About milk

[Mummy2Bookie]

AIBU to not understand why so many people eat lots of take aways, chocolate, chips etc etc on a regular basis but seem to be obsessed about choosing semi skimmed / fat free milk over full cream milk?
Compared to all the rubbish in the average diet, there is not a lot of fat in full cream milk.

Agree with MilkNoSugarPlease. Full fat milk tastes foul and I have a diet coke with my crap take-away because I hate fat coke.

Soya milk was a vegan for 12 years never did get the taste back for milk.

Don't like milk, don't like diet anything can't stand the taste of fake sugar, you can't even drown that out by mixing it with rum it just ruins the rum, Diet Coke is an abomination, I demand that company give me money to replace the ruined rum, it was Havana club god damn it, the god of rums, poor bastard didn't stand a chance against the bitter taste of fake sugar.

I eat too much rubbish.

If I can save a few calories by only drinking diet soft drinks or having SS milk, then good.

Also agree with Rockbird FF milk is tastes disgusting

Appleton estate dark rum is the god of rum :o

what i find really sad is the numbers of teenage girls ditching dairy from their diets completely as they think it's too fattening (still living on sugary drinks and fatty high salt snacks mind you) - they give you the "it'll never happen to me" look when you talk to them about osteoporosis

(yes i know there are other sources of calcium, but dairy or fortified dairy alternatives is a major one)

I hate milk! I love full fat coke!

In my fridge there is skimmed milk for DH, semi for the older 2 children & full fat for the toddler.

my mum used to buy FF milk and water it down to taste like SS cos that way it was cheaper

I also went to school with kids who had to have water on their cereals because they could not afford milk - and did not know this was unusual

I always used to have semi as that's just what my mom bought, then got pregnant and had a craving for full-fat and never looked back!
Personally I think all kinds of milk have their place for different things but I really can't abide diet/zero/low sugar drinks that are crammed full of crappy, bitter, horrible artificial sweeteners which will probably give your brain damage in the long run! Sugar might have more calories but at least it's natural . Plus I've read that drinking diet drinks simply 'tricks' your brain into thinking you've had a big intake of sugar (and thus energy), and when your body doesn't receive said amount of energy, you compensate by eating more. If you want a drink that isn't calorific, I think a better solution is to just drink water!

YANBU. Fair enough if someone just prefer the taste of skimmed or semi-skimmed. But it's a drop in the ocean in terms of calorie reduction in an otherwise shit diet.

I hate all the fake food / diet food too. It baffles me that so many people can convince themselves that it's healthy.

I can't stand drinking milk unless it's in a drink - it makes me feel sick. Full-fat milk is worse. My friend and I once had massive vanilla milk drinks from a coffee shop and we both suffered from what we decided to call 'Milk drinkers remorse'. Since that moment, it's skimmed milk all the way in lattes and the like.

I am a strange person. I cannot drink plain milk unless it is ff. I cannot eat cereal unless the milk is SS and straight from the fridge. I cannot drink coffee unless the milk is skimmed.

Diet coke is indeed disgusting but I heart Pepsi Max. SO much better than proper Coke or Pepsi, imo.

Semi is just a good compromise, its more versatile as full fat tastes too rich in tea. I do like full fat in coffee (only have milk in instant coffee but still).

Baby has full fat milk so I sneak some of hers into my instant sometimes.

3 year old has semi and husband has it on his cereal etc. Our fridge is full of milk.

We used to be one of those houses that bought a 1 pint semi skimmed and it would go off before it got used.

Now we have 2 children and I'm buying about 12 pints a week!