Easy Plant-Based Milk from Nuts

Ingredients:  Vegan.  You will need a blender and a cheesecloth, or else a nylon sack (for infusing soups etc.), or some strong type of cloth for squeezing and straining the nuts. You can choose from a lot of different nuts and seeds to make your milk from.  You can mix and match!  It's preferable to use raw nuts (not cooked or roasted) and soak the nuts in water.  Cover & soak them for 8 to 12 hours, but don't soak them longer than 12 hours, or else the flavor seems to suffer.
The standard version is Almonds, but many other choices are possible.  I think I have the best results with raw Pumpkin seeds (raw Pepinas).  The resulting milk does _NOT_ taste like Pumpkin Spice at all!  Cashew milk gives a rich, fatty flavor.  Pecan milk tastes dessert-y to me.  Walnut milk also has a hearty flavor.
Soak the nuts for around 8 to 12 hours, as mentioned.  Drain the soak water out and be _sure_ _NOT_ to use that soak-water in your milk creation.
Place the drained soaked nuts into a blender along with the other ingredients.  Liquefy the ingredients.  Pour the resulting milk through a cheesecloth (or other cloth as described).  Some residue will remain in the cloth.  Twist the cloth shut and squeeze it tightly multiple times, so as to remove extra milk.  If you don't have cheesecloth, you can try using a sturdy metal strainer with fine mesh, and squeeze the residue against the strainer with a spoon.
This solid residue after you've squeezed it, is still edible and useful.  (After all, the whole thing came from nuts, which are perfectly edible.)  Depending on your original ingredients, this solid residue is probably composed of fiber and protein.  It can make a good keto substitute for "Cream of Wheat" as a breakfast cereal/pudding, but you'll probably want to add keto sweeteners or treats like small fruit pieces.  It might also thicken baked goods.
Since you have forgotten to add any weird chemical emulsifiers, this milk will tend to separate into a clear part and a creamy part, within about a day.  Simply stir the milk vigorously to make it look and taste like milk again.  It might last as long as 5 days in a refrigerator if you're lucky.
 


Some more of my tips about meat & dairy, butter & oils, salt & cholesterol

Hot!  Meat & Dairy --  In their pure forms, un-breaded and un-sweetened, meat & dairy products are nearly 100% protein & fat.  Zero carbs.  All things in moderation... a diabetic can't just eat infinite of anything...  but you really have to put in a _lot_ of effort, before a diabetic can eat "too much" meat or cheese or eggs. 
.  Don't go on a "carnivore" diet like Jordan Peterson.  Because, as mentioned, meats & dairy contain very few vitamins & minerals or fiber.
.  Note, an unfortunate & surprising amount of unhealthy simple carbs get added to meals when meat is breaded (including McNuggets®, veal cutlets, fried chicken & chicken-fried steak, shrimp tempura, ravioli, pot-stickers, pork buns or spring rolls) ... or when meat is doused or marinated in a sugary sauce (barbecue sauce, orange sauce, etc.)  Watch out for that. Alternative keto recipes are available for many breaded meats & sweet sauces.
.  Also as mentioned, if you eat huge amounts of protein, your body converts the excess into glucose -- which defeats the point of a low-carb or Keto diet.  You really have no choice but to eat more of the healthy, dietary fats & oils.

Hot! Cow's milk contains lactose which is a sugar.  While it's not a critical life-or-death issue, diabetics should avoid cow's milk and drink plant-based milk.  Oat milk & Flax milk are the healthiest.  Goat's milk is better than cow's milk but not as good as plant milks. See above for a simple recipe for plant-based milk from nuts.
.  Cream from cow's milk is better than the milk, because it's distilled milk fat with less of the lactose.  However, if possible, coconut cream is a better alternative than cow's cream.  Artificial creamers tend to be very unhealthy trans-fats.
.  Cheese is healthy in reasonable amounts.  All types of cheese.  The softer the cheese, the more dietary fat it contains.
.  Yogurt is a super-food so long as it isn't sweetened nor has a lot of sugary fruit.  Some kids' yogurt contains so much sugar and so little nutrient that you might as well be eating a candy bar.

Hot!  Oils:  Avoid margarine at all costs.  Butter has some uniquely unhealthy aspects, but you could do much worse. 
.  Many people recommend avoiding "seed oils" especially Canola.  Likewise avoid corn oil & palm oil if possible.  Olive Oil is very healthy at room temperature -- but breaks down into unhealthy compounds at high temperature.  Keto diets recommend using Coconut oil or Avocado oil for browning and pan-frying / sautée, but a lot of people don't like those tastes.
.  Watch out for sugar in store-bought salad dressing!! Some brands of store-bought dressing have near-zero carbs, but other brands have a ton of carbs.

Hot!  Eggs have been completely exonerated.  Eggs are nearly a perfect food for everyone, unless you're allergic.  Health concerns from the 80s, about cholesterol in eggs, have been disproven.  Up until the 70s, we didn't even know that cholesterol came in "good" form and "bad" form.  Like many things in nutrition, cholesterol is a balance.  Your brain is made of cholesterol, you can't get rid of "all" cholesterol even if you tried.  Your body manufactures _some_ cholesterol on its own; but your cholesterol levels are also strongly influenced by how much and what type of cholesterol is in your food.  You don't want zero bad cholesterol, but you do want to consume much more "good" cholesterol than bad.  Eggs have the perfect natural ratio of good to bad cholesterol.  I personally think that medical concerns about cholesterol, even today in 2026, are overblown.  "Good" cholesterol is used to repair damage to your body's cells, especially the infamous "inflammation".  Too much "bad" cholesterol in your blood work indicates problems like inflammation and heart disease.  Bad Cholesterol is a SYMPTOM, an indicator.  It is not the source of the problem in-and-of itself, it _indicates_ some other problem.  So, using medicines to knock down your cholesterol numbers by brute force, risks covering-up or masking _real_ problems which might not get treated.

Hot!  Salt / Sodium is also a "RATIO" : between Sodium versus Potassium.  High levels of Sodium that are out of ratio with Potassium, cause high blood pressure.  (Again, it's a ratio.  Sodium _by itself_ doesn't cause high blood pressure.)  The problem is that _very_ few foods contain usable Potassium, while the American diet is injected with boat-loads of Sodium for various reasons.  Even Potassium supplements (pills) are not typically absorbed by your body very well.  So yes, Americans need to cut back on Salt.  Not because Sodium is Evil, but because the ratio is out of balance.  Spinach and bananas are the only high-potassium foods that Americans regularly eat, and even those foods don't deliver a lot of Potassium because it isn't absorbed very well.

Blood pressure is significantly affected by some "bad food habits" which have nothing to do with salt and more to do with timing.  Such as "grazing" all day, and also, eating late at night.  Try to give up those bad habits.

NOTE, HOWEVER:  Sodium is a by-product of digesting Carbs.  (Even sweet ones like sugar, which do not contain "salt" on the ingredient list.  Sodium is part of their chemical composition.)  Most Americans eat way too many carbs.  Therefore, a significant source of Sodium for most Americans is the by-product of digesting simple carbs.  A diabetic or Keto dieter is cutting back on carbs.  If she _really_ does a good job of cutting down on carbs, it is possible that her sodium levels drop _TOO_ low.  Brain fog is a symptom of low Sodium.  Now, be careful -- a variety of different things can all cause brain fog.  But if you're cutting carbs and experiencing brain fog, maybe try _adding_ some salt back to your diet to see if it helps.  In extreme cases this is called the "Keto Flu" and may produce flu-like symptoms such as body aches and a feeling like you're allergic to something, or a feeling like you're running a fever.