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oat milk for everything

Oat milk. I can make it at home and customize it for 1/10th the price.

Depends on what I am using it for. I quite like oat milk in my coffee drinks. I feel like it is nice to have the oaty flavor paired with the coffee taste.

Oat for most things. Extra creamy.

Almond for a fewthings. Like I prefer almond in a bowl of cereal. Silk has an unsweetened one with extra protein that is my go to.

Oat for lattes, rice for drinking straight, coconut for smoothies, almond for cereal

Mountain Dew

I found almond milk to be a great substitute a couple of years ago when I was dieting. Particularly the 'unsweetened, vanilla' variety from Almond Breeze.

As an added bonus, it also has a much longer shelf life than regular milk.

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.

I like soy milk. I don't know why people freak out about it.

Oatly is my one and only.

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.

Pea milk. It has a good taste and I like the consistency. Most other milk alternatives are too watery.

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.

Unsweetened almond milk mainly due to the low calories compared to other non-dairy milks but not as tasty for sure.

Rice Milk

Soy milk is the only non-dairy alternative I've tried that actually tastes good and also still goes with cereal. I've had a few kinds of nut milk, but I don't like the taste or consistency of 'em. Though that isn't to say they taste awful; I just don't want the extreme taste of almonds or cashews when I am wanting milk. Soy milk actually comes pretty close to just regular milk.

I also would like to say this is only for use as a beverage (or for cereal). Trying to use any of these as a substitute for milk in cooking DOES. NOT. WORK. There's a chemical process going on in most recipes that simply doesn't happen with non-dairy alternatives.

Water

Rice milk for oatmeal, oat milk for baking, soy milk for drinking straight due to protein

Almond milk is my go to

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.

Pistachio milk. Normally I can't stand adding anything to my coffee, but pistachio milk is the one exception. The only problem is that it only keeps for a few days so you pretty much have to make it yourself or get it at a restaurant that makes it. Otherwise I like unsweetened almond milk.

Coconut milk is the closest to the real deal, it's creamy, you can make a whipped cream or friggin butter with it easily and it's white AF

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.

NOT Not Milk — unless I want a 2-day stomach ache Tastes dece tho

In order: Soy, Coconut, Almond, Macadamia.

Almond uses way too much water to be environmentally sustainable, and macadamia just has a weird after-taste that I don’t like.

Soy has a bit of a bad reputation (unfairly so, due to bad ‘bro science’); but I quite like the taste and it has a pretty low emissions/water footprint comparatively.