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Is anyone else on the almond milk bandwagon!? I’ve been drinking almond milk for two months now, because I’m following a dairy and soy free elimination diet.

I’ve found out which local cafes do almond milk coffees, and have really become used to the taste!! I’ve been buying almond milk for home, but sometimes even the unsweetened stuff still tastes sugary. (Just an aside – my pick of the best almond milk coffee in the inner west is a tie between the Marrick on Marrickville Rd, or Wolf and Stone in Dulwich Hill!!)

Sadly, you do pay big $$ for almond milk coffee!! $4.20 for a small coffee seems to be the going rate, arg!!! So I decided to give it a whirl and make my own!!

Step 1 – I needed to buy….a nut bag!!! Yes, a nut bag – it’s a thing – as I typed “buy a nut bag” into google with trepidation, I was relieved to see that you can buy these things (it’s basically a muslin cloth bag for draining the milk) for a few dollars. If you can’t be bothered buying a nutbag, some muslin cotton or even a stocking can be used.

So once I had my nutbag, I was all ready to prepare a delicious batch of almond milk!!!

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This is how you do it…

Activate those almonds!! Pete Evans Style!! (For the lay person, this means soak some almonds in water, and BOOM, they activate into a superfood!!!) So for one cup of almonds, soak them in 3-4 cups of water depending on how creamy you would like the consistency. Soak them for at least 8 hours, or even longer!!!
Put the almonds and water, along with a generous pinch of salt into a high powered blender (I used my trusty Magic Bullet!!) and blitz the hell out of them under the water looks milky and frothy and the almonds have broken down to pulp.
Place your trusty nut bag over a glass jug or container and pour the milk through the bag to strain. Slowly raise the bag, and squeeze to strain the remaining milk from the bag.
If you want some extra flavour you can add a dash of vanilla, some cinnamon or whatever you would like. I added the tiniest bit of cinnamon to mine!!

Voila, delicious almond milk for all!!!