Skim milk is evil, and so am I. Plus bonus coverage.

[ralerin]

OMG WHERE IS THAT?! ME WANT. A LOT. I have to scavenge...usually in the organic section where it costs like a million dollars for anything I want, and 99% of the time, it's soy/almond/rice-weirdness, which I don't particularly like that much, but heck, I'll take ANYTHING over getting sick all the time.

In the UK.

The best part is that it IS available online but I would imagine you need to pay a fortune for shipping here to the US.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

you can make all the skim milk you want right at home: just add white out to water!

Probably tastes better than store-bought too.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Probably tastes better than store-bought too.

So when are you going to be brave enough to try it?

Personally, I prefer whole milk. I've tried the 2%, 1% and skim and I guess I'm just so used to the whole stuff that's all I use.

[Eisa]

In the UK.

The best part is that it IS available online but I would imagine you need to pay a fortune for shipping here to the US.

Aw, damn. Yeah, I imagine it is a fortune...but it looks like it would be worth it, anyway. ...if I could afford it.

[ralerin]

you can make all the skim milk you want right at home: just add white out to water!

Nah, tastier way is to use cornstarch. Tastes like chalk but it's edible.

I grew up on skim milk, don't mind skim milk. I view the 1% 2% and whole milks as rare treats and treat them accordingly. Or at least used to. I don't have celiac disease as I mentioned in other places but I do have a degree of lactose intolerance.

[Mikkel]

I don't like skim milk, except this. It's made with milk from jersey cows and it actually taste like milk and it isn't homogenised.

[Kirachan]

milk

I love whole milk, the cream coating your mouth is part of its wonderfulness. sadly my pudge loves whole milk too, so i have been drinking 1% milk. my mom prefers skim, but i like a little creamy flavor in my milk.

did your manager laugh her a** off?

[BlaqueKatt]

I have the opposite problem. You know how hard it is to find whole organic milk?

I'm in the land of cows and cheese-for me it's easy-Sassy cow creamery makes both "regular" and organic-sadly to send you some it would need to be fedex overnight packed with dry ice-and probably kinda expensive......

[dalesys]

You drank a horse? How? Was it through a straw?

9 children at home.

We'd go over to my dad's cousin Tom's place every 3-4 days and fill two 5-gallon plastic cuboid jugs from the holding tank in his milking barn.

Fresh! Raw!r Cold! Whole!

After a year of this my dad traded our horse Dixie in on our tab.

(Never dared ask if Tom renamed the horse: His wife was also named Dixie...)

[Whiskey]

HERES SOME EVIL FOR YOU



I cant afford real milk

[EricKei]

Um, 2% is skim milk.

(I used to work at a dairy)

Maybe the terminology differs by region and/or dairy? I've never seen 2% referred to as anything but "lowfat" or "reduced fat" here. 1% (or maybe below?) seems to be the "skim" borderline 'round these parts.

I still recall the time Dad *froze* a jug of (1%) skim intentionally, many many years ago. It actually separated out into 20% milky-white "platelets" and 80% grey water. It looked -- and tasted -- well, like bad water with some milk mixed in. We never could get it to really re-combine properly.

[Mr. Anubite]

I love skim milk. I was raised on it. In fact, I don't think I've ever tried whole milk. If it's as thick as some people say, I probably wouldn't like it.

Then again, I only drink diet sodas because I can't taste the difference between regular and diet anything, and the diet is usually less harmful. I probably wouldn't notice the difference between the two milks.

[Gidgetdigit]

Caillou is still around? That came out in the 90s, so I'm not surprised it's in the $5 bin. Caillou was a whiny little creep anyway; the only DVD worth watching is the Christmas special, where he isn't whiny. Otherwise, Caillou is the devil.

As for skim milk? Not my thing, but dh and ds love it. The dd's and I prefer 1% (though I rarely drink milk at all).

[Magpie]

2. If Cailou is such a boon to children's shows, how come I've never heard of it?

Because clearly you were never ill enough to stay home from school and watch it during the day.

Here's another reason why I sometimes hate my boyfriend-they have an entire line of lactose free milk and milk products. Not just the piddly line of milk and ice cream that Lactaid sells here, oh no. The line makes cheeses and butters of all sorts, flavors and varieties in addition to the milks and ice creams. Mmm, cream cheese.

I have to ask: why can't you just take the pills? I found they worked perfectly well for me, we stopped buying the drops when the pills came out. Also, if you're only slightly lactose intolerant, try butter. No guarantees, but it's mostly fat, so there's not as much sugar.

What I wish was easier to find was almond-"milk" based frozen dessert. It's apparently actually quite nice (as opposed to the soy stuff which is edible and enjoyable, if it's a good brand, but that's it).

[fireheart]

OK explanation time for the DVD thing:

Caillou is obviously a kids show. Basically it's designed for 2-6 year olds and aims to show the world through a toddlers eyes roughly. that's my guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caillou

As for whether it's good or bad, I can't say. It's probably on a better scale than Blue's Clues and definitely better than Wow Wow Wubbzy-I watched one episode and my first thought afterwards was "Wow, what the heck were they smoking?"