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Full fat milk or semi skimmed.

(113 Posts)
Sago Mon 19-Feb-24 20:26:06

Lots of celebrities, rugby clubs and of course dairy farmers are extolling the benefits of full fat milk.

My daughter’s friend is to be on GB news this evening talking about this, she and her husband have a large dairy farm.

We eat full fat natural yoghurt, I make my own butter from full fat cream but I just cannot do full fat milk in tea.

Since having to drink milk at school I just cannot drink milk alone or on cereal.

My mother used to buy gold top milk and poured the cream from the top in her coffee every morning🤮

Are you skimmed, semi skimmed or full fat fans?

Would you be willing to change for the health benefits?

BlueSapphire Thu 22-Feb-24 17:34:55

Always have proper full fat butter, but cannot abide anything other than skimmed in my tea; don't mind full fat or semi-skimmed in coffee. I normally get the Cravendale skimmed, as it keeps well.

Fudgemonkey Thu 22-Feb-24 20:05:06

Used to buy orange top pre covid but now semi.
I too can't drink full flat due to having to drink it as a child, the milk having sat outside all morning 🤢

Bodach Thu 22-Feb-24 20:32:46

As a child, my milk often came warm from the cow, and I have generally stuck to full-fat ever since. Now I take only tiny drops in tea or coffee; lots with my porridge or other cereal, and every so often a glassful cold from the fridge. Writing about it has made me thirsty, so...

Mojack26 Thu 22-Feb-24 22:07:26

I am same,like skimmed in drinks but enjoy drinking a glass of ice cold full fat milk so both in my fridge,no semi skimmed

Maxine16 Sat 24-Feb-24 23:10:54

Oat or soya. I've never forgotten the pitiful sound of the cows on the farm next door.Bellowing day and night for their babies who'd been taken away so people could have their milk.

SeaWoozle Sat 24-Feb-24 23:15:21

Maxine16

Oat or soya. I've never forgotten the pitiful sound of the cows on the farm next door.Bellowing day and night for their babies who'd been taken away so people could have their milk.

Same here. Aside from having a dairy intolerance I just can't bring myself to drink milk which wasn't intended for humans 😢

dotpocka Sat 24-Feb-24 23:32:45

full fat only, helps me keep my weight up dont really do anything fatty key lime yogurt butter
coffee some times. no milk in tea. gross
husband had evaporated all time was with him 30yrs
called it canned cow. i think it started in canada outback
milk freezes in the winter.use it or goats saving babies .

dotpocka Sat 24-Feb-24 23:45:51

with the goats in uk do you not drink goats milk,i was allergic when i was new born goats was the only thing i could stomach
mom had to work within month after born.she always had with trouble all3 of us. i kind of liked feeding them. later my one goat some one died and the were going to brutcher her ...
my goat would stamp on her milking stand at 6 am 4 times a day she had milk for everybody.a friend had a babygirl and she could not tolerate anything is suggested nannys / i taught her how to pasterize it .when nanny was to old for milk the little girl kept nanny!!

LadyGracie Tue 27-Feb-24 09:16:12

Full fat - good for bone health.

M0nica Tue 27-Feb-24 10:35:39

Skim milk is one of the richest food sources of calcium, providing around 325 mg per cup. This is even higher than the calcium content of whole milk, which is 306 mg per cup
www.healthline.com/nutrition/whole-vs-skim-milk#TOC_TITLE_HDR_7

MissAdventure Tue 27-Feb-24 11:12:24

I knew I had read that info at some point.

Grammaretto Tue 27-Feb-24 12:53:12

I had to read the OP again to remind myself why we were discussing this at all!
It was because celebs were extolling the virtues of full fat milk on GB news. Well really! grin

All in all I think we like to justify what we do and why. It's food for thought.

I call myself a vegetarian because I don't eat meat but I eat eggs and dairy. I only shop organic and fairtrade so this takes most of the guilt away.