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Originally Posted by
saileeney
Has anyone found that their kids prefer one brand of soy milk over an other? Maybe vanilla flavor insted of plain?
My girls are 9, 6, and 2 and they are very used to cows milk. I would love for them to completly switch over to soy but I'm having a hard time getting them to drink it.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
It's so strange to me when I hear of younger kids not liking soy milk - I thought most kids loved sweet things!
I have noticed with my younger siblings though, that it's not that they don't like soy milk - it's that it's something new and 'weird' to them. My brothers in particular refused to try soy milk when I started drinking it at around age 16 (they were ages 7 to 14).
Now the whole family will drink soy milk if I offer it to them, but it did take getting used to. I even had to get used to the new taste - it's just not what you expect to get when you think you're drinking "milk."
The only possible solution I have (what worked for us) is having them drink it with things like cereal and desserts and first - I had to get used to it on cereal first, then with oreos, things like that, and it took me months to get used to regular soy milk from the vanilla even.
It's not an especially healthy way to go I guess, but I really think once they get used to having it mixed with things, like cereal and oatmeal, they'll aquire a taste for it and eventually enjoy drinking it alone.
Good luck to you.