Full fat milk or semi skimmed.

Typical!! All this obsession with so-called 'healthy eating' and turns out there was nothing wrong with the old ways. Strange thing is...people are actually less healthy now than in the past.

I think pollution is the greatest threat to our health, not our diet.
To answer the question, I like the taste of sterilised milk but it's not freely available.

Totally full fat. That said I drink my coffee and tea black and I have full fat natural yoghurt with my one weetabix and fruit in the morning.
My DH milked Guernseys for years and we all drank it straight out of the bulk tank. We are all as heathy as can be and none of us are fat. We try and eat as naturally as possible, some processes are unavoidable but we do our best.

My gran used to gave one gold top pint in the 60s and 1 full fat. Happy memories of staying with her.
I have semi-skimmed, but will buy skimmed if desperate. I'd change to plant-based milk if it wasn't so much more expensive.

We use skimmed milk in tea but, semi skimmed for coffee and cooking. I used to get full fat when I made yogurt or a rice pudding. I buy full fat yogurt and I switched back to using butter several years ago.

Semi skimmed for me, but if I did have a glass of milk it would be the Gold top Channel Island one, but I can’t remember the last time I bought a bottle of that. I recently tried skimmed milk but found it too watery.

I get skinny milk which is a bit more fatty than skim milk. I tried full fat but it tastes horrible in tea, not too bad in coffee but I still prefer the taste of skinny. It’s like sugar I suppose. Sugar in tea and coffee makes it undrinkable for me. I once tried Vietnamese coffee. One sip and I went green.

Curtaintwitcher having read the thread, preferences seem to be all about taste rather than health.

I was brought up on full fat milk, because that was really all that was available in the 50s &60s but I've been using semi skimmed since my weight conscious 20s.. I only use milk for my breakfast muesli, I drink tea without milk. I occasionally will drink a glass of fridge cold milk (which I do enjoy)

DH likes full cream milk so we always have both in the house. I couldn't drink it now as it tastes too 'thick'.

No need to worry about my vitamin intake as I've always eaten butter, cream and full fat cheese.

MissAdventure

I'm sort of considering moving away from cows milk, but I'm scared to!
I don't like change

Go for it, you won't regret it! I've not had cows milk for years and now have mostly oat milk (which, if you're that way inclined, you can make yourself). Occasionally have soya milk but try not to due to the environmental impact. Oat milk has a natural sweetness also which isn't as harsh as some of the other non-dairy milks/drinks.

Skimmed milk only I hate the taste of anything else

Yes I agree it's all about the taste. Majority seem to prefer skimmed as not as creamy. Personally anything creamy affects my gall bladder. A fews grans have mentioned oat and soya milk. I'm considering buying coconut milk to add to home made carrot and coriander soup as I was out for lunch and tasted it for the first time and it was lovely. I've just remembered that when I was a young child my mum used to put milk in my tomato soup

Always full fat, unhomogenised organic for me. I get 1 litre a week, I make enough kefir for a week and have a very large delicious loose leaf tea every morning, in a lovely china mug. Any excess at the end of the week will go into a batch of scones or a loaf

The mere thought of full-fat makes me gag, but then I’m not a fan of milk anyway. A little skimmed or semi-skimmed only in coffee, none at all in tea.

Apparently dh and his brothers used to fight over who was having the top of the Gold Top. Each to their own, but 🤮.

Full fat for coffee and semi skimmed for tea.
Full fat for milk puddings, custard and suchlike also.

Semi-skimmed here for everyday, just because we prefer the taste. I do buy full fat for gchn, especially for GS's porridge - his favourite breakfast. If I have porridge I make it with water though.

When I was a child I always had a warm milky drink before going to bed. I now absolutely cannot stand the taste of hot milk, so rice pudding, custard etc are not on my cooking list!

polomint coconut milk in carrot and coriander soup sounds like a delicious idea, a bit of a 'Thai' vibe.

I only ever eat my porridge cold don’t like it warm never have.

