I drink skim or 1%. I cook with whole, since that’s what we usually have at home, and that’s the only time I do any real cooking. I’d rather use 1 or 2%, but my father refuses to drink anything but whole milk, and my mother drinks Lactaid fat-free, since she is very lactose-intolerant. I don’t like Lactaid myself; it seems a bit sweet. I think that’s from the lactose being broken down already. Anyhow, it’s not the lactose that bothers me. It’s the milkfat that makes me ill. I sometimes drink a glass of milk by itself, but it has to be really cold. I also use skim for whatever I put milk in, like cereal. I first started drinking skim twelve years ago because of Weight Watchers. I’ve not kept up a lot of what I learned there (bad me), but the milk thing stayed with me somehow. I’ve drunk soy milk too, and I like it, but only as a beverage–I couldn’t bring myself to put in cereal. My father drinks a gallon of whole milk in less than a week, but Mom refuses to buy him more than that.
I rarly drink it by the glass, unless it is fresh and untreated.
I like Organic Vally or Strauss milk both have an excellent flavor.
I like whole my wife and daughter like 2% so I dont have to tell you what kind we have at our house.
We drink 2% milk which we buy in glass bottles directly from a dairy up the road from us. They have a small processing and bottling plant adjacent to the dairy barn.
The milk there is 100% organic, and tastes wonderful.
We also buy our heavy cream (for cooking and desserts) and half-and-half (for coffee) there, as well as our butter. We make yogurt from the dairy’s milk, too.
Goat milk is awesome too if you can find it. You have to like whole milk, though.
My husband’s mom is German and when he and his brother were teenagers they visited the family there. His uncle Heinrich thought it was very odd that they would drink milk with their meals - apparently it’s mostly an American thing. His uncle kept calling them ‘the babies’ since that’s pretty much when kids’ milk consumption stops over there.
1% for me, and I drink it like a fish (if fish happened to drink milk. Which they don’t. Neither do cows, incidentally). This is probably why I’ve never broken a bone in my life.
My buying habits:
- Split between 1% Milk and Soy Milk (I “take turns”)
- If I had to, would get 2% milk next
- After 1 and 2, next choice would be skim
- After 1-3, next choice would be whole
But absolutely NOTHING is better than chocolate milk. Whether it’s pre-bought (mmmm) or you mix syrup or powder to make your chocolate milk. My favorite though:
Take regular 1% milk and combine with chocolatey ice cream and at least 2 bananas. Put into blender until smooth. mmmmmmmmmm…
And I agree with whoever said that drinking milk while feeling ill is NOT a good idea (yucky).
What is it about these foods that is bad for you to consume?
(FYI…I dunk my peanut butter sandwiches in ice cold milk. It’s pure heaven)
I drink skim milk pretty much exclusively. Like Yumblie, it’s pretty much the only thing I drink aside from water (unless you count coffee). I absolutely love milk. I go through about a gallon every 2-3 days.
I love 1% milk. Full-fat milk tastes like cream to me since I got used to low-fat milk.
Funny true story:
A couple of years ago I was taking a gallon of milk out of the refrigerated section at a local grocery. This particular grocery carries mostly low-fat milk, and the full-fat stuff is in the section with half-and-half and whipping cream.
As I placed the gallon jug in my shopping cart, I noticed a young man who was looking at the milk section with a baffled, annoyed expression. I asked him if I could help him find something, and he said very loudly, in a British accent, "It’s so hard to find good homo these days."
OH yer all a buncha stinkin’ LIARS! (Or all too milquetoast for my tastes.)
The family (mom, pop, two two year old boys) gets two gallons of WHOLE unadulterated, it’d be cream if it were from the Grocery Store, deliverd to my doorstep, Royal Crest Milk.
We cook with lots of real butter too. Aaaand we get Heavy Cream from Costco in the Half-Gallon containers. (How else would you make Alfredo sauce?)
