Yikes! milk …
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- June
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While my husband and I agree on most things, the one thing we don’t see eye to eye on is milk. No, I don’t mean that while one of us thinks milk is good, the other disagrees. My husband thinks milk is yummy while I think it is yucky.
As a child, I would play with my glass of milk, drinking (and gagging) when my mom was watching. When no grown up was around, I’d pour it into a flower bed or in the sink. My husband, on the other hand, still still takes swigs of milk every time he passes the fridge.
Our eldest seems to have taken after me. He dislikes milk and tries avoiding the “three times a day” rule my husband has made. I confess to letting him “forget” sometimes.
I’ve put decaffeinated coffee and sugar in the milk and given it a run in the blender. That makes it frothy and nice. Sometimes I put crushed cardomom and sugar, which he isn’t crazy about. Yogurt is a good substitute, as well. But short of giving him calcium tablets, what can I do to make him drink his milk and make his bones strong?
Any ideas, moms?
File photo (not of my family) by Rory Glaeseman / The Journal News
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My 7 y.o. daughter doesn’t like straight milk either. Won’t touch the stuff. I wouldn’t worry if she ate cheese but she won’t touch that, either (unless it’s on pizza or in ravioli). So I make her a yogurt drink: 1-2 oz. Stoneyfield Farm Smoothie with 6-7 oz. skim or 1% milk.
I’m always concerned about calcium so I double checked with our pediatrician. She was fine with this approach since we can get her to have a cup of vanilla yogurt a few times a week (OK, sometimes there’s a bit of arm twisting) and really likes broccoli (which is a good source of calcium, too).
I hated milk as a kid, too, and it turned out I was lactose intolerant. Does he object to all milk, or just a certain kind? My 12 yo gags at whole or 2%, but chugs skim. Yogurt (watch the sugar) and cheeses are excellent substitutes.
http://www.health.gov/DIETARYGUIDELINES/dga2005/document/html/AppendixB.htm (The calcium part is in the middle) gives the USDA calcium counts of a lot of foods, but we have a picky eater so I rely a lot on shakes and smoothies and macaroni and cheese…
I think a calcium tablet or calcium fortified vitamin would be ok. Because you take one to keep your bones safe, right??? : )
No chocolate or strawberry milk either? How about fruit? Check out these milk/fruit drinks. I’m gonna have to try me some of these…
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/beverages/fruit-drinks.html
You got my attention with this one. We adopted a five year old from another country and the milk here didn’t taste “right” to him. Some foods are very high in calcium, not just milk. We were lucky because he actually craved broccoli, a relatively high calcium vegetable. The only other options might be yogurt, sardines (I’m guessing “no” to the sardines?) and cheese casseroles or mac and cheese. You can get chewable calcium, just keep it out of reach when not giving it as a supplement.