Watering down milk.....

charliee_3

i buy skimmed for me and OH and whole milk for my toddler, i have watered down his milk for our use when i ran out but i'd never water his down for him... i don't really do it on a regular basis because it reduces the nutritional value..

peachespeaches

kafkathecat wrote: »

The calcium issue is quite complicated. It seems countries that consume more dairy have higher rates of osteoporosis.

http://thebabybond.com/MilkingYourBones.html

K.

Thats good news for me, I dont touch milk as I have lactose intolerance. I occasionally worry about calcium as the hospital dietician advised a multi vit mineral which I took for a while then stopped. I occasionally take a calcium magnesium and zinc supplement too.

The bit about the study where the adolescent girls got an extra drink of milk was interesting too.

Penelope_Penguin

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread on this subject

Penny. x

Dazi

orb wrote: »

Sadly it's not the farmers who benefit from milk processing. They just see the raw milk carted off in a tanker for a pittance. It's the milk processors & supermarkets who make money.

Agree, well not sure if its changed as this is going back about 15 years, but my ex FIL was a dairy farmer, he just got paid so much a litre for the milk and if he went over his quota he had to pay them to take it away, so he didn't get any extra for the bit taken out.

I don't drink much milk, just don't like it, used to hate having to have milk at school so I was one of those that liked the fact that Maggie Thatcher was a milk snatcher lol. I do have milk in tea but have skimmed, drink coffee black. (We lived on the farm for a year after we got married and I used to water the raw milk down as it was just too creamy for me)

ceridwen

Dazi wrote: »

Agree, well not sure if its changed as this is going back about 15 years, but my ex FIL was a dairy farmer, he just got paid so much a litre for the milk and if he went over his quota he had to pay them to take it away, so he didn't get any extra for the bit taken out.

I don't drink much milk, just don't like it, used to hate having to have milk at school so I was one of those that liked the fact that Maggie Thatcher was a milk snatcher lol. I do have milk in tea but have skimmed, drink coffee black. (We lived on the farm for a year after we got married and I used to water the raw milk down as it was just too creamy for me)

I've lived on a farm too for a while and didnt think I was imagining it that I could recall the milk being SO thick and creamy (as it was raw milk that I was having). I just took to having skimmed milk when I was dieting before and - having got used to the taste of it - hence the reason for me now buying full-fat milk and watering it down (rather than it being a costcutting measure!). I estimate I'm having plenty enough calcium in the rest of my diet anyway to allow for that.

.....goes off muttering "I wish I had access to raw milk now - I'd probably be watering it down drastically these days - but at least it would be healthier than the pasteurised stuff I have to buy...:mad:".....

patchwork_cat

Raw milk is no way healthier than pasteurised - my dad was lucky to survive primary intestinal TB as a 2 year old after his elderly aunts gave him unpasteurised milk, he was hospitalised for nearly 2 years! He had large sections of intestine removed and suffered as a result all his life.

Penelope_Penguin

ceridwen wrote: »

.....goes off muttering "I wish I had access to raw milk now - I'd probably be watering it down drastically these days - but at least it would be healthier than the pasteurised stuff I have to buy...:mad:".....

Don't understand this - you feel that "raw" milk is healthier? Do you make sure all the rest of your food is uncooked, for the good of your health?

Kadeeae

Whenever possible we use "real" milk from Nortons, both of us enjoy it much more than what's sold in shops, and while I will buy some processed foods, I've become very funny about milk, must be my age :rotfl:

I had never heard of watering down milk before seeing it on here. Learn summit new everyday!

thriftlady_2

Kadeeae, you lucky thing. I'd love to be able to buy unpastuerised milk. There isn't a supplier near me though. I wish they were allowed to deliver.

anguk

thriftlady wrote: »

Kadeeae, you lucky thing. I'd love to be able to buy unpastuerised milk. There isn't a supplier near me though. I wish they were allowed to deliver.

Not what you're looking for but I did come across this farm in Worcester who sell unpasteurised goats milk:
http://www.margoats.co.uk/

Or how about this farm, not local but apparently they deliver unpasteurised milk nationally:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8520339.stm