When I went to a private school, the milk was only provided to primary school students, but when I moved to the state high school after grade 10, the milk was available to all students
The milk was always both fresh and cold, and some senior students like to have competitions to see who could drink the most.
As far as hot school milk goes, my former barber went to school in Wales and she told me how the crates of milk would be brought to each classroom and would then be placed in front of the heater.
She said that one morning, she asked the teacher if she could not put the milk near the heater as she liked her milk cold, to which the rest of the class piped up in agreement.
We buy it for our eldest (3 yrs) to drink with his eggs for breakfast. Occasionally weāll use it to make him porridge. Sometimes weāll use a small amount in scrambled eggs if we donāt have pure cream.
On the full fat Vās lite (or reduced fat) debate
Recent evidence is showing how reduced-fat dairy is not beneficial. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1903547
These findings are particularly damning for reduced fat as there is likely to be a large Healthy Person Bias influencing the low-fat results. Itās been part of the healthy eating message for a long time.
I realise not many people can access scientific articles, so this is the interesting bit for low fat dairy:
Overall, the findings of prospective cohort studies and randomized trials do not show clear effects of milk intake on body weight in children or adults. Contrary to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advice to choose reduced-fat dairy, low-fat milk does not appear to have advantages over whole milk for weight control ā and in children, available evidence suggests greater long-term weight gain with reduced-fat milk than with full-fat milk.
Reduced Fat milk also tends to be higher sodium per 100 ml than full fat. Fat soluble vitamins and minerals are often less in low fat varieties and in some cases they add the vitamins and minerals to increase the levels. This still puts them at a disadvantage as the fats help the uptake of these vitamins and minerals.
But this lower fat message had been driven by the sugar side, whereby fat was seen as far worse for weight gain than sugar but the evidence is now showing carbs and particularly sugars are far worse particularly the āemptyā calories/kilojoules.
I honestly donāt like how they have so many different Milk products bit over trying to find which is best. Maybe if tbey left it as it was before but it changed. At least when Milk was in bottles we didnāt have lots to choose from.i noticed aldi have started selling norco milk. I will try to purchase if available as it local source
Itās called product differentiation. If it is all the same competition comes down to name (eg people pay more for Schweppes soft drink than nonames) or price. If you donāt have a name and you want to make more than the minimum markup you make your offering a different colour, flavour, more healthy, less fatty, more calcium, less yada yada all with big ad campaigns and nice pics of cows in colour.
That reminds me of that TV ad featuring a person walking into a shop and asking the woman for milk, to which she replies in a dead pan voice naming every variety in the fridge.
It ends with him saying āI just want milk that tastes like real milkā to which she replies āThis one tasted like full cream milk, and only 2% fatā.
The milk I usually buy is the home brand full cream milk from the supermarket. I use it in my coffee or tea, and in baking.
At present, to reduce shopping trips,
Iām buying Devondale long life milk
so that I can keep a few extra cartons
in the pantry without fear of it getting spoiled.
I also keep a tin of condensed milk, just in case, and am happy when the ābest
beforeā date comes near so that I have an excuse to indulge in the luscious slice of bread topped with condensed milk that Iāve learned to make from @grahroll!
@ WEND Iām surprised your A2 milk goes off in 3 days. I always buy fresh skimmed A2 milk but I get the longest use by date on the shelf. That is never less than 10 days and it is still good even then.
Have you considered checking the seal on your fridge? If it is old it may not be making a good enough seal and therefore your fridge may be operating at a higher temperature. Not good for your milk or your wallet
Thanks Karen, fridge keeps everything else fresh. I too look for longest use by date, often no choice as all the same date. I also prefer the long life because l can keep in cupboard until opening so donāt need to shop every few days. I donāt understand why long life A2 is so frequently unavailable- l check several large suburban supermarkets. When l ask the staff l receive odd responses āwe get what weāre sentā, to āwe donāt stock it anymoreā. l have emailed both Coles and Woolworths without response.
I buy 2 brands - Community Co low-fat lactose free for every day milk and So Good Regular soy milk for my coffee in the morning. Both are available at my local Foodland and IGA shops. I canāt drink coffee without soy now as when I realised I was lactose intolerant we didnāt have lactose free milk available so soy was my substitute. Now coffee doesnāt taste right without it.I buy the Community Co because itās the cheapest and So Good because itās the most consistent in frothing.
There is such a wide variety of alternative milk products or different forms of milk. We add Pauls Zymil to our shopping list when one of the family come to stay. Itās want they prefer and is their compromise between price and taste. Iāve never thought to try using soy etc to make coffee at home. Although some outlets have coffee menus that fill pages with all options.
We generally purchase low fat cows milk. I do prefer full cream with my coffee as a special treat. We obviously need to try some different options for the home made barista coffee. Itās one more thing to make others feel welcome.
We always buy low fat milk from a mainstream milk provider. We generally avoid the āhome brandā milk, no matter what low price they have or promises to āhelp farmersā. My feeling being that, if the major retailers want to help farmers, they should pay a decent price!
The āskim milk plus extra calciumā is interesting (they do it by adding some skim milk powder to skim milk I believe) but too expensive for what does for my calcium intake (eat some cheese and yoghurt instead).
Never buy āmilkā made from soya beans because I am sensitive to soy.
Never buy āmilkā made from almonds because I am very sensitive to almonds.
I buy Farmhouse Gold, blue or gold top for my son, husband and I use Dairy Farmers pure cream in coffee and general cooking use, lower carb and higher fat content. Yum
