how much milk do your kids drink?

My boys LOVE milk!!! They drink 12-18 ozs a day....usually on the higher end of that range.

They still get Whole Milk and will continue until Seth has his 2 year check up in a few weeks. We may continue with it depending on what the doctor says. My boys are SUPER thin but VERY tall so the doctor doesn't mind they are getting the extra fat from Whole milk. They also get yogurt drinks in the morning, mixed with their milk (they split a little bottle)
The rest of the family drinks skim milk.
 
we go through about a ½gal a day between the 3 of us. C drinks the most though. dh and i normally only have it with dinner and maybe a little on my cereal in the morning (if i actually eat breakfast, that is).

C only drinks milk or water though (because i'm a meanie :p). no juice or flavored milk or anything like that. so i don't really limit his intake. and he outgrew his milk/soy issues sometime after his first b-day, so he can have the cheap stuff now, lol. i'd probably want to limit it if he was still on rice milk or some other (not so cheap) substitute.
 
My kids usually just have one small glass of milk a day (or less because I have to watch my son w/ milk - he has constipation problems that we are really thinking is caused by milk) and then sometimes have milk & cereal for breakfast.
 
I'm not sure what size a gallon of milk is since we buy in pints and litres here (apparently 4 pints is equal to 0.600474 gallons, gotta love google lol) and to be honest I am not entirely sure how much milk we get through since Mark is the one who does the shopping. I know there are times when we use at least one 4 pint bottle a day, Nan uses at least one 2 pint bottle as well. Hugs Crystal xx
 
We never really drank milk in our home. I buy it for cereal, and that's about it. If I had chocolate powder or syrup, the boys would make some chocolate milk for a snack. We have never served milk with a meal and it was sometimes an issue when they would go to someone's house that did that and they made them drink a whole glass. They just found it too filling while having it with a meal...not that they didn't like milk.

We are water drinkers here...always have been and always will be. That is all we have with meals.

Personally, I just don't think milk is all that healthy for you!

LOL...can you tell I didn't "read" your question La? Ok...for Ce (and because it's soy milk and I think that's good for you)...I'd say 16 oz a day is all. I wouldn't allow more than that because he is using it like a snack then!
 
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When we drank milk my 3 boys went through about 6 gallons a week. We stopped early this year and moved them to calcium enriched OJ with meals, water between meals. They also have chocolate soymilk available to them but I think Jack is the only one that drinks it.

My soymillk drinker - Sam - used to go through 1/2 a gallon a day until we stopped letting him have sippy cups between meals. Now he only has soymilk at meals (water between) and that 1/2 gallon lasts 2 days. For a 6yo I'd say a glass at each meal and then water or juice after that.
 
We ere on the side of too little milk, too. My kids get about 8-10 oz of ovaltine milk for breakfast, and that's it. But we do cheese and yogurt and fortified OJ and veg + a vitamin high in calcium.

We quit doing so much soy because of the health benefits (or un-benefits - whatever you call it) and because it's so bleedin' expensive once Whole Foods stopped it's .99 cent cartons (seriously - the quart was .99 all the time Connor was a toddler). We drink water pretty exclusively, after that, with an occasional small glass of juice for afternoon snacks.
 
all my kids except the little one of course he is going to be 9 months old all drink about glasses a day chocolate milk strawberry milk they drink whatever i even try to put bananas strawberries for them in it they love it esp. my one year old that's one of the first things he asking for in the morning milk mama and hurry and get it ! :)
 
Put it this way - I should have a cow out in my backyard! Too bad they don't allow them within the city limits!
 
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