sohamsankaran

Hi, sorry about the confusion, I think we emailed you back. At the moment we're only doing one-time orders, you'll have to re-order each week.

With Pashi, you get to choose the macronutrient ratio, which is not something restaurants expose or that frozen variants allow to customize.

Feel free to email me (soham@pashi.com), happy to talk!

We absolutely intend to expand to more menu items as we get some traction and people get used to basic concept. We actually started with a version of the service with a lot of dishes, but people were getting very confused about what exactly we'd be serving them.

We intend to drop the price aggressively as we scale through volume and automation, but we need to get traction before we can do that.

We do have a keto-friendly variant (Classic Saag Paneer), and we'd love to make inroads into the keto market. Would to love to hear your thoughts on how we might do that -- feel free to email me at soham@pashi.com

We currently expect people to provide their own carbs in the form of rice, roti, or bread, but if you email me at soham@pashi.com, we can try to get you some rotis for an additional fee.

We do have plans to use automation to scale in the long-term. If you're curious about details, shoot me an email and I'd be happy to talk further.

Just a manual copy-paste mistake

Great! The fat is coming from the vegetable oil used in the curry. If you have other specific questions about ingredients, feel free to email me at soham@pashi.com

12/portion (500 cals)

Perhaps "taste absolutely terrible to me" would have been better phrasing. I think Soylent has its place, and I'm glad it exists.

In terms of price, food is expensive to make (especially in the Bay Area), but as we scale we think we can leverage automation to bring the price down to $6, which is not as cheap as but in the same ballpark as Soylent.

This was intended to represent a 'Classic' arcade game (Saag Paneer is the traditional preparation), not as a comment on physical activity. My apologies for any offense caused, and I'm happy to take suggestions for a new illustration. Email me at soham@pashi.com if you'd like to talk further.

We do! If you have trouble ordering or can't find your zip code on the drop-down, email me at soham@pashi.com

By the way in re. your comment below -- the Saag Tofu is vegan and free of animal products.

We do have 95014, it's selectable from the dropdown! Send me an email at soham@pashi.com if you have trouble ordering.

Absolutely, these are the exact reasons I started this. We plan to expand to more dishes as we scale, but for now, if you're in the Bay Area, I hope we can at least help liberate you from the monotony of Chipotle.

Changing the proportions of the ingredients -- in the case of saag, we could mix and match paneer, tofu, seitan, and a side of a carb like rice to produce any reasonable macronutrient ratio.

Nice catch, fixed!

Email me your address at soham@pashi.com and we'll try to make it work!

My understanding is that Saag is the generic term for a leafy vegetable curry of this kind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saag).

Mustard is Sarson, if my Hindi isn't failing me.

Each portion is 500 calories. We serve them in 16oz containers, but the volume of Saag depends on the variant ordered (to make sure they are all the same number of calories).

That is likely a ways away, but if you email me I'll make sure you're the first to find out when we get there!

Shoot me an email at soham@pashi.com, if we get enough interest in the area we might be able to make it happen!

The long-term vision for this, which we hope to fulfill once we get some traction, is an API that allows you to order food such as Saag with arbitrary nutritional values (within a certain range). We don't have the volume for that yet, but with your help maybe we can get there soon!

The Saag Paneer option has a lot more fat, which is why we targeted that at folks looking for a keto-friendly option, but this is indeed somewhat amusing.

Thanks! We currently handle delivery ourselves. What area are you in? If you're in the Bay Area but not in our coverage area, email me (soham@pashi.com) and we can try to make it work.

Hi HN, I’m Soham Sankaran, the founder of Pashi, the company behind Saag as a Service (https://saag.pashi.com). We offer three macronutrient-portioned variants of Saag (delicately-spiced Indian spinach curry): High Fat Saag Paneer, Balanced Saag Tofu, and High Protein Saag Seitan. We currently deliver weekly to customers in the SF Bay Area.

I started this service because I’ve struggled with nutrition all my life -- with obesity, the threat of my long family history of diabetes, and with getting adequate protein as a vegetarian in the United States. I’ve never had the time to consistently cook all my meals, and it’s hard to know the nutritional value of food you’re getting at restaurants unless you stick to salads or chain fast food (which is required to have nutritional information but is routinely off by 20-40%). Even if you know the nutritional values of the food you’re eating, attempting to log all your meals and snacks in a journal or an app like MyFitnessPal can be a massive time-sink and mental load.

‘Complete nutrition’ products like Soylent and Huel were appealing for relieving the physical and cognitive burden of dealing with nutrition all the time, but I perceived two major issues with them:

1) They taste absolutely terrible. These products are a massive step backward from thousands of years of accumulated culinary experience, and I don’t believe that most people are willing to forgo the pleasure that comes from eating real food three times a day, even if some kind of meal replacement is the right choice for their health. The biggest issue with diet plans and nutrition studies of all kinds is pervasively low adherence -- it just isn’t possible to get most people to consistently eat food that doesn’t taste good.

2) The retail versions of these products are not particularly customizable. Different people have different nutritional needs -- certainly calorically, but also in terms of macronutrient proportions. A female weightlifter and a male endurance runner have different bodies and different goals, resulting in different optimal nutritional profiles. Feeding them the same one-size-fits-all meal replacement is a mistake.

I stated Pashi to provide a real-food based nutrition service that tastes great but still retains the desirable characteristics of things like Soylent. The long term vision is to usher in a world where people can eat real, tasty food that is seamlessly customized to the specific nutritional profile they desire.

I initially soft-launched Pashi as a producer of entire meals with fully customizable calorie counts and macronutrient proportions, but this seemed to confuse people and didn't get very much traction. As a result, we’ve scaled back the focus to one of the most popular, customizable, and easily explainable foods on our menu -- Saag. If this gets some traction, we’ll introduce more fine-grained nutritional customization and more menu items depending on the feedback we get from our users.

I’d love to get the community’s thoughts on this and answer any questions here or via email (soham@pashi.com).

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Improv. The only way to genuinely cure (as opposed to merely assuage) stage fright is performing improv, completely unprepared, in front of an unfamiliar audience repeatedly. Eventually, you'll be as or more comfortable on stage as you are within a person-to-person conversation.

My point (in agreement with TazeTSchnitzel) was essentially this - if X was a large enough company, I would expect them not to hide their registration details, especially, I would argue, in the case of a security company, so that potential clients and employees can be certain of the veracity the communications they receive. If I were to receive a communication from an email adress not associated with the main domain of the company, I would be instantly suspicious if the whois data was obscured or concealed.