Oat milk.
#21
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Coconut water is the natural liquid you get when you open a coconut.
I would suspect coconut water, purchased without the coconut, is processed to some extent, in order for it to keep. Perhaps with some additives? Perhaps the nutrient contents change? I don't have the answers, just questions I would ask.
Coconut beverage is a processed product, like almond, soy, oat, rice, etc. drinks are.
They all make me "cringe" with the word milk added to them. Just so not true.
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Especially when you consider all the other foods we eat, that are much much higher in % fat content. So many avoid whole milk, yet it's pretty darned low in fat, when compared to so many other foods we eat that are so fat filled!
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Since the pandemic hit, we have been buying many things direct from local farmers and that includes milk. One dairy has a store onsite, open during daylight hours. It is on the honor system. A couple of coolers stocked with milk: white, chocolate and strawberry as well as several different varieties of dairy made cheeses. The milk is pasturized (law in Ohio) but not homogenized. My DH loves to pour the chocolate milk straight into the ice cream maker and add various goodies. You can see the cows in the milking parlor from inside the store. There is another dairy whose milk is even richer (think icebergs of cream) but they are too far to get to regularly. Luckily the milk is sold at the little store run by the folks we buy our grass fed meat from. And don't get me started on the butter. All this yumminess and no weight gain is possible with portion control.
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Oat milk is great, I pretty much eat a plant based diet. It's easy to make from steel cut oats. It can be used as a coffee creamer, in pancakes, mashed potatoes and anything else you put milk in. I am not a big milk drinker, never was so I don't drink a big glass of it with my breakfast.
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You could probably make your own. I'd start by buying flax seeds in bulk and them whizzing them in the blender with some water, then strain. Humm....I have some flax seeds. I may just try that.
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Since the pandemic hit, we have been buying many things direct from local farmers and that includes milk. One dairy has a store onsite, open during daylight hours. It is on the honor system. A couple of coolers stocked with milk: white, chocolate and strawberry as well as several different varieties of dairy made cheeses. The milk is pasturized (law in Ohio) but not homogenized. My DH loves to pour the chocolate milk straight into the ice cream maker and add various goodies. You can see the cows in the milking parlor from inside the store. There is another dairy whose milk is even richer (think icebergs of cream) but they are too far to get to regularly. Luckily the milk is sold at the little store run by the folks we buy our grass fed meat from. And don't get me started on the butter. All this yumminess and no weight gain is possible with portion control.