Type of milk you drink regularily

**MommyBird** · 04-12-2010, 07:22 PM

We are big fans of blue milk. It seems to be colder than any other variety to us. The more fat the warmer it tastes which is a real turn off. Only 0% will do for my family.
I seldom drink milk with a meal but the guys will. My milk routine will change periodically. Sometimes I drink a glass+ each day and at other times I will go days without milk.

During the last summer Olympics I was on my elliptical watching one of the morning shows and they had a segment on a "Recovery" pack the athletes were using post event. The guy said each pack costs about $5. Then he said that store bought 1% chocolate milk had about the same nutrient makeup and would basically have the same benefit as one of these packs.
I put it on my shopping list. The guys felt so special. Then I told them about the show and now they expect it in the fridge at all times!

**pardes** · 04-12-2010, 07:44 PM

Half and Half here.

At 62 I said, "What the hell." A good cup and a half of Half & Half in my monster morning coffee I drag around all day.

If I want to just drink milk (which I have loved since the breast) I down a couple of cups of whole milk as rich and natural as I can find it.

**GLC1968** · 04-12-2010, 07:50 PM

shootingstar - fresh, unpasturized goat milk tastes like cows milk...but almost less 'milky'. It's hard to explain. Its so fresh and delicious and full of flavor. When we switch back to store bought milk, I can't get over how flat and blah it tastes.

That said, older goats milk can be NASTY. And we've never tasted any store bought goats milk that tastes good, either. I've heard that's from the pasturization process, but I don't know that for certain.

**shootingstar** · 04-12-2010, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by GLC1968

shootingstar - fresh, unpasturized goat milk tastes like cows milk...but almost less 'milky'. It's hard to explain. Its so fresh and delicious and full of flavor. When we switch back to store bought milk, I can't get over how flat and blah it tastes.

That said, older goats milk can be NASTY. And we've never tasted any store bought goats milk that tastes good, either. I've heard that's from the pasturization process, but I don't know that for certain.

Imagine asking a farmer after getting fresh milk: "Is this old goat milk?"

I would try the young goat milk in small steps.
By the way, the goats milk gelato: my dearie loved it. I didn't even ask what the flavour was: there was no flavour sign! So I was targetting all the other flavours because of the colours. I noticed the cafe had a large bin of it compared to the other flavours. I hope he does sell it. He likes making different flavours...fresh fig, pomegranate, etc.

When we go to Europe in a few months, this should be interesting, depending on where we go. I could never forget the time when we were in the Netherlands, it was a whole milk. Rich, tasty ...and slight yellow-tan colour.

As for the blue tinged skim milk (at least in some parts of the U.S.), wonder if there is pasteurization process that causes this or the regulations are different in U.S. compared to Canada? Really, the skim milk I have from a well-known chain dairy in our province, does not have this blue tinge at all.

**moonfroggy** · 04-12-2010, 09:24 PM

I voted almond but these days I drink pumpkin seed milk more. I rarely drink any milk like drink though. I always make it myself from raw nuts or seeds when I do drink it. I get my calcium and protien by eating plenty of vgetables and nut or seed milk is an ocasional treat.

**MommyBird** · 04-12-2010, 09:33 PM

Light scattering by fat globules and casein micelles causes milk to appear turbid and opaque. Light scattering occurs when the wavelength of light is near the same magnitude as the particle. Skim milk appears slightly blue because casein micelles scatter the shorter wavelengths of visible light (blue) more than the red.

**smilingcat** · 04-12-2010, 10:13 PM

my partner dictates what kind of milk we buy. Soo its fat free organic milk. I'm not finicky about milk for my chai. If it weren't for my chai, I wouldn't drink milk.

Cheese on the other hand. I luuvvve goat cheese in my omlette, on a hot toast, on my pizza, sprinkled on my spagetti... I also love hard cheese of all kind. I could go on and on... Pan seared goat cheese medallion...

There is something about goat cheese.

**badger** · 04-12-2010, 10:21 PM

I'm so curious to try fresh goat's milk. I want to know if I'll find it rather funky as I find goat's milk cheese and store bought goat's milk. To me I really taste the "farm" smell, if you know what I mean?

**MommyBird** · 04-12-2010, 10:38 PM

Yes! Leaves a strange, unpleasant sensation in my mouth and then makes me feel physically and mentally "off" for a while.

**Catrin** · 04-13-2010, 01:30 AM

My nutritionist and doctor has me take in a quite a lot of protein, and a lot of this comes from non-fat dairy. I made myself get used to the taste of skim milk and I do drink a lot of it. I have found that a nice benefit of this is that it seems to be the only way that I get enough calcium - I hate taking supplements. I buy them and don't take them

So I go through a lot of skim milk, no-fat cottage cheese and Chobani non-fat greek yogurt .

**Thorn** · 04-13-2010, 03:08 AM

We tried to strip the dairy in our diet down. Milk was limited to the standard recovery drink chai so we switched that out to soy milk.

When we switched to soy we tried various non-dairy milks. We liked oat milk, but it isn't high in protein. I don't like the "oh, but we need to make it taste like dairy milk"-soy milks. I now buy Eden Soy's basic soy milk. The ingredients are organic soy beans and water. No sugars. No binders. Just soy milk. It is actually good without all that stuff that's supposed to make it taste better.

**Ja Da Dee** · 04-13-2010, 05:23 AM

I rarely drink milk. If I had my way, I would drink 2%, but because it's such a rare occasion, if I have milk in my cereal or something it's skim because that's what my husband drinks. I do slip a little half and half in my coffee.

**GLC1968** · 04-13-2010, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by badger

I'm so curious to try fresh goat's milk. I want to know if I'll find it rather funky as I find goat's milk cheese and store bought goat's milk. To me I really taste the "farm" smell, if you know what I mean?

Yes, that "farm" smell is actually a lovely smell to a goat. We call it 'goaty' and in extreme forms 'bucky' (because bucks smell extremely strong like it). My husband recoils at the smell out on the farm (it's rare on our farm since we don't keep a buck on site) but I don't mind it. I do HATE it in my milk though - and to be perfectly honest, I don't like goat's milk cheese either.

Too 'bucky' for me.

I swear that fresh goats milk has NONE of that flavor/smell if it is processed correctly.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 04-13-2010, 10:08 AM

I love milk, always have, and I drinks lots of it.

**badger** · 04-13-2010, 03:22 PM

GLC, how do you process goat's milk properly? I hear pasteurization kills off most of the goodness, but I don't think I'd want to drink it straight out of the animal in case it's contaminated with something, you know?

And I'm glad to know that "goaty" is actually a term. Better than saying "farmy".

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