Homemade Flax Milk

I first discovered the simplicity and cost effectiveness of making our own flax milk about six months ago.  I'm not sure why we haven't made it since, other than the extreme convenience of buying cases of rice milk at Costco!  For around $14 we would get 12 quarts of organic rice milk.  That's a pretty good deal in my opinion.  Well, it was anyway...

Fast forward to today when *gasp* we opened our last carton of rice milk.  Oh, the tragedy!  Now that we are in the country, it takes a little more doing to get to Costco.  Hubby could have stopped on the way home, but he was already running late and I opted to have us be able to see him a little longer before the kids went to bed.  So, I decided to pull the old flax milk trick out of my hat and try it again.  

All that you need is a high-powered blender (VitaMix is our blender of choice), flax seeds (I have used both dark and light flax seeds) and your sweetener of choice.  We chose vanilla flavored stevia drops from SweetLeaf.  Additionally, you'll need something to strain your milk after it's blended.  We use something we brought back from Thailand - a Thai tea strainer.  You could use any muslin strainer or even a stocking - you just want it to be a fine way of filtering as the particles will be very small that you want to take out of your liquid.  

Homemade Flax Milk

Ingredients:

6 cups water

1/4 cup organic flax seeds

15 drops stevia

Directions:

Put all ingredients into your blender.  Blend at high speed for about 2 minutes.  Strain into a container.  Store in the refrigerator.  Enjoy the savings!!

  

Before we even strained it, N wanted to taste it!  I got a quick approval and was begged to allow them to have cereal for dinner!  How could I say no?  ;)   

Look how nice that milk looks pouring out of that pitcher.  And just look at that face of approval!

And I approve of the savings!!  I paid just over $2.50 for a pound of organic flax seeds.  There are approximately 3.5 cups of flax seeds in a pound.  That's 14 batches of milk for just -  let's call it $3.00 to include the stevia drops!  Yes, $3.00 for about 21 quarts of milk!  Costco can't touch that!  :)

I also love that drinking flax milk helps up our intake of Omega-3 essential fatty acids!  As {trying-real-hard-to-be}vegans, that's important to us!  :)

Let me know if you try making your own!