Homemade Kefir
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Does anyone has any experience with making your own kefir? Milk kefir, water kefir, coconut/almond milk kefir? There are some pretty fantastic claims being made about the stuff (health wise) and, well, I just like drinking it (esp in smoothies), but the stuff is outrageous in the grocery stores around here.
Thanks guys!
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I was raised on meat and dairy, try to get off it and get lazy and start eating it again since it is everywhere! I will say this, I truly believe a vegan lifestyle is the healthiest - elephants, giraffes, rhinoceruses (rhinoceri?) do not eat meat or dairy and they are pretty strong I'd say. No other animal besides man drinks milk after infancy.
Kefir health claims are probably much like the fallacy about how healthy olive oil is. Yes, absolutely Olive oil is much healthier than Crisco, or butter, or other saturated fats, natural and artificial. That doesn't mean it is healthy by itself. Looking at people who live in the Mediterreanean region they also eat less processed foods, more whole grains , more fresh fruits etc. THAT is probably what makes them healthier coupled with their genetics. Our bodies actually need very little fat. And what we do need can be found in food that we eat such as nuts, seeds etc. Eating butter on toast etc. and much of the recipes are from an era where the majority of people in days gone by did much more physical labor than they do now. Think of the extraordinary effort for example to do laundry. Pumping and heating water over a fire, lifting wet clothes and blankets out of tubs of water! Now we throw it in the washing machine and then into the dryer.
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I've tried doing water kefir but the balance of fungi and bacteria was WAY off and resulted in a smelly kefir
