Who doesn't love a glass of ice cold chocolate milk? I don't because it's usually so full of sugar (high fructose corn syrup) and other weird ingredients like carrageenan and "artificial flavors" and "spice", What is spice? Generally MSG. I can't prove it, but most of the time that is what "spice" in an ingredient list means. I don't know why they would want to put that in chocolate milk though.
Chocolate milk lovers, with a health conscious mind, have no fear. I am here to save the day.
1/2 gallon of milk. I like raw, but that is your preference, and may be hard to find
1/3 cup scant of cocoa powder
1 Table spoon Truvia (all natural herbal sweetener from the Stevia plant)
2 Table spoons honey. You can use raw or not, your personal preference
I just dump all of the ingredients into my 1/2 gallon jar and use a stick blender to combine it well. I used a regular blender once, and ended up with a much too frothy drink. The stick blender is best because it doesn't incorporate too much air in to the milk, but is fast enough to get that dry cocoa powder mixed in.
There you have it! Easy, healthy alternative to commercially prepared chocolate milk.
There are 8 cups of milk in half a gallon, and two tablespoons of honey in this recipe, that comes to 1/4 of a tablespoon or 3/4 of a teaspoon of honey per serving. That is less than 5 grams of sugar and with the milk sugar, is 17 grams of sugars. Compare this to one cup of the popular brand with 13 grams of sugar plus the milk sugars, comes to a total of 31.71 grams of sugar. (Which is 7.5 teaspoons of sugar in one cup!)
You can compare the sugar in my recipe for chocolate milk to eating a large apple, which has a close glycemic index to milk sugars.
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