Skimmed Milk

Mix white emulsion with your water & you pretty much have skimmed milk :-D

Depends what finish you want?

That would be difficult, as "full fat" milk doesn't exist in nature.

The standardised milks we get result from ALL milk being skimmed, then percentages of the fat being added back to standardised levels.

Spoilsport :-D

No, because that's still not directs from the cow. Its blended milk from a number of cows.

In the UK/EU, standardised milk is 3.7, 2, 1, 0.1% fat, jersey/Guernsey gold-top is 5%, but still standardised.

As it comes out of the cow, milk is about 4.1% fat, but changes between the start and end of the milking process.

Sainsbury's and Tesco's have stopped selling it. Anyone know where I can get it.

I'm on a low fat diet, hence I want skimmed milk. I can buy normal and semi-skimmed, just not skimmed

Would it not have been more helpful to sell normal and skimmed then people who wanted semi could mix normal and skimmed.

I guess I was stupid not to panic buy. The clever people panic bought, whilst hypocritically complaining about everyone else panic buying.

Whole milk = 3.5% fat. Skimmed milk = 0.1% fat.

So at a ratio 35:1 water:milk, even if I could buy suitable volumes, I might as well drink water.

So drink the semi, and reduce fat in other areas to compensate?

Try one of these 'veggie' milk substitutes?

Indeed, same here. After years of getting used to the "taste" and "lightness" of fully skimmed milk, even semi-skimmed tastes as if it got lumps of clotted cream floating around in it.

That's a good point actually. Unfortunately people who drink skimmed milk are still regarded as "weirdos" by many people. Same as were vegetarians vegans and blokes with beards until it became the fashion.

My local small Sainsbury, mainly patronised by more sophisticated types (natch) normally had a whole shelf of skimmed. While a big Sainsbury a few miles away despite being ten times the size, and having a more mixed clientele, often had none.

I think the thinking was, that people who drink semi-skimmed might not have been able to work this out for themselves, and thus would have been more capable of making trouble than wierdos who were already weakened by years of drinking skimmed milk.

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I'd heard they were stopping selling skimmed milk, at least for now. I'm not sure about other shops.

Aldi certainly had it on Monday- someone mentioned on the local amateur radio.

We usually by a mix- I prefer skimmed, although it is more of a preference than need- Senior Management prefers semi-skimmed, which I'm happy to consume. I don't like full fat, purely as I've not drunk it for (probably) 35 years.

We keep a stock of UHT milk- mainly for trips to France, French milk is dreadful. It reminds me of 'Pureo', a type of milk we used to get when I was a child. It was OK then but, somewhere between my childhood and now, my tastebuds have changed.

Assuming you can get it, have you tried powder milk?

I've only tried it in instant coffee etc in dire emergencies but someone (before all the current issues) claimed it was very good and he and his wife carry it and use it all the time in France- as I mentioned French milk is pretty grim.

You ARE drinking water when ypu drink 'skimmed milk'. Just use semi and use less of it.

Or make your own with MArvel.

fat is good for you (in moderation).

Raw milk at the local farm shop for me. And once a year we can go and watch the cows wandering in and out of the LELY robot milkers on their open day. Amazing machines. LOTS of Youtube videos ...

If fat is the issue (when drinking baby cow growth fluid, the lactate of a completely different species?) how do Soya / Almond / Oat 'milks' compare?

What is it you don't you get in those that you get in heavily processed bovine lactate, apart from cow hormones and steroids and other drugs I mean?

Don't get me wrong, I drank cows milk for most of my life ... until I became more aware of how bizarre the practice was, and with the alternatives around (now), isn't something I've missed at all.

Unsweetened oat milk in tea and coffee, unsweetened soya or almond on cereal.

And another benefit (atm especially) is it's long life and rarely pillaged off the shelves. ;-)

And that's ignoring all the water the dairy industry consumes and the stress on the mothers and calves as they are separated very early on (so we can drink what the calves should be drinking) ... ;-(

Cheers, T i m

Not necessarily, if you've got gallstones or had your gallbladder removed.

Only for some. Mine went over three years ago and as far as I'm concerned it has made no difference whatsoever. Ice cream, full fat cheese, mayonnaise, etc, etc are no different than from before the op. Well, not exactly /no/ difference - my chances of getting gallstones are rather remote...

Presumably because the cost of the energy required to remove the last remnants of fat is greater than the value of the fat which is removed.

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