today i'm going to show you how to make almond milk it's really simple all you do is you take one half cup of almonds and you rinse them really well i like to use a sprouting jar and you just swish the water around and then you drain it and then you probably do it again and in fact i probably do it three times if you bought almonds that were not organic because the chemical they spray on them they said on the internet is highly water soluble which is really good so you'll be able to get that off when you drain it so these have been washed already and then the next thing you do is you put in one half a teaspoon of salt into a cup of water you stir this up and then you pour it into your sprouter this is kind of an overkill jar it's so big when we moved we moved to las vegas and it's doing my summer clothes it's october 30th anyway our my sprouting jar broke and i found that these lids don't fit on my mason jars and even this lid this was the whole kit i bought is the jar and the lid this doesn't fit either so on my website i have lids that will fit for a mason jar so if you go to dianaleihua.com you can get a nice lid i'm not going to buy another jar to go with this substandard size lid so in case you just pour this water in here like i said these were cleaned already put your lid on it maybe give it a little swish around and then all you do is you just cover it i have my little kitty cat tea towel here to keep the dust and the light off of it and then you let it sit out for about seven hours here are the soak nuts see how they plumped up nicely these are the unsoaked ones and i'm going to put these in the blender with one cup of water and then i'm going to turn the blender on for one minute it's really loud my mother just bought hearing aids four thousand dollars for hearing aids so i'm going to use a nut milk bag for this you can use a strainer too but this is a lot easier i think i like to put the seam side away from the pulp it's just a little easier to clean if you do that so it'll make more sense in a minute okay so you just put that in the jar like that this has been blending for a minute if you have a high power blender you can you won't have to blend it for a minute you can blend it we'll just look at it and see when it looks like it's all mushed up now you just pull the bag up like this you see the milk coming out of it you see the seam i have on the outside here and you'll see that if you use these you'll see that the uh pulp gets tangled up in that and especially the top seam too so i like to keep the seam away from the pole so you just kind of mush it a little bit and the milk comes out you just keep mushing it until you've got most of the water out of it and i sell these bags on the website at dinanellahui.com so they're not always that easy to find but i do have this same one on my website so i'm going to use two hands please of course you know you want clean hands and i also wanted to tell you that if you we want to look at my website to see why you should always soak your seeds and nuts it gets rid of the anti-nutrients so you just wring it out and then you're left with some pulp and we're going to put this through again to get more goodness out of it so i'm just going to put this back in the blender like that okay and then i'm gonna pour this into here because i don't want the milk the new milk falling into the milk that's already in the jug let's put this back here ready for the next batch and then i need a cup of water put another cup of water in there and then i'm going to turn it on again for another minute okay we're ready for our second pressing of the almond milk here put this in here milk bag and once again please squeeze the juice out of it just gently squeeze it you don't have to get messy if you start squeezing too hard and i wanted to warn you this is not almond is not a good substitute for baby's milk it's really not nutritious enough it doesn't have enough fat it has goitrogens all food has something bad in it and i think green beans have lead and celery has nitrates and apples and carrots have arsenic mean we're all going to die but i think that's probably why calorie restriction works because they don't eat so much food so you don't get so many anti-nutrients but in any case the goitrogens are in the almonds but it's also in healthy foods like broccoli and cabbage so you know we have to eat so i think this is a nice occasional alternative to other milks certainly a good alternative to soy which i really really hate i think nobody should drink soy milk i i really got sick from the soy i can't even have any soy at all no soy oil so anyway there it is i'm gonna pour it into here it almost fills up the jar and then you're left with this pulp see so you can see what it looks like there it is i wanted to show you my little experiment i've heard the people using the pulp from the almond milk to to make cookies and breads and things like that so i tried it this is the pulp what the pulp looks like so i put it in this very container here and put it in the uh dehydrator and you don't want to put this on a tray it would be flying all over the place so i put it inside this right here and then dried it and then i put it through when it was dry i put it through the coffee grinder and then i sifted it and so you do get this flour like looking substance that people are using to make things with in place of flour so it'd be a gluten-free flour so you could try that and then of course you know how i love ice cubes here we go here's my raw my almond milk ice cubes which i made now you can flavor this if you would like to have it you put honey or and vanilla in it i tend to just leave it plain and then i can flavor it later with whatever flavor i want later it's kind of like i do with my broth i don't necessarily put a lot of salt in it because you can salt it later depending on what you have the same thing with the milk you can add your flavors lighter your chocolate some people make chocolate milk out of this but anyway this is a delicious milk you can put in your smoothies which i'll show you later so happy raw almond milk making