Help with Milk and Cheese ideas

[FickleFairy]

Hi All,

DS is just 3 and won't drink plain milk or eat cheese unless it is melted on a pizza!

I stopped giving him the Cow and Gate Growing Up Milk about 4 months ago cause of all the added sugar and rubbish in it to make it "taste nice" but due to his lack of milk drinking and cheese eating I am worried he isn't getting enough calcium on a daily basis.

I have tried him with cheese strings and Dairylea Dunkers and Babybel but he isn't interested and wont even try them.

He has porridge for breakfast most days and loves his yoghurts which he has 3 or 4 of daily, he also likes milkshakes but yet again I know these are loaded with sugars etc.

I do try and do things where I can that have milk in the recipe (last night was vegetable pasta bake which used 500ml of milk) but obviously this isn't realistic for me to do daily.

Any thoughts on how I can introduce more milk or any foods you know have it hidden in that aren't obvious?

Thanks for the help.

Semolina pudding - loads of milk? No cheese though!

Make own milkshake - strawbs and milk - freeze some in lolly moulds for home made mini milks. Hmm still no cheese!

If you are concerned about calcium intake there are lots of other foods that contain calcium which he might be happier eating. Sardines have got loads of calcium, so do nuts seeds and dried fruit, and some green veg like broccoli.
This website has some interesting information.

can u try different types of cheese, e.g chunks of mozzarella (sp?) cheese spread on crackers or bread sticks dipped in, or a cheese sauce, they he can dip chunky bread, carrot sticks, cucumber, erm sausages in.

He eats yogurts and porrige - so whats the issue?

You can get calcium from other foods too, doesn't have to be milk or cheese.

I wouldn't worry so much.

Thanks or the help.

Love the idea of milk and strawberries frozen into lollies.

He eats a lot of broccoli so thats good.

I'm probably getting too hung up on it. Just conscious that his intake has dropped substantially since I finished the Growing Up Milk which has made me a bit more focused on it probably.

Thanks again.