>very interesting. i've been learning more and more about this. not wanting >to ingest SOY, i've been ordering rice dream (a brown rice drink) to use as a >substitute for milk...but....if you have any info on what healthy ways (food, >drinks) to get calcium into finicky toddlers, i'd surely appreciate it!! > >i tried the "broccoli is a yummy little tree" trick and it didn't get me >anywhere, LOL.
Hi Diane, Have you tried the flavored Rice Dreams - vanilla, choc? Smoothies with the rice dream and calcium added orange juice are also nice, I throw in a banana as well and a bit of honey for sweetness. While this is a dairy product, my kids love the Stonyfield yogurts, which can still be found in some flavors with juice sweetners. They eat it for dessert, and we mix it into cereal for breakfast. I know I read somewhere a long time ago that cow's milk cells are too large for human intestines to break down properly which is why there are so many lactose intolerant people. But yogurt seems to go down easy, even when other milk products might bother people. I make smoothies with yogurt as well. The broccoli tree never worked for my kids either <G>. And if you have to load it with stuff just to make them eat (like cream or cheese sauce) than it doesn't seem worth it. There are a couple neat cookbooks I purchased a few years ago, don't know if they are still available, but they are titled "Smart Cookies" (ISBN 0-937858-62-5) and "Smart Muffins" by Jane Kinderlehrer, who is/was the food editor of Prevention Magazine, NewMarket Press, 18 East 49th Street, NY, NY 10017. Both contain recipes using whole grains, natural sweetners and each recipe tells you what nutrients you're getting. For example, nuts also provide calcium (almonds, cashews, pecans) as does coconut, raisins, sunflower and sesame seeds, oatmeal and cornmeal. A favorite snack in the house is "GORP" - Good Old Raisins and Peanuts, throw in some coconut and even Cheerios or pretzels, and you've got a great high protein portable snack. Maybe I missed something, but why is soy not so great? Beth -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
