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Almond milk goes great blended into a fruit smoothie with some strawberries and bananas.
Or coconut milk with rasberries, apples, cantaloupe, pineapple, green tea or whatever I can think of.
My kids love making fruit/milk cocktails and experimenting with different combinations like a mad scientist.
The nutribullet is the greatest kitchen appliance invented since the toaster hehe.
I'm sure almond milk makes great smoothies!
So does the natural milk and homemade yogurt that's always in my house. My grandkids think MiMi's smoothies are a special treat and like you, we put anything and everything in them. I keep fresh frozen fruit in the freezer just for smoothies, which aren't complete without a big dollop of delicious fresh dairy yogurt in our house.
Almond milk is tasty - I like it. But for me, it's not a substitute for dairy - it's another drink option but it's IN ADDITION TO, rather than INSTEAD OF.
YES !! I have a herdshare so my milk is raw, unpasteurised, direct from the cow goodness. No antibiotics no hormones just happy grass fed cows.
^^^ This is the best kind of milk to drink, if it's available in your area (it is in my state, thank goodness). As someone else mentioned, the pasteurization process kills both the good and bad bacteria as well as the nutrients that are found naturally in raw milk. I wish I could afford to buy it more often because it's twice the price as the commercially available pasteurized milk.
Huh? That might be true for dairy milk but the expiration dates on my cashew milk and coconut milk cartons
are 2/18/15 and 2/20/15 and I bought them last week. That's well over a month shelf life.
Not sure if it is available in the US, but you can by ultra pasteurized milk that does not need to be refrigerated and lasts for months opif not years.
I love alternatives like almond milk, cashew milk and coconut milk because they are naturally low fat and taste amazing. Goes great with cereal or in coffee too.
Coconut milk is awesome, but it is definitely not low fat.
I put milk in my coffee and use it for cooking/baking, but other than that I only drink it a few times a year when I am jonesing for chocolate cake or oatmeal raisin cookies with a glass of cold milk. I buy one quart a week from the local hippie food co-op (they call themselves that, I'm not insulting them) and while I'm pretty sure it's not raw milk it comes with a significant cream plug in the neck of the bottle that I either shake back into the rest of the bottle or in the summer scoop out to put on berries for breakfast.
The difference between the milk I get on herd-share and milk from a store is that I know that my milk comes from one of only a dozen cows that aren't given any antiobiotics nor hormones. The are happy healthy cows that are allowed to roam freely and munch as much delicious grass as they can instead of being cooped up in a barn with several other hundred or even thousand cows, fed a processed diet and sometimes never get to see the sunshine.
I'll take my raw milk any day thanks
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