So what we do is we use rice milk for cooking, baking and with our cereal. Then the kids drink Coconut Milk for a beverage. I’m actually planning to make some rice and coconut milk soon, coconut milk is about as easy to make as the rice milk recipe here and it contains more fat naturally, which is a good thing. I’m comfortable with our plan, the kids eat rice maybe twice a week and consume probably 4-8oz of rice milk a day, which given the 4/1 ratio is likely about 1oz of actual rice per day.

The scary thing about the arsenic is that there have been reports going back to 2007 about arsenic in brown rice but yet it still seems to be a problem. So it makes me now wonder about what the long-term effects are since my son drank a lot of store bought rice milk 9 years ago.

The “agua fresca” is a wonderful alternative to juice! Fresh fruit in the blender and add water (sweeten if you like). I have come to like a 1:3 ratio, 1 part fruit of your choice to 3 parts water.