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omg - What's wrong with juice?
LD,Amy - fill me in. I give Josh a cocktail of 25% apple juice w/calcium and 75% water regularly!
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Re: omg - What's wrong with juice?
I just don't think it's necessary. There's so much sugar in it. I'd rather my kid eat fruit and drink water/milk. I feel like it's a gateway to soda - which I don't really drink even before I was pregnant/bf.
This could all go out the window, of course, when my kid starts seeing other kids drink juice, but I'm going to try to avoid giving her juice for as long as humanly possible.
Kind of like McDonald's and other fast food. They aren't born with a taste for it and only know what it is when it's introduced to them, kwim? They don't need juice for nutrition or vitamins and it takes the place in their stomachs of more nutritional food/beverages.
And this is coming from someone who drank Take a boost (basically flat Coke) in a bottle til I was 5.
Pretty much all of this. I really don't want one of those kids who will only take juice -- the sugar is out of control. I say this as a certified juice addict. The best part of being pregnant for me was that I stopped cutting back on juice.
I have a few friends who have done the no juice thing. Just keep giving them water -- when it is the only option, they will drink it eventually.
I am sure plenty of things Baby Numbers eats will be beyond my control -- like I am under no illusion that grandpop won't stop at McDonalds when he takes him to the zoo. So on my watch, I want to cut as much crap as possible so I can just let the rare indulgence go.
For me, breastfeeding nuttery is a huge part of this -- I didn't knock myself out this long for him to be juice and french fries 24/7 when he weans.
ok, gotcha. I feel better because the juice never replaces a healthy snack and he drinks plenty of milk. I always watch out for hfcs and artificial sweeteners in things too - kids just don't need them. He doesn't mind drinking water, but he's in the 15th percentile for weight so I'm totally fine with a few added calories.
I swore he'd never lay lips on anything from the golden arches before 5 yrs old, but then I was busy running errands and stopped for some fries and it was so easy to calm him by handing him a fry to play with. He might get chik-fil-a once in a while but I honestly think the food at the big fast food chains is poison to your body. I always feel sick/lethargic after eating it, so I feel even more guilty giving it to him. Minus a few fry fixes now and then.
I didn't think I'd offer juice either for the same reasons LD and amy said but now that my son is almost two and refusing to touch a single vegetable, it's one easy way to sneak them into his diet. He gets a cup of diluted vegetable/fruit juice every day. Either the Trader Joe's stuff when it's on sale or squeezed juice.
I just don't give apple juice because apples are one of his favorite foods and he eats enough of them so it's not really needed as a juice too.
Meh, I'd do it for constipation. That juice with a purpose! I'm not gonna make my kid be stopped up and uncomfortable just b/c I'm anti-juice.
this made me LOL
Well, if you order juice from Applebee's, your toddler might end up with a liquor filled margarita instead.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=86801
this post is most likely the reason i NEEDED a blackcherry soda at lunch.
babyg will think they are allergic to soda, mcdonalds, and pot for as long as i can keep the gig up. i believed the pot one until i was well into hs. juice..... well, we will try to go the first year and then only diluted like mir does.
Totally do-able, IMO. I didn't give him juice until he was weaned and was used to drinking milk. I thought it would help make it clear to him that the whole milk was replacing breast milk. If he drank milk as often as he wanted something to drink, he'd certainly be constipated. The boy needs as many calories as he can get so I don't do only water very often, unless he's sick. A bottle of juice usually lasts me a week at least.
i paid 3.50 for a Naked mango juice today at lunch. i've never been happier.
Out of curiosity, why is this? I've never heard that. Is it b/c it's cow's milk? How can they get constipated on whole milk but not on breastmilk?
Also, juice is empty calories. There's no fat in it at all. If he needs extra calories through his liquid intake, why not fruit/yogurt smoothies or something like that?
Ering, of course it's do-able. Your kid will not come out of the womb looking to get apple cran raspberry juice out of your boobs. I promise.
crap ld! i was hoping for cran-grape to come out. it would be way cheaper than oceanspray. back to the drawing board for flavors of stuff......
my comment was more in relation to what babyg will be given by others while they are in charge...... mom/mil, etc.
This is the one thing I can think of that I changed my tune on. Watered down juice used to be a once a week thing to help Charlie stay quiet in church. Seeing firsthand how well it worked, I used it to help them transition to the gym daycare and it worked
So while I essentially agree with everything that Amy and LD have said, I pretty much sold out to make it easier for me to work out in peace.
I have zero regret and would do it again in a heartbeat. because frankly, joining a gym with childcare is the best thing I have done for myself in a loooooong time
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I really don't know. I never really thought of it and am probably wrong in my assumption. I guess I figured because cheese can bind him up (the kid LOVES his cheese too) then the milk did too.
The kid eats all the time (except right now b/c he's teething) and I'm always trying to give him healthy foods, so I don't feel guilty for a few empty calories. I'd be in the poor house if I had to buy extra of the whole milk yogurt and fruits that he already eats almost every day just to make him extra helping in smoothie form. Seriously, I'm gonna need to go back to work if only to support his eating habits when he gets to his adolescence.
as did i...the look of it makes me queasy now. ick.
Oh and I hope my post didn't come across as all "YOU"LL SEEEEEEE!" because I did not mean it like that. Honestly, this is the only thing anyone could say "I told you so" about so far
I agree with LD about fast food - I am still holding out on that one
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Whatever, juicelover.
I know you puree french fries and put them in a sippy cup with cran-ras-orange-banana-berry-juice.
this thread makes me think about my boss, who has a 7 year old.
Whenever there's a special event in our department, my boss brings in food-usually breakfast-y food so fruit and pastries. But she also brings in 3 cartons of that Welch's juice stuff that's like pineapple/mango/whatever. It's super sweet and she's always like "oohh that's Maya's (her daughter) favorite" and I have to dilute it with water so I can get it down and show my boss how much I love her daughter's favorite juice.
I once made a comment to a co-worker about that's some mighty sweet juice to be serving to a kid regularly, and my co-worker was like "why? it's 100% juice" as if I was the a-hole.
this is what we do, and E will drink juice, but he thinks it is too sweet, he will tell me he doesnt want apple juice, mommy, I was the juice to still be IN the apple!
totally agree. That is how this house rolls.