Reduced fat milk for children over two?

[Arimeh]

My kids have full fat milk, but low fat cheese. Just because thats what I buy for us to have, and I refuse to buy two different lots of cheese, when I already buy two different lots of yoghurt.. LOL

[Phteven]

We use skim milk in our house.
My reasoning is that it is less processed than homogenised milk. Left to its own devices the cream rises to the top of the milk and skimming off the cream is a pretty simple operation. Bashing the milk until the cream stays in to form 'full cream' milk is a bit more complex.
Cream has very little calcium so they don't need the cream for calcium and our diet isn't short on oils and animal fats so they don't need any from cream.
I don't use any of the other skinny milks because most of them have 'milk solids' in the ingredients and other creepy stuff.

There used to be a non-homogenised organic milk in a green carton but they started homogensing it so I stopped buying it.

[Junglemum]

My reasoning is that it is less processed than homogenised milk. Left to its own devices the cream rises to the top of the milk and skimming off the cream is a pretty simple operation. Bashing the milk until the cream stays in to form 'full cream' milk is a bit more complex.

I had no idea. I presumed skim milk was processed..... you learn something new every day.

[Indadhanu]

I thought skim milk is still homogenised after it is skimed though, to stop that little bit of cream they could have left behind from separating??

Thanks for giving me something to think about. I might have to put some more thought into this I think, and see what we decide.

[Phteven]

I thought skim milk is still homogenised after it is skimed though, to stop that little bit of cream they could have left behind from separating??

Really.
I think I'll stick to skim anyway. When I have the full cream at other people's places it just tastes too thick and gooey - I don't like the texture/flavour much.
Or maybe I'll start getting the 1l non-homogenised.

[LimeSlice]

FWIW Low Fat Milk has more calcium than Full Cream Milk - they add extra to it.

[Party-of-five]

FWIW Low Fat Milk has more calcium than Full Cream Milk - they add extra to it.

Thats what my dietitian told me so now I feel good about changing over to low fat milk

[Jennifer13]

There used to be a non-homogenised organic milk in a green carton but they started homogensing it so I stopped buying it.

We get this one - it's still non-homogenised where we buy it. The 2L plastic bottle version is homogenised, but not the 1L carton.

Personally, we don't buy non or low fat anything, so I'm not going to start with milk. I agree that a balanced diet is more important than cutting out the fat in milk. I'm more concerned with what goes on with our milk before it gets to the fridge (thanks Choice).

Oh, and skim milk has a lot less absorbable calcium, so we avoid it for that reason too. Not that we're big milk drinkers.