Well I found this week that if I strain the soy milk I have made when it comes out of the machine it is more tolerable to drink. Still not as tasty as the commercial brands, but doable nonetheless, and maybe I will tweak it more this week. Each time I make soy milk it tastes better so that’s a start .

But I must say that it is definitely frustrating that that I can’t find out what is and isn’t healthy for me to consume. Each individual and source tells me something different about health, and I am left confused and discouraged.

I didn’t say this in the original post, because I don’t like to talk about my personal life on the forums, but one of the reasons I have decided to undertake this journey is because I am a political and environmental activist, and I want to live what I preach, so to speak. I don’t want to be writing about the evils of the world to the 10, 000 visitors to my blog or to the people that read my articles in the paper while simultaneously supporting said evils with what I purchase and consume. Such changes like consuming no animal products and reducing (ideally but unlikely eliminating) my consumption of GMOs. Users reading this might find it stupid and might have the urge to debate the importance of these changes with me, but making these changes is important to me, and that’s that.

I started to drink soy milk because I was looking for healthier alternatives to milk, and after having tried almond milk, which I didn’t think was too bad, I was looking around at the other alternatives. So Good vanilla soy milk is wonderful and my favourite milk alternative so far, but it’s expensive, so I am still working on tweaking my homemade soy milk. With the extra straining in the cheesecloth, it’s not too bad, not wonderful but definitely drinkable right now. Wonder if I can find some stronger vanilla flavoring?

I am thinking something I might do is not drink as much commercial soy milk (because it’s expensive) but drink it during meals, i.e., about 3 glasses a day of it, and drink my homemade stuff the rest of the day if I want to. I bought 10 lbs of soy beans for $7 and can make an endlessly supply of it now, therefore I can inhale that all I want to. Best of both world’s for now? Maybe. Perhaps it will encourage me to drink more water.

Anyway, as I said, it is frustrating to be unable to find some concrete information on healthy foods. Some say soy milk is good, other’s say it is bad; some say milk is good, others say it is bad; and the confusion is endless about all foods.

Perna, I don’t know my grandparents well or at all, and I don’t think they would be the best individuals to learn from; all their teeth have rotted out, they smoke or drink like crazy, and most are either dead from cancer or suicide or near death as it is.

Soy milk wasn’t invented ‘recently’ – I believe I have read that soy milk is known to have been consumed in China since around AD 50, almost 2, 000 years. Only recently has it become popular in the West is more accurate.

Eliminating dairy milk from my diet is one of the best health decisions I have ever made . My skin is thanking me for it now that I don’t need all those medications to control my condition. I’m not objecting to the fat, I am objecting to it being from an animal and what it does to my body.

I am thinking I will stick to tweaking my homemade soy milk for now and see if I can make it taste better .

And we have are own massive garden on an acre of land to grow hundreds and hundreds of veggies like potatoes .