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Whatever people think about cow's milk, it cannot be denied that non-dairy milk is absolutely delicious. If you have never tasted the cool, nutty, creamy flavour of, say, almond milk you're missing out in life. A favourite of mine is coconut milk - it's non-fattening, it keeps well in the fridge and it can be used with just about any food just like regular milk - it is so delicious that once tasted you will always want to have it.

Non-dairy milk can be made from nuts, seeds, grains, and soybeans. Once made, the milk can be stored in the fridge just like regular milk, or it can be frozen for future use.

There is a myth that to make non-dairy milk you need special milk-making apparatus and that it is a complicated process. The opposite is true! Making non-dairy milk requires no special equipment (just a regular kitchen blender). And you can make milk in just a few minutes if you have the ingredients to hand.

One of the biggest advantages of making your own milk is that the ingredients can be stored at home almost indefinitely as ingredients can be frozen without affecting the nutritional value or the quality of the final milk. This means you can make milk whenever you need it, and you will save money compared to the cost of buying milk, whether it is dairy or non-dairy.

The biggest benefit of non-dairy milk has to be the health aspect. Pasteurized dairy milk is full of unhealthy things such as saturated fats, harmful galactose, cancer-causing hormones and mucus-forming casein, all of which cause illness in a variety of ways.

People who switch from dairy to non-dairy milk begin to feel much better after just a few days. You benefit by avoiding the harm caused by dairy milk, and you benefit by enjoying the super-healthy nutrition of non-dairy milk.

As all non-dairy milk is made from natural plant-based ingredients it is highly nutritious. Non-dairy milk is packed with minerals, vitamins, enzymes, health promoting oils, fibre, plant sterols that beat cholesterol, and other healthy nutrients. Whatever your culture, state of health, diet or lifestyle you truly cannot go wrong by consuming non-dairy milk.

But don't limit yourself to just soy milk and rice milk which you can buy in supermarkets. By making your own milk from ingredients that are easy and cheap to buy anywhere, you will enjoy wonderful new flavours and much improved nutrition.