Guest guest Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Hi Tara; I have a soy milk making machine that I use with other legumes and almonds. I like it very well, and yes, it is very cost effective! If you use it regularly, you'll recover your cost in a few months. After that, a batch costs much less than buying it. I tend to only use a handful of almonds per jug of milk, so it's far less expensive than one might expect. Allow yourself to experiment with different recipes and see what you like best. The most important thing with making your own, is cleaning the machine very well. It needs to be essentially sterile. I scrub it down with hot water and soap, as well as rinse everything with boiling water from the kettle before making a batch, include all utensils. I also put the jug through the dish washer after use. Since I started doing all this, I stopped having trouble with the milk going sour. If you want to add calcium and vitamin D, you can get add liquid calcium and vitamin D drops purchased from the pharmacy. Please let us know how it goes! Deborah Hello! I am getting ready to move to the mid-west where there is no whole foods or trader joes. Yes, I am spoiled here in Northern Virginia. My daughters drink almond milk because they are soy intolerant. I was thinking about purchasing a machine to make my own since I am unsure if I will be able to buy it there. My questions are: 1. Do you think that it will be cost effective to purchase a machine and make my own milk? Especially since almonds are pretty expensive to begin with. 2. If I were to make my own (and this is probably an ignorant question but...) how do you fortify it? Would I just purchase some sort of powdered calcium with vitamin D to add to it? Thanks for helping? Tara . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Well said, BL! Rant away, my friend--the soapbox is yours! Marilyn ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 You can send them outside daily with no sunscreen and bare arms for 15 minutes a day and they'll get sufficient vitamin D (and in a better form, as most used in milk can't be absorbed anyway). Despite scare stories that have many hiding inside their entire lifetime, sunlight is necessary to human life (not just for vit D) and it turns out that it PREVENTS many cancers, including skin cancer, so long as they are not out long enough to get severe sunburns (so, just avoid mid day in sunnier regions or use your sunscreen then). For calcium, just add something like a Citrical daily (in a " kid's size dose). That way you don't get gritty milk-sub (like that gritty OJ sold). > 2. If I were to make my own (and this is probably an > ignorant question > but...) how do you fortify it? Would I just purchase some sort of > powdered calcium with vitamin D to add to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 One only needs to supplement milks if the milks are being used to replace food. In a properly balance vegan diet, there will be plenty of bioavailable plant based calcium and vitamins and there should be no need to supplement. As Karen pointed out, only 15 minutes a day of sun exposure will give a child proper Vitamin D levels. I think it's something like 1 cup of sesame seeds is enough calcium and other foods contain the balance of magnesium and vitamin C necessary for digesting and processing the calcium. I wouldn't worry too much about supplementing the milks until you figure out which kind (s) and what they contain to begin with. When the government started requiring the addition of supplements to milks, it was because they decided people were not getting RDAs from food and needed help to get their nutrition. It's been going on for more than 40 years now and most people have no clue why milks are supplement so they think it's necessary. If people eat a standard north america diet, indeed, it is necessary, but if people maintain a vegan and gf life-style I think they are much more healthy and conscious of balancing their intake of foods to get their required nutrition. Too much calcium isn't good for people either, and the higher rates of bone disease (like osteoporosis) may actually be linked to the massive intake of cow milk products after babies are weaned from the mother. Man is the only species which insists on feeding it's offspring milk from another mammal after weaning and we are seeing all sorts of problems with that in the bulk of the population. BUT ... as usual, the government response is to add more supplements and hand out some pills (through doctors) instead of admitting that one of their biggest donators (the Dairy Farmers) have fed us a load of goods. Anyone else want the soap box for a bit? lol BL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 By the way, getting calcium from cow's milk isn't the best way of doing it. Milk leeches magnesium from the bones! Plenty of deep greens are the best way. Spinach, sprouts, broccolli. In the UK bottled water contains calcium too, I don't know about in the US though! Nicola Nicola Dunn --\ ------- " For as long as space endures, And as long as living beings remain, Until then may I too abide, To dispel the misery of the world. " H.H. 14th Dalai Lama quoting Shantideva _________ New Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd./evt=44106/*http://mail..net/uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 My apologies for the obvious typos though. I really do know grammar and spelling. lol I have had a migraine static for four days now and yesterday I went to the GP who gave me a shot of demerol and gravol - which didn't work incidentally - but did go along way to lowering my normal boundaries AND making me a bit less attentive to details - lol BL On 3/23/07, sahmomof8 <sahmomof8 wrote: > > Well said, BL! Rant away, my friend--the soapbox is yours! Marilyn > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Oh, and one more thing.... supplementation is often done with animal derived products like Vitamin D from pig or sheep skin and brains. Yuck. BL On 3/23/07, Brenda-Lee Olson <shalomaleichemacademy wrote: > My apologies for the obvious typos though. I really do know grammar and > spelling. lol> > I have had a migraine static for four days now and yesterday I went to the > GP who gave me a shot of demerol and gravol - which didn't work incidentally > - but did go along way to lowering my normal boundaries AND making me a bit > less attentive to details - lol > > BL > > > On 3/23/07, sahmomof8 <sahmomof8 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well said, BL! Rant away, my friend--the soapbox is yours! Marilyn > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Hope you feel better today, BL! Marilyn ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Bottled water here doesn't contain calcium, as far as I've seen, but the water marketed primarily for kids contains fluoride--a known neurotoxin! *sigh* Marilyn ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Thank you but no. 7th day (sigh) I have upped my water again and vitamin C and we will see as the day progresses. BL On 3/26/07, sahmomof8 <sahmomof8 wrote: > > Hope you feel better today, BL! Marilyn > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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