Sunday Showdown: Soylent vs. Cheerios. While there are many quick breakfasts—buttered toast, granola bar, banana—cereal reigns supreme. But a new contender has climbed the ranks: Soylent, the nutrient slurry marketed to busy Millennials. Both are convenient, but neither is very natural. Which is a better option on a rushed morning? The Contenders. A bowl of Cheerios: Normcore cereal.

Processed oats fortified with 1. Made for little hands. Cheerios are the default cereal, the most popular brand, an all- American choice. A bottle of Soylent: Slim.

Fast for nerds. Soy milk fortified with 2. Soylent is the best- in- class meal replacement product, and its marketing flaunts its science- experiment vibe. Cheerios: As Real as Fake Food Gets. Cheerios feel like an old American standby, in that Normal Rockwell way.

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Like most old American standbys, they were invented around World War II. The original variety came out in 1. Honey Nut Cheerios (the most popular variety, thanks to 9 grams of sugar) in 1. Cheerios feel natural because you’ve eaten them since childhood, but you know they have less sugar than pretty much everything but corn flakes and wonky adult cereals. General Mills pushes the health- food narrative, claiming Cheerios reduces cholesterol, which got it in trouble with the FDA in 2. Plain Cheerios are made of whole grains, low in sugar and free of GMOs, a relatively healthy option among cereals.

Bu they’re still a processed starch, with vitamins added. Food writer Michael Pollan says, “Few, if any, health- savvy breakfast- eating people would make Cheerios a frequent choice.”Plans to eat healthy can fly out the window when you step into a grocery store. Maybe you add junk…Read more Read.

Still, it’s not terrible for you, and it’s extremely convenient: The only prep work is throwing it into a bowl along with some milk. Eating time is pretty quick, but you do need to remain stationary. And including the milk, it costs under 5. Soylent: Convenience at a Cost.

The name, packaging, and origin story of Soylent seem calculated to embarrass you for drinking this generic food replacement in public. Which is a shame, because public consumption is the best thing this drink has going for it. While Soylent is marketed as a supplement to a diet of actual food, it’s calculated such that it could, theoretically, replace all your meals.

Each bottle contains one fifth of all your daily required nutrients. While it makes for an inadequate and depressing dinner, it’s well- suited to breakfast, especially on the go. It’s about the size of a water bottle, and just as easy to drink during your commute.

Dear Lifehacker,I have a coworker who swears by Shakeology’s meal replacement shakes. I was shocked …Read more Read. The taste is pretty great, so long as you’re cool with soy milk. That’s basically what this is, in its chemical way. It’s not organic, it has as much sugar as Honey Nut Cheerios, and it contains GMOs and natural and artificial flavors. So even measured against processed grains stuffed with vitamins, this isn’t hippie food.

The five other flavor varieties have the same sugar content, and three include caffeine.)Most importantly, you pay quite a lot for that convenience: $2. It’s still cheaper than most store- bought breakfasts, but if you have the time to eat at home, Soylent is a pretty hefty choice. Verdict: Cheerios for Your Good Days, Soylent for Your Bad Days. Unless you’ve optimized your life to the second, Soylent just isn’t worth the five minutes you save by not eating a bowl of cereal, especially if you’re already spending some time with coffee or tea each morning. But on those occasional mornings you’re really running behind, it’s nice to grab a bottle and head out the door, knowing you won’t pass out before lunchtime.

The shame associated with drinking out of that science- lab bottle will feel like your punishment for failing to make time for a proper breakfast. As Cookie Monster sang, Soylent is a sometimes food.

Ten Tricks for Checking Your Phone Less. The most frustrating thing about a phone addiction is that unlike actual substance abuse, the solution is not to stop using it completely. Instead, we have to find ways to use this technology responsibly, fighting apps overtly designed to steal our time. Marketer Josh Spector wrote about ten habits that help him control his phone use. Acquiring these habits is hard, so we’re adding some tricks and apps that will enforce your self- control.

Stop checking your phone in the car. Stick your phone in the glove compartment. Android and Windows Mobile come with a driving mode that switches you to voice controls. OS 1. 1, coming out September 1. Do Not Disturb While Driving” mode. AT& T customers can already use the AT& T Drive.

