Ace can’t have dairy, as it upsets his tummy and gives him a bad diaper rash.  Therefore, he drinks rice milk.  And since he and Nate share everything, Nate drinks rice milk, too.  Between the two of them, they drink about $16 worth of rice milk a week.  I started wondering how hard it could possibly be to make rice milk, and set out on a quest to figure it out and hopefully cut the grocery budget back a bit in the process.

Well, I did it!  I tried several online recipes, then started combining and tweaking them to make my own.  I had posted one on FaceBook last week, and that one works well, but I found after a day or two of refrigeration, it was getting gritty.  So I have a new one to share, and this one doesn’t have the gritty problem that the first one did, though it does tend to clog their sippy cups (Take N Toss) a bit, but I’ll just get some different sippy cups to remedy that.  :)

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As you may or may not know, I make all of our baby food.  Calista never once had baby food out of a jar as it was all home made.  This time around, I have to make twice as much, and my old method wasn’t working as well, as I had to make new food too often.  So I came up with a better way and wanted to share it with anyone who might be interested. Read the rest of this entry »