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In your opinion what is the worst alternative milk out there? For me it’s coconut milk. If you add that to hot chocolate it does not taste like a Bounty. It tastes like Reef sun tan oil.
Coconut milk is for curries, not tea.
Slightly alternative take: alternatives to coconut milk. Evaporated cow with coconut essence is utterly unacceptable!
How does one evaporate a cow? Do you have sharks with laser beams or something?
Yes. And a hamster with goggles running an industrial salad spinner.
Rice milk is absolutely putrid.
Rice milk is for hair.
Almond!
I can only tolerate good soy milk, if I must (now that I think of it it’s been a longgg time) Fuck all the rest. I drink black coffee most of the time, and if I occasionally have one with milk it’s always cow milk. I don’t eat cereal and the non-animal yoghurt etc is weird.
Fellow black coffee drinker here and I actively dislike any milk in coffee. Why is it sometimes weird when people are doing a coffee run and ask us why we only want coffee and hot water and if we’re sure?
Ya idk. That doesn’t happen very much anymore for me at least.
One of my favourite ways to have coffee is iced long black - made with sparkling water. 😍
Fresh made soy milk is delicious and is nice when made into desserts. But it’s not a substitute for cows milk.
non animal yoghurt is just horrible
Out of those I’ve tried (soy, almond, oat), soy is at the bottom, oat at the top.
Interesting! I much prefer soy milk over cows milk and find oat milk so sweet that it’s a luxury / occasional thing.
Oat milk sweetness isn’t all made the same, there’s unsweetened versions you might like more. I usually buy the barista varieties to have with coffee, sometimes over cereal, they’re not overly sweet. On its own is not nice.
I’m a cow milk drinker, but too much in a day makes my stomach upset, so I sub with oat when needed.
Same. Anymore than 2 cappuccinos a day makes me queasy sometimes but I can drink tea all day long because I only have a splash in there.
Alternative milk?
That’s what it’s called in the biz. I dunno. Give me the full fat mama cow juice any day.
God I love a fresh full cream.
That fake milk stuff. Almond milk etc
Second this. I can do coconut as desiccated or flaked - churned into mulk is so not my thing. And I avoid soy, almond and oat milk unless dining with vegans (which rarely happens). Gimme honest cow juice - full fat for preference. And my cholesterol is considerably below the average for my age so the Purity Police can just shove it up their jumper. This does not include the genuinely lactose intolerant of course. But there are so damn many people out there doing I’m A Special Little Petal that the red mist comes down over my eyes with very little warning.
My kid prefers lactose free milk which means cows milk without the lactose. So many times barista will say “yes. We have soy, oat…”. 😡
Almond milk. Dunno why but it fucks my stomach up.
I don’t mind coconut milk or cream as long as it’s used in cooking like curries or coconut rice but I hate desiccated coconut in meals.
I think almond milk or soy milk.
Have tasted almond milk in coffee and it made it taste funny but I had no choice at the time.
Yeah they’ve started making a lot of non-dairy icecream and yogurt from coconut milk.
It’s already so expensive and perishable I rarely ever buy it and because of coconut milk it now tastes gross too
Edit: Almond milk is both watery and kind of perfumed. Don’t like it.
I’m also not wild about oat milk, yogurt or icecream either. Porridge is good just not as a stand in for these
almond milk is an ingredient in old medieval recipes but not as a replacement for cows milk
Wonder what I should make for dinner tonight.
I have frankfurts that have to be used.
I could just go bread and frankfurts or I could make msg laden 2 minute noodles and have frankfurts with it.
I vote for option 2
👍
I make a concoction with franks, potato, onions and cheese sauce that I then oven bake. Its not at all healthy but it is yum.
I’m lacking everything else.
Won’t be able to get any more food till next week so just using what I have on hand at the moment which is limited.
Have made holiday to-do list for jobs around the house. Feeling too hungover to make a start on anything today, so doing the list makes me feel like I’m accomplishing something.
It’s a pretty aspirational list and I feel tired just looking at it. If I knock off a couple of the harder tasks I’ll be happy. Especially the painting jobs, they have to get done. I haaate painting. Mass clean out of crap accumulating in closets needs to happen as well.
Nomination for most commonly said phrase in this house: Get out of the cupboard.
