Milk alternative to avoid sugars & carbs

dartstothesea

Looking at unsweetened almond 'milk' for example - little to no carbs or sugars. The fats (generally) are fine for how I'm trying to eat (high protein, high fat, low carb)

Is there any reason I should beware of using this instead of milk? Are the fats in it some kind of evil variety?

Also looking at tinned coconut 'milk' - any reason to avoid this?
Obviously I'm talking about moderate amounts in either case.

Thanks

Suggestions to give up any milk-like liquids altogether will be slam-dunked into a bin with other garbage. But cheers.

conzy

Coconut milk is good stuff, Ive been using it in a lot of my cooking now to get the calories in. full of good fat

thegreatiam

dartstothesea wrote: »

Looking at unsweetened almond 'milk' for example - little to no carbs or sugars. The fats (generally) are fine for how I'm trying to eat (high protein, high fat, low carb)

Is there any reason I should beware of using this instead of milk? Are the fats in it some kind of evil variety?

Also looking at tinned coconut 'milk' - any reason to avoid this?
Obviously I'm talking about moderate amounts in either case.

Thanks

Suggestions to give up any milk-like liquids altogether will be slam-dunked into a bin with other garbage. But cheers.

avoiding for what?

What are you using milk for at the moment?

Fats in milk are good fats, so whole milk is the best option above skimmed milk usually.

If you're just drinking the milk then just drink something else instead.

If its for cereals, porridge etc then just use less milk/mix with water.

For tea, then carry on as normal. 15 mil of milk in your tea wont matter that much.

100 mil of whole milk is less than 5g of carbs, so its not exactly like its going to overload your carbs totals in small quantities.


Soya milk, almond milk and other milk substitutes can replace it in most cases if you can stomach the taste.

Hanley

Cream.

But like why are you drinking it? If it's for calcium, leafy greens. If it's for protein - dead things/shakes. If it's for fat, cream.

If it's for kcals - olive oil.

dartstothesea

It's mainly for casein shakes, I have several KGs of protein here that water just does not agree with (not to mention me not agreeing with how it tastes with water). Also to add to the odd drink or cereal - though not having much cereal while lowering carbs really.

I do want fats too - wondering what's best in terms of fats quality actually. The tinned Amoy coconut milk for example has like 17g /100, the ingredients mentions something called emulsifier mono-glycerides and di-glycerides. I'm wondering, are they undesirable kinds of -glycerides? or are they grand?

^^I know normal milk is only 5g/100 carb but I definitely drink a few hundred mls in a day, it adds up, between other stuff like black beans (random example, they'd be thrown in a burrito bowl - no wrap- I'm eating or something), the odd gram of sugar in my casein, maybe a sauce on some chicken I'm eating, some carbs in a coulpe spoons of peanut butter etc etc. I need to cut back whereever I can and subsituting for a carb-free "milk" is an easy win.

dartstothesea

Forgot to say, @thegreatjam, the goal is to get leaner via fat for fuel. Improve the whole insulin thing, maybe have more constant energy levels. generally see if I'm the "type" that feels/lifts/looks better on less carb and more fats.

Hammar

I'm taking Alpro Soya light.

http://www.alpro.com/uk/soya-plain

GDA (200ml)

kcal
44 2%
sugar
0.3 <1%
fat
2.3 3%
saturated
0.4 2%
salt
0.2 3%

JohnnyChimpo

Almond milk is your only man. Personally the Tesco own-brand is waaay nicer than the Alpro one, you actually get a nice, mild nutty taste and light brown colour from the Tesco one, whereas Alpro is pretty bland. For some reason though, you can't get the own-brand from tesco.ie, only in-store.

I would avoid soy milk due to the phytoestrogens, unless you're a lady of course.

jene

JohnnyChimpo wrote: »

Almond milk is your only man. Personally the Tesco own-brand is waaay nicer than the Alpro one, you actually get a nice, mild nutty taste and light brown colour from the Tesco one, whereas Alpro is pretty bland. For some reason though, you can't get the own-brand from tesco.ie, only in-store.

I would avoid soy milk due to the phytoestrogens, unless you're a lady of course.

I like the unsweetened almond milk from Alpro but Ive never seen the Tesco version. Is it unsweetened also? Is there much nutritional difference?

silverharp

I use the Alpro for coffee and to add to scrambled eggs and works fine. It tastes rank (imo) by itself so wouldnt use it cold in any cereal and and such.

WilhelmFink

+1 for the cream, all the dairy-goodness in a very low-carb/high-fat package.

Plus you only need to use a little bit

If you're using it for tea/coffee (not many other uses on a low carb?) I'd recommend using coconut oil and/or unsalted butter to give it a faux-milkyness