Not my carrots! Never my carrots!

Jay

I agree with Maria that getting milk (a very important source of nutrients) out of the house is not reasonable. However, I do agree with Runundefined - you can definitely acquire a taste for skim. I grew up on 2% milk, for 20 years. But at university, I just started buying skim. Tasted watery at first, but now I love it - more refreshing, actually. I can't drink 2% anymore (though I'll confess to real cream in my coffee), and would honestly choose skim over 1% too. My husband (and he hates change, and isn't overly interested in healthy eating) has even learned to like skim.

There's no milk in my house. We've got yogurt, cottage cheese, two kinds of cheese ... no milk.

Well, we need milk in the house. We have a 2 year old here who feels she has to have milk throughout the day, usually chocolate milk. She's like me, she craves milk, doesn't really matter if it's chocolate or white, she just wants it. Try explaining to a 2 year old that she can't have "choca mewk" becuase we are out of milk... Wanna see a hissy fit? Not just she and I, but we also have other people who live here who also drink milk, eat cereal or cook with milk. My house is always full of kids, the kids that live here, not to mention neices and nephews (ages 10 months - 15 years), neighbors kids, etc... So, we go through milk very quickly. I opened a gallon yesterday evening, and half of it is already gone...

As for skim milk, I bought a gallon of the stuff about a month or so ago, and I could hardly drink the stuff. I did try. It was nasty. My family felt the same way. It was OK if I mixed it with the 2%, but not by itself. I don't think I could ever get used to drinking that stuff alone. YUK! But, I may switch to 1%. I can drink 1%, and it's ok. But I cannot drink skim, I did try...