[Closed] Who still buys Full Cream Milk?

I always do when cooking or just drinking the stuff. Semi-skimmed on my Weetabix, though.

Defnitely. Semi-Skimmed is like watered-down beer ffs. Just wrong.

Blue top or preferably gold top to drink. Gold top lovely to make milkshakes with. Perfect post ride drink.

Full cream for the kids and skimmed for us.

Semi-skimmed, that's disgusting!! Hate the taste of fat in milk, don't need it so get rid of it!

Skimmed is the future.

But why semi-skimmed, FoxyChick? Why?

Don Simon you're just wrong.

Good old Jersey Gold Top, lovely on cereal.

Always bought Homogenised milk when we lived in London, but don't seem to see it here, just Pasteurised.
(no Rock Eel in the chippy either, but that's another story)

Silver top for young children, semi skimmed for me

Yeah we do for the kids. For young kids your supposed to for calcium count or something that and it's nicer. I'll use semi-skimmed though skimmed is utterly pointless it has no taste may as well use water.

Fully leaded juice of the cow! Mmmmm

Goldtop if I can get hold of it. Otherwise Soya milk in my Muesli.

I wont go near semi as it tastes like stale-wee compared.

Full fat for kids under 2 I think was suggested to us (you've now prompted me to consider swapping to semi as she is now over 2)

I thought skimmed was the water that was left over after you rinsed out a roller full of white emulsion

I thought skimmed was the water that was left over after you rinsed out a roller full of white emulsion

Innit. No point at all drinking that crap. Skimmed milk exists so that people can feel they are 'cutting down' on fats. Thing is, whole milk contains more vitamins and other nutrients, and the fats are metabolised/broken down more easily than fats in other foods. There's so much bullshit bout the 'benefits' of skimmed milk, but any decent nutritionist will tell you whole milk is the healthiest option. Cut down on other fats instead if you're that worried, or just bloody exercise more lazy bastards sit around watching shit on telly then drive to supermarket to buy loads of needless crap.

Skimmed milk ffs. Part of all this low fat this, low salt that, 'I'm too thick to work out what's a good diet so I'll pay snake oil merchants loads for stupid 'healthy bacteria' type shit in tiny bottles' bollocks.

And you pay the same price for skimmed milk for a fraction of the goodness. What a complete con.

Full fat every time. Not even worth thinking about.

Elfinsafety...I don't have much milk at all. If I want a glass of milk then I drink the fully-leaded stuff, but in my coffee or tea I have to have fully skimmed. Anything else just tastes "claggy".

Full fat milk, full cream, full fat cheese, full fat butter etc ... eat in moderation you will be fine and able to enjoy them but eat more you get fat and cholesterol in your blood. Was 'told off' recently during my platelet donation as they got plenty of fat instead out from my blood. 😳 Yes, I accidentally indulged lard the day before.

If you really want a treat, big bowl of Frosties or Sugar Puffs, pour on small pot of single cream, leave for few minutes for cream to soak in and then enjoy.

I'm going to have bacon sandwich. I'm going to fry the bacon, and I'm going to butter the bread. Mmm.....

Because I'm Worth It.

Imagine rice pudding made with semi-skimmed, utterly wrong. We have a mixture of semi and full delivered in glass bottles 4 times a week, 32 pints all told. My milkman smiles every time I pay him. 🙁

i drink it by the pint - a real milk shake is only a milkshake with gold top 😀

i may have gone to the shop on the way home one night after a very long ride and bought 2 pints of gold top and a bottle of crusha chocolate

then drank the lot 😀

Good on yer Elfin, be having none of that vile scrape

A pint of full fat milk after riding a hundred miles around Kielder reservoir just hits the spot perfectly.

Semi-skimmed? Nasty stuff. 😯

I don't have a problem with fat in milk at all. I just don't really like the taste of full-fat in drinks.
I fry my bacon. I use butter, not marg.

Well I drink skimmed milk, although not for any purported health benefits, I've always drank it, parents had it when I was younger so I was brought up on it basically.

It's fine on porridge, in cereal, in tea or just to drink. I have never liked cream and while I can tolerate semi skimmed, full fat is just too creamy for me! Anything other than skimmed is rank in tea as well.

Elfinsafety -Member

I'm going to have bacon sandwich. I'm going to fry the bacon, and I'm going to butter the bread. Mmm.....
Because I'm Worth It.

Instead, grill the bacon and use the bread to mop up the bacon fat that's dripped into the grill pan.

Nomnomnom... Aaaaargh, my chest.

My missus buys red top cravendale then puts asdas own low fat spray cream in it with her cereal.....

ffs

I used to work with a guy who put nothing but cream in his coffee.

My missus buys red top cravendale then puts asdas own low fat spray cream in it with her cereal.....

I don't think I'd be able to contain myself if I witnessed that kind of horror in the AM.

yea im in with elf too
I remember hearing somewhere that the fat globules are bigger in full fat milk so dont pass through the gut membrane as easially.
the whole pasturising an homogenising of milk is pretty crap really.
I deliver whole milk direst from the farmer to the local area an its so so much better than the crap you get in a carton

Semi skimmed for me. Means I can have extra ice-cream 😈

We got some 'straight from the cow' milk a few months ago. Tasted good! For some odd reason it reminded me of the smell of the not-yet-aged-to-be-sold Kilchoman malt I had last year. De-yummy!

Normally, it's blue top all the way. Interestingly, now we're in the US of A, the blue is fat-free and red is full fat. Argh!

And never any milk in coffee. Cream yes, milk - NO!

Gold top is lovely on cereal, but i haven't had that for years and years.

