Full fat milk or semi skimmed.

Full fat always - when the fat is removed so are many of the vitamins and minerals like B12 and iodine, and the omega 3 fatty acids. There are also studies now showing that saturated fat is actually good for you, and amongst other things can help regulate weight.

Witzend

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.

I make my own butter, occasionally I buy extra thick Jersey cream instead of the ordinary Langley Farm, it makes delicious butter.
I add sea salt crystals then spread it on homemade bread.
You will get all the cream benefits in good butter😛

Definitely full fat. I hate skimmed and semiskimmed. Have semi on my breakfast cereals as husband does them but I am only using them as a moisturising agent and have very little on. In my mind it tastes like coloured water Otherwise it is full fat milk and dairy. Best milk I have ever tasted was straight out of the cow. When I was growing up I used to love the occasional glass of gold top milk if Mom treated us to a bottle.x

I don't drink much milk but as I am officially old I need full fat organic milk for all the extra minerals and stuff. Plus it's the same price as lesser cows milks and since it's richer it goes further so it works out more economical.

My DH called semi-skinned geriatric cows milk and skimmed milk coloured water. I have to say I'm of the same opinion.

I've been having a read up, and apparently grass fed milk is the one that contains the most healthy components.

I would love to be able to get organic UHT skimmed milk. There was a company in the market but pulled out because grass-fed cows, not fed highly enriched foods have a faster drop off of milk in the winter, so the company couldn't guarantee a steady year round supply.

I was very sorry when they went.

MissAdventure

I've been having a read up, and apparently grass fed milk is the one that contains the most healthy components.

I only buy organic FF milk. We don’t use a lot so the price difference is minimal on our budget. If there’s no organic milk I’ll buy Scottish as it’s all grass fed.

I take my tea black as I don’t like any milk in it, though I do have milk in coffee. I wouldn’t buy plant milk, either, as it’s all classed as Ultra Processed.

Moo do an organic UHT skimmed milk M0nica - the long life tetrapack. Ocado is letting me put it in my trolley so think it's still about.

Semi skimmed here. I’ve got to watch my saturated fat intake, but can’t bring myself to use skimmed milk as it’s so bland. I’ve tried milk alternatives, such as soya milk, but really not keen.

I drink lactose free, full fat wherever possible. Always have full fat for my daughter, so if I can’t find lactose free I’ll drink that instead. OH drinks semi skimmed - cos he still has the fat is bad thing going on in his head thanks to his mum.

Also, in coffee I always have cream.

I was referred to a dietitian following a serious illness and having lost a lot of weight. We’d been having semi skimmed milk for years but the dietitian recommended full fat milk to be used on porridge/cereals in tea & coffee and milky drinks. In fact full fat everything; cheese, yogurt etc. apparently full fat is more nutritious and healthier than the skimmed varieties. I’ve followed her advice and slowly getting back to a healthier weight.

Notspaghetti Moo was the brand I was buying, from Sainsbury and/or Waitrose. But it disappeared from the shops last summer and the website said/says still
Unfortunately, we have decided to cease production of Moo Organic Long Life Milk due to the lack of availability of organic milk all year round.

So I am back to non-organic UHT skimmed milk.

I drink skimmed, and like Sago, drinking my third of a pint of milk at school put me off milk for life, only take it in tea and coffee. I can smell it on people's breath when they drink full-fat.

I buy Grahams Smooth Gold (full fat and creamy) to put on cereals, in coffee or to make an occasional milkshake which I love but I use ordinary full fat for tea. I don't like semi skimmed, it has a sweetness to it, and I'd rather go without all together than use skimmed.

I'm sorry they don't make it M0nica - Ocado let me put it in my basket but maybe if I'd tried to check out it would have just said "no"!

How annoying.

What about Daioni in Pembrokeshire (I think). Probably could tell you where they sell if you called them.

That was to M0nica

Semi skimmed milk for me .
I find skimmed too watery .
I'm not drinking as much tea as before .
I don't mind full fat , but recently I had a reaction to clotted cream and cheese .
I felt a bit sick and had stomach cramps and diarrhoea .
Could I have become lactose intolerant in my old age ?

Interesting thread!
I have full fat milk from glass bottles.
The dairy on the isle of gigha is run by a pasionate enthusiast for the health benefits of the milk.
It has to be pasteurised, by law, but they use an old fashioned slower process which doesn't destroy as many vital vitamins.
Its not homogenised and when people come for coffee they tell me how delicious the coffee is. 😀

It's expensive though so I also buy oat milk and other milk when needs must.

Here is a photo from the wee isle dairy website

Esmay

Semi skimmed milk for me .
I find skimmed too watery .
I'm not drinking as much tea as before .
I don't mind full fat , but recently I had a reaction to clotted cream and cheese .
I felt a bit sick and had stomach cramps and diarrhoea .
Could I have become lactose intolerant in my old age ?

I have become lactose intolerant at the age of 60!
If I’m having cheese or creamy foods I have a couple of tablets from Holland and Barrett that really do work.
I rarely eat puddings but love a cheeseboard and wasn’t prepared to give it up.

Raw drinking milk is still legal in England, Wales and Northern Ireland if sold directly Grammaretto - I suppose you must be in Scotland...

...oh yes uou mentioned The Isle of Gigha - how beautiful 😍

Greentop milk. DD loves it. For me just the sight of the bottle has me feeling queezy, as for after its open with the cream from the milk clinging to the side of the bottle.

Excuse me why i go for a shrt stroll to settle my stomach