Through The Tulips Words of 'Wiz'dom

Several months ago a friend of mine told me that she’d been drinking almond milk instead of regular milk. Until that point, I’d never heard of it, but I love almonds and thought if I ran across it I’d give it a try.

I actually forgot about it until two days ago when I was walking through Wal-Mart and saw the familiar Blue Diamond symbol in the milk section. Tucked away between the dairy and soy milk was vanilla almond milk. It was a little on the pricy side, but I really wanted to try it, so I grabbed the half gallon container and put it in my shopping cart.

I’m one of those people that when I buy something new, I want to taste it at the first possible chance, so as soon as all the groceries were in the house, I opened it and poured myself a small amount in the glass. For some reason I expected it to be sweet- maybe it was the vanilla part that threw me off, but it wasn’t. I actually really enjoyed it and have been adding it to my steel-cut oats in the mornings. It has great health benefits and is much lower in calories than most milk- at 40 calories per cup, I could get used to this.