I’ve managed the switch to soy milk quite well. My husband tried it once or twice, decided he didn’t care for it, and has been buying regular milk for himself. He will use soy milk in cooking if I remind him (and he agreed that you couldn’t even tell the difference in mashed potatoes).
After the first couple days of switching to soy milk, Peter started complaining. However, he would protest, “I don’t LIKE soy milk!” in between bites of cereal with soy milk; his professed dislike of soy milk wasn’t slowing him down any in eating the cereal. Shortly after that, I realized that there were half-gallon containers of soy milk in the refrigerated dairy section of the grocery store that were significantly cheaper than the quart-sized containers on the shelf. When we started buying half-gallon containers, we just called their contents “milk” and Peter hasn’t complained since. Someday he’ll figure it out, but we’ll deal with that when the time comes. He still drinks regular milk at daycare. I have a vague memory of the paperwork at the beginning of the school year stating that parents who did not want milk served to their children had to get a written statement from the child’s doctor approving this decision. Maybe I’m just making it up, but he only has one more week of daycare and then he’ll be off for the summer, so there’s no point in pursuing it now.
Originally posted April 27, 2008 on http://burckeri.wordpress.com
