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Have You Ever Done This With Milk?

ShortyLugNut — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:42:15 GMT

My parents buy a gallon of 1% which is purple with the brand name that they buy. The skim milk is blue which is what I wanted so yesterday I grabbed a half gallon of the store brand in blue not even thinking about it. I opened it up this morning and something caught my eye when I was pouring the milk into my cereal. The milk I bought isn't skim milk its 1% as well. So now we have a gallon and half of 1% milk in the fridge. I really wanted the skim milk. Its a good thing my niece is staying with us for 3 days she loves milk hopefully we will go through it all. I hate that they use different colors for different percent's. I didn't even think about it.

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Topaz Gem — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:43:48 GMT

In my area, the 1% is in a blue cap. It's confusing!

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Marianne1 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:44:58 GMT

skim is yellow capped here, lo. Confusing.

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brii — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:46:50 GMT

I haven't bought milk with a cap in a long time. I buy almond milk in the paper carton.

Is there much of a difference between 1% and skim?

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ShortyLugNut — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:10:29 GMT

1% has 2.5 grams of fat where skim has none.

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terrier3 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:43:13 GMT

On 8/6/2014 brii said:
I haven't bought milk with a cap in a long time. I buy almond milk in the paper carton.

Is there much of a difference between 1% and skim?

I am 100% almond milk too.

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brii — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:44:22 GMT

On 8/6/2014 nycrhythm0617 said:
1% has 2.5 grams of fat where skim has none.

thanks

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stilltamn8r — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:44:49 GMT

I thought 1% WAS skim milk... The 0% is nonfat, right? I should add that I am not a milk drinker, so please excuse my ignorance...

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DoneTryin — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:02:04 GMT

At my grocery store, the skim milk has a purple label, or at least it used to. I quit drinking cow's milk a couple of years ago & switched to almond & rice milk. No color-coding there; I have to read the label to choose what I want

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CelticCrafter — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:30:06 GMT

In my area there is no consistency with colors.

Each supermarket has their own color coding for the fat content. One uses pink for 2%, one uses blue and another uses green.

The only one that is the same throughout is whole milk with a red label and cap.

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ROMARY — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:38:27 GMT

Had this conversation 20 plus years ago............Let's say: If one glass of milk has 2% fat, then combining equal parts of water and milk into another glass, wouldn't it be 1% fat? (per that glass). (BTW, I cannot drink 'skim' milk.....it doesn't agree with me for whatever reason. Tried all brands, etc. throughout the years. Must be something re: the processing, etc.)

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depglass — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:38:43 GMT

We have two or three brands at each store. All have a different system, so I automatically look at the label.

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stilltamn8r — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:40:02 GMT

Isn't whole milk only 4% fat????

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Topaz Gem — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:41:53 GMT

On 8/6/2014 stilltamn8r said: I thought 1% WAS skim milk... The 0% is nonfat, right? I should add that I am not a milk drinker, so please excuse my ignorance...

No, 1% is 1%. Skim is even more watered down.

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stilltamn8r — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:42:37 GMT

On 8/6/2014 Topaz Gem said:
On 8/6/2014 stilltamn8r said: I thought 1% WAS skim milk... The 0% is nonfat, right? I should add that I am not a milk drinker, so please excuse my ignorance...

No, 1% is 1%. Skim is even more watered down.

So are skim and nonfat the same?????

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ROMARY — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:51:34 GMT

I drink whole milk, mainly for making shakes/smoothies, using it in my several cups of coffee all day long, etc. I like the smoothness of whole, although I have purchased 2%? (One step lower than whole) when the supermarket was out of whole. Seems as though whole 'goes a long way', so to speak. Takes too much (lower %) milk per cup of coffee to get it to be the 'perfect' flavor (for me!).

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ROMARY — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:52:48 GMT

p.s. I forgot what % the 'one step lower than whole' milk is. I only have 'whole' in my fridge.

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brii — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:07:11 GMT

On 8/6/2014 ROMARY said:
Had this conversation 20 plus years ago............Let's say: If one glass of milk has 2% fat, then combining equal parts of water and milk into another glass, wouldn't it be 1% fat? (per that glass). (BTW, I cannot drink 'skim' milk.....it doesn't agree with me for whatever reason. Tried all brands, etc. throughout the years. Must be something re: the processing, etc.)

Removing the fat from milk is a process. It's not just simply diluting the milk with water.

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shoesnbags — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:15:23 GMT

On 8/6/2014 stilltamn8r said:
On 8/6/2014 Topaz Gem said:
On 8/6/2014 stilltamn8r said: I thought 1% WAS skim milk... The 0% is nonfat, right? I should add that I am not a milk drinker, so please excuse my ignorance...

No, 1% is 1%. Skim is even more watered down.

So are skim and nonfat the same?????

Yes, they changed the name to "non-fat" a couple of years ago. I think it was in response to gov. regulations for labeling milk. Many of us still call it "skim," thus the confusion.

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shoesnbags — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:17:30 GMT

On 8/6/2014 brii said:
On 8/6/2014 ROMARY said:
Had this conversation 20 plus years ago............Let's say: If one glass of milk has 2% fat, then combining equal parts of water and milk into another glass, wouldn't it be 1% fat? (per that glass). (BTW, I cannot drink 'skim' milk.....it doesn't agree with me for whatever reason. Tried all brands, etc. throughout the years. Must be something re: the processing, etc.)

Removing the fat from milk is a process. It's not just simply diluting the milk with water.

Thanks for pointing this out. I cringed when I read this. I know that non-fat tastes watery to those who are not used to it, but it's not from diluting full fat milk.