All you people with 1%, skim, soymilk, I can’t see why you even bother. It’s like I drank a glass of milk, then filled the glass back up with water.
If it messes up your digestion, fine, but don’t tell me milk isn’t healthy, I just won’t believe you (see, can’t hear you… na na na NA NA NA NA NAAAA!)
Everything in moderation, folks. Milk is good food.
When we lived in Pennsylvania, we used to go to a little dairy and buy three glass bottles of milk a week. I think they were half-gallon bottles. One whole, one 1%, and one chocolate. Yum.
I think the taste of milk by itself is vile. I can drink a little bit of skim by itself, but it needs to be so cold I can’t really taste it. I use skim in my cereal and sometimes in sauces, and will occasionally put half and half in coffee or a white sauce. The only thing I’ll use cream for is a ganache. The thought of actually drinking 2% or something creamier makes me shudder. Maybe because it reminds me of the time I milked a cow when I was little and was encouraged to take a drink of the fresh stuff. I think the “fresh stuff” that’s right out of the cow is disgusting. Fresh, my ass.
I drink milk by itself.
I drink Semi-skimmed. Full cream leaves an unpleasant aftertaste and skimmed… well what’s the point?
Milk is never part of the range of cooking I attempt. If you can call what I do with food ‘cooking’.
I most certainly do not, nor have I ever owned a living cow in my life. I have technically owned bits of a cow. But no whole living cows. My kids don’t exist yet, but when they do they will drink whatever they want to drink (but I will try to persuade them to drink healthy stuff). I never drink out of the carton. That is unhygeinic. I drink out of a glass. An obsessively cleaned glass. (odd when you consider that the contents of the glass came out of a cow’s tits.)
2% is what we usually keep in the house, A. drinks directly from the carton, usually a gallon or two a week. I have it on cereal, which I eat very rarely, and for cooking. I think milk tastes rather foul, unless it’s soaked into oreos.
Our new diet has a “no milk” rule for a few weeks. He’s dying. 
I hate milk. I hate, hate, hate it. I wish I could like it - oh how I wish I could. But I hate it.
I will use it for cooking - I have about 1/2 a carton of skim left in my fridge from making macaroni & cheese. I may use it to make a couple smoothies before chucking the rest. Homemade smoothies can mask the milk enough that I can tolerate it.
I also don’t like cheese all that much. Yogurt is alright.
Susan
I drink milk a lot. Love it. 2%, 1%, skim, all very tasty. I also eat a lot of yogurt. And cheese. I loves the dairy.
Not a big fan of soy milk, but I do like almond milk very much. I find rice milk to be too thin.
Tinkleberry only drinks human or baby formula types of milks.
I drink full cream goat’s milk. With a spoonful of Splenda in each cup. I love the taste, but I’m told it makes my breath smell funky.
I drink Soy Milk. I started because I started developing lactose intolerance, so I wanted to cut down on my dairy products. I couldn’t stand the stuff initially, but after forcing myself to drink it, I’ve grown to like it very much. I can even tolerate the not-so-great aspetic packaged ones that’ll last approx. a century on your shelf.
I’m personally like the 8th continent brand, but I’ll buy Silk if it’s on sale.
I grew up on 1/2 percent, which might as well be skim, and bought 2% almost as a rebellion when I first moved out. Now we drink 1% usually a coupla gallons a week.
Oddly enough, we’ve moved my sitter’s household from whole down to 2% since my kid would make weird faces after drinking their milk and they’d make weird faces after drinking mine. Everyone’s faces appear normal if we both buy either 1 or 2 so whew! 
I don’t drink much milk nowadays. My husband can’t drink anything less than 2%, and, to me, 2% is so rich that I can barely use it on my cereal (Unless it’s bran flakes. Then I mix in cream and sugar, and eat the resulting ambrosia. Yum.). Since he uses more milk than I do (eats WAY more cereal, and in bigger bowls), he gets to pick the milk. If I get a craving I just go down to McDonalds and get one of their milk jugs, which’re 1% and just right.