best "milk" for toddlers?

[Clare]

Any advice on the best nut/seed milk for toddlers? I have a 13 month old and a 2 1/2 year old, both healthy and adopted, both fed raw homemade formula(from goats and then cows) but I'm ready to get them off the cow's milk now that the younger one is loving green smoothies and really not liking plain milk which I think is congesting him,too.

So, I cannot buy truly raw almonds. Nobody liked sunflower milk :-( Sesame is good for calcium and tasty, but the kids already love my tahini so that might be overdone? Cashews are so good and so easy but are they nutritious? I have access to cheap raw walnuts and pecans too but I have never heard of making milk from those...hemp?

I just want to do the right thing, especially for my little John-Paul. He is so cute. He can drain a 12-oz green kale smoothie at 6am in under 60 seconds!

[coco]

hemp has the perfect balance of omega 3 and 6 for human consumption, nothing else on it's own does. it's very tasty too and hardly needs to be strained at all if you are using seeds without the hull (i believe this is the only way to get them raw/not irradiated in the USA).

cashew doesn't need to be strained either but cashews are not raw, or at least the truly raw ones cost very much and aren't that easy to find.

almonds have to be strained and i have found it a pain in the butt to make milk with them.

walnuts would probably be bitter but pecans are very sweet and tasty. i imagine it would be the same as almonds straining them though, i'd rather make those into pate or eat them as is myself.

hope that's helpful.