The Joys of Silk...

     Part of the class that I am taking deals with nutrition.  A lot of it is very good information, like not eating after seven p.m. unless you have to and then making it leafy green vegetables or something like an apple with a little peanut butter.  I also asked, its ok to drink liquids after 7 p.m., but you shouldn't really be drinking caffine that late.

     It also came with a shopping list.  Some of it, I knew already... fruits, vegetables, chicken, turkey, etc.  One I had already discovered on my own - Mrs. Dash's salt-free spices!  I have three different ones the Lemon Pepper, Italian Medely and the Tomato Basil.  The Instructor, Stacy Dinter, has told us that you should really only be consuming around 2400mg of sodium per day.  Adding these spices to a chicken breast or other meal gives it a lot of flavor without adding to your sodium intake.

    One, that I heard about, the topic of this post, is Silk - Soy Milk.  I have seen and heard about it from other people... and when I saw it on the list, I was really hesitant to try it.  I have tried other soy products before. Yes, several years ago, but... my opinion of them was that they tasted horrible.  However, I am trying to give this my all, so I bought what was on the list: Vanilla Lite Soy Milk and Chocolate Lite Soy Milk.

     The other night, with my dinner of a lemon pepper chicken breast and vegetables, I add 1 cup (yes, exactly one cup as the serving size states on the back of the box.) to a glass for my drink.  I was expecting a nasty, chalky soy taste.  The box states that 1 cup is 90 calories, which isn't too bad.  I sat down with my dinner and began to eat.  First drink of soy milk and I was impressed.  It was very smooth, very much like regular chocolate milk and had zero soy taste or nasty after taste.

     So, what I have learned from this... I recommend Silk ;)