Fave Plant Mylks

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I'm bored and wondering what everyone's favorite mylks or milks are--and yes, traditional cow milk is a valid answer.

I'll go first--almond milk all the way. Super low calorie and still makes for a great latte.
Coconut milk is my favorite for taste, and coconut cream is the bomb.

I legit don't like how cow milk tastes anymore and don't think I ever did. Just used to use it as a vehicle for Oreos. 🤷

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  • WilliamZWilliamZ

    Chocolate milk, especially when poured over original Cheerios 🐄

  • JohnfromViennaJohnfromVienna

    Love almond milk, but oat milk is creamier. Coconut milk is great too. I've been vegan since '88 and we sure do have better options today. The difference is mind blowing.

  • pmvinespmvines

    Cashew milk ! Thick and creamy , mixes well in coffee . Can't go wrong

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    Vegan since 2017! 🤍🐄🖤

    I was never a milk person...I would try to use so little on my cereal that there was none left over at the bottom of the bowl that I would have to drink. 😆 So I can't really speak to which plant-based milk I "like", because I'm still not a milk lover. But my boyfriend is vegan as well, and he prefers unsweetened original almond milk, so that's what we keep stocked. I've tried oat milk, coconut milk, cashew milk, etc. in drinks, for cooking, etc. and they're all pretty much the same, to me. 😁

    Any vegans or peeps interested in talking about veganism, feel free to PM! (And as for the rest of you...well, ahem, you can feel free to PM, too. 😉)

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

  • JohnR1972JohnR1972

    I gave up cow milk in 2021 and switched to almond milk. I’m not a vegan at all, I just wanted to get away from the sugar and hormones in most cow milk. Almond milk mixes great with protein powder.

  • cudbud64cudbud64

    Coconut milk for cooking! I have a bomb penne ala vodka I make with coconut milk🤤

  • JasonCuddlesJasonCuddles
    edited January 2023

    I enjoy Earth's Own chocolate oat and Silk's unsweetened soy. I also never liked cow milk.

    edit------
    My first time really trying soy juice was a coffee flavoured one someone showed me. I don't have it where I live but sometimes I will add a coffee mix to the soy I can get and it's pretty good. This was about 10-15 years ago.

  • PeopleLikeUsPeopleLikeUs

    Malk

  • peachinthecitypeachinthecity

    Oat milk and Flaxseed milk!
    Then almond milk and coconut milk.

  • ElstonElston

    I love Califia Almond Barista Blend.

  • Lisa123Lisa123

    I get almond, but oat is yummy 😋

  • cuddles_ndreamcuddles_ndream

    Silk Almond milk / & Rice dreams Vanilla enriched are truly delicious 😋

  • CharlieBearCharlieBear Mod

    Chocolate Milk is my favorite. I am technically an adult but I dispute that. And to prove it, exhibit A: (I already had the chocolate milk brands I’ve had ranked in my notes app…)

    Mountain Dairy
    Alta Dena
    Broguiere’s
    Great Value
    Lucerne
    Darigold
    Rock View
    Horizon Organic
    Shamrock Farms
    TruMoo
    NesQuik
    Hershey’s
    Fairlife

  • ViancaVianca

    Lol @Charlie_Bear make hot chocolate with oatmilk and thank me later 😋

  • Maverick07Maverick07

    "Traditional" milk - IMHO, everything else is some type of juice.

  • PrettyLuvPrettyLuv
    edited January 2023

    OMG! I love milk. I literally could drink close to a gallon of milk a day when I was a little girl. I would drink it like water. I’d be in the kitchen chugging it down every other minute like my very own baby bottle. I would do the same thing with tomatoes weirdly enough lol. (Interestingly tho, at the same time, I couldn’t stand the taste of ice cream). But like @JohnR1972 said, now with all the hormones, antibiotic resistance, gmo feed and the persistent mistreatment of the cows I’ve had to get extremely selective with my milk choices. Not only that, but the sheer deliciousness of real, raw milk has been completely ripped away and for what??? In its place we have on commercial shelves now an assortment of watered down white looking chemical water labeled as milk thats no where near the authentic, creamy nutritious fulfilling taste of real beautiful milk. What they have on shelves tastes flat and so not what milk is supposed to be like.

    I’m so keen on the difference in taste and texture that it’s a no brainer that I only go for the real raw organic pasture raised milk now. It’s the only kind I buy and I can tell if the cows are being treated well based on the taste. The sad part is the one brand I love has priced their half gallon of milk at $8. $8 for a half gallon. Imagine that - something that used to cost a little under $2 years ago before hormones and gmo corn feed became a thing, now costs $8 just to drink of the naturally occurring thing in its natural habitat.

