milk

[misshardbroom]

I've forgotten the details of the latest edicts about milk. Can anyone enlighten me?

DCs are 5, 4 & 3. All eat a pretty good diet overall. The 4 year old ditched drinking milk at 2 when I took him off a cup with a spout, but has it on his cereal and eats yogurt and cheese. The other two would have milk for every drink if they were given half a chance, plus the aforementioned yogurt and cheese.

I buy skimmed for us, and semi for the DCs. However, given they're all healthy, they get plenty of other dairy and the 3 year old is slightly on the stout side, do you think I could just feed the whole family skimmed milk now?

i would have thought it was fine.
calcium-wise there is more in skimmed than semi or full-fat.

and if they have a good diet with other good fats in then they don't need the calorie aspect

skimmed milk isn't recommended until the age of 5 so I'd stick to semi-skimmed for a wee while yet.

My son aged 3 is on skimmed milk - and is very tall and the right weight - he has it on cereal and would drink it all day if I let him and I asked the doctor and he said it was fine - he has a good diet and will eat anything and everything given the chance - greedy little thing