@intparent, I didn’t know the fake milks contain more calcium than real milk. I need to read a label.
My joke about processed cheese – like American cheese and Velveta – is that they call it “cheese food,” which sounds like something you’d feed to cheese. :))
I prefer plain Silk. It’s a soy product that comes refrigerated in the dairy section of the grocery store.
@conmama I like rice best for cereal, oatmeal, a smashed potatoes since it has a very neutral flavor.
My dad made soy “milk” about once a month
when I was a child. It was a weekend special. The closest I can come to that is the soy milk in the Asian grocery stores. I usually get the sweetened and drink it hot. I need to find the soy milk maker
As for other milk, I tried almond and coconut milk. They’re okay. But I prefer 2% dairy milk.
Here’s a bunch on amazon:
Pros: Much cheaper than buying it from an Asian grocery market, can adjust sweetness to taste, etc.
Cons: Cleaning the machine after finishing can be a pain…especially considering the dried soy pulp really sticks to everything including stainless steel. Even so…cleaning it is doable.
Unsweetened rice milk has a light, neutral flavor. I think it’s good on cereal or in hot chocolate/pudding. It’s not fake anything; people have been making thin puréed rice since they’ve been growing rice.
Coconut milk is great for baking. I like cow’s milk, but it doesn’t agree with my husband, so I use coconut milk for puddings, pies, cream soups, etc. that would otherwise have too much milk for him.
I should have thought this through since I’m pre diabetic. Rice Milk is from rice, and therefore very starchy. Not goid for my condition…bummer. That’s why I’m going off skim milk. I like the thinness of skim, so bummed about this.
I’m sitting here eating my breakfast cereal using the unsweetened Blue Diamond Almond Breeze…Almond and Coconut blend. It’s delicious and if nobody had told me it wasn’t regular skim milk with just the tiniest touch of coconut taste, I wouldn’t have known! There’s basically no taste to me, just a nice texture to eat my cereal. I don’t taste almond. Basically no carbs or sugars and 40 calories a cup. I did use a stevia packet! Thanks for starting this thread!
I lost my taste for milk many years ago. I’m not lactose intolerant, though.
DH uses coconut milk (the “milk” kind out of the milk carton) for his smoothies. I poured some in a glass one day, and I thought it was delicious. But it was sweetened with sugar and vanilla, and I try to stay far away from sugar, so I’ve never had it again.