POLL: What kind of milk do you buy?

[AnneGabe]

We drink organic whole milk. My toddler son (allergic to dairy) drinks almond and rice milk.

[musicmommy]

When I can get out to the farm, we drink raw and use it to make our butter. Otherwise, we get get some non-organic certified, but still organic milk (we know the dairy) from a local dairy. 1% usually.

 

For myself though, I drink almond milk. Trying to cut back on my dairy for health reasons.

[Mommy22alyns]

Plain ol' boring, store brand conventional skim milk here. I can't bear paying organic prices.

[BigMamaBird]

We buy conventional 2% from a local farm. It's not organic, but they are a very small operation and treat their animals really well. They don't use the hormones either.

[creekland]

We use conventional 1% (voted) and conventional whole (since we use less of this), but I almost always buy the non growth hormone variety from our local Rutters as opposed to anything goes from the grocery store. We also buy premade Chocolate milk from them during the summer in both 1% or whole versions (pending our whims at the time).

[Firefly]

Organic whole or raw, depending on which store I'm at. My two drink a lot of milk, so I think it's especially important to make sure it doesn't have hormones or pesticides in it.

[KidsHappen]

I buy Purity brand with added acididophilus. It costs $6 a gallon, I think. Luckily, we only use it for cooking and an occassional bowl of cereal.

[BethInNH]

No animal milk in this house- soy, almond, or coconut milk here.:tongue_smilie:

[Colleen]

 

Just interested in knowing how many raw milk vs organic vs conventional milk drinkers we have at what fat level. Trying to decide if I want a change. Currently we drink 2% mostly organic and then use whole organic milk for yogurt, but I'm wondering if we should make a switch to whole milk or even raw.

My guys go through 10 gallons of our own raw milk each week. The butterfat content is close to 5% ~ too rich for my tastes ~ so I drink Organic Valley 2%. I attribute my family's excellent health in part to raw milk, but I never recommend purchasing raw unless you have you have firsthand familiarity with the production facilities.

 

[ecj98]

Conventional Skim Milk.

[Peela]

The poll needed to be multiple entries possible for me, because I drink raw goats milk at the moment, and raw cows milk at other times...dd will dirnk raw cows milk if I buy it...ds and dh drink only conventional whole milk, normally, although I am now buying some local milk in recyclable packaging that they will drink.

[Pretty in Pink]

I buy organic 2% exclusively now that my youngest has made the transition from whole to 2%. Before that I also bought organic whole milk.

[Dobela]

I voted conventional skim - but really, only my dh drinks that. The rest of us can't tolerte cow milk so we drink soy, almond, or rice milk.

[desertmum]

Couldn't vote because we don't buy cow's milk.

 

We buy soy milk unsweetened for the adults and for ds we buy goat's milk or camel milk.:)

[kristavws]

We used to only buy organic dairy products, but I got tired of the prices. So, we finally decided to buy our own Jersey cow :D. She produces the best milk. I make nearly all of our dairy products now, and we never have to worry about running out of milk!

[IsabelC]

I would love to use raw milk if we could get it at an affordable price. Unfortunately it's tricky because you have to either get it unofficially or buy "bath milk" (for us it is illegal for raw milk to be sold for human consumption). Therefor we get unhomogenized full cream milk at the moment, but we're definite raw milk wannabes.

[mcconnellboys]

You only let me choose one. I buy mostly organic skim, but I also buy organic whole and buttermilk. I buy the least pasturized milk I can get here legally (flash pasturized). I also buy organic yogurt and cheese.

[idnib]

2-3 gallons of raw milk/week for our family and I kefir all of it. :)

 

http://www.realmilk.com/where4.html

 

http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html

Edited September 7, 2010 by idnib

[angela in ohio]

I couldn't check more than one, so I chose organic whole, as that is what we buy the most of. That's what the kiddos drink. We buy a gallon or so each week. We get most of our dairy from yogurt and kefir instead. I buy a half gallon of conventional skim for myself, but I rarely finish it. I can tolerate milk and cheese less and less.

[Virg]

We use hormone free (but not organic) whole milk. I can't afford organic or raw with ALL the milk we go through. Oh and one of us drinks rice milk :)