    I considered transitioning to almond milk, cashew milk, coconut milk, but every brand I picked up even in the self-proclaimed “organic” stores, had all these terrible ingredients added to the milk, even organic almond milk was being plagued with some of the ingredients I know are harmful and definitely made in a lab.

    I have yet to find a brand that’s just pure almond milk, or just pure coconut milk or pure cashew milk. When I do, I’ll definitely try it!

  • GreatHornedOwlGreatHornedOwl

    @PrettyLuv - How do you know that those ingredients are harmful?

  • PrettyLuvPrettyLuv

    @GreatHornedOwl there’s a couple different approaches. First there’s plain research on the ingredients of choice, but sometimes certain ingredients by themselves are benign and sometimes even healthy for you, but the minute they react with another benign ingredient on that prized “list of ingredients” they make a chemical reaction that produces a carcinogenic byproduct. If you’re just doing research on each ingredient in isolation of each other, you’d never come to see the harm until you research their combination.

    So it requires a little detective work, a sharp eye & a willingness to piece it together. That’s why it’s generally safer to just go with the most fundamental ingredients and leave everything else that isn’t naturally occurring, on the way side.

  • GreatHornedOwlGreatHornedOwl

    @PrettyLuv - There is research, and there is research. If I can find it by searching PubMed, I will be inclined to believe it. If not, I tend to be skeptical. I'm especially skeptical of anything that is not published in a peer reviewed journal.

  • PrettyLuvPrettyLuv

    @GreatHornedOwl Its completely up to the individual to do the research or research or put their trust in the research of others.

    Otherwise, its your body, and you can be as inclined to skepticism as you like.

  • peachinthecitypeachinthecity

    This is a thread I feel @CuddleBarista1 may enjoy.☺️

  • JohnR1972JohnR1972

    @PrettyLuv - well said in your description of the problems with cow milk in most stores today.

    I just ordered some milk from an Amish farmer that was in the news a lot last fall for reasons I won’t discuss here because I don’t want to derail this thread.

  • jintxjintx
    edited January 2023

    No one's mentioned goat milk yet?

    I HATE milk, but there's something ungodly delicious about fresh goat milk

    Almond is second in line, if only I could get over the huge environmental impact of supporting almond production (even at a rate of like 7 almonds/jug)

  • JohnR1972JohnR1972
    edited January 2023

    @GreatHornedOwl - I understand where you are coming from about PubMed and peer reviewed journals in general. However, as someone who has been both a peer reviewer and has been published in peer reviewed journals, I can tell you “peer reviewed” doesn’t mean near as much today as it did 20 years ago.

    For anyone who automatically equates “peer reviewed” with honest and accurate, I would encourage you to visit www.retractionwatch.com

    Many reputable, high impact journals are struggling today with “peer review rings” and undisclosed conflicts of interest among their reviewers.

    In December 2022, IEEE (an engineering journal) retracted 400 previously published, peer reviewed papers due to them discovering the peer review process had been manipulated. In October 2022, Elsevier retracted 500 peer reviewed papers they had previously published. And in September 2022, Wiley retracted over 500 peer reviewed medical and scientific articles due to them discovering peer review rings among their reviewers.

    It is easy to count the number of retracted peer reviewed articles. For instance, there have been 287 retractions just about a recent global health concern (fueled in part by an expedited review process to get information published quicker at the expense of accuracy). What is impossible to measure is how much legitimate research was NOT published due to these same “manipulated peer review processes” (that is not my term, that is what the scientific journals call it).

    Some peer reviewers have been caught having undisclosed conflicts of interest such as being paid large sums of money to speak at an educational retreat sponsored by a company who will be financially impacted by whether or not a particular article gets published. Other reviewers have been caught owning significant sums of money in companies that would benefit from certain articles being published and other articles being rejected.

  • CharlieBearCharlieBear Mod

    @Vianca oh I will try it!

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Nutritionally speaking, human breast milk is best for us.

    Not sold in stores but colostrum is available as a supplement.

  • PrettyLuvPrettyLuv
    edited January 2023

    Speaking of nutritional milk, I noticed when you diffuse turmeric, myrrh and a couple other essential oils, when it’s done diffusing, you get this milky looking film at the end.

    I wonder if in the ancient phrase of “milk & honey”, if milk was always from the cow or if it was elements of something else.

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