Non-alcoholic Christmas hot drinks

[Twilightstarbright]

I'd like to avoid giving DS hot chocolate all the time in December, but struggling to think of alternatives except hot apple juice. Ideally not too sugary!

Warm squash ( I particularly like Ribena And lemon) or warm milk goes down well here

Warm black current.

Tea ? Coffee?

Milk with nutmeg and cinnamon or frothy milk with sugar free coffee syrups

Chai latte or 'lattes' made with gingerbread or pumpkin spice syrup and no coffee?

Have a look at Pukka teas, they do a wide range of herbs and fruit teas, sure to be something your DS would enjoy, they don’t contain sugar.

Milk and honey

I should have said DS is 3!

Why does he need hot drinks?

Ovaltine instead of hot chocolate.

Make your own hot chocolate with warm milk rather than powder.

You can then limit how much chocolate goes in there, ie melt a couple of chocolate buttons. Otherwise you add honey to warm milk, nutmeg , cinnamon etc

Hot vimto!

Warm milk with honey was a favourite for us as kids before bed time

No idea of sugar levels but:

• Horlicks
• Ovaltine
• Hot vimto
• Hot ribena
• Hot apple juice
• Warm milk with or without cinnamon

Not sure a 3 year old needs a hot drink TBH but those are my recommendations...

Ribena can be mulled as can apple juice, chai tea is quite festive

@wheresmymojo he likes hot chocolate, obviously slightly warm rather than hot!

Thank you for the other ideas.

I’d just go for warm milk then.

We just do warm milk, occasionally with cinnamon and if I can be bothered I froth it for him.

Otherwise he likes having a "cup of tea" with me (50/50 hot water to milk and the teabag dunked for about three seconds so it barely colours the milk.)

Yorkshire tea have brought out a biscuit flavoured version which is nice, make it like normal tea

Warm winter spice Ribena for the little ones! It's mini mulled wine :) great for when you're pregnant too - you can even add extra mulled seasoning to it and a slice of orange and cinnamon stick

Oh in the same vein, I don't know if they're doing it this year but M and S did a lovely winter juice drink and it was all sparkly!

Agree with PP, warm Ribena all the way!

Why does he need a hot drink and why all December?

The chocolate ovaltine is a good alternative as they add lots of vitamins and things to it. There are 2 versions, one you add milk and the other just hot water.

Don't understand why not hot chocolate? As it is the best hot drink

But warm milk was given in our house.

Lidl sells a non alcoholic mulled punch looks nice