Please tell me about cow milk

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SO I need to buy some full-fat cow milk for my small children to drink.

No one drinks it in this house so I need some advice.

Say if I bought a pint of organic full fat cow's milk; how long does it last? How do you know when it's gone off?

I buy organic full fat for my kids - it has a use by date on it - usu. about a week. You can tell that it is off by the smell - or lumps in it

i buy organic, it lasts a week or so, but tends to be drunk before it goes off....! it will stink when it goes off!

OK thanks

I find the smell of milk is revolting anyway so I tend to think it is off after about ten minutes

Handy tip - If you buy too much and its at/near the use by date you can always make a rice pudding, custard or something like that with it. IME children love them. Good for your daughter (read your other thread)

Aww good idea Betty but she doesn't eat food like that

the baby would happily eat her body weight in custard or rice pudding though

Can I ask... is Skimmed milk as good for childrens as cows millk - wtr to calcium etc?

that should read as good as 'full fat' milk

it is mascara...once they get to five or 6, they don;t need full fat...same amount of calcium though...IIRC!

my dd is 4 and I've started giving her skimmed, do you think I should go back to Full fat?

according to this some of the vitamins in milk are primarily in the milk fat

gosh..interesting..i thought that they didn;t need the fat as much after a certain age but still got all the same vitamins....! can you compromise with semi skimmed!

semi skimmed is ok from 2yo apparently, until then they need the fat in full cream