My 5 and 7 year olds love milk. They proudly sport milk mustaches at every opportunity. Chocolate milk, milk in cereal, milk in a glass, string cheese, yogurt tubes. It’s all good.
My 9 year old on the other hand, decided that milk is so 2008, and has no interest in any of the aforementioned dairy products. Now, I’m not going to go on and on about the benefits of milk and the importance of calcium for bone development. I just wanted to let you know some of the foods we’ve introduced into our home menu to help compensate. I’d also love to find out if any of you have the same problems in your house and how you’ve adapted.
Pasta with Cottage Cheese – a favourite form my childhood. Pasta mixed with cottage cheese and black pepper.
Baked Ziti – you can find my recipe here
Lasagna
Broccoli
Sliced cheese (for snacks)
Calcium fortified OJ
Do you guys have any “milk resistant” kids? What do you give them to supplement?
Cuyler is gluten and casein free.
No wheat or dairy products of any kind.
Won’t take any supps or vitamins.
The best I get into him is oj with added calcium and vit D.
He’s small (but growing), his teeth are fine and he’s active and strong.
Oh, my 2.5 year old won’t drink milk – she hasn’t for easily a year now. Just, “No, thanks.” I can barely get her to eat cereal with milk. Le sigh. Fortunately, she does eat cheese, and I put it in a lot of foods… yogurt cups or tubes (frozen – just like a popsicle!) and fortified apple juice. Ice cream is never a struggle either. But I give each of my kids a daily multivitamin – after that, what can I do? Some kids don’t eat any dairy at all, and they’re not walking around with rickets or with arms in slings, I guess. Sometimes I worry that I don’t worry enough about things. Oy.