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Milk.
Every morning I record 250ml of milk - that's a quarter of a litre. I have just done so. I don't think that every day I drink a quarter litre of milk, but some days I might drink more and others, less. Over a week I guess I consume about 1.5 litres at a push.
I used briefly to drink only soya milk, having gone off cow's milk for several years, but now it seems to be more palatable (though I am drinking the "filtered" one, so maybe that's why it tastes OK).
It occurs to me that milk is a jolly handy foodstuff. How would we make cheese sauce for my favourite, cauliflower cheese, if we didn't have milk? How would we manage without cows' milk to make baby milk formulae? What would we use for milk puddings?
One of my fondest school memories was free school milk - a small bottle with a straw - collected from the crate in the playground; there was a one inch layer of cream on top, provided the birds hadn't pecked through the silver foil top to help themselves to the cream. On a warm day, we would rush to get the milk before it turned sour.
I have a friend who says humans shouldn't drink animal milk. Says cows' milk is for baby cows not humans. I don't have any evidence to contradict her. What does occur to me is that humans have been drinking cow and goat milk ever since they learned to farm animals and so far as I am aware it's not done mankind any harm.
Do any of you have any views or fond memories of milk?
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765 kcal
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Fat: 19.00g | Prot: 68.41g | Carbs: 78.07g.
Breakfast: Morrisons Carvery Cooked Ham, Ryvita Crackerbread, Tesco Skimmed Milk. Lunch: Tomatoes, Ryvita Wholegrain Crackerbread, Fox's Glacier Mints. Dinner: Tesco Broccoli Florets, Chicken Breast, Tesco Unsmoked Back Bacon Rashers, Courgette, Cauliflower, Lemon Juice (Canned or Bottled). Snacks/Other: Activia Natural Yogurt, Raspberries. more...
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like you I remember the little bottles at school and the blue straws. I can't actually drink milk now neat, it has to have something in it like coffee. I use almond milk in my porridge. my Kids love milk and it's good for bones and teeth. it's also good for rinsing you mouth out if you have a ulcer. BOB is my favourite milk at moment.
10 Mar 17 by member: gingercaloriecounter
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Didn't really drink it neat but never without it in the fridge. Must be there for cereals, tea and porridge for kids. Don't know what my hubby would do with his 🙈😉
10 Mar 17 by member: dahla1
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I love milk and cauliflower cheese is a favourite of mine too. I also love cheese - especially the English and Dutch ones. I loved the school milk bottles and they would sometimes give me an extra one if there was any left over. My mum cooked a milk pudding every Sunday and sometimes in the week too, if we were lucky! 🙂
10 Mar 17 by member: Doobrie
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I'm vegetarian and have considered phasing dairy out but you're right, it's jolly handy. It's hard enough being vegetarian sometimes, you've got to watch everything cos there's so much stuff out there you wouldn't necessarily expect to have animal products in it. I do like almond and hazelnut milk, but they're more of a treat thing for me cos they're more expensive than dairy milk. It's so much harder to avoid milk than I thought. On a day to day basis I don't have much actual milk at all, but aye, it's in everything isn't it? I do like an occasional full fat pint though, find it very refreshing especially when hungover or in summer..
10 Mar 17 by member: rwaller7483
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I have many fond memories of school milk. In the summer in the sun it could get a bit mingy and the tops pecked and in winter with a one inch high plug. Always drunk though I spent my childhood always hungry
10 Mar 17 by member: Adpully
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I only use milk for Yorkshire puddings these days. I remember being school milk monitor in infants' school and trapping my new pinafore under the edge of the milk crate and marking it. My mother went ballistic and the mark never came out so that was one for the duster sack. I only know now how little money we had when I was a kid and why she was so annoyed - she made virtually all my clothes and I only had bought new at Whitsuntide. Tell kids that today ... (cue the Four Yorkshiremen sketch!)
10 Mar 17 by member: Phooka
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Yes - You were Lucky I wasn't even allowed a pinafore -just cardboard.
10 Mar 17 by member: Adpully
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Thank you for all your replies. I also love almond and hazelnut milk because of their unusual flavours but wouldn't use them in tea or coffee. Soya milk always curdles my coffee.
Phooka, my mother used to knit our jumpers and I remember feeling really "poor" because I didn't have M&S machine made jumpers like everyone else. However, I still have a jumper mum knitted for me and I wore it at her funeral as a mark of respect for the love and dedication reflected in everything she did for me.
Doobrie, I covet milk puddings. At school we had sago, semolia, and rice puddings on a regular basis. In the 1950s kids were fed high calorie meals because after rationing they needed to be built up and some of my friends came home to bread and butter for their tea, unlike nowadays where an evening meal seems to be the norm. I recently found some dried out hot cross buns and made them into a bread & butter pudding. I used up some cream that was in the fridge instead of milk though. It was delicious.
10 Mar 17 by member: MaisieP
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Ah knitting. Mum used to knit a lot too. She'd unravel old jumpers and wash the wool to get the kinks out then re-knit. I only had older brothers so didn't get many hand-me-downs but re-knits were common. As for milk puddings, homemade rice pudding was the only time we ate rice (never as a savoury) and macaroni wasn't in soup or with a savoury sauce but boiled in milk with sugar.
10 Mar 17 by member: Phooka
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All our yesterdays - Sunday tea was bread and jam and tinned fruit and condensed milk -I hated Sundays and couldn't wait for school dinner on Monday. What ever it was it was better Sunday tea. Even the cottage pie and beetroot that turned your wee red.
10 Mar 17 by member: Adpully
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I am a milk/dairy person, through and through...milk, butter, cream, ghee, I just consume them in moderation now. But if you asked me what I literally cannot run out of at home, what would drive me to the shops in the middle of a Blizzard, the list would be "milk, tea, coffee, Quest Bars". As a child, my mother would scold us for drinking copious amounts of the stuff and going through it so quickly. I loved it for breakfast each morning, it always felt so cold and refreshing! I don't drink it on it's own so much now, but we always keep plenty of 2% (it's also organic but it's a low-lactose version) nearby for coffee, tea, protein shakes, whatever. I also make homemade kefir out of organic whole milk which makes a great probiotic, nutritious drink - I sometimes strain that into a soft cheese and make "baby no-bake protein cheesecakes" with protein powder and a couple of crushed biscuits. I have to admit I don't like soy milk or almond milk - I do like coconut milk for cooking though. Confirmed milk lover here. :)
10 Mar 17 by member: real_gone_girl
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Oh Maisie - bread and butter pudding - my favourite dessert ever! Whenever I see it on a menu I have to have it. I don't even care if it's not a particularly good one - I love it anyway. Of course, my mum made the best 😉.
10 Mar 17 by member: Doobrie
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