Making Vegan Milk 🥛

I recently experimented with two cost effective ways to keep the vegan milk flowing… with less money, less weird thickening and stabilizing ingredients and less packaging. I was delighted to find these two satisfying products that did the trick.

Now Real Food‘s Soy Milk Powder

Though I’ve used soy milk powder for baking, this was my first time making soy milk with it. It did the trick, but had an 90’s vegan un-evolved flavor.

Summary:

• Organic
• Just one ingredient
• Cost is $8.99
• Makes a total of 240 ounces of soy milk (almost 2 gallons)
• Blends well, though sides need a scraping during blending (I used a VitaMix.)
• Old school flavor. Add sweetener, vanilla, etc to your taste.
• Settling occurs, give a shake before use
• 3.5 grams of fat and 90 calories per 8 ounces.

Modest Mylk‘s Unsweetened Cashew Milk Base

I was excited to learn about Modest Mylk on Thrive Market because I too am creeped out by the thickeners in mainstream non-dairy milks. The variety of options and slick packaging is definitely more alluring than above, as is the taste. Plus the female owner is New York City-based.

Summary:

• Organic
• Minimal ingredients (raw cashews, coconut oil, arrowroot flour, Himalayan pink salt)
• Comes in a variety of mylk types: nut, macadamia, cashew, oat-nut. coco-nut, and almond
• Cost is $12.99
• Makes a total of 336 ounces of soy milk (2.6 gallons)
• Blends well (I used a VitaMix.)
• Good flavor on its own. Add sweetener, vanilla, etc to your taste.
• Settling occurs, give a shake before use
• 3.5 grams of fat and 45 calories per 8 ounces.