Archive for October 8th, 2008

Author: Robin
• Wednesday, October 08th, 2008

(I had to change the title of this blog cause I kept getting spam from it)

Hemp milk - It has a familiar taste, but I can’t quite place it.

I think it tastes like wood.  What wood would taste like if it were in liquid form.  It’s not a pleasant taste, but I can definitely handle it.  I’m thinking about watering it down, to see if that makes it less woody.

Author: Robin
• Wednesday, October 08th, 2008

I’m about to walk to the bank to deposit $175 in five dollar bills.  That’s two challenges, the walking, and the saving the fives.  I kick ass.

$155 was from waitressing, and $20 was from just being out and spending money, and getting a five as change (don’t worry, I was spending money on groceries).

It’s day 8, and I still haven’t bought anything that wasn’t groceries.  Oh wait, today was my first gas purchase of the month.  It was $34.  And I was on EMPTY.  And I had been driving on empty (with the gas light on!) for a while.  So that’s good that I can get a full tank for under $35.  Even when the gas was $4 (today it was $3.19), I hadn’t gone over $40.  I like my little car.

I’m leaving for Florida on Friday, so we’ll see how that goes with the no spending.  Maybe I can just get my parents to buy me everything.  Does that work?  :)  Our hotel is attached to “The Mall of Florida”  So that might be a problem.

Correction:  $180!  The lady at the bank counted it twice.  I guess I’m a crappy counter.

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Author: Robin
• Wednesday, October 08th, 2008

Well, I could definitely tell that it was NOT milk.  The color was off, first of all.  It was a very light brown.  Maybe not brown, but it wasn’t really white.  It was off white.  I had it in my regular HBoO, with my banana.  I had the first bite, and I went “whoa!”  It wasn’t bad, but it was definitely different.  I could taste the difference.  When I had the rice milk, I don’t think I could taste the difference.  It tasted like milk!  But this had a very strong taste.  I didn’t really like it.  How I began eating it, I would just get my spoon full, and then tilt the spoon  against the bowl to get off all the extra milk.  The cereal would be saturated in milk, but there wasn’t any extra on the spoon.  Doing it that way wasn’t that bad.  But with a spoon full of the hemp milk, I wouldn’t have been able to handle it.  Now I’m stuck with 27 more ounces of hemp milk that is kinda gross.  And at $16 a gallon ($4 for 32  ounces), I’m pretty upset about it.  But maybe I’ll just keep using it in my cereal, and suck it up until it’s done.  Then I won’t have to have it again until my LID in May.