Milk.

[After G]

Always whole milk.
You might as well not drink it if you're going to change it.

Maybe I should go organic though ... Tempting, but hard to do on a budget.

 

[neocell]

milk has always made me feel a little funky.

cow milk is for baby cows, just like how human milk is for baby humans. (yeah, the whole hundreds of years we've been drinking cow milk speech.. I don't wanna hear it! I hear it enough at home)

Yeah, I still do some cheeses, but in moderation. I won't go totally nuts with the extra-extra cheese pizza, but I will have a slice of normal pizza.

But soy.. SO YUM! Soy nog, during december.. YUM!!
Vanilla soy milk to make french toast? DOUBLE YUM!
a big glass o' soy to go with a big bag o' almonds?
MMMMM!

I loves me the soy.

I tried a soy nog (SOY GOOD, or something like that) last week. It wasn't too bad, but a bit different. I wouldn't mind drinking soy milk but I find it a bit of a strange starchy taste (which isn't that bad) but also very sweet which I don't really like at all. What kind/brand do you drink? Is it sweet? I guess what I'd like to know from anyone here is there a non-sweet soy milk?

 

[blackfox]

I grew up drinking fresh, whole, unpasteurized milk delivered to my door (6 pints a day). That was excellent.

All other milk is, imo, complete crap. By this I mean pasteurized milk.

My theory behind this is as follows:

- milk curdles when it hits the stomach. If there is any other food there, the curdled milk insulates the foodstuffs from your stomach acids, resulting in poor digestion.

- pateurized milk has had it's useful enzymes (lactase and lipase) removed, which does not allow most human stomachs to properly digest milk.

- The lack of said enzymes allows for very poor mineral and vitamin absorption, including most importantly, Calcium.

- Homogenized milk, in which the fat molecules are pulverized to the point of not separating from the rest of the milk, results in those molecules being small enough to be absorbed through the villae of the small intestine - increasing dramatically the amount of denatured fat and cholesterol in your body - you gain more fat drinking this than from pure cream.

Quite simply, imo, pasteurized milk is the worst food ever.

I use soy, or it sparingly in recipes.

 

[Kernow]

I haven't drunk a glass of milk since I was infant school age. If I drink anything dairyish, I get a disgusting taste in my throat for ages. As I'm asthmatic, I don't have an awful lot of dairy, because it's supposed to be mucus forming, and it doesn't make me feel great. I've always preferred my coffee black, anyway. I make a white sauce with milk on occasion, and very rarely have ice cream.

Same here - I haven't really drunk milk for about 15 years. Occasionally people will forget and put it my coffee (which I drink to be polite), but apart from that, I steer clear of most dairy products.

Strange thing is, I used to love milk as a child, but went off it pretty much overnight, and avoided it ever since. Same thing happened with bananas too. Weird.

 

[takao]

grew up on whole milk from the cows of our neighbour.. in fact i still remember drinking the milk "still warm" ... and i have too admit as weird the feeling was ("this just came out of the cow") it's the best tasting milk...

sadly our neighbour don't have the cows anymore so i have to buy at the supermarket too... only whole (3.6% mostly) of course.. the few times i tried low fat were always kidna dissapointing.. but i only buy perhaps 1 liter per week.. i'm not drinking as much as i used to when we had the fresh one

and yeah the fresh one was much easier to digest


that aside soy "milk" can't be selled under that label here... they have to call it "soy drink"
i still don't know how people prefer soy milk.. after all it's perhaps one of the worst industry processed foods out there... with soy being genetic manipulated for some real big percentage (especially in the US) it gets even worse

 

[iSaint]

Switched to Skim Milk over ten years ago. For awhile I was buying my kids whole milk, then 1%, now I just get two or three gallons of Skim for the whole family. You'd be hard pressed to convince me all the fat in Whole Milk is good for you.

Another poll brewing???

 

[shadowmoses]

Pretty much Skimmed milk only for me... And pretty much always organic, i love it...

ShadoW

 

[mouchoir]

Now only drinking skimmed in coffee and muesli... not entirely sure whether dairy products are an entirely good or even natural thing to consume. Don't like soya milk... Cheese doesn't agree with me any more, which is a shame. That's not to say I've stopped eating cheese — it's just that I seem to have problems digesting it.

What is could possibly be unnatural about eating dairy products?!

I know that there have been links with cancer (due to Japanese womens incredibly low-rate of breast cancer, attributed to eating no dairy), but even our mothers produce milk!

Oh, and semi-skimmed/skimmed. Can't drink full fat, too rich...

 

[mpw]

...even our mothers produce milk!...

Your mothers milk is, I'd imagine, very good for you but, again I'd imagine, she's not a cow so the comparison isn't without flaws!

Also your mother's milk almost certainly wasn't pasteurized, bottled and shipped to a store under refrigeration etc.etc.

 

[ToddW]

Well I'm pretty much lactose intolerant, so i don't consume a lot of dairy products. A slice of 2% American on my sandwhich and some chedder on a taco and a little bit of skim in my coffee and that is really all i can handle. I grew up not liking milk and found out I was lactose intolerant a few months ago. The doctor told me to try my best and consume what I can but not too much and that is what I'm doing.

 

[Belly-laughs]

Normally I drink a pint of semi-skimmed a day. When reconstituting myself on my parents cabin in the countryside I get the milk from a local farm, straight from the cows tits. OK, it´s refrigerated but otherwise "pure". It´s funny how the different seasons give the milk different taste. It´s especially lovely when the cows start eating fresh spring grass. It´s a must try!

