A few months ago, I posted a recipe for home made rice milk.  Now we’ve decided to try almond milk, since Ace has had some nuts and has not shown any allergy to them.  We felt that the nutritional value of almond milk would be more beneficial to him than the rice milk.  Also, I am the designated photographer for an upcoming culinary tour hosted by my work, so I figured I best hone in on my food-photog skills.

I went with a really simple recipe from Vegan Reader for my first go at it.  It’s just almonds and water…  doesn’t get much easier than that!

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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 »

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