aware when cooking for long periods (like cooking a tough cut of meat for 24 hours) water will evaporate so you want to make sure the water is always covering the food being cooked and to add more water if necessary. Anyway, by using a cooler... the water heated by the Precision Cooler is insulated from outside air so the cooker doesn't have to work as hard to keep the water hot thus saving on electricity, and with the lid closed the water that evaporates, condenses on the underside of the lid and drops back into the cooler."
"Once it got to 160+/- the temperature began to fluctuate again like the original unit did. After some testing I discovered that when the hot steam is allowed to enter into the vents on the rear of the unit, the fluctuations of the temperature began."
"How could Anova design a 200 hundred dollar cooking unit, that can heat water to 210 degrees, and then sits on top of that steaming water, but is susceptible/prone to malfunction because of inevitable steam intrusion into the control head??? Check the 1 star reviews - this is not a fluke, and is so common that ANOVA addresses it in the customer support section - their solution - put your unit in a bag of rice for 24 hours to dry it out and hopefully that will fix it, but if it doesn't "you have a problem"????"
"Then Anova pushed an update to their app that requires you to pair your kitchen appliance with your facebook profile. I mean, i'm looking at my blender and my pressure cooker and they seem to work fine without needing access to my social network."
"I returned the item because Anova updated the phone app to force you to buy Wifi access."
"Anova changed the app to require a login just to cook a meal."
Best Amazon Launchpad Gadgets
*IMPORTANT - Please be advised that Tile’s connectivity and app are affected by a known Bluetooth issue with devices using Android 6.0.0 (Marshmallow). Tile Mate easily loops onto keychains or attaches to anything you don’t want to lose so you can find it fast. Battery life:One year from shipment: Charging:NoneAll activity measurements and calculations are estimates.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"As it clearly outlines in the screen shots, anyone else who happens to have the app installed and is near you will cause the tile to report its location through THEIR phone. That's right, the company can find out where you shop, eat, go to church, jog, or walk the dog simply by your tile reporting its location through someone else's phone running the app. Once the app is ready to go it pairs with the tile easily and then there are some very interesting features. You do have to register and create an account in order to get to the point where you can tie a tile to the app. If, and I say if reluctantly, you have location services turned on the web site will allow you to view the last known location of the tile(s) under your account on a map. Now proximity here is Bluetooth distance which is at best 10 meters (30 feet) so the location overlaid on the map will be fairly close to where the tile was left as long as the location services on your phone can actually get a GPS lock (this gets far to technical to explain here but buildings, underground parking and just about any structure can block GPS signals). What I really liked, if you have the tile in hand but can't find the phone, double press the silver tile logo and if the phone is within range it will play a tune associated with the app. All in all, this is an easy to use device and there will be dozens of applications you could think of. I found the app very simple both to set up and use. The tile itself while having to real speaker isn't really loud enough to heard when trapped between cushions on a sofa or stuffed in a purse. I like that pairing a tile with the app is painless, totally non-technical. When using the web interface, I found the site easy to access through both the app and PC online. There are so many Bluetooth devices we already use that we can have a good idea of the coverage that can be expected between phone and tile. The app works and does not require a 10-year-old to set it up. Great idea and product but beware the intrusion to your comings and goings."
"No matter what system I tried to introduce him to, what basket was on the counter just for his wallet...was a dismal failure."
"At first, I was so happy with this product, helping me find misplaced keys and cell phone in my family's busy home."
"At first, it went well; I didn't really lose my keys so I'd use the tile a few times a month to make sure that everything was in working order. And it was spotty; sometimes, when the tile was right next to me, it'd take minutes for the app to locate the tile and ring. According to the Tile App, there were a few thousand Tile users around, able to find my device if they stumbled near it."
"After working correctly (or at least seeming to) for a few months I received a warning notice that several of my items--including the camera gear--had moved while I was away on a business trip."
"Could someone from customer support please contact me if they see this or just replace my dead tile?"