There’s enough difference in calories per serving that it really adds up if you’re getting most of your recommended allotment of dairy through milk each week. In terms of calories and saturated fat, you could have a delicious chocolate dessert one night plus 1% milk all week, or you could have whole milk all week. I know what I’d pick.
I love whole milk; 2% is bearable if it’s all that’s available, but anything less is too watery for my tastes. I would prefer raw milk, as that’s what I drank growing up around my uncle’s dairy farm, but it’s been years since it was possible to get it around here.
Skim or 1%, 2% in my tea if I can pick up a really small bottle.
Right now I’m drinking a reasonably well known local brand, Calder Farms, that I buy at Whole Foods. It comes in a glass bottle, tastes grassy and sweet, kind of like the milk I’ve had in India. They were willing to deliver it, but I live in an apartment complex and was leery about that option.
If a super-tasty local brand isn’t available, I just buy the Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s organic brand.
I chose 2%, as that’s what I tend to buy. But mom brings home the extra whole milk cartons from the school, and those taste better. And I’ve been known to chug those little half-and-half things, even when they are fake.
When I was growing up, I was allergic to milk, and grew up using a non-dairy coffee creamer on my cereal. It was a lot sweeter than milk. I finally found something that tastes like it–vanilla flavored rice milk. But it’s missing that bitter taste of rice milk, and is as thick as half-and-half.
Anyways, I hated milk for a long time, but it finally grew on me at the same time as all my other tastes grew up. You know, that point where super sour and super sweet stuff isn’t good anymore, and bitter stuff isn’t so bad.
Oh, and the reason I know about rice milk is that my sister is allergic to dairy and soy (and a lot of other things. Verified by an actual allergist–despite the opinion of one doctor on the Dope that people with lots of allergies have a psychiatric disorder.)
Unpasturized (raw), non-homogenized whole milk. We get it delivered every other week as part of a dairy coop. Best. Milk. EVER.
I’m a two percenter.