This is part of a series of posts on National Dairy Month written in partnership with Got Milk and The Breakfast Project. 
So, I may be letting this whole “assign the kids to make breakfast” thing go to my head some. I mean, it is really nice to have the tables turned for once. Instead of the constant berating from my kids about where their breakfast is, I get to be the one harping on them.
Kelly is taking on our summer breakfast project like a champ, even when we are all bugging her to get moving and get some food on the table. She’s definitely got the morning person gene I lack. And she manages to be nice without coffee! She’s pretty much a saint.
On one of her assigned days this week, she decided she wanted to do cereal for breakfast – which I’m fine with… I could probably eat cereal for every meal if it were socially acceptable to do so. She wanted to take our milk a step further though and asked for Strawberry Milk. I didn’t want to buy the strawberry syrup, so we decided to make our own version, using fresh strawberries, sugar and water to make a tasty syrup. A last minute decision lead us to adding a teaspoon of vanilla too … that was a good call as it added a special taste to the syrup and complimented the strawberries very well!
You can find the recipe for our Homemade Strawberry Milk below, but first, my friends at the National Milk Mustache Campaign have TWO June Dairy Month and Breakfast Project giveaways for TWO lucky Dine & Dish readers!
June Dairy Month Giveaway from Got Milk
Up for grabs is a compilation of the goodies pictured above, for 2 winners.
To enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment on this post sharing how you use milk to create a healthy breakfast for you or your family.
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Entries must be received by midnight CST on Wednesday, June 19th 2013. Winners will be chosen via Random.org and notified via valid email address.
Now for the Strawberry Milk Recipe I’m sure you’ve been anxiously awaiting for!
Strawberry Syrup for Homemade Strawberry Milk
Ingredients
- 16 ounces fresh strawberries hulled
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Place fresh strawberries in your blender and puree until smooth.
- In a medium saucepan, add strawberry puree, sugar and water. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Continue to boil for 5 minutes, until syrup starts to thicken.
- Remove from heat, stir in vanilla and cool.
- Once strawberry syrup mixture has cooled, use as syrup for strawberry milk.
- For each 1 cup of cold milk, add 2-3 tablespoons of strawberry syrup. Stir and serve.
- Cooled syrup may be covered and stored in the refrigerator for up to one week.
Disclosure: This is part of a series of compensated posts written in partnership with Got Milk and The Breakfast Project campaign. Thank you for supporting the brands that help make Dine & Dish possible.
Oh my gosh she is adorable. Gah. I love her strawberry milk. Our favorite way to eat milk is in overnight oats or in homemade yogurt with plenty of fruit for either.
Milk is an important part of my breakfast routine. I make oatmeal with milk and enjoy it with my favorite cereals. If I have time for a hot breakfast, I’ll enloy a glass of milk (white, strawberry or chocolate) too. Breakfast is an important meal that I must have every day!
My kids have cereal with milk nearly every day, but sometimes I like to switch it up and use milk to make fruit smoothies for them.
This looks super yummy! So going to try this!! Thank you 🙂
Oh you officially have a blog – and it’s so beautiful!!! This makes me happy!
Oh my gosshh, Kristen! Your daughter is adorable, all those freckles! Wow, she is so pretty!
Also, strawberry milk! Love this idea. I mean, I love milk and I love strawberries so I am beating I would probably go crazy for this!
Not very creative. Eat it on cereal
Oh these are the moments I wish I had kids and could put them to work! Does she make coffee? 🙂 I don’t drink cold milk – I know, crazy. But love using a splash of milk in my eggs before scrambling them to make them extra creamy!
I make a smoothie for breakfast almost every day and of course, it has milk (fat free only please).
I need to have my boys make more breakfasts. Ours usually consists of them each at different times having cereal. 😉 Though for the last two days my 11 yo keeps making pb/banana smoothies. I’ll have to see if he wants to make some strawberry milk, I have a bunch of frozen strawberries.
We either use milk on our cereal or drink it alongside whatever else we might be having that morning.
I love to use milk in my breakfast smoothies!! Thanks for the giveaway!
You have a beautiful daughter, Kristen! Love that she is creating in the kitchen! 🙂
fruit smoothies with chia seeds!
I love cereal and milk, so most days that is my go-to breakfast. Because I love milk, breakfast must have milk in some way.
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We enjoy cereal with milk or pancakes with a cup of milk every day.
You know how much I love the idea of homemade vs. store-bought strawberry syrup. Such a cute idea and these photos are beyond presh.
Yumm! I have a strawberry shake that I love to get at a little icecream joint, I can never get it right at home, but I bet if I made this strawberry syrup it would work….the key to their secret is strawberry syrup not strawberries! Sorry. It just dawned on me as I was reading your recipe and now I’m very excited ; )
OK so my favorite strawberry shake, ever, uses cheesecake mix and the strawberries from that in it. It is sooooo good!
This is awesome! LOVE! We use milk and greek yogurt in our smoothies every day. yummmmmm
I like to mix it in a protein smoothie!
Cereal with milk is a staple in our house, and not just for breakfast! Same with yogurt and fruit smoothies, which I thin and enrich with milk.
