Type of milk you drink regularily

[shootingstar]

I'm drinking 2 litres of skim milk per wk. It's doubled in last 12 months. It shouldn't hurt me. I'm probably combining some of it incorrectly with certain things ie. tea, coffee. But I do put some in my daily oatmeal for breakfast.

What type of milk do you drink regularily?

Addendum: I apologize for putting this question in wrong section.

[badger]

I must say I don't drink any kind of milk much. I used to drink soy milk, but I sort of got bored of it. I'm lactose intolerant so I can't drink milk aside from a bit in my tea or coffee.

I have to admit milk grosses me out; it's coming from a different animal (cow, goat, sheep, etc) meant for their babies.

[OakLeaf]

I don't drink any, plain. Occasionally I'll make a recovery smoothie, and I often have milk on cold cereal for breakfast - I'll use hemp, rice and almond.

[shootingstar]

It is very rare that I just drink a glass of milk. It's usually mixed in with something else. This habit changed after my late teens. As a child I did drink 2 glasses of milk per day.

I did go through several years of hardly drinking any type of milk, ie. maybe averaging one-quarter of what I drink now. That was during university and first few years after graduating. I just wasn't thinking much about food and what I was eating at that time in life. As a result, I did become lactose-intolerant.

But then slid back slowly into milk, again without not thinking much about it. Hence, became more lactose-tolerant.

However if you were to offer me a glass of milk vs. glass of soda pop/soft drink after a ride: I would take milk. Pop gives me abit of gas anyway.

For instance, I can eat alot of cheese ..but I can't eat stuff with alot of butter. ie. a butter sauce doesn't help me in the washroom.
If I have 2 huge cafe au laits --again, it doesn't help in the washroom.

So the milk ingestion has to be over a course of several hrs. Not exactly like IV-drip..but you know what I mean..
For reasons, I can't explain, I haven't been attracted to drinking soy milk much. I can drink it but it doesn't interest me. (which might be surprising since I enjoy eating all sorts of naked tofu/beancurd dishes..where the taste of soy will be pronounced.)

[tulip]

Gotta have my 2% or whole. To me, skim milk is nasty--it's got a blue tint to it. My grandfather used to call it Blue Death.

I mix my 2+% with soy milk in my cereal.

[shootingstar]

Gotta have my 2% or whole. To me, skim milk is nasty--it's got a blue tint to it. My grandfather used to call it Blue Death.

I mix my 2+% with soy milk in my cereal.

I think the skim milk in the U.S. seems to be different than up here. I've had the milk at hotels while vacationing in the U.S. in past several years. It had a different taste quality than the skim milk brands I've had in B.C. and Ontario.

[badger]

a lot of soy milk these days isn't made of just soy so it's quite palatable (just soy is GROSS!!). I'm not sure how healthy it is, though, as it does contain added sugars and flavours. I do have to admit that Silk Chocolate is SOOOOO good. Love it both cold and hot.

[bmccasland]

I'm currently having schedule conflicts so I miss the farmer's market that's near my office. Which means I can't get the wonderful milk directly from the dairyman. His skim milk is nice and rich, doesn't taste like milk flavored water. And he makes wonderful chocolate milk too - hands out free shots at farmer's market. So I'm stuck with grocery store milk, but I do buy the organic. The less antibiotics and hormones the cows get, the better for me.

I may have to draft a colleague that regularily goes to market to buy my milk for me and leave it in my ice chest... That might work...

[Crankin]

I hate milk... any kind. It upsets my stomach and the taste makes me gag a little, though the Lactaid stuff does work. I use a little skim in my cereal. Other than that, I rarely will have a small glass with a soy nut butter sandwich. I started taking calcium + D supplements 26 years ago. I eat plenty of cheese and Greek yogurt.
Of course, despite the supplementation I have osteoporosis, but it's definitely genetic and not all dietary based.
My parents never served milk with meals, except breakfast or dessert. Seeing milk on the dinner table has always sort of grossed me out.

[GLC1968]

I don't usually just drink milk.

That said, we use it a lot in coffee, smoothies, cerela/granola/oatmeal, etc. Right now we are buying 1% organic because our goats are pregnant. Normally, we drink/use whole (3%) or skimmed (1%) raw goats milk.

If I had a source for raw skimmed milk (other than our own goats), we'd be drinking that exclusively.

[shootingstar]

a lot of soy milk these days isn't made of just soy so it's quite palatable (just soy is GROSS!!). I'm not sure how healthy it is, though, as it does contain added sugars and flavours.

As soon as I see soy milk with any form of sugar, no matter if it's a "natural" sugar added, I don't want to get into it. Forget it. For a daily drink, no.

from Crankin: My parents never served milk with meals, except breakfast or dessert.

Since my parents immigrated from China in the 1950's when milk and any form of dairy product was rare at that time in history in southern China (where there would be refrigeration problems in the rural areas), they obviously made a clear dietary /nutritional choice for their children: they had us drink milk daily from babyhood up. It was probably a good thing in the end for us, Crankin.

My mother did drink milk when she was pregnant with each of us, upon the doctor's advice, but afterwards she never got into it at all.

My father rarely drinks any form of milk. He will have abit in orange pekoe tea with no sugar. But he does like certain cheeses, abit of butter. It's not a daily thing for both of them. Probably couple times per month or less.

Yes of course, they like ice cream, gelatos. But not too sweet and not alot of it.

So an example where parents will make an overt lifelong nutritional decision for their children, but not for themselves.

GLC: What does goat milk taste like? Just last week at our favourite Italian gelato place, the guy had handmade goat's milk ice cream. It was nice.

[nscrbug]

I generally don't drink milk, by the glass. That said, I do consume fat-free, lactose-free milk on my oatmeal and cold cereal, and in protein shakes. Recently, I have discovered Blue Diamond Almond Milk (unsweetened original flavor) and I like it just fine, but use it sparingly mainly due to the 3 grams of fat it contains.

[Crankin]

Well, I think there was a cultural phenomena to the no milk thing. Although my parents (and my grandparents by the time I was born) were not Kosher, the idea of serving milk with a meal like dinner, when there's meat on the table sort of carried down. Really, the thought of eating chicken, fish, or beef and having a glass of milk with it really is nauseating to me. Funny how these things get carried on, despite the fact that it's probably been 75 years since anyone in my family actually observed these dietary laws.
One of my kids is a milk drinker and the other is just like me.

[tharley]

Oh my. I'm not a big fan of milk, nor is of me if I'm drinking it. I don't really eat anything besides occasional mac&cheese or soup that requires it. Ice cream on the other hand is fantastic!

[Blueberry]

I voted for my "milk version," but I rarely "drink" it. Usually, I just enjoy whole milk in tea. Once in a long while on a bowl of cereal. Most of my calcium comes from yoghurt (which I make) and cheese