Best flavor of rice/soy milk

[Anonymous]

For those of you who give your older infants/toddlers rice or soy milk, what flavor do they tend to take the best? I was going to try to introduce some rice milk to Seth in a sippy but did not know what kind to get. I use the original enriched for cooking but thought the vanilla may test better.

I also saw where some of you give the chocolate kind- is the chocolate flavor MSPI safe?

[hellbennt]

Tiffany,

this is just me, but I would start with the one with the least amount of sugar and go from there…also, potato milk is another option to rice and soy milk…I understand you’ve got to have your toddler drinking something & if it has to be sugary, so be it. I’d just try and see what happens with out it…also, you might want to try just very gradually making the switch? like give him his alumentim with an ounce of whatever it is you choose, do that for a week, add another ounce and so on…or, I suppose you could just introduce the new milk as is…

~laura

[Anonymous]

Like Laura suggested, we were trying to start out with the one with the least sugar. So, we started out by giving her regular soy milk. She wanted nothing to do with it, but we kept trying. Still nothing. So we switched to chocolate soy milk (the kind that we use has no dairy in it). She would sip from it every now and then, but still not really interested. I tasted it, and the chocolate flavor was pretty strong. We ended up doing half chocolate/half vanilla. It took a few tries, but now she loves it. After a couple of weeks of that, we’ve now started doing half chocolate/half regular. She doesn’t even seem to notice the difference. The plan is to try to gradually increase the amount of regular and decrease the chocolate. I’m not sure that we’ll be able to totally eliminate the chocolate, but hopefully, we’ll get close.

[Anonymous]

We didn’t try the plain kind, but Owen really likes the vanilla rice milk. The first time he drank it was too funny – he took a sip, looked at us and laughed. Took another sip – looked at us again and laughed. This happened 3 or 4 times. I think he thought he was getting away with something because it tasted so different!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for this post b/c we have 4 1/2 months before we try these things and i was starting to ask this same question!

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