Changing habits 没有了牛奶，你现在喝什么？
SONG Yinan, 16, used to hate drinking milk for breakfast. But the Taiyuan girl began drinking it because her mom, as well as many others, said that milk was good for her growing body. Besides, milk and bread made up a convenient (方便的) diet that helped save her parents a lot of time after Song entered junior high and had to arrive at school early in the morning. Hence (从此), Mengniu and Yili became her favorite brands (牌子) of morning milk and yoghurt after dinner.
However, she has been forced to change her diet since the recent milk crisis (危机). Many best-selling home milk brands such as Mengniu, Yili and Bright were discovered to contain melamine (三聚氰胺), which is usually used to make plastic (塑料). The bad milk products have sickened more than 53,000 babies and killed four.
“I shifted (转向) to rice porridge,” she said. “My mom has to get up at 5:50 am to prepare my breakfast and make sure that it cools down when I get up.”
Song has become addicted (上瘾的) to milk, so she doesn’t quite enjoy her morning meal these days although she knows that it’s a tiring job for her working mom.
“I’ll turn back to Mengniu and Yili when they finally improve their products,” she said.
However, right now Song’s mom tries to adjust (调整) her eating habits by cooking different foods. Besides rice porridge, noodles, egg drop soup and soybean milk are prepared to diversify (使多样化) her breakfast.
“I’m considering buying a soybean grinder (豆浆机), but the prices of soybean grinders are scaling up (攀升) these days,” complained her mother.
Beijing student Huang Shuang’s family has a grinder, and soybean milk has become a regular (通常的) recipe in the family during the weekends. From Monday to Friday, the 16-year-old has given up drinking Mengniu for Sanyuan, the only big brand that passed the quality test two weeks ago. The milk crisis has also warned her to develop a cautious (谨慎的) habit when shopping for food.
“I have started to pay attention to when and where my purchases (所购商品) were made,” Huang said.
