coconut milk
- Very smooth and satisfying
- <=1 g natural sugars so basically carb-free
- amazing replacement for milk in cereal and smoothies
Oat milk. I can make it at home and customize it for 1/10th the price.
It’s also near the bottom for CO2 emissions as well.
neat!
Mountain Dew
I always felt like it tasted like already flat soda
You gotta get it straight from the Mountain cow. It’s never quite as good once it’s bottled.
I always felt it tasted like pine-scented dish soap.
I like soy milk. I don’t know why people freak out about it.
something about estrogen load
I liked the smell of it in my shaving cream but yet to formally try it in the mouth hole
It’s fine? It’s not ambrosia, but it’s easier on my stomach and a little bit healthier than the moo juice.
Unsweetened almond milk, then oat milk, then coconut. Last resort is soy because I can ALWAYS taste some sort of soy-ness flavor, the same way I can taste a hint of coconut with coconut milk, and that soy taste is just weird.
Unsweetened almond milk, unsweetened oat milk is second
You’re not going to get carb free, but low sugar.
Oat milk in coffee is delightful. I find almond milk a bit too “non-present” I can’t think of a better word
Yeah I like that almond milk is not too much flavor. It means it doesn’t distract from the flavor of the thing it’s added to, only changes the texture and smooths out bitterness and other unpleasant flavor components like with tea and coffee. I prefer to get good tea or coffee and not add anything, but that stuff is expensive, so I get middle of the road quality and add almond milk to smooth it out but still keep some of the highlights.
Oat milk is good for the really mediocre stuff, though. It smooths it out a lot and adds some flavor. And I do like oats a lot in general. But a lot of times the oat milk is too gritty or too heavy. I found that making my own oat milk does eliminate those problems, but takes more effort and doesn’t last long if I make a lot of it at once to reduce the effort.
Oat milk followed by homemade cashew milk. I found coconut milk and almond milk both to be too watery tasting.
Edit: Here is my recipe for nut/seed milk. This works for cashews, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, and pepitas. I haven’t tried it with other nuts or seeds.
- 1/3c nuts or seeds
- 4c water
- Sweetener of choice (I just use 2 Splenda packets but I’ve also used agave and pitted dates)
- 1/8tsp salt
- 1/8tsp xanthan gum (can be ommitted but it helps the texture IMHO)
- 1/2tsp vanilla (optional)
Blend seeds or nuts with water, salt, and sweetener in a high speed blender. Strain through a nut milk bag. Add xanthan gum and re-blend. Stays good for a week or more.
Specifically: Califia Farms Toasted Coconut - Coconut Almondmilk Blend. This is the closest I have found since I started watching my carbs/sugar intake 4 years ago.
Mostly the same as everyone else here, mostly use oat milk or coconut depending on use case, but a while back I was making something that called for pea milk and it cooked up surprisingly well.
Oatly is my one and only.
Rice Milk
Someone at work bought me macadamia nut milk when I went vegan, it was at Costco for a while, and man that was good. They don’t carry it anymore and it’s not in regular stores I’ve seen.
I moved to almond milk and greatly enjoy it but when I found out how much water is needed to grow them I decided to try out oak milk - didnt like the unsweatend unflavored version, best I could describe it tasted like the smell of chicken. Really weird, but the sweatened, vanilla oak milk is platable for me.
Hemp milk
Where can this be sourced decently?
I used to get it from Giants as tempest brand https://giantfood.com/groceries/dairy/plant-based-milk-coffee-creamers/more-plant-based-milk/living-harvest-tempt-hemp-milk-original-1-quart.html
You’ll have to do some shopping around look for popular supermarkets with health food organics specific isles that have large plant milk options on a big shelf.
Almond milk is my go to
I use rice milk in my cereal. Nice and sweet. Not too fatty.