“Stop biting”, said to Ted Cat.
“Giiiiiiiiibbbbssssoooooonnnnnn”
What’s for breakfast/lunch/dinner?
By me it’s: I don’t wanna know. Usually when something is dropped and I hear “Oops”.
Mine was “whatcha doing, pup?” but is now a loud and often exasperated “ALFIE!”
I have a nasty habit of swearing at inanimate objects, so “get fucked” or “fuck you” or “fuckin piece of shit” are probably high up on my list
Also serious contenders. As are, Love you., Are the boys lying about breakfast?, and I don’t wanna (go to work)
I’ve got some disappointing news: toasters have been shrinkflated. I bought a cheapy from Kmart which looks identical to the cheapy from Kmart at the last place, but is apparently a newer model. My bread no longer fits. Not ‘doesn’t fit’ as in too chonky, doesn’t fit as in it sticks out the top and requires rotation to stop about a quarter of it coming out raw. It’s only cheap woolies bread. It isn’t anything fancy
And that’s with the bread shrinkflating too
The one good thing about stupidly undersized GF bread?? Never found a loaf that could fit a jaffle iron
That’s what a panini/sandwich press is for. But that makes it hard with baked bean, bolognese or spaghetti jaffles
Jaffle maker solves those problems!
Yes, the point was GF bread is usually too small to fit the jaffle maker
You don’t get the true volcanic cheese experience if you can’t seal the edges fully.
So feeling a lot better today but still unwell. Tested negative which is good. But going to be a very lazy day.
Test again in a few days time just to make sure.
Take care!
I’m really tired now. I might have a nap and let the dog spoon me.
I just had such a beautiful morning. Met up with my chess buddy at what has become our regular cafe in Prahran, got a nice spot in the sun. Had a lovely cheese and egg omelette with avo. Played for two hours and didn’t feel bad for taking up seats for so long because it wasn’t that busy. Walked back to her place to meet her foster cat who was very shy.
Then I decided to walk home instead of tram because the weather is PERFECT. Did some shopping on the way, and because I felt amazing I decided to buy a scratchie and won $17. Walk home took about 1h15m and I feel amazing right now
That sounds like such a wonderful day that even I feel uplifted and happy reading it 😊
+1
Agree, that is a bloody good day and gave me secondhand happiness too
yay for wins 🙂
Woke up to find her like this. Fell asleep again for about an hour. Still like this.
We’re still learning about how shadows work.
Wait till you get to see how mirrors work.
But how do magnets work
Magic?
Netting up more apricot branches today. Takes waay longer than doing the whole tree as one.
But they’re getting close!
Big tree this year. Hoping the netting works and will do some apricot hawt sauce.
Apricot hawt sauce sounds fantastic. Memories of some Hot Spiced Peaches I could never find again
Looking good. May apricot tree was easy this year as it has apparently died.
they look so delicious
I went shopping and I tried on some pants at Sheike I liked and I went a size smaller and if I wanted skin tight could have gone a size smaller again 😭 It’s so nice to get nice things and not feel like crap when clothes shopping because much too fat 🙂
so I got these, they are soft flowing and cool for hot days https://www.sheike.com.au/products/bermuda-post-pant-grey https://www.sheike.com.au/products/sanctuary-pant-print
I like very much!
Bleh. I’ve got a painful stiff neck today. Probably from what was causing my headache yesterday.
Hurts now to tilt my head upwards and back.
No vomit today from Tinyest. I had the shits last night but the gastro stop settled that, and Mrs b is fine. We’re thinking maybe bad chicken or something from Cole’s deli yesterday, otherwise it’s the quickest gastro I’ve ever seen.
Happy birthday to me 🥳
Naww, お誕生日おめでとう! 🎈
Happy birthday! 🍰 🥳
Yay. 🎈🎁
🎂
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! 🥳🎉🍾
Happy birthday!!! Whatcha doing to celebrate?
Happy birthday!
Happy happy birthday! You 100% deserve to be lounging around with a book today too
Happy b’day!
Happy birthday to you 🎂
WOOH happy birthday!!!
35/50…
Damnit, I knew it was scones…
35/50
40/50
30/50, not great, not terrible
40/50
Some lucky guesses and some not so lucky lol
35/50 for me today
Me too, I’ll take it.
