Episode Summary: This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on flexitarian and vegetarian diet to help curb our carbon problem

In this conversation, Jenn shared with Leekei an easy recipe to make oat milk quickly at home and with a relatively low cost.

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Olabanji Stephen

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.  

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and a podcaster from Paris, France.

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And there's also the, the idea that eating a vegetarian diet is, is more expensive.

It doesn't have to be in many ways you you'll save money if

you're not buying meat yes.

On a regular basis.

Yeah.

I think that having a vegetarian diet requires more.

I don't know if it's more work, but it's makes you, it forces you to be

more creative in terms of what you cook.

But I think it's fun.

Yeah.

To look for new recipes and talking about recipes.

I think the other day, you mentioned that you have a great recipe for O milk.

That's very quick and red ship.

So I'd like to hear it.

Yeah.

Um, I have a lot of allergies.

There's allergies in our family as well.

And so we've been making oat milk for a long time and that's sort of the

main milk that we have in our house.

Sometimes coconut milk we use in cooking and baking, but Oak milk is so fast,

so easy and so inexpensive to make.

So I have a high powered blender.

It does.

You don't have to have a high PLA powered blender.

You can have any kind of blender.

And the recipe that I use is four cups of water and one cup of rollouts.

Now, if you use quick oats, which is fine, you just have to be faster.

Of the blending if you, if you use rollouts, you might have to

blend it for a little bit longer.

It doesn't matter.

You can add a little vanilla if you want.

I don't, but you can, you can also add a little bit of like corn star

or something that thickens it.

I don't bother that as well.

We just do water and oats, uh, because we're not drinking it straight.

We're usually putting it on cereal or putting it in a hot drink or.

Doing something with it.

Oat milk, froths better.

If you've got a Froster and you're trying to make a fancy coffee, it frosts

better than coconut milk or almond milk.

And so you put the water in the blender, you put a cup of oat

oats in the blender and you w for.

Only a few seconds, like a little bit of time.

That's all it'll turn white, white, white, and then you'll have

the sludgy oatmeal that's left.

And with then what I do is I strain it through a fine mesh S and I

have, you can use cheesecloth.

You can use a tea strainer would work really well.

I have something that was initially made that you'd put yogurt in and then

let it let the, uh, liquid drain out.

And what you had left was good to spread on.

Muffins and stuff.

So I have this little kitchen SVE device, but you can use anything.

And then we store it in a glass, an old glass milk bottle.

Uh, but you can store it in anything and put it in your fridge.

You have to shake it up, cuz the stuff settles at the bottom.

How long can you keep it in the fridge?

Well, probably a week is good.

Oh wow.

I mean, you know, what's left.

is sort of the gummy oats that are left.

You could actually throw that in a pot with put some water in it,

cuz you're reconstituting it, put some water in it and have yourself

a bowl of oatmeal with what's left.

So it's a zero waste recipe.

You're not wasting anything.

And you're getting a bottle of vote milk that you can then

use in almost every recipe.

It's thin.

Than say 2% milk.

Um, it might have the consistency of 1% or skim milk, but it's great.

And honestly, a cup of oats.

How much does that cost?

Yeah, maybe 30 cents.

yeah.

And you don't have any packaging to then have to deal with, I'm going

to try this because I'm a, I'm like you I'm called a, I mean, I call

myself a flexitarian and um, so I'm.

I'm not drinking cow milk.

I eat cheese.

I live in France, so I have no choice.

of course, of course.

And I love that, but, um, yeah, I drink a lot of O milk and

uh, so I'm going to try that.

Yeah.

It will be a little bit different than the store bought kind because

sometimes they put in something that will stop it from separating as much.

So, you know, you just have to shake it up before you use.

But it works perfectly fine.

Wow.

Thank you so much for this recipe.

Yeah.

I couldn't believe how easy it was.

Right.

Well, but we also really like to try zero waste recipes.

So lovely.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm thank you for this conversation.

Thank you.

Leaky.

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