I buy long life and for years it was semi-simmed but I have returned to long life whole milk. I do not drink tea but I am a coffee fiend.

I hate hot milk and since being forced to drink the warm milk at school every day, I loathe it.

I rarely eat cereals and hate rice puddings and custard so would never cook those.

I find skimmed milk tasteless and watery and I do not notice the difference between full fat and semi-skimmed.

I'm with you Sago, school milk did for me! Well I didn't like it beforehand, I can't drink milk on its own. We have skimmed in coffee which we put in a milk frother that produces quite a satisfying flat white effect, although I prefer semi skimmed in tea and sometimes on cereal. Full fat never! too reminiscent of school days.

Non homogenised organic Jersey Milk for me, semi skimmed as the full milk is just too rich and creamy. The semi is still creamy!

My primary education was made hell by school milk. Lactose intolerance, unless it was really severe, was unrecognised. It is only recently that I discovered that you can have low level lactose intolerance that means that you are intolerant of milk and lightly treated products, yoghourt, cottage cheese etc, but have no problem with hard cheeses.

Anyway, throughout my primary education I was involved in a constant cat and mouse game with teachers, with them hamdimg out the milk, me either not being there or taking the milk and quietly disposing of it elsewhere and then some teachers realising what I was doing and standing over me and making me drink it and me heaving and retching and crying - and being told I was deliberately making myself sick.

the final event was in hospital when I was 13. I had my 13th birthday there. I was in the children's ward and each morning we had elevenses of a hot milky drink. Thankfully it was a ground floor ward and I would wander to the top of the ward, out of sight and tip it out of the window onto the grass. Then the nastiest nurse on the ward caught me at it and marched me back, made another drink and stood over me while she tried to make me drink it. Fortunately the sister came into the ward at that point. Asked what was happening, and when told, didn't even take the nurse aside but told her off there and then. The milky drink disappeared and I was never offered another one for the rest of my (quite long) stay.

Ye that resonates with me too Monica, there was never any understanding of intolerance to what we were expected to ingest, I can remember retching over milk, trying to covertly dispose of it, also retching over rice pudding with its hideously large lumps. I would actually say some of the fear of being bullied to eat and drink things that I found unpalatable blighted my early school years and I know I wasn't a fussy eater. I vowed I'd never force my children to eat anything they couldn't stand, I regard it as disregard of a human being to have some sort of rights over their own palate, although I did end up with one faddy eater. Suffice to say most grow out of that eventually.

Milk, my life force!

Grandad milked during the war, Ayrshires, back when 12 cows and a horse/cart milkround straight out of the churn would support a family of 4. Mum continued, adding sucklers (beef cattle) to the herd and i grew up with milk on tap (white bucket actually!) Mum would come in, "get what you want" from the last couple that could be milked and the milk would be in either a white bucket or a churn, ready for sieving then cooling, then freezing. My cup would go straight into the still warm milk! We were raised on rice puddings, egg custards were added when the hens went bonkers.

I have 1 cup of full fat fresh daily but like semi UHT (1 teaspoon) in my cup of tea. Mum pours semi UHT into her hot drinks.

B&B pudding yesterday was eggs & milk made with brioche bread. (Very nice, rich, stick to the sides).

I also like fresh goats, but haven't been able to get any for a while as I think the goats have gone on strike (buy direct off farmer).

Soya milk, yuck! Even the dog wouldn't drink it when the vet suggested it for her, so she was put on uht goats milk.

I've tried oat milk, not for me.

I read somewhere that full fat is better for your heart and bones. I have issues with both of those so it’s full fat for me.

Well I’m just enjoying a full fat cuppa.
It’s good!

I’m sure the vitamins in full fat milk are good for you - IIRC Gold Top milk used to be prescribed for children who were ‘failing to thrive’.
Although I can’t stand creamy milk, I do like proper butter, as long as it’s salted, so should get any ‘cream’ benefits in that.