I also use milk when making French toast or baked goods like muffins or coffeecakes. We are never without milk in the fridge!
I love using milk in fruit and yogurt smoothies.
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Well my grandson has yogurt and scupper of milk for breakfast everyday I am a yogurt and skim milk person
I think this could easily become my Smudge’s new favorite cereal topper too. Good job on putting the littles to work!
I miss you… that is all 🙂
Our grandkids – Jonah Bear & Lilly Bug – are crazy for strawberry milk. I usually buy the Horizon Organic in boxes, but I think we’ll be trying yours this summer. Thanks for sharing!
I use milk to make breakfast smoothies!
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I am a big milk drinker, always have been. My son is not but I entice him to drink more by using cereal and cookies. 🙂
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Milk and cereal happens in this house almost every morning. When I’m feeling a little naughty, I let the kids have milk and cookies for breakfast. Not real cookies – they have Belvita “cookies” 🙂
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I spy a little foodie in the making! I love strawberry milk but hate the storebought stuff…so happy to have a non-artificial coloring and flavoring alternative!
She wants to start a blog… I may just let her! She’s been begging me for two years now.
Many memories of drinking the strawberry (syrup) milk as a kid. this sounds so yummy!
My teenager adds skim milk to Carnation Instant Breakfast for a nutritious drink.
I love your blog name, Dana! Make sure to let me know when it goes live 🙂
We make smoothies with 2% milk and also carnation instant breakfast, thanks!
My daughter drinks milk with breakfast every morning, this is a great treat for her!
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We have milk with every meal, to drink. Yogurt is the kids favorite for breakfast. When I make baked oatmeal, I always use milk!
Being hippies from way back we love the Granola and milk start of the day
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Love the homemade strawberry sauce! Anytime that we can avoid the processed version = game on! Excited to try this with our homemade granola asap!!!
Oh, that probably wasn’t an official entry…we use milk in oatmeal, homemade mac n cheese, scrambled eggs, as a drink to curb hunger, to coat chicken tenders when I’m out of eggs, etc. 🙂
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I like to start off my mornings with a green smoothie, made with spinach, peanut butter, banana, and milk.
I like to make Fridge Porridge, with oats and different fruit. Add enough milk to the consistency upi like. 🙂
Oatmeal. Love the strawberry milk!
OMG this is genius. I love strawberry milk!
Your daughter is adorable, btw 🙂
I love making smoothies with milk for my kids
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I never thought I’d think ‘I need strawberry milk IMMEDIATELY.’ But here I am!
Scrambled eggs, berry spinach smoothies, granola, hot cocoa…. Gosh, I could go on, and on, and…. 😉
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I add milk to quinoa and berries and top it off with granola!
For breakfast on the go, I like to blend milk, along with a handful of ingredient, to make fruit smoothies!
what adorable photos of your daughter…my boys would so be loving this for breakfast too…pinned can’t wait to try.
We love to have Cheerios with milk for breakfast!
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A glass of milk with breakfast is the usual in my family and for the picky one it’s chocolate milk.
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Milk mixed with protein powder, banana and peanut butter. Great breakfast after workout.
We add milk to our smoothies or Cheerios for
Breakfast
We love milk in our breakfast smoothies, or just to drink along with whatever we’re eating.
We call our children “our little calves” as they are always begging for another cup of milk. We enjoy our breakfast as a bowl of cereal & milk or toast with jam and special milk in a bottle.
I use milk to make our morning oatmeal and add fresh fruit, nuts, quinoa, dried fruit and honey.
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I guess maybe I am boring, but my favorite way to have MILK for breakfast is with my cereal – either a nice big bowl of creamy oatmeal with some brown sugar sprinkled on top, or a bowl of Wheaties with a sliced banana on top, MMMmmmm GOOD!
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I love drinking my raw milk plain!
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We make smoothies with milk and ff vanilla yogurt and fresh berries and honey every week day dd loves it!
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I mix it with frozen bananas and some chopped mixed nuts
We use milk in our smoothies
We use it on our smoothies
smoothies
I LOVE milk. I pour it over cereal, put it in my pancakes, splash it in my sauces, drizzle over my oatmeal and add to my smoothies. dairy is essential 🙂
Straight up cold milk with a warm whole wheat banana muffin is our recipe for a favorite and healthy breakfast 🙂
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I love strawberry milk, thanks for the recipe….hoping to win that awesome milk splash bowl!
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We are big milk drinkers here…choc milk, cereal w milk, and other forms such as greek yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. great giveaway thanks!
Smoothies or or homemade granola with cereal!
Fruit smoothies with milk or oatmeal with milk!
I love to make a homemade breakfast with pancakes, eggs, bacon, and a very cold milk. Pancake mix made from scratch with milk. 🙂
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I like adding milk to eggs before I scramble them.
I simply pour a glass of milk to drink with my breakfast. Sometimes I may have two.
I love milk. Typical breakfast, cereal with milk.
We do hot cereal with a glass of milk 🙂
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We use milk with oatmeal and cereal and also usually have a small glass with breakfast.
Love this syrup recipe, it is perfect 🙂 I love adding milk to a morning smoothie, yum!
I love milk in my Chai tea, so much tastier than water and adds much needed calcium and Vitamin D.