Why I won’t use Silk or Soy Milk or even Almond

Nutritional Information

This is just going to be a short rant, as I am tried, from cooking, which I will write more about tomorrow. I needed to use milk or almond milk, or soy milk for my mashed potatoes, as I was going to make veggie Shepherd’s pie. I figured since the recipe called for soy I would actually use soy, so I went out and bought some.

But then, when I poured it into the potatoes I smelled sweetness, and stopped what I was  cane juice as well as things I couldn’t pronounce.  One of the Michael Pollan rules, in his Food Rules book is that you don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, and you don’t eat things that you can’t pronounce, or that your grandmother wouldn’t recognize.

I was disgusted, and threw the potatoes out, and had to start again. I related this to my sweetie who said, Oh, use Almond Milk then.

But I checked the Almond Milk, the Hemp Milk, the other Soy milk, everything that was on the shelf, and they all had far too many ingredients, and far too much stuff in them, so I didn’t end up buying anymore. I used up the rest of the Half and Half that my sweetie bought the last time she was here, and I figured once that was gone I would buy goat’s milk, as that is just milk.

So much for a healthy choice.

  • Share/Bookmark

Post Author

This post was written by who has written 59 posts on What would Michael Pollan do?.