
I am trying to get rid of the processed food in my life. Trying to go back to natural foods that my great grandparents would actually recognize if they were alive. However, I can not drink regular milk and I am surprised to see how processed the other options really are and would like to know what other people thought about it. I am not a person who can just give it up altogether (switching from cow's milk was already a stretch for me). |
I drink organic rice and almond milk from Whole Foods. The ingredients on the package are added vitamins, it isn't really that processed. |
I dunno about the ones you buy but I hear it's not that hard to make your own (soymilk, almond milk, etc). You may want to go down that road if you don't drink tons of it. |
I've tried making my own rice milk, and it's too much of a chore. You have to find a very fine filter to get all the rice graininess out of the milk.
I gave up and buy Trader Joe's organic rice milk. It's not too processed, not too many bad things in it like carageenan, which is in Whole Foods organic rice milk. Soy I avoid, and almond milk seems to have a lot of ingredients I'm not happy with in it. I used to love the hazelnut milk at Whole Foods, but it seemed overprocessed to me, so I stopped buying it. |
A "grain" milk, or nut milk by definition is processed. And, your great grandmother wouldn't recognize it because it's a made-up food. Not crazy-processed like Cheez Whiz but a made-up creation nonetheless.
In your situation where you feel you cannot give up having a white liquid in your life, I think I'd just read labels and choose the one with the very fewest ingredients. You can help this cause if you by-pass any of the drinks with a vanilla flavor. |
OP here: Thank you, you guys have been very helpful. I'm not at all a person with a "green" diet, till last month I was making microwavable dinners 4 times a week and drinking lots of chocolate milk and soda. But I've had some health issues that made me reconsider my eating habits and my health status as a whole and I realized it's time for a big change. I think it's gonna take me some small steps to get where I want to get, but I'm hoping it won't be that hard. |
I'm not sure why you gave up cow's milk, but if its a tolerance issue I say try goat's milk. It has different proteins in it so most people tolerate it very well. You can get it at Whole Foods. |
Good luck OP! I drink rice milk. It tastes the closest to cow's milk and women should really stay away from too much processed soy. I tried making it too, and it was a disaster. So, I went back to buying unflavored and, if I can find it, without extra vitamins.
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