Mode app). If Google Assistant isn’t enough, download Drivemode for Android for a “no- look” interface that automatically launches when you start driving. Android: Previously mentioned hands- free driving app Drivemode has a lot of great features, but it…Read more Read. Move your phone elsewhere when you watch TV or read. When you’re out and about, it makes sense to keep your phone in your pocket. But when you get home, take it out. Leave it to charge, and try treating it like a home phone.

The less often you check your phone for “just one thing,” the less often you get sucked into an hour of Twitter. When you get up and check your phone, try leaving it plugged in, and/or standing right over the outlet. That’ll make it harder to accidentally pocket it and break the habit. Turn off notifications. Specifically, turn off all notifications that don’t require immediate action.

You can probably leave calls and texts on, but turn off everything from Twitter, Facebook, and every app with a “follow” function. Turn off your email notifications too.

It’s not as if you don’t check your email every 2. If you need, establish a “call/text if it’s an emergency” policy. When you download a new app, disable notifications (or just never enable them). Let the app earn your attention.

If some notifications kind of matter, make them silent and hide them from your lock screen. They still might suck you in once you open your phone, but at least they won’t trigger a new browsing session. According to local news reports, an area man stopped checking Twitter for a few minutes yesterday…Read more Read. Choose an end point for your browsing session. Put your clock app on your home screen. When you open your phone, before anything else, set a timer for how long you want to spend on your phone.

Android offers some more automatic solutions. Use Quality. Time to limit the time you spend on specific apps. Try turning your phone off—like, really off—when you’re done using it. For most of us, this will prove a little too drastic.

But try it just for a day and see what you gain. Watch Manson Family Vacation Online on this page. Everyone’s phone needs are different, so it’s normal to try a few tricks that don’t work out. That’s not failure, it’s just experimentation. When people see my i.

Phone they’re like, “My God, man, do you have some kind of crazy phone virus?”…Read more Read. Stop checking your phone when in line. For most of us, this is exactly what mobile phones are for.

But if you really want to lean into the boredom that’s essential for creativity and reflection, then stop checking your phone just because you’re not doing anything for a minute. Practically, this might mean keeping your phone in a different pocket, so you can’t pull it out quite so unconsciously. Get a wallpaper that reminds you to put down your phone. Add a fresh one weekly. Practice stopping and looking around you. Most of us—no matter how many time- saving techniques we employ—don’t have enough time to waste. But …Read more Read.

Don’t use your phone in bed. Establish a no- phone time in the morning and evening. Watch My Man Is A Loser Dailymotion. To enforce it—or to only block the less essential functions—use Freedom (i. OS) or Offtime (i.

OS/Android) to turn off all access to domains like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. That way you can pick up your phone to check for actually important updates, while shielding yourself from drifting on over to your social feeds.

This may sound too stringent if your job occasionally involves social media. But even as a blogger, I’ve kept Freedom on, blocking Twitter between 9: 3.

PM and 7: 3. 0 AM. If I ever actually need to tweet at night, I could always go to my computer. At least five times a week I check my phone in bed, realize Twitter is blocked, and go back to my book.

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Break the “checking” cycle. Once you’ve checked your email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and so on, it’s tempting to start the loop all over again. Instead check just one app at a time. Train yourself to put your phone down after your intended action. It’s pretty hard to break the “what’s next” habit, so do anything you can to make switching apps less automatic. Close apps as soon as you use them, so you’d have to boot them up again.

And hide all your distracting apps off of the home screen, putting them in folders so you have to dig for them or type their names to open. Try deleting one social app at a time, for just a day or a week, to see whether you really need it. If you end up keeping one distracting app off your phone, it’ll be worth it.

You pick up your phone, glance at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, then peek in on your email. By the…Read more Read. Don’t expect a quick fix. It’s difficult to find the right balance. Most of us really appreciate the advantages of a smart phone, and most of us also use it more than we want to. Most of these tricks only work as long as you’re paying attention to them, and apps keep finding new ways to invade your space, so you need to keep finding fresh ways to trick your brain out of bad behavior.

As Spector points out, the answer isn’t a one- time “digital detox.” It’s learning to live with, and earn the privilege of (as contributor Jake Knapp put it) “infinity in your pocket.” When you realize how big that obstacle is, it makes sense that there’s no quick fix—just regular habits, trial and error, and ups and downs.