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.

Just adults in our household, we have full fat milk

It needs to be one with enough fat in. I like minor figures - either regular or light.

Seconding Minor Figures - DD discovered it years ago and I’m yet to find a better alternative. A firm favourite in our house! Califia is similar and easier to find but not quite as good

I don't drink milk not even in coffee. I might have a splash in a cup of tea about once a week but DH and the kids have cereal and do drink it. We have semi skimmed.

Stressde... am a great believer in taking what our ancestors had.
You should do a thorough read up on the benefits.
Also myself and hubby (in our 60's) have no health issues whatsoever.
The food companies lied about butter, egg, milk etc and now we're finding that they're much better for you and deemed as superfoods.
Oils are heavily processed, margarines utter vile rubbish.

If I ever do get the craving for a glass of ice cold milk then I go and get jersey especially. Love that stuff!

Me skimmed, about 40 years ago there was a storm, very close, the milk curdled in my tea. DH skimmed lactose free.. even semi skimmed turns my stomach now

DH has semi-skimmed but adult DS and me prefer the taste of whole milk so we have that. I don't mind semi-skimmed in tea, but on cereal whole milk is much nicer.

Which other milk is better for you that you can buy in a supermarket?

The Maasai may disagree with you

Semi skimmed cow's for me, oat for dp. I would love to give up cow's milk, but I am too weak willed.

There's not a single foodstuff aside from human breastmilk which was created by the organism it comes from with the intention of feeding a human.

There are lots which humans have perverted and twisted to be more useful to us (and often less useful to the organism), and a few generalist fruits which don't have a specific target species which hope that being tasty might cause us to disperse their seeds (which we generally don't do). But there is no food out there, as far as I know, which was grown by the organism with the "intention" that it feed humans. We raid tubers, rip up plants for the stored nutrients in roots, grind up or dry and boil seeds, take eggs, take blood, kill for meat, take the photosynthesising leaves, scrape off bark, eat fruits whose seeds we don't spread (or which we breed out of existence altogether)… the whole process of feeding ourselves involves stealing other organisms' hard-earned resources.

None of it was meant for us. Many of the plants produce chemicals to try and deter the theft (some of which we breed out). Milk from animals is just one more source of nutrients we've managed to work out how to take, and which some of us even have evolutionary adaptations to help process.

Make arguments about animal cruelty if you like, but the "you're not a baby cow" argument is facile.

Semi skimmed. The kids both drink it aswell as they're over 2 and I don't want to get multiple bottles. Occasionally they also have chocolate milk.

I don’t believe that any milk is particularly good for you and certainly wouldn’t drink it for health benefits, hence I buy oat as it’s simply what tastes best for the little amount that we do happen to use in our house

Plenty of excellent plant sources for calcium

Oat milk and lacto free, no dairy here

Full fat from a local dairy farm. Amazing stuff, delivered in returnable glass bottles, it forms a thick layer of cream on the top - sometimes it's so thick I have to break it up before it will come out of the bottle.

The lacto free milk is still dairy though, isn’t it?

Oat

oat/almond semi skimmed for everyone else
kids are teens and don’t really use/drink much milk anyway

Semi but I don't drink it- it goes in tea or cereal. If I want a drink I drink coconut milk

Same here!

Full fat. Always have always will.
With the exception of the emergency milk, which is UHT.

Full fat mainly, but have semi-skimmed in tea.

Semi skimmed because my children don't like the taste of full fat. If I could get them to have full fat I would as I think it better for you (less sugar, brains need fat etc).

Always full fat