Got Milk?
Mon 2008-02-04 11:36
I think I've found the best supermarket milk in the UK: Duchy originals organic freshly pasteurised Ayreshire milk. It tastes brilliant and, as it isn't homogenised, comes with a little dollop of creamy goodness under the cap (probably containing 10% of the calories in the bottle!) Even the semi-skimmed product is pretty decent. All thanks to good old prince Charles.
Mentioning semi-skimmed brings another thing to mind: public health awareness as a function of corporate marketing[1]. Low fat anyone? Low salt? Low GI? Maybe it'll be low pumpernickel next? Before you reach for the semi-skimmed take note that typically the Calorie difference is only about 25%. There really isn't any point unless you drink litres of the stuff per day. A cup of the full-cream milk I have in front of me contains 160 calories, the semi-skimmed alternative would contain no more than 40 Calories less. That's right, just forty. Taken in the context of a standard male adult intake of 2500 Calories the difference is a mere 1.6% (2.0 for the adult females.) Of course, for many, the "standards" are usually way off the mark (exactly how average are you?), in the context of my current calorie intake at 15% below BMR (~1650 Cals) this is still only a 2.5% difference! If I can fit normal milk into my diet then anyone should be able to!
The conclusion? Dump the bloody skim milk, it doesn't taste good and makes stuff all difference anyway.
What about the fully skim-milk you ask? Well, you may as well stick to water in my opinion. But that aside, skim milk is typically 50% lower calorie than the full-fat cow juice, yet even then for a whole 250ml of the stuff we're talking less then 5% of your daily Calorie intake. A quarter litre is a fair bit of milk too and, unless you guzzle glasses of the stuff straight, you probably have less than that per day taking into account normal sized servings of cereal and tea/coffee (I shudder to mention having milk in either though.)
Want some advice? Keep a closer eye on the sugar and other carbs in your breakfast and drinks. That low-fat chocolate milk drink from the inconvenience store would be fine if it didn't have twice as many Calories in sugar than it has left out in fat.
Anyway, the point was: HRH Prince Charles sells good cow-juice.
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If you managed to get to them before the currawongs the cream is floating at the top, if you don't then the shiny metal foil caps have all been punctured and the cream and milk down to the length of their beak is gone.
The birds won the majority of the time.
Skim milk is good for people like me who are incompetent when it comes to the steaming the milk part of the coffee ritual. It's significantly more forgiving...
The other funny point there also is that thus in most coffee places when gits order a "skinny latte" they're only getting a ~25% milk-Calorie reduction rather than the 50% full-cream to full-skim difference. Of course they probably ordered some half litre sugared up caramel latte anyway so the milk barely matters ;)
Sadly I never experienced "bottles of milk on the porch." Factor of growing up in the country I guess. And no, we didn't have cows it wasn't /that/ country! Milk fresh from the cow is beautiful stuff though.