Full fat milk or semi skimmed.

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.

Also, in coffee I always have cream.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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😛

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 🤮.