High fat - Low fat

[blue_hebe]

How do you get on cooking for your family when your baby needs high fat foods and the adults need low fat foods?

We are not giving our son dairy products just yet, but when we do he will need full-fat milk. If I make a meal containing milk should I make his one separate (seems like a hassle), or do my husband and I just have to deal with a higher fat diet?

[Babyluv]

We use full fat. I've heard that light foods are often worse for weight loss because of added sugar etc. It wouldn't be that often that you'd have milk etc in cooking would it? I say just use full fat, less hassle that way.

[*EJ*]

I weigh up the needs when cooking with high fat/low fat, for the kids for the adults and what it is i'm cooking. It may also depend on what i have more of at the time, full cream/no fat milk. I read or heard once that what they do to things to make them 'low fat' (for example cheese) doesn't necessarily make low fat the better option. So i do not buy low fat cheese, we have both milks as i don't like the thickness of full cream but i will cook with it.

I know you said you are staying away from dairy at the moment but in general i tend to go with common sense and convenience. It may not be considered nutritionaly a good way of looking at it but i know majority of my childen's diet is excellent so i can give and take here and there.

HTH

[NaeNae]

Hmm thats tough but in all honesty a little full fat milk will not be such a huge issue even if you're watching your intake. Its better for everyone really than the skim or light options as there are nutrients in the fat that you miss out on otherwise.

Nae x

[starangelk]

We jus changed to full fat at our place and joked that it was to counter the excess energy we were using to run around after dd

[HotI]

My DD often gets low fat milk (not the skinny stuff, the 2% stuff) cos she doesn't drink enough to go through 1L of full cream milk, and we don't like full cream milk.
DH is happy cos we are buying full fat cheese , and sour cream, and he never liked the low fat stuff that i would buy.

I don't think they add anything to the low fat milk, it just has the fat skimmed off it, so i figure she is not getting anything 'bad' just missing out on some fat and she is getting that from other foods.

[Nai]

Full fat milk is still only 4% fat so it isn't actually that much of a difference. I would use full fat milk in cooking and if you can get away with it, only use half the amount of cheese but still use full fat if that makes sense.

[blue_hebe]

Thanks for your replies. It is mainly about the milk as I've never looked for low-fat cheese!

Nai - I never realised that full fat means 4% fat. When I read that it makes me less concerned about my husband and I drinking it. It will only be used in cooking, as neither of us drink it, so I'm sure we will manage

The only reason we haven't given our son dairy products yet is that I had an intolerance to them as a child, so I figured he wouldn't be missing much (still fully breastfed) if we delayed introducing them until he's a year old.