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What a shock, full fat milk is better for you after all....

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I only drink full fat. Furthermore, if I could, I would drink milk fresh from the cow, unpasteurised. I once did a job building fences in Scotland, and living in a caravan. The farmers always left a 4 litre container of milk on the doorstep every morning, fresh from making the herd. It was absolutely delicious on cereal, particularly if you gave it a shake to spread all the lovely pale yellow cream throughout the milk. Skimmed milk just tastes thin and watered down.
 
That's why the kids have to resort to other stuff so frequently - water (cos I agree that's what it tastes like) doesn't do very much to fill a child's belly.

I used to buy semi skimmed - but now we've reverted to bog standard blue top again - we only use about half the quantity cos we just don't need as much in drinks.
 
mikeyB said:
I only drink full fat. Furthermore, if I could, I would drink milk fresh from the cow, unpasteurised. I once did a job building fences in Scotland, and living in a caravan. The farmers always left a 4 litre container of milk on the doorstep every morning, fresh from making the herd. It was absolutely delicious on cereal, particularly if you gave it a shake to spread all the lovely pale yellow cream throughout the milk. Skimmed milk just tastes thin and watered down.
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Isnt it creamy and rich tasting. The milk now a days is not the same at all.
 
I recall being given free full cream milk at school every day ¥#@$! years ago! Didn't do me any harm but I wouldn't drink it nowadays - too sickly rich IMO.
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wirralass said:
I recall being given free full cream milk at school every day ¥#@$! years ago! Didn't do me any harm but I wouldn't drink it nowadays - too sickly rich IMO.
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Same here. Put me off milk for life!🙄
 
I'm a semi skimmed person myself, I don't like the look of a cuppy made with blue top haha, my mum used to live on a farm when she was little as my granddad worked there and they used to go down every night to get fresh milk from the coo's in their words, she cant drink milk on its own now but tells me there was nothing better than straight from the cow and still warm x
 
Yes blue is better for you, the processes for semi skimmed or skimmed isn't the best.
Same way its better to have actual butter then man made spreads, its too processed.
Better to have less processed stuff even if it is fatter and just have less, than have stuff thats been messed with.
 
I remember having milk only hours from the cow and fresh goats milk loved it.
We used to go camping when I was a nipper, often in the same field as the cows.
 
We used to go on holliday to a farm in Norfolk and every day you got fresh milk straight from the cow "HEAVEN".
 
We had chickens when I was a teenager. Nothing better than an egg thats just been hatched, and we always got double yolks!
I would love to have a little bit of land, some chickens and a cow!
 
Once in a while - usually when the raspberry bushes were laden with fruit - my mom would order a couple of bottles of Jersey milk instead of normal pas. - Gold top - so we could have a bowl of fresh raspberries and 'top of the milk' - ie thin cream. The rest of the bottle was already as creamy as ordinary milk, even after she'd skimmed the cream off it, so it didn't make any difference in tea etc, However - using it for tea having just shaken the bottle normally, you would actually see the excess fat floating on the surface, so even if you could afford Jersey all the while, it probably wouldn't be such a good idea.

My uncle (well my auntie was actually one of dad's cousins - so I daresay Uncle Cliff wasn't even related LOL) was a cowman on a farm and then moved farms to be Head Herdsman on a well known purely dairy farm near Shrewsbury so my cousin from a very young age would have been drinking unpasteurised milk - however since the allowance per employee was a quart a day and never more, and the employee had to provide his own milk 'can' - I doubt very much whether any country child gets that much opportunity to drink a LOT of it. When we turned up for the day - my mom would have that day's 2 pints of milk delivered to our house that morning, in a shopping bag with her, to supplement Auntie Jean's allowance! And it's why she always made custard (even when she didn't have visitors) using a large can of Libby's evaporated milk and the same quantity of water - made lovely custard!
 
Semi skimmed for me I find the blue a bit to creamy. I dont use alot of milk in my day really alittle in my tea and if I have porridge I use part semi skimmed and part water.
 
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