How much milk do you drink?

[Solitary Wanderer]

Hunters and gatherers didn't sit around swilling pints of cows milk and they were fit and strong

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

I can't stand the taste, consistency, or appearance of it, so I never touch it. I don't eat cereal except occasionally out of the box. The dairy industry has been peddling their BS for so many years about how we need to drink milk. Why in the world would any species of mammal have evolved to be dependent on the milk of another mammal? Besides, I can do without the hormones!

I only drink rainwater and grain alcohol.

[Solitary Wanderer]

The dairy industry has been peddling their BS for so many years about how we need to drink milk.

So true. Its especially bad here in NZ as diary based products are a pillar of our economy.

The whole 'milk is high in calcium and essential for strong bones' is incorrect. There are many other foods that are much higher in calcium like seaweed, nuts and seeds [tahini] dried fruits like prunes and dates. 

[Kullervo]

I drink it in my tea, in my coffee, in my cereal, and a hot cup of it before I go to bed. I recently discovered organic milk... man, I can't believe what I'd been missing!

[Bonehelm]

Milk doesn't really help kids grow up from my experience. I started drinking at least 600ml a day at 6 and I'm still not very tall. Now I'm 16...

[sidoze]

I never drink the stuff.

neither do I. It's unhealthy.

[Que]

I drink it in my tea, in my coffee, in my cereal, and a hot cup of it before I go to bed. I recently discovered organic milk... man, I can't believe what I'd been missing!

Makes a big difference, doesn't it?

When I was young I drank a lot of milk - it was even encouraged by the governement through public campaigns and handing out (free) milk at school. Now nearly every young Dutchman is at least 1.9 meters (the on-line convertor indicates: 6.233595841666666 feet  ) this has stopped. I guess we are big enough now.

These days only on my cereal and in my coffee.
And I always eat yoghurt for dessert.

Q

[Mark]

Judging by the results of the poll (and the posts in this thread), I'm a milk-drinking freak!

Gotta get me weaned off the stuff ... for the second time.

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm a big boy now. I never drink the stuff. I only drink water, wine, beer, whiskey and whisky. I don't drink coffee. I've discovered that my corn flakes taste better when they are soaked in Old Grand-Dad 114 rather than milk. It gets my mornings off to the right start.

Sarge

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

"The beer I had for breakfast was so good, I had another one for dessert."

[BachQ]

Humans are the only mammals drinking milk after they have been weaned! 

Ummmm ......... When I had adult cats, I would feed them saucers of fresh milk ..........

[Kullervo]

I only drink rainwater and grain alcohol.

Way to keep those precious bodily fluids pure.

[Larry Rinkel]

I rarely drink milk, and if I do, only 1% or 2%. But I do have a cup of plain low-fat or fat-free yogurt with most breakfasts, and I cook with milk once in a while.

[orbital]

Yogurt is very easy to make at home by the way, and you may bypass all those preservatives.

All you need is some good, organic milk and a tablespoon of yogurt. You can buy just a tiny cup of plain yogurt at the grocery store. Make sure it is made with active live cultures. This yogurt is going to culture the milk into yogurt.
As for milk try to be as organic as you can. If you want fat free yogurt then you need fat free milk and so on. But defatening of the milk may require some inorganic method, so the best idea may be to use plain milk (with no vitamins added). Try to be as natural as possible.

Bring half a gallon of milk to a boil, and let it rest for 20-25 minutes until it gets warm (about 100-110 F). Then add one tablespoon of plain yogurt and stir well until all the yogurt is dissolved. Then you will need to close the cover and maintain a constant temperature of about 100F for 12-15 hours. 100-110F is the ideal temperature for the bacterias to multiply and take over the milk.

The traditional way to do that is to wrap the covered pot with a blanket in normal room temperature. IF you want to be scientific you may get a thermometer and check the temperature, or even put the milk/yogurt mix in the oven and choose 100F constant temperature. But a blanket generally just works fine.

After 12-15 hours, your yogurt is ready to eat. You may want to keep the upper crust from the boiled milk and put that on top of the mix after you stirred the yogurt in the mix to have that hard crust on top.

The good thing is, you can now use only one tablespoon of the yogurt you made for your next project. Since you used a very natural method to prepare the yogurt, the next one will probably be even better as your yogurt is bursting with live cultures 

[paul]

None. I do eat a lot of cereal, but I don't put anything but soy milk in it.

[PerfectWagnerite]

None, it gives me the runs.

[uffeviking]

None. I do eat a lot of cereal, but I don't put anything but soy milk in it.

And the soy milk? Is it made with organic soy or the genetically altered crap? 

[sidoze]

And the soy milk? Is it made with organic soy or the genetically altered crap? 

have you tried rice milk? Even after all these years it still surprises me how sweet it is (great for blinis, no need for extra sugar). Soya milk has the advantage of no carbs and sugar, but it tastes rather chalky on its own (the unsweetened kind anyway). Better for diets, no doubt.

[paul]

And the soy milk? Is it made with organic soy or the genetically altered crap? 

I didn't even know that there was soy milk with genetically altered soy. I drink Silk and its variants and I know that they use organic soy.

[uffeviking]

I understand it is soy and corn scientists enjoy playing with most of their time. Can Wiener Schnitzel be far behind? Ooops, they are not vegetarian, maybe they'll survive unscathed?

Tony I didn't know there is rice milk. How about coconut milk, is that available commercially? Btw. how are you doing with your watercress expedition? Found the good stuff?