Chocolate Milk

[Anonymous]

My kids love chocolate milk, but most have too much sugar. Can you recommend a reasonably healthier brand/alternative.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Fairlife is healthier as it has more protein and less sugar, and is the choice of my kids, but we still mix it 3 parts plain milk to 1 part chocolate milk (we have always done that to reduce the sugar.)

Slate is a new chocolate milk touted as 75% less sugar but I have not tried it.

Whole Foods sells a Belgian Chocolate Milk (it may have a Milk and Dark version) - I buy the Dark version once in a while when I need a real treat - it is intensely rich and chocolaty and doesn't taste too sugary to me, but it is a decidedly adult treat.

[Anonymous]

Fairlife and small portions.

[Anonymous]

Why can't you use milk and Hershey's syrup?

Its 10 grams of sugar. Do a smaller glass and half as much syrup and it is 5 grams.

As long as everything else eat isn't sugar loaded it isn't a big deal.

[Anonymous]

If you are putting chicken milk to just get them to drink milk stop. They don’t need milk and adding sugar to it to get them to drink it is silly. Just make sure they get calcium, protein etc from other sources. If they eat cheese, yogurt smoothies that is plenty.

[Anonymous]

“ chocolate in” not chicken

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are putting chicken milk to just get them to drink milk stop. They don’t need milk and adding sugar to it to get them to drink it is silly. Just make sure they get calcium, protein etc from other sources. If they eat cheese, yogurt smoothies that is plenty.

Op said their kids LOVE chocolate milk, not that they were trying to get them to drink more milk for some reason. Stop projecting.

[Anonymous]

Add less syrup or, if it’s premade, cut it with plain.

[Anonymous]

I drink a cup of chocolate milk every morning. Let that child be.

[Anonymous]

Hersheys syrup plus milk. Most of the premade ones are pretty gross.

[Anonymous]

No, there isn't. It is meant to be sweet and filled with sugar. Stop giving it to your kids.

Even Fairlife is filled with sugar, a little less, but still a lot. The high protein version has artificial sweetener. Do you really want to give your kids that?

Chocolate milk on the regular is a bad habit to create

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, there isn't. It is meant to be sweet and filled with sugar. Stop giving it to your kids.

Even Fairlife is filled with sugar, a little less, but still a lot. The high protein version has artificial sweetener. Do you really want to give your kids that?

Chocolate milk on the regular is a bad habit to create

I agree that it should be viewed as a treat, not given in lieu of water with meals but I don’t think there’s any issue in giving your kids a cup of chocolate milk every day. I’d do it.

This past winter our kids had a mug of hot chocolate almost every night. They loved it and wanted it for a full month and then just stopped asking for it. All of this depends, though, on how strict you are with food. I think as long as your kid is eating healthy foods and a varied diet treats are not a big deal. I do know other parents feel otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, there isn't. It is meant to be sweet and filled with sugar. Stop giving it to your kids.

Even Fairlife is filled with sugar, a little less, but still a lot. The high protein version has artificial sweetener. Do you really want to give your kids that?

Chocolate milk on the regular is a bad habit to create

I agree that it should be viewed as a treat, not given in lieu of water with meals but I don’t think there’s any issue in giving your kids a cup of chocolate milk every day. I’d do it.

This past winter our kids had a mug of hot chocolate almost every night. They loved it and wanted it for a full month and then just stopped asking for it. All of this depends, though, on how strict you are with food. I think as long as your kid is eating healthy foods and a varied diet treats are not a big deal. I do know other parents feel otherwise.

Chocolate milk daily is too much. Kids get tons of other treats too; at school, at parties, weekends out, home baking. Why give them chocolate milk, in addition, every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, there isn't. It is meant to be sweet and filled with sugar. Stop giving it to your kids.

Even Fairlife is filled with sugar, a little less, but still a lot. The high protein version has artificial sweetener. Do you really want to give your kids that?

Chocolate milk on the regular is a bad habit to create

I agree that it should be viewed as a treat, not given in lieu of water with meals but I don’t think there’s any issue in giving your kids a cup of chocolate milk every day. I’d do it.

This past winter our kids had a mug of hot chocolate almost every night. They loved it and wanted it for a full month and then just stopped asking for it. All of this depends, though, on how strict you are with food. I think as long as your kid is eating healthy foods and a varied diet treats are not a big deal. I do know other parents feel otherwise.

Chocolate milk daily is too much. Kids get tons of other treats too; at school, at parties, weekends out, home baking. Why give them chocolate milk, in addition, every day?

Too much for you. I disagree. Coupled with a diet of healthy whole foods I don’t think even a daily treat is going to impact their health in any meaningful way. I will say I try to give my kids healthier versions of junk food and I’d go light on the chocolate syrup but, in active kids who eat well, I genuinely don’t believe this is a big deal.

[Anonymous]

I make my own mixing regular milk with Hershey's syrup. I have never liked the premade chocolate milk at the grocery store. Too sweet!

I'm 52.