People are always saying how you need to improve your diet and nutrition, and what better way to do that than to start your morning off with a nice splash of camel milk in your Frosted Flakes?

People are always saying how you need to improve your diet and nutrition, and what better way to do that than to start your morning off with a nice splash of camel milk in your Frosted Flakes?

If you're nodding your head enthusiastically, you're probably Matthew or Meghan Stalzer, a Colorado couple who recently quit their day jobs and gave up their normal-person lives to start a camel dairy in Moffat.

If you're making the following face …

… you're probably one of Colorado's 5,029,194 other residents who haven't yet tasted the pungent tang of desert creature milk on their tongues.

"It was kind of a touchy decision, but it just kind of seemed like the right move to make," Matthew Stalzer said. "It's definitely paid itself off by now. The camel is just an amazing animal."

But incredibly, their new camel milk operation isn't even the only one in Colorado.

The square state is, unbelievably, home to three camel milk dairies already, which begs the questions … Who's drinking all that camel milk? Is it you, Peyton Manning? How else do you do what you do? Voodoo?

Moving on …

Matthew and Meghan started out growing vegetables and raising goats on their 25 acre plot of land, but when Meghan read an article in Grit Magazine about the wonders of camel’s milk, the two changed course and made a beeline for the humpy desert beast.

You see, camel milk, it seems, is helpful to people with autism and with diabetes. But while none of those claims are supported by science, that hasn't stopped people from jumping on the Saharan caravan to camel town.

Camel milk supposedly tastes salty and grassy … two things we don't think will go very well with our daily intake of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but hey, we want to stave off the diabeetus as much as the next guy or gal.

But camel milking is by no means a plebeian undertaking; it's a sport for the well-endowed. According to Matt, a single camel can cost more than $17,000, which is more than a car or down payment on a house, and pasteurized camel milk, sold at places like Whole Foods, can cost up to $18 a pint.

Thankfully, The Stalzers cater to the middle class by selling their milk locally, unpasteurized, for $8 a pint. To ensure its safety, they send it to a Boulder laboratory, where it’s tested for pathogens. That means that, with a little hard work and financial planning, you too can taste the sweet-ish delight of camel milk.

But happy couple runs into more challenges than pricing their product, and they mainly come in the form of finicky camels who sometimes just don't feel like filling the beast-milk void we suffer from in this country. A camel will only drop her milk when her calf is present and will only milk for one to five minutes. Despite that brevity, a camel can produce about 12 pints of milk each day, when it's feeling generous.

In addition to selling milk, Meghan Stalzer makes hats, baby booties, and other products with the camel fiber, and if that isn't proof that you don't need a real job your Dad will be proud of to survive, nothing is.

Moral of the story … follow your dreams, kids. Even if they taste like shit in a latte.