I want to buy small cartons of milk

flea72

paul2louise wrote: »

I have been trying water for a year now, and he doesn't like it. I would much rather know that he drinks a full cup of milk than a few sips of water. He was getting constipated recently cos he wasn't drinking so much.

Have you tried watering down the milk, because he could be rejecting it visually, rather than on taste.

Saying you would rather he drinks milk than a few sips of water, is the same as offering a biscuit instead of a drink. Milk is not a drink, its a high calorie/fat food replacement

When your child starts school, he will not be allowed to take milk as a drink in class, so i would encourage him to make some changes now. Taste buds do change, so he could suddenly switch to water by choice, but by the time a child is a 3, milk should be treated the same as all other dairy products

booter

paul2louise wrote: »

Today I do decant, i have one made up in the fridge as we speak but when it is a hot day and we are out all day I don't feel happy giving my lo warm milk that has been out if the fridge.

I will have a look in Morrisons, thanks for that

Sorry if I'm being dense here , but don't you have to keep the smaller cartons cool too?

Just to add, the bottles I decant milk into are either kept cool in a cool bag with blocks (if I've got a few). But I also have an insulated bottle bag (which came with a sports type bottle) which keeps stuff cool for a couple of hours, and I also have one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermos-Active-Sports-Bottle-Charcoal/dp/B001T9NJ7M/ref=pd_sim_sbs_kh_2 which has a tube in the middle which you fill with water then freeze, which then keeps a drink (milk or otherwise) cold for hours. And tbh, I'd agree with flea72, and start watering down the milk, a little at a time, to get him "drinking" rather than "eating" iyswim I hope you don't think I'm being judgemental - I've been in exactly the same situation so I do understand We went from full fat, to semi skimmed, then skimmed, then watered down skimmed......but now water or very weak squash is perfectly acceptable to her highness :j thank goodness! (It seemed to take forever!)

paul2louise

booter wrote: »

Sorry if I'm being dense here , but don't you have to keep the smaller cartons cool too?

Not if they are long life.
Which I am hoping they are

moneysweet

paul2louise wrote: »

Not if they are long life.
Which I am hoping they are

They will be long life.. :j:beer:

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Edwardia

I find it hard to believe that kids are being banned from taking cartons/bottles of UHT milk :eek:

The Seven Countries Study by Ancel Keyes upon which all this low fat is best stuff is ultimately based, was done in the 1970s without computers, cherrypicking data from more than twenty countries. No multilinear regression was done either. ie if you prove A+C = D you have to prove it the other ways too.

Homogenised milk, it could be argued, (which most people drinking milk are now drinking) is more dangerous than unhomogenised whole/semi-skimmed milk because the fat globules are so small that they can get into the bloodstream.

McDonald's does 250ml bottles organic semi-skimmed milk btw

Kirri

Just being nosey here, why are kids not allowed to take milk to school, flea72??

(I grew up in an era when we were forced to drink it at school even when it made me sick).

narabanekeater

my son who is 5 gets free fruit and ilk every day at controlled times however he has a sports bottle with fresh cool water in daily and he can drink from the whenever he wishes to at school. So I think this si what the posters meant - that when he starts school for class time general drinks it water only. Juice can be had at dinner time

flea72

Kirri wrote: »

Just being nosey here, why are kids not allowed to take milk to school, flea72??

(I grew up in an era when we were forced to drink it at school even when it made me sick).

No, they can take milk in for lunch, but schools only allow water in class/breaks. If the OP is happy for her child to only have one carton of milk in the 6 hrs they are at school, then it wont be a problem. But if they want a drink through out the day, then its water only.

Spose im a hard mother. The faff of having to find ways to transport milk would be enough for me to say, water or nowt. Also at our school you have to bring your rubbish home, so an empty milk carton would stink come the end of the day and have leaked in the lunch bag too. Half eaten yogurts are the worst lol

Kirri

narabanekeater wrote: »

my son who is 5 gets free fruit and ilk every day at controlled times however he has a sports bottle with fresh cool water in daily and he can drink from the whenever he wishes to at school. So I think this si what the posters meant - that when he starts school for class time general drinks it water only. Juice can be had at dinner time

flea72 wrote: »

No, they can take milk in for lunch, but schools only allow water in class/breaks. If the OP is happy for her child to only have one carton of milk in the 6 hrs they are at school, then it wont be a problem. But if they want a drink through out the day, then its water only.

Spose im a hard mother. The faff of having to find ways to transport milk would be enough for me to say, water or nowt. Also at our school you have to bring your rubbish home, so an empty milk carton would stink come the end of the day and have leaked in the lunch bag too. Half eaten yogurts are the worst lol

Thank you both for the replies I thought it was the schools controlling parents (like the certain foods not being allowed for lunches etc). We had tupperware type pots for squash for school lunch and that was bad enough leaking.

I had seen the mini milk cartons on M&More too, thought they looked good to get in for visitors seeing as though I never have milk here for myself.