Hi everyone :-)

I'm new here and I hope this is the right place to ask this question.  I have been a vegetarian for 20 years or so and I have a 2 year old son who has several food allergies - soy, peanuts/nuts, some beans, and severly allergic to sesame seeds.  I recently purchased Isa Chandra Moskowitz new book "Isa Does It" (a signed copy too!) and many of the recipes use homemade cahsew milk.  My problem is that he still nurses, so I can't eat the things that he's allergic to because it's transferred through my breastmilk, and he's also 2 1/2  and he's a big foodie and always wants to eat what I'm eating.  So even after I stop nursing I am not going to be able to fix anything for myself because he will want to eat it, too.  Well, not until he's old enough to understand why he can't eat what I'm eating.  Anyway, my question is if there is a good substitute for nut milks.  I haven't ever used them before and I wasn't sure if it is thicker than say rice milk (which is really my only option as a substitute or use cows milk) or if it also adds a lot of flavor and will grately affect the end result of the recipe. 

Thank you so much for your help.  This has been a huge challenge for me being a vegetarian and having a son who's allergic to everything that I love to eat.

Dianne :-)