• To get started, I always soak my almonds in the fridge overnight. This helps to soften them for blending.

For vanilla almond milk:

• For classic vanilla almond milk, add the almonds, water, sea salt, vanilla extract, and dates (or other sweetener that you like) to a blender. Turn it on medium speed and let it run for ~10 minutes.
• Prepare a bowl with your nut milk bag. Pour the mixture into the nut milk bag (be careful to not knock it over, you want to keep the mixture inside)
• Squeeze all of the liquid out of your nut milk bag. You will be left over with about 1 cup of almond pulp. Store this pulp in an airtight container in the fridge to use later for a treat! (Try my almond pulp brownie bites they are DELICIOUS).
• Use a funnel to transfer your almond milk into your bottles. I love to use glass bottles for my almond milks. You can store this in the fridge for ~5 days.

For other flavors of almond milk:

• So basically, I use about 1 tablespoon of cacao powder per cup of the milk and ½ cup of berries per cup of the milk. You can experiment with these amounts to get the flavor you like.
• If you want an entire batch of chocolate almond milk: add the cacao in along with everything else, and then strain it. The same goes with the berries. I find that fresh berries work the best.
• If you want 1 bottle of each flavor: first, make the classic vanilla almond milk. Set three bowls out.

  After blending it, pour ⅓ through your nut milk bag into the first bowl.

  Pour another ⅓ into a separate bowl.

  With the remaining ⅓ still in the blender, add the strawberries. Turn the blender back on for ~1 minute.

  Empty the nut milk bag and rinse it out. Pour the strawberry milk through the nut milk bag into the third bowl and strain it.

  Empty the nut milk bag and rinse it out again. Rinse the blender out (unless you don't mind a bit of strawberry in your chocolate milk).

  Finally, pour the ⅓ of milk that hasn't been strained back into the blender along with the cacao powder. Blend it for ~1 minute. Pour this through the nut milk bag and strain it.

  And there you have 3 different flavors!
• Use a funnel to fill 3 separate bottles with the milks.
• Store them in the fridge for up to 5 days.