How to get your family to drink milk

[sheila3935]

I'm gonna try putting it in the regular milk carton. My only problem would be the cream. Seems no matter how hard I try I cant get all of the cream off. I gave my oldest daughter some skimmed milk and her SO threw it away cause the cream that was left floated to top and he thought it was bad. They did like the milk even though my oldest is not a big milk drinker. My DH is so bad that I have to hide veggies in his food or tell him its something else for example he says he hates sweet potatoes but if I make roasted veggies and tell him the orange peices are butternut squash he will eat it. Yes he was food deprived as a child. His mom didnt cook many different kind of dishes and only corn green beans and peas. He has come a long way but still tends to be picky.

 

[aoxa]

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[Parson's Wife]

It does taste different. Yes, it's better for you, but there is a different taste. When we went from Vitamin D milk to 2% it was HARD! Didn't have such a good rich taste, but now...we tried vitamin D the other day...no one wanted it! It didn't taste right, different. And I've tried that non-fat milk...yuck! So there ya go...our taste buds.

It could also be in their heads, and that's hard to deal with as well.
I'm sure you've dealt with this with your childrens taste changes before...oh joy!

One thing you might do is mix 1/2 of store milk with 1/2 of the 'good' stuff! IN the jug, and I agree, keep it to yourself...slowly adjust their taste.

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

Back in the days when the milkman would deliver, I always made sure I was first to open a fresh bottle of milk and not shake it so I got the cream on my cereal

my brothers would then whine and complain the milk was too "thin" We also had small bottles of milk delivered to school as well (free) for every child...I sure miss that!
For your entertainment a Milkman song..........

 

[conny63malies]

my daughter would say , just put pink syrup in it and i drink it. She will drink any milk as long as it has strawberry syrup in it.( her personal weirdest milk was donkey milk)

 

[fuzziebutt]

Oreo cookies!

 

[punk-a-doodle]

I would just enjoy it in as many forms as you want (ie. home made frozen custard...no icecream maker even needed), and invite others over who share your love of it. This may perk up curiousity and they may try it that way, or ease them into it. You could also hold an honest discussion about the process and benefits of non-commercial milk, but keep it a discussion, not a shaming session. A lot of people seem to get into something that they are involved in directly (like your husband and eggs from your chickens). Maybe see if a farm will allow you guys to at least observe a milking process, etc, would help.

I used to hate milk myself. I had a really, really hard time digesting it as a kid. Some dairy products (especially typical store bought milk) seem to have contributed to my allergies to just about every antibiotic (those allergies were confirmed through testing...seems to be more common as antibiotics we give industrialized farmed animals come through the products), cause me to break out (probably due to added hormones as I am suckily sensitive to hormone changes...iodine does the same thing as it effects the thyroid and thus hormones), and gives me stomach pains though not as badly as when I was a child. Milk from more natural farm settings I can handle a lot better, but it still gives me digestion issues. I just made sure to get calcuim from other sources, like some plants. I used to hate goat milk because of the taste...but now love the taste and love that it doesn't give me any of the above problems. We can even get it raw here, and it tastes absolutely amazing! But yeah, no one could force me to drink that stuff. XP

 

[eggbuster]

Start by mixing it 1/4 fresh to 3/4 store. Give it a week then go 50/50. Keep going until its 100%. Give them time to adjust to the taste/texture. Wait until they have been drinking 100% for a month. Tell them the truth from the beginning. Lies are too much work and you will get caught. Make a deal that they try it your way for 2 months and then you will quit pestering them about it. Don't discuss it during that time, just do it and keep the whole topic low profile.

Set your clock, get up first and shake up the milk. If they transition over, then they will get used to shaking the carton for themselves when the time comes. Let them starve for a few days if they are that picky about food. Everything tastes better when you are hungry. I don't make anyone eat anything, but since I control the food, its eat or go without here, or go get it and cook it yourself; I am not a catering service.

You may be dealing with all the propaganda that the government puts out there that if you drink raw milk, "you're gonna die!!!" Conditioning is hard to break and you need to make sure of your milk source. Just because she is Amish, doesn't mean she is clean. You need to see how they handle the milk from cow to table same as any other operation. Have their cows ever been tested? It can make a huge difference in dealing with your husband.

I milk my own cows, so my city kids eventually got used to the idea over time and felt better when they saw me bending over backwards to make it look safe to them. I never lied to them about where it came from and because of that they slowly got with the programn.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Do they like vanilla, strawberry or chocolate shakes with some tasty ice cream in it?

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Tell them the truth from the beginning. Lies are too much work and you will get caught.

X2 I would not trick them into drinking it. I've known many people who will not eat a certain food (ie. venison, some kinds of veggies, a more unusual fruit), not because they don't like that food type, but because of the feelings of bitterness having someone decieve you brings up.​