Offering milk with dinner for older children

[MuteDS]

Is it ok to offer milk instead of water sometimes for tea or dinner to help with their weight or its heavy for their stomach !

He just came from school and I offered croissant choc, 3 dates and 1/2 pancake because he said he will still hungry with 130ml hot choc. This amount if it too much for a 7 years old boy ?

dinner usually 6:30-7

Totally agree. Milk is not good for us. I try to avoid my kids drinking it after about the age of 3

My 5 yo daughter has a cup of oat milk with breakfast, dinner and before bed to help her get enough calcium, iodine and fats to help her ensure she gets everything she needs from that perspective. She has 100-200ml each time and probably drinks 2 of the 3 most days. She's still on the equivalent of "whole" milk to help with calories, as she's not the best eater at times. If she's not eating we have to be careful about the timings of the oat milk to make sure she's not filling up on oat milk to avoid food. On those occasions we give the oat milk part way through the meal

Milk is very satiating. When DS was seeing a dietician (autism/food sensitivities) she said not to limit (whole) milk as he needed the calories, but not to give milk an hour before a meal as we needed him to be hungry to eat. It was OK to have milk with his meal as he didn’t tend to gulp it down and just sipped along with his meal, so it wouldn’t interfere with the hunger cues and would also get some extra calories into him.

You took those exact words out of my mouth.

milk, fruit, cheese or yogurt for snacks - preferably fruit, OP and then bring dinner earlier.

If they eat snack milk, fruit and cake or cereal at 4 o’clock
when do I offer dinner ? I thought 7 was best timing ? @JoB1kenobi

Is your child overweight? Underweight? Perfect weight?
My children are perfect weight so I don't worry about how much milk they are drinking. They are welcome to eat and drink as much as they like and whatever they like after school.
I woukd probably feel differently if the were over weight though.

He is 7 years old and weight 24-25kg abit underweight because he is tall
the rest are ok
I just don’t know best dinner time if they have all that at 4

If he is underweight then surely let him drinn as much whole milk with his food as he likes?

Serve dinner when they're hungry ab when it's convenient. You are over thinking this.

💯 Where is the protein aside from a little milk? Too many carbs - they make one hungry quickly

Milk is fine, but it does sound like he needs a more filling snack with some protein - like a tuna sandwich, or some cheese and crackers, yogurt and something etc.

Agree you are over thinking. Brown toast with ordinary or peanut butter and a glass of milk was standard after school for my lot. No sweet stuff.
Dinner protein and plate half full of vegg one way or another. Fruit/fruit based whatever for pudding.
Soup and pizza more of a Saturday lunch thing but each to their own.

Don’t offer cake or cereal then worry about milk intake.

My kids have a yoghurt, fruit or cheese stick at 3.45-4pm and a drink to tide them over until dinner which is 5-6pm.

Even with a stodgier snack, my kids are famished still by 5pm on a school day and clubs means they need to be eating then on most days anyway.

I’m by no means perfect, they’ll come home and cake some days but I wouldn’t then be querying the milk verses water issue and still give them dinner earlier. They will last until 7pm if needed but they’re starving!