 

[njmac]

I grew up drinking fresh, whole, unpasteurized milk delivered to my door (6 pints a day). That was excellent.

All other milk is, imo, complete crap. By this I mean pasteurized milk.

My theory behind this is as follows:

- milk curdles when it hits the stomach. If there is any other food there, the curdled milk insulates the foodstuffs from your stomach acids, resulting in poor digestion.

- pateurized milk has had it's useful enzymes (lactase and lipase) removed, which does not allow most human stomachs to properly digest milk.

- The lack of said enzymes allows for very poor mineral and vitamin absorption, including most importantly, Calcium.

- Homogenized milk, in which the fat molecules are pulverized to the point of not separating from the rest of the milk, results in those molecules being small enough to be absorbed through the villae of the small intestine - increasing dramatically the amount of denatured fat and cholesterol in your body - you gain more fat drinking this than from pure cream.

Quite simply, imo, pasteurized milk is the worst food ever.

I use soy, or it sparingly in recipes.

I would love to try raw milk but it is illegal in NJ. I've read the reports on how bad for you the bacteria that grows in raw milk is but I can't help but think that is the big factory farms who don't want to keep their cows healthy and clean are pushing the gov't to outlaw (or make difficult) the sale of raw milk.

Does anyone here give raw milk to their kids?

 

[floriflee]

I don't like drinking milk because it makes me gassy. I guess that means I'm at least slightly lactose intolerant. I did drink it somewhat growing up.

In any case, the only milk I like is 1% or skim (the gray water of skim is preferred). The family was pretty poor growing up so the siblings and I grew up on powdered milk since it was cheap. When we finally switched to regular skim milk when I was in high school it was like a blessing and the best thing on earth!

Today I rarely drink milk plain. It has to be a part of something--like in cereal or with chocolate syrup or something. Other dairy products, such as yogurt, cheese, or ice cream are much more pallatable (sp?).

I had to drink whole warm milk when spending time with the hubby's family in India. I thought it was too buttery and creamy and it really did a number on my bowels, but they wouldn't take "No" for an answer when they offered it. Ah, well....

 

[iGav]

milk... mmmmmmmmmmmm love it.

2-3 pints of skimmed a day, I've got good bones.

 

[dotdotdot]

Whole milk is gross, its creamy and reminds me of cheese almost. Skim milk is the way to go.

 

[Clix Pix]

Lactose intolerant here...

Once in a while I'll have a little milk on cereal or something, but even at that it must be skim milk. Mostly I eat soy-based yogurts and smoothies. Since I love cheese, I "spend" my "tolerance allowance" on that!

 

[amateurmacfreak]

Years ago I started getting worried about all of the antibiotics, hormones, and junk in milk, so I gave up drinking it. Recently, though, I've rediscovered milk through the Horizon brand that doesn't have any of that stuff (presumably). Not that this is the only option for presumably organic milk, it's just what I've migrated to...

Same here(I mean, about the drinking Horizon thing)... and skim alll the way!!
1% is ok.... 2% is approaching gross.... thinking of whole makes me nauseous.
I like the taste of skim milk best, and why have fat in milk if you don't like it that way a lot more??
Horizon Skim!!

 

[OnceUGoMac]

My biggest problem with soy milk is that it's always been grainy when I drank it.

 

[cycocelica]

grew up on fat free and still drink it. I can drink whole, 1%, or 2% as well. I am a all around milk guy and i love milk.

 

[EGT]

I love milk me.

"Them bones, them bones need calcium ... cus it's the natural law!"

 

[Mord]

okay yeah this is a weird thread i know i know.

but anyways. i grew up drinking Whole milk, i hated milk as a kid. but when i went away to college i started drinking 1% Milk, and i started to enjoy milk again. however, i now have moved on and only drink Soy milk, be it vanilla, chocolate or plain Soy milk.

i was just curious as to what everyone's preference in milk was, and do you just drink it randomly when you feel like it? or is it always with a certain meal or with a certain food?

now i'm going to go enjoy some Chocolate Soy Milk

soya milk is high in eustrogen, unless you want man boobs (unless your a girl in which case you get bigger boobs) switch to rice milk which is nicer

 

[rickvanr]

When I do drink milk, I drink real milk- 2%. I like the flavoured milk too though. Chocolate milk is always good, but I've gotten vanilla milk and banana milk on occasion too. Banana flavoured milk is awesome.

 

[d_and_n5000]

I drink skim at school when I have a choice, 2% at home, because my dad can't stand anything but 2%. Occaisonally we buy 1% for everyone but my dad, but skim is the best. Only bad thing is I have to drink a ton of skim to really make myself happy, because I drink a ton of liquids with meals. I wind up getting about 3-4 1/2 pint containers at school every day, because most of my friends don't drink the milk. So, they all get skim and give it to me. A'course, if someone isn't sure if they wanna give me theirs or not, they generally get something else, and if they give it to me, i change it with skim, but i can't let the cooks see me. If they do, the tell my homeroom teacher to add $0.40 to my lunch bill, because they think I went and got another.

 

[dornoforpyros]

meh, once in a blue moon I'll buy some chocolate soy milk, but realistically I never buy milk, just don't care for it.

 

[cslewis]

I drink skim at school and 2% at home. When I was a little kid, though, we got whole milk. In glass.

Do MR members prefer glass, paper, or plastic?