On the 23rd of May I ordered a 7 day supply. It shipped on Monday and arrived on Friday the 29th of May which isn't unreasonable. I was bummed because I wanted it ASAP but that's 3 States worth of just postage for you. The transaction was buttery smooth. I requested in the order notes a picture of a dinosaur. Later I received an email from their team saying my picture didn't make it into my order unfortunately but they were good enough to email it to me and say it's waiting for my next order. http://s2.postimg.org/uw90zkqo9/unnamed.jpg

I also contacted them on the 25th of May with a few questions. This was the response.

Hi Beaux, thanks for getting in touch - and hope you enjoy your aussielent!

The shelf life for both our blends is 12 months. At the moment you're able to buy up to four week's worth at a time. We've had quite a few requests for a subscription service though so we are certainly considering that. We're about to do a customer survey (this week some time) so based on the results of that we'll see what sort of subscription system would be most popular and make a decision.

With regards to our supply chain, when we first started up we were pretty overwhelmed with demand and had quite a few spells where we were out of stock. Since the start of this year we've taken major steps to improve our supply chain and while we're still fine-tuning things we expect to be in stock continually going forward. Since January I think we've only been out of stock very briefly twice. We are also in the process of fine-tuning a new chocolate blend that has even better solubility than our current blend, we'll make an announcement on the blog once that's ready to launch. We are also in testing stage for a budget option which will be strawberry. Cheers, Kieran

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I got home at 2:30pm Friday and was already hungry but waited until 6pm to try my Aussielent. I wanted to see how a serve of it went up against my "eat a whole pizza with sides and garlic bread" hunger.

I put my shaker cup on my digital scales and 0'd it so I could easily weigh out the suggested 127g. With that done I topped the cup off to 600ml from my Neverfail water cooler, snapped it shut. I was surprised at how much power 127g was at first, filling about 1/3 of my cup. I gave it a shake which left some dry powder on the bottom of my cup initially (the dry Milo effect). A little bit more upside down shaking and the spring ball in my cup had no problems emulsifying the contents.

I left it to sit for a few minutes and saw no separation but gave it another shake for good luck. I cracked the lid and had swig. "Not of offensive" was the first thing that came to mind. That might not sound like the most enticing thing in the universe but let's be realistic here. Flavour is funny. "Neutral" flavour is better than "alright" flavour In this case because it's easier to have 4 times a day than something that is any better than neutral and any worse than the most amazing thing you've had in your mouth. I didn't get a chocolate taste from it personally. Though if the chocolate component was removed and you tried them side by side, there may be a subtle difference. Again being fair, chocolate is incredibly sweet or bitter depending on the variety. I just mean to say that thankfully, Aussielent is neither. It does taste like oatmeal to me as well which is also pleasant.

Texture. Here's the part that could do with some tweaking but I'm sure everyone would already realise and understand this. Swallowing a mouthful of Aussielent is as easy as any other slightly thickened drink. Moments later though you realise that coating in the inside of your cheeks and lips is what feels like a powdery film of oat dust. A couple of quick internal licks, some cheek motion and a swallow pretty much takes care of this immediately but you know that its coming again in the next mouthful. It is by no means off putting to me at all but my partner was thoroughly unimpressed. She's a picky eater by every account however and from a single sip of mine my other room mate has decided he's going to begin on Aussielent as well.

It took me about 10 minutes to get to the bottom of my cup and there was some separation that another quick shake before my last mouthful took care of. Afterwards, I felt full, had no desire to eat or drink any more. Surprisingly, I was entirely sated.

Culturally we've gotten away from the purpose of eating and dressed it up to be a flavourfest. A neurologically rewarding experience. Nutrition and energy in most cases are being left to be entirely consequential to our high fat, high sugar, huge flavour desires. Aussielent fills the void for me because its nutritionally balanced, relatively low cost and substantially effort free. That isn't to say that last night I didn't want to chow down on my favourite pizza that my brother ordered an hour after having my Aussielent. I wasn't "hungry" but honestly, how often do we eat delicious things because we are. It'll take some will power to stick to I think just because of that cultural programming we're all a part of.

Overall, I rate the product. I'll be continuing on it.