What milk do the adults in your house drink?

[Houseplanter]

Assuming those of you with children buy full fat for them, what do the adults have and why?

I buy skimmed (cos I'm always on a diet and prefer it in tea) but I'm tempted to swap to semi skimmed.

Full fat everything in my house. Low fat and fat-free got us into obesity crisis.

For me it's purely preference.

I grew up with skimmed milk (though I'm sure I must've been given whole milk as a toddler), and it's still what tastes right to me on corn flakes/rice krispies, which I eat solely as an occasional nostalgic easy comfort food treat, so they might as well be "right".

In tea, to me skimmed milk mellows out the astringency and bitterness, adds a little sweetness, and cools it slightly, but without adding any creaminess which I really don't like in tea. Coffee, though, really benefits from the creaminess IMO, and I don't like coffee with skimmed milk at all. For my palate, skimmed milk makes tea taste refreshing and clean, but makes coffee taste thin and bitter. Calories don't come into it.

Yes they can of course. But they shouldn't 😊

I buy semi skimmed (just prefer it to full fat) but use it for cooking mostly or the odd milkshake for kids.
If I'm having a coffee / iced coffee etc I use oat milk as it's lovely and creamy

Going to have to try this !! I drink oat milk but buy cows milk almost specifically for bechamel!

Full fat and only that.

4 adults here , all have full fat.

I didn't say they couldn't....

Semi skimmed. My daughter has the same now, though she did have full fat when younger. I really don't like whole milk, its too creamy for me. When I was growing up my mum always bought skimmed and as a teenager I didn't even like semi skimmed, as I was so used to skimmed, semi tasted so weird to me.

I drink full fat. Though I have a large age gap with my sibling and so always had the same growing up and never bothered going to semi-skimmed. Interestingly most people I know drink semi-skimmed but another friend of mine who also has a large sibling age gap also drinks whole milk

You’re missing out!! Oat milk adds a lovely sweetness to bechamel - so much nicer than cows milk which I too used to buy just for that purpose

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We just buy semi skimmed and all drink it, I don't feel the kids need full fat as they get plenty of dairy and have a varied diet.

I sometimes get oat or coconut milk for myself.

I've tried non-dairy 'milks', but I don't really like any of them, mostly because they are too sweet, often with a slightly chalky or bitter aftertaste and have a weirdly gloopy, tongue-coating texture. Unsweetened soy milk is the only one I can stand in tea. Increasingly I just drink it black.

I buy cravendale. I like the filtered milk and lasts longer. But DD dinks 2 -3 pints a day so when she is home, i buy ordinary full fat.

whole milk.

I'm bemused by people you meet who seem to think whole milk is akin to double cream.

milk is low fat. even whole milk.

I only buy whole milk which gets used for drinking, tea/coffee and for cooking.

Semi skimmed for tea but local organic full-fat for everything else. The dairy farmers near us are installing automated dispensers all over the county, so we get a couple of pints of really fresh milk every few days.

Dairy free ' milk'
Because I'm not a baby cow 🙄

Exactly 👍

Dairy is the slavery, rape and slaughter of sentient creatures. If you're fine with that crack on. But don't pretend you're not complicit in the abuse of these creatures

Save your breath. Selfish idiots couldn't gaf about animal abuse. They certainly won't click on your link because Cognitive Dissonance 🤷‍♀️

Oat (me), semi-skimmed (DH) both delivered in glass bottles by the local milkman

Children have semi skimmed
Adults have skimmed

Although DS 15 is now preferring skimmed.

Alpro my cuppa.