Almond milk is awesome but out of my price range (and I don't think I've even seen it in the grocery stores in this town). Considering my docs are telling me to cram myself full of cow juice (which is still bloody expensive) I gotta focus on that.
I am ending up with extra bags (Canucker so milk comes in bags up here which I'v ebeen told is a strange concept to americans) that are still "good" for tea but too old to really slam large glasses of and drinking previously frozen milk is nasty too so I just freeze it for my emergency tea milk... BUT!!!
Now I'm researching how to make various cheeses at home. Since it's whole milk it'll totally work. I can already make certain types of cheese with what I have around here because I always keep vinegar around but that doesn't make the melty type cheese I lurvs. So I need to find out where the heck in this town I can buy some liquid rennet. That's the only special ingredient you need for mozzarella which is fine with me.
I was even twisting myself up about where to find cheesecloth for straining out the whey... but I had an epiphany. J-Cloths!!! Which I keep around for the usual reasons and they are cheap/easy to get. I googly moogley's to see if they were an acceptable replacement for cheesecloth and lo and behold... tons of folks using them. I have a decent collander and a couple large pots so bingo bango... I can make cheese (at least the crumbly kind until I can find some rennet).
Might as well. I'll always have those extra bags of milk around anyway that I won't want to slam due to age (but are still good).