I drink semi-skimmed - much nicer for most uses.

Skimmed milk is trully disgusting and as far as i can see, pretty pointless.

I have sometimes wondered what 1/4 fat milk would be like (a 50:50 mix of semi and skimmed). One day I'll drop by my my local store and invest 70p in two pints of each to see what it tastes like.

skimmed is like drinking ugly water - vile stuff

me.. i ****ing love milk. nothing better than a nice reamy milk and a smoke.

there are a few Alms (mountain cow milking institutions) that i've frequented over the summer where you can buy frsh milk straight from a cow. mmmmm... thick creamy milk.

Always bought Homogenised milk when we lived in London, but don't seem to see it here, just Pasteurised.

I think it's pretty much all homogenised now

Me, tea dont taste right otherwise

I think it's pretty much all homogenised now

Strange how some milk doesn't get creamy on the top when left which I would think would be homogenised, but others do
My local shop is Waitrose and their essential full cream milk is definitely less creamy than the dearer range

Me, tea dont taste right otherwise

Exactly

I do. Semi-skimmed is gay, skimmed is pointless.

Cravendale blue top all the way...

Drac - Member
Yeah we do for the kids. For young kids your supposed to for calcium count or something that and it's nicer. I'll use semi-skimmed though skimmed is utterly pointless it has no taste may as well use water.

Also to do with the fat soluble vitamins available in full fat milk, don't think calcium changes much between full fat & skimmed/semi skimmed.

Good thread. According to my bottle of blue top 'whole milk' it is 3.6% fat that is basically sod all. More than fruit and veg but way, way less than cheese (15-30%), crisps (20-30% plus), red meat and fish (20% plus), cake (15-30%). Brown, wholemeal bread and pasta are marginally lower at 1.5-3.0%) but that is splitting hairs I think. I'm a skinny b@stard to say the least and at my last medical I was 12% body fat so drinking milk @ 3.6% (bearing in mind it has all the extra nutrients) is no big deal surely. I get through 3-5 pints a week.

At my last medical this June my colesterol was so low / good it was almost off the scale and the doc was obviously well impressed. That said I eat very little cheese, no biscuits, not much cake, no gravy, no butter or margarine and try to keep booze under 25 units a week.

Me. I hate the vile tasting low fat stuff. When I was a child they used to sell the skimmed stuff cheap to pig farmers as 'waste product' to feed to the pigs as it was considered not viable to sell for humans to eat.

I did used to 'grow my own' milk at one time, when I used to farm goats. Not skimmed milk either 🙂

At my last medical this June my colesterol was so low / good it was almost off the scale and the doc was obviously well impressed.

Almost [i]off the scale[/i] and your doctor was "well impressed" ? ........change your doctor then.

Abnormally low levels of cholesterol is associated with high levels of suicides and strokes.

http://www.ctds.info/low_cholesterol.html

I've been a skimmed milk drinker for about 15yrs and I have to say I've got to the stage where it tastes perfectly normal to drink. I'm naturally heavier than I'd like to be for bike racing and used to obsess a bit about keeping my weight as tight as possible (used to race at about 7% body fat), so skimmed seemed to make sense.

However, a friend who has just been revisiting his sports nutrition training is trying to persuade me to go back to full fat. Am yet to read anything myself but in a hearsay kind of way it sort of makes sense to consume smaller quantities of less modified foods. I've already switched back to butter.

hh45 - back of fag packet maths - 5pints of whole milk a week = 100grams of fat. Common nutritional advice is 30-33% of energy consumption through fats which for most people on a maintenance diet = 50-60gms a day of fat in your diet. Your milk consumption a week equals the best part of 2 days worth of your recommended total fat intake a week. I guess if you are very active (which your might well be seeing where I'm typing this), you might need more calories than this. What I'm trying to illustrate is that even though something might only have 3.5% fat, if you have enough of it (and you have nearly 3kg of milk) it all adds up. 5 pints of whole milk has the same fat content as nearly 300gms of full fat cheddar cheese, which is quite a lump!

(Sits contentedly eating a whole packet of butter)

So:

3.5% Whole milk or full fat milk
1.5 – 1.8% Semi-skimmed
Less than 0.3% Skimmed

Looks bugger all in it to me, we only have blue-top at home.

Also to do with the fat soluble vitamins available in full fat milk, don't think calcium changes much between full fat & skimmed/semi skimmed.

Aye that was it, sorry a bit tired and my brain just couldn't think.

We have it for our almost two year old. Nice on cereal!

Been drinking skimmed milk for the last 25 years. It's fine for porridge and my proper coffee. 🙂

I used to buy full fat milk and butter not margarine however a recent medical showed high cholesterol so I was advised by my GP to change so I have.

We all drink full fat milk. None of the family (2 adults, 21,19,17 yr olds) is overweight. Judging by some of the overweight tubs of lard picking up cartons of green top in the supermarket, I think it is probably true to say that: full fat milk makes you slim; and skimmed or semi skimmed makes you fat. And semi skimmed tastes horrible.

Incidently, Kids actually only really need full fat milk up to two years of age, beyond that apparently it's not really necessary.

UHT full fat only.

Incidently, Kids actually only really need full fat milk up to two years of age, beyond that apparently it's not really necessary.

Shh the wife will here you and I'll we'll have to have semi skimmed all the time.

3.5% Whole milk or full fat milk
1.5 – 1.8% Semi-skimmed
Less than 0.3% Skimmed

Looks bugger all in it to me, we only have blue-top at home.

Blimey nearly twice as much fat, didn't realise the difference was so much. 😆