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(yes, it even uses less water in water-scarce places)
Oat milk is the goat 👌
Can't spell goat without the "oat."
I'm going to
shamelessly steal thatborrow that
oat milk is the best I've ever had, it's the only one someone has given me and i didn't immediately identify it as not real milk
Oat milk is the way
I like oat milk. It tastes the best and it's one of the least environmentally impactful, I think
Easiest to make at home, no need to buy EXCEPT for convenience. You can also get calcium powder to add to what you make so..yeah. oat "milk" is the best really. Love it.
With all this said, I do love to taste of Horizon UHT whole milk that my kid drinks... Lol so if I forget to make my oat milk, I grab one of these.
I don't know if there's any way for humanity to continue at all at this point, it seems that whatever is done, there's always a downside to it. Never mind the cost (not just monetary) to an average person regarding many of the alternatives.
It is BONKERS to me that I get up-charged $1 to have 6oz. of steamed oat milk in my coffee instead of cow’s milk. Carbon footprint of oat milk is tiny by comparison, cost of production is lower, WTF?
Subsidies on cows probably.
Soy milk is best milk for cereal 👌
Soy is great. IMO it tastes worse than oat when it's basic milk (no flavorings etc.) but if I'm not mistaken it has much better nutritional values and so much protein I simply can't pass on it (as a vegan I get basically 0 protein a day, as you would probably know, and soy milk is the only source of it)
Almond milk would arguably be one of the better options if it weren't for the fact that 80% of the world's almonds are being grown in a desert going through a mega-drought.
Yeah, though it's worth pointing out here again that dairy milk is still worse in that regard in those regions:
One graph even has California's animal feed water usage so large it actually goes off the chart at 15.2 million acre-feet of water (it is distorted to make it fit as it notes). For some comparison, the blue water usage of animal feed is larger than all of almonds water usage of ~2 million acre-feet of water
https://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ca_ftprint_full_report3.pdf#page=25
Pastures themselves are often in areas that don't receive much rainfall and need watering. For example, one chart from 2003 put California's water usage just for pastures higher than crops from human consumption. Since then the rankings may have changed a tiny bit, but the water usage is still enormous just on pastures alone
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/California-Total-Water-Use-by-Crop-2003_fig3_294579954
Oh absolutely. I'm just saying that in ways other than water use almond milk is actually better than a lot of other plant based milks. It's just the combination of high water use and being mostly grown in an area suffering from a major water shortage that makes other plant based milks a clearly better choice if they're practical for you. It's still better than cow milk though.
I'd happily switch to a non-dairy alternative, but finding a plant-milk that has the right mouthfeel seems to be an uphill challenge.
If you're into chocolate milk, I've found pre-mixed chocolate oat milk to have a really nice mouthfeel (IMHO better than cow milk). Obviously, your mileage might vary, though, depending on the brand...
I'll have to give it a try
So I don't think it was the intended purpose, but I recommend trying barista styles. I was the same, I found the nondairy alternatives too watery, like skimmed milk. However getting ones that call themselves barista style fixes that, the viscosity is closer to real milk. Personally I go for Oatly, you can probably guess what it uses. Will vary based on location of course.
https://www.oatly.com/en-gb/stuff-we-make/oat-drinks/oat-drink-barista-edition
I'll have a loook next time I'm in Tesco
I haven't personally tried these, but there are some plant milks that try to be closer to dairy out there like NotMilk, NextMilk, WonderMilk, etc. I've also read that peamilk is generally pretty close to dairy
Me, I like hemp milk
I am using job's tears milk (soaking oats in, later adding fruits) as a breakfast.
Veganism is a scam and leads to malnutrition. Plant based milks are processed garbage and unhealthy.
I agree. I eat a lot of meat. But one day in the week I have oats with fruits as breakfast. Having no access to raw milk, i looked for replacement to soak the oats in. First a ricemilk, but after having found out it had some form of soy added, i dumped it. The job's tears is 100% pure. excellent replacement IMO.
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