This photo stinks. Ok, so my iPhone has it's limitations.
Since starting to follow the paleo diet (one year ago Aug) I have cut out milk. I still "cheat" with other dairy products on the weekend but have for the most part cut out milk. Now my daughter loved milk and I didn't want to take that away from her. As is she only drank water and milk (no juice or soda).
I've been trying to find an alternative for about three years now. I don't think soy is good for her (or humans in general) so we don't do soy milk. And when we tried almond and coconut milk a few years ago Presley would take one sip and then give it back to me. She would accuse me of watering it down (I use to do that too). So until lately she drank a glass of milk a day.
Recently we were out running around and I grabbed her some chocolate flavored coconut milk. It had been awhile since she had tried it and maybe she would like it. Plus this was chocolate, something I hadn't tried before. And what do you know, she liked it. And I love it! It's a pretty filling and tasty treat.
I did have some reservations about there being too much sugar in the almond milk. But it's so thick that I add 50% water and she hasn't said a word. Almond milk also has plenty of calcium so that's not a concern for me. She has had a few glasses of just the plain almond milk and when she mentioned it tasting funny I explained why it's different and that it's better for her. So she did drink it but I had some guilt (why? A Mothers curse I think) so she's getting the watered down chocolate flavored coconut or almond milk from now on. Until I can get over the guilt then we'll move to plain...
I never realized almond milk is a great source for calcium! We are so conditioned to think that dairy is the only answer out there. So I always thought I'd have to deny her calcium to get her off the dairy milk. That was a concern because she is a growing child! Thank goodness that fear is gone.
I wanted to blog about the almond and coconut milk because we had tried these before. And not only were they harder to find then but she didn't like them then. Here we are she's a little older, she likes them now and they are so much easier to find... I'm really hoping our food industry is moving towards I don't know real food that's safe for human consumption... Which reminds me of my next post, pink slime- yum!