Friday, October 14, 2011
D.I.Y. skim milk
Someone once said to me that skim milk was watered down milk. That got me thinking. It's probably a lot cheaper to buy full-cream milk and then water it down so it becomes skim milk. If you could be bothered. If you were that strapped for cash.
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I don't think that would work. Skim milk is not watered down, it's skimmed. When I was a kid, we used to get milk delivered every day, and it hadn't been homogenised - there was a layer of cream at the top. I always liked to be the first one to open a bottle of milk - I'd pour the cream on my cornflakes before my parents got to it and shook the bottle so the cream was incorporated. So skim milk is full cream milk with the cream skimmed off.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, Lara.
ReplyDeleteElsie, I have put water in my milk to make it last longer. Frugal skill. Also, half dry cereal is worse to me than half watery milk.
I used to be an avid skim milk drinker, till the husband pointed out that he'd done the maths and you're not really losing that much fat content by drinking the skim/lite variety. So I switched to full cream milk and to be honest, I have not noticed one iota of difference in my weight (and I drink a lot of milk - a flat white every morning and cereal most days). I've even managed to lose all my baby weight while still drinking full cream milk everyday.
ReplyDeleteSomething to think about I reckon as skim milk is expensive...there's so many other junky products you could cut out of your diet before you mess around with milk. I do buy low fat cheese though, and low fat sour cream/cream, etc.
And I water down my juice, but that's because I'm a nanna and don't like the taste of full strength juice!
I have heard (from cow types (not cows, people who work with cows)) that, while skim milk is 99% fat free or whatever, full cream is only about 3-4% fat. Big saving there. Drink the full cream stuff, water it down if you're cheap. Or poor.
ReplyDelete:) cows!
ReplyDeleteI actually prefer the taste of light milk to full cream. So I pay more for that. But skim — no.
After drinking skim milk for ages, one day I had to cook with lots of full-cream milk. I was amazed by its viscosity--so thick and gloopy-sounding as I poured it! Curiosity got the better of me and I drank some--such a different taste!
ReplyDeleteI try to drink organic milk (cos Jillian says so), and so far I'm getting it light. I definitely like light more than skim.