Sneaky Mom: Healthy Additions
This entry was posted on Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 6:38 pm and is filed under Health. | 2 CommentsMy daughter loves chocolate milk. One small consolation is that I use Ovaltine and it has more added vitamins than a typical powdered or syrup chocolate. Since she is showing no signs of giving up the preference of chocolate milk in the evenings over a nice glass of white milk, I came to the conclusion that I just needed to add some value to those glasses of chocolate milk.
I titled this sneaky mom, but that is not to be confused with dishonest mom. What I am about to describe is done right in front of my daughter. I even told her the real names for the thing I add to her milk and what they are good for when it comes to her healthy. I was lucky in that my daughter thinks these additions are the cat’s pajamas.
First, I add two capsules (which is appropriate for her body weight) of Sweet Kid. I break open the capsules and mix the powder in the milk. Sweet Kid contains blue-green algae, wheatgrass juice powder, and acidophilus and other cultures.
Then, I add the correct does of Baby’s Jarro-Dophilus, which is a probiotic supplement for children. Every serving of this powder has 3 billion of those friendly bacteria your gut and body need to stay healthy.
That is all I am adding as of now, but the experiment has gone so well that I may use my daughter’s chocolate milk for all manner of medications she might need to take her allergies this coming season.
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I’ll admit it. I am one of those dishonest moms. My daughter refuses to drink water. At all. What I ended up having to do was buy flavored water and tell her it was soda. Worked like a charm and now she doesn’t drink a gallon of juice a day.
Oh Lisa, I love that idea. So simple, and yet I have not thought of it myself. We have awesome water that I filter through a very pricey filtering system, but my little princess still only drinks less than a good glass a day. I will be adding flavor to see how that works.