Milk choice

june2012mom

As we are heading intil Lo's first birthday, I was wondering what milk you use or are going to use for LO?  I wanted something without any chemicals.  I was thinking Stonyfield. 

wedsept

I use Organic Valley for my DD and will do the same for DS.  There are ratings for organic milk.  I know Horizon is rated very low.  Organic Valley is rated high.

june2012mom

Where are the ratings?

wedsept

Here are the ratings:

 https://www.cornucopia.org/dairysurvey/Ratings_Alphabetical.html

 5 is the highest (best).

anonsouthernbell

We won't be giving dairy....

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anonsouthernbell:

We won't be giving dairy....

i know dairy is not necessary - but are you going to s

brennarobbie

Almond milk or soy milk...whichever works better for him. We're meat and dairy free.

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hmmm interesting... here's another recent article on alternatives... seems like soy is the most similar nutritional wise...  https://www.nextav

jasminelorraine20

We're going to use any organic whole milk. Most likely Horizon.

ABeautifulMind

I still EBF and don't plan to switch DD over to other milk during the day until she is 15 months or so. At that point the will be in combination with nursing.  When we do make the switch she will drink what H and I drink, either raw organic cow's mil

anonsouthernbell

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Shellbelle01

That ranking list is awesome. Thanks for posting. It seems like Stonyfield is the highest rated and widely distributed milk on that list. 

mainesmichelle

we use Horizons Organic Full Fat with DHA.

happytotmom

We drink Organic Valley.  We chose it because we wanted a milk fortified with DHA and many brands, including Horizon are using synthetic DHA in their products.   The USDA is now proposing rules to disallow synthetic vitamins an