Milk

I don't know about you, but I grew up thinking that when I drank a glass of milk I was doing a good thing. Calcium, strong bones! Now, I'm thinking not so much... My parents used to encourage me to drink the milk in my cereal, or the milk that I used to dunk my Oreos, but now they are vegan, and we don't even have milk in the house.

So what's so bad about milk? And how do we get around it?

1. Milk actually DEPLETES the calcium from your bones
2. Cow's milk is custom designed for cows
3. Milk INCREASES fracture risk
4. Today's milk is considered a processed food

This is specifically dairy milk, which I think we all know TASTES the best. But I don't know if it's really worth it. It's not natural milk.

I'm going to need you to be open-minded with me for a minute. I say this, because I was very opposed to what I am about to present. Growing up only drinking milk, I couldn't imagine what else I would put in my cereal. My parents urged me to try soy milk, but I was not having it. I tried it once plain, and it wasn't very great. In cereal, it's okay. But just okay. However, what I have really grown to love is almond milk. It still doesn't really make sense to me... How milk is made from almonds, but I've learned to put that behind me. I honestly think almond milk has a very similar taste to actual milk. I can't say the same for soy milk. The only real difference is the consistency. Nothing will ever be quite as refreshing as milk. But when it comes to cereal, and cooking, and little things like that, you won't even notice a difference. You do notice it with Oreos though.... Keep drinking milk with Oreos, but for everything else, almond milk all the way!