Tis the season of giving thanks and so here are my two BIG reasons why I am thankful for my milk.  Putting aside all of the awesome health benefits of drinking milk like how it helps give you strong bones and helps make your smile healthier, I’m thankful for milk because of what it does to my taste buds!  I am thankful for my milk because without it I couldn’t have Arroz Con Leche (a.k.a rice pudding).  Yes I LOVE homemade Arroz Con Leche and of course “leche” mean “milk,” so without this very important ingredient I couldn’t have this dessert I love.

Since I was a child, my mom always made Arroz Con Leche for Christmas!  It is still one of the biggest things about Christmas that I look forward to.  It is seriously the yummiest dessert that I have ever had.  You can only imagine how excited I am that Christmas is now just around the corner.

Now my mom has never shared her secret Arroz Con Leche recipe (I will get it out of her someday), however, I found a good one to share with you courtesy of Food.com that has received good reviews.  I hope you enjoy it!

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When my daughter stopped drinking her bottle my biggest concern was that I wanted to make sure that she still drank enough milk.  After all, milk has some very wonderful benefits, especially to a growing child.  The calcium in milk contributes to strong bones and teeth, milk also contains antioxidants and it’s low in calories and has no cholesterol.  Therefore incorporating milk into my daughter’s daily diet in one way or another is very important to me.

One way I put milk into my daughter’s diet is by using it in her morning cereal.  This is perhaps the most simplest way to give any child one of their very important daily servings of milk. 

Another way that I like to incorporate milk into her diet is by making her oatmeal with milk, instead of with water.  

I never understood in the first place why oatmeal instructions have water instead of milk?  Milk makes oatmeal taste way better than water does and it comes with all of those fabulous health benefits that I talked about.

I have also incorporated milk into my daughter’s diet by switching a juice box to a milk box instead.  It seems kids love to drink out of those juice boxes, so I changed it up to a chocolate milk box to see what would happen and guess what, my daughter loved this too!  It’s a special sweet treat with all those added healthy benefits that our children don’t even know about.

My daughter also ends everyday with warm milk.  She absolutely still wants to drink warm milk before bed.  Milk’s protein does contribute to helping people sleep well.  This seems to be the case with my daughter too.  Warm milk seems to soothe her and I truly believe that it helps her to get a better night’s sleep too. 

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Besides the obvious benefits of milk such as its high calcium levels, which we all know or should know contributes to healthy bones and teeth, my family and I love milk for many other reasons too.

The first reason why I love milk is because it’s a great part of a woman’s beauty regimen! Like I said, milk contributes to healthy bones and teeth, so of course this means it helps you get a more beautiful smile, but did you know that milk’s protein helps contribute to beautiful hair too?  The combination of milk’s calcium, protein, lipids, vitamins A and B6, biotin, and potassium helps to make your hair shiny and smooth.  The protein in milk also helps your skin to look smoother too and overall much healthier.  Woman have gone as far as even using milk in milk baths to attain these benefits, I’m definitely going to have to try that one! The protein in milk also contributes in helping you get a better night’s sleep and getting a good night’s sleep is a huge factor to staying healthy and beautiful!  People don’t call it “Beauty Sleep” for nothing!  My two-in-a-half year old daughter still loves to drink warm milk before bed, it truly helps to soothe her before she goes to sleep at night.

Now my husband loves milk because he simply just loves the taste of it.  He jokes that as a kid he could guzzle down huge glasses of milk within seconds.  I don’t think his mom could keep the refrigerator stocked up with enough of it.  Today as an adult, my husband enjoys going to the gym and because milk is low in calories and is such a great source of protein he can drink it knowing that it will help repair his muscles after a good work-out.  Just so you know my husband refused to let me take a picture of him with his shirt off and with the glass of milk he likes to drink after one of his workouts, so I had to post a picture of this model instead.  I’m sure you ladies don’t mind though, right?

So as you can see the benefits of drinking milk goes on and on.  I encourage my readers to drink three glasses of milk a day and see how it benefits you!

I also would like to introduce to all of you the “Master of the Glass Half Full” a.k.a. Maestro del Vaso Medio Lleno.  He’s quite a character and what I like to call, the Mascot of this positivity, milk campaign.

Check out his You Tube Video Here:

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You can also follow him on Twitter and get your daily glass of positivity/positivism from him at @maestropositivo!

 Also join him on Facebook!

This is part of a sponsored campaign with the California Milk Processor’s Board and Latina Mom Bloggers.

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