Ibon wrote:None of us drink milk here. Unfortunately I am lactose intolerant but can eat butter, yohgurt and cheese. It was hard giving up Ice cream but we also make oat milk and you put fresh strawberries and blackberries and a banana in a blender with oat milk and the smoothies are awesome! No milk required.
One of the most delicious parts of raising goats is when we wean the bucklings from the herd. The does have huge bulging utters so we milk them. I love the warm fresh goat milk as a delicacy.
Tomorrow I am traveling to a Mennonite farm to pick up 3 weeks worth of plain yogurt, butter, and milk. The whole milk is for my boys. I love whole milk but avoid it for health reasons. I am making an effort to support local farmer over the big producers so this is why I go to the Mennonites. I am unhappy about the drive which will be an hour round trip but I am supporting a local daily farmer that does not do any additives. This is milk the old fashion way.
I eat a cup of plain yogurt with walnuts in the mornings when I have breakfast. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I include my farm raised honey on my yogurt. I support a local bee keeper to raise honey on my land. I fast twice a week where I eat nothing this is Monday and Thursday. I restrict sugar for health reasons until Friday. So, Tuesday and Wednesday I eat plain yogurt and walnuts no sugars.
I hear you Ibon on milk alternatives. Since I have borderline cholesterol issues, I put oat milk, flax milk, almond milk, hemp milk, macadamia milk, and or soymilk in my morning cereal as an alternative. Mind you I prefer whole milk any day. My cereal is hemp seed, flax seed, dried unsweetened cherries, and Ezekiel sprouted grain cereal. I then put in a ½ teaspoon of real Ceylon cinnamon. For me this is the basics of good health because latter in the day I might eat a ribeye steak or something.