Almond Milk

[grandma6]

Can almond milk be used instead of rice milk. I realize it's made of nuts but there are only 30 calories per cup. I've never done the "Maximum Weight Loss Program" and the book I have was loaned to me by a friend and is older. (1994 ?) I only use in my oatmeal.
Thanks.

[frozenveg]

Can almond milk be used instead of rice milk. I realize it's made of nuts but there are only 30 calories per cup. I've never done the "Maximum Weight Loss Program" and the book I have was loaned to me by a friend and is older. (1994 ?) I only use in my oatmeal.
Thanks.

Well, it doesn't matter that the book is "older" as the program is the same! Everything, except for the specific product suggestions, is as current as today--the wisdom doesn't change!

A lot depends on what you are going to do with the "milk." There is no drinking of milk, as a beverage, on this plan.
The "milks" are intended as condiments only, so the "serving" isn't 1 cup as applies to this way of eating--whether Maximum Weight Loss or the regular plan--but more like a tablespoon or two at most, at a time.

The problem with almond milk is not the calories, but the percentage of fat--at 25 calories of fat per in 30 calories per serving, you are consuming a product made of 83% fat! Rice milk, on the other hand, is 120 calories per serving, but only 20 calories from fat--so less than 17% calories from fat. Frankly, for the 18 months it took me to lose my weight, I just stopped doing anything with the milks altogether, although I do use them now and again to make sauces for my husband's meals, when he eats my food.

[grandma6]

Thanks for your reply. I can surely live without it. I have been cooking my oats until there is still some liquid left and pouring it over bananas chopped up very small and sprinkling a bit of cinnamon on it. Before I was making it at night and soaking a half cup of oats in a cup of unsweetend almond milk with a few raisins. Now that you've brought it to my attention I guess I'll have to be vigilant in finding the hidden fat. Congratulations to you on being a star McDougaller

[Rease]

I heard a wonderful interview with Ann Esselstyn one evening, and she said she is making banana milk by putting a ripe banana in a blender with some water and using that to make her oatmeal. It's delicious! She also adds a tad of vanilla extract if she wants to give it a vanilla flavor.

[grandma6]

Thank you Rease. That sounds like a great idea! I'm going to try it in the morning.

[grandma6]

Thanks Lynn. I too am over it. I'm enjoying just plain oats or with banana. Before I started the MMWL I only used Unsweetened almond milk for my cold oats (muesli) or in recipes that I was making. Drinking it from a glass has never been an option, something mind over matter. Funny how brains operate sometimes .