Some time ago I asked for feedback on the viability of doing 3-meal single day packs of Keto Chow. Then I went on a couple vacations but now I’m back and ready to go. I sourced the bags back in May and have had them for quite a while but I just didn’t have the time to figure out the logistics of packaging them and whatnot. This last weekend I finally got that done. I have initial runs of Rich Chocolate and Chocolate Mint already to go and I’ll be getting the rest of the flavors done soon. Once I have some inventory I’ll launch it though that probably won’t be until Wednesday or Thursday.
One of the big questions I had was how much could I ship in the priority mail boxes I’m using. With my test run I was able to answer that:
- I can fit one into a small first class envelope that I currently use for samples.
- I can fit two in a small flat rate box.
- I can fit 7 into the padded flat rate envelopes I’m using to ship the week bags currently.
- I can fit 14 into a medium flat rate box.
- I cannot 28 into a large flat rate box, this sucks because that’s how I typically ship the “Build a Month*” with 4 of the week packages, the most I could fit was 27.
- I can only fit 23 into a Regional Rate B box (useful for closer destinations like California), which sucks since a B will also hold 4 weeks of the larger bags:
The only real big question I have yet to figure out is the multi-vitamin situation. In the future I expect that I’ll replace the individual meal samples with these 1-day packs (I’m still toying with pricing but depending on the flavor it’s about 24% less than buying 3 of the samples) so People will be using them to try out the flavors. If you’re just doing a sample then the vitamin really isn’t vital and putting 1-3 vitamins in a shipment doesn’t sound hard but it gets messy pretty quickly. It’s not a money thing but simply logistics. My initial thought is to include the pills in the upcoming “Build a week” package and probably include the full bag with the seven vitamins if 5 or more days get ordered. Order 1-4 and you wouldn’t get the vitamins. But this is still up in the air right now.
Oh, and for the record: the week packs aren’t going away.
Have you considered or looked into a multivitamin powder to include in the Keto Chow recipe? That’s one of the nice things about Soylent is everything is in there already.
I have looked into them, all of the ones I’ve found are severely lacking in key areas (plus unreasonably expensive to scale) and getting a custom formulation requires purchasing at least 1000 lbs at a time.
Ouch. That’s way too steep. I’ll stick to the One-A-Days.
Maybe it’s just the pharmacist in me but I feel like you should have a multivitamin at home anyways! :) I think it’s a great added service but maybe for the day packs you don’t need to. I’m new so I may have missed this but have you polled to see how many people use your multivitamins ? Depending on the person they may prefer their own.
Most probably do but not all multi-vitamins are created equal. When my wife started keto she wanted to use her own “woman” multi-vitamins so I put them into the recipe calculator and the one she had was missing several key vitamins along with having no iodine. So she’s using mine which meet the RDA for a woman her age just fine.
Totally agree not all multivitamins are created equal!!