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Great tasting, low cost, low calorie milk
Hi All,
Why does ANYONE buy skim milk?? For half the price, and with much lower calories, and with better taste, they can easily and simply purchase whole milk and mix it with somer water: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? -Bill |
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Great tasting, low cost, low calorie milk
"billcalley" wrote in message ups.com... Hi All, Why does ANYONE buy skim milk?? For half the price, and with much lower calories, and with better taste, they can easily and simply purchase whole milk and mix it with somer water: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? -Bill Because it's gross? Really, mixing whole milk w/ water isn't the same as skim milk. ~Kat /who grew up in a diary community. |
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Great tasting, low cost, low calorie milk
On May 3, 11:48 am, "Knit Chic" wrote:
"billcalley" wrote in message ups.com... Hi All, Why does ANYONE buy skim milk?? For half the price, and with much lower calories, and with better taste, they can easily and simply purchase whole milk and mix it with somer water: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? -Bill Because it's gross? Really, mixing whole milk w/ water isn't the same as skim milk. ~Kat /who grew up in a diary community. I must have really weired taste buds then, because it tastes a heck of a lot better and richer than 1%!! -Bill /a milk connaisseur! |
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Great tasting, low cost, low calorie milk
On May 3, 9:26 am, billcalley wrote:
1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. Where I live, you can buy 1% and you can buy skim. 1% is partially skimmed. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? If you dilute a glass of full fat milk so that it has only as much fat as skim milk, you will end up with something that has next to no protein and carbohydrates. It also has less calcium, less vitamins, etc. Adding water to milk does not change its /ratio/ of protein:carbohydrate:fat calories. The resulting drink has fewer overall calories, but in the same ratios. On the other hand, skim milk actually has a greater percentage of calories from carbohydrates and protein relative to fat. This is why you should look carefully at products which are marketed as ``low fat''. Many are targetted at naive shoppers who are taken in by the low absolute fat content percentages quoted on the package, which say little. The percentage of fat calories could be very high or very low. To calculate the percentage of calories from fat, multiply the fat grams by 900, and divide by the total calories. If this comes out to more than 40, leave the food on the store shelf. Is 3% fat yogurt leaner than a 4% fat cheese? Yogurt is mostly water compared to the solid, protein-dense cheese. Ignore the water; what are the actual solids in there that you are paying for? Does it really make sense to be dieting by eating fatty food, and padding up the volume with water? If you think you need more water, then just drink more of it! |
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for one thing the skim milk I buy is 80 calories and I buy it at 1.69/1.99 a
gallon, and I am too lazy to do otherwise, Lee billcalley wrote in message ups.com... Hi All, Why does ANYONE buy skim milk?? For half the price, and with much lower calories, and with better taste, they can easily and simply purchase whole milk and mix it with somer water: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? -Bill |
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Great tasting, low cost, low calorie milk
"billcalley" wrote in message
ups.com... Hi All, Why does ANYONE buy skim milk?? For half the price, and with much lower calories, and with better taste, they can easily and simply purchase whole milk and mix it with somer water: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? -Bill When I was a kid, my best friend's family was quite poor. Her mother would buy whole milk and they would water it down 50/50. Not for health, dietary or taste reasons but because it made the milk go twice as far. One night I slept over and tried a little of the watered down milk the next morning and wanted to spit it out. I prefer the taste of skim milk over whole, 1% or 2%. Those all taste heavy and greasy to me. I was told to switch to skim milk 20 years ago when I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. I had no problem making the switch. -- Liz HW:268 CW: 169 GW: 148 |
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On May 3, 1:09 pm, billcalley wrote:
I must have really weired taste buds then, because it tastes a heck of a lot better and richer than 1%!! No, you just have taste buds which prefer unadulterated fat. |
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Great tasting, low cost, low calorie milk
On May 3, 4:42 pm, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On May 3, 9:26 am, billcalley wrote: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. Where I live, you can buy 1% and you can buy skim. 1% is partially skimmed. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? If you dilute a glass of full fat milk so that it has only as much fat as skim milk, you will end up with something that has next to no protein and carbohydrates. It also has less calcium, less vitamins, etc. Adding water to milk does not change its /ratio/ of protein:carbohydrate:fat calories. The resulting drink has fewer overall calories, but in the same ratios. On the other hand, skim milk actually has a greater percentage of calories from carbohydrates and protein relative to fat. This is why you should look carefully at products which are marketed as ``low fat''. Many are targetted at naive shoppers who are taken in by the low absolute fat content percentages quoted on the package, which say little. The percentage of fat calories could be very high or very low. To calculate the percentage of calories from fat, multiply the fat grams by 900, and divide by the total calories. If this comes out to more than 40, leave the food on the store shelf. Is 3% fat yogurt leaner than a 4% fat cheese? Yogurt is mostly water compared to the solid, protein-dense cheese. Ignore the water; what are the actual solids in there that you are paying for? Does it really make sense to be dieting by eating fatty food, and padding up the volume with water? If you think you need more water, then just drink more of it! Your analysis is exactly right. Skim milk is not 1% milk either. 1% milk is 1% milk, but skim milk has all the fat removed so it is essentially 0% fat. Yes, to understand percentages (of fat) in food, you need to determine the percent of fat calories compared to the total calories. This shows that 1% fat milk is still loaded with fat with 2.5 grams of fat which totals 22.5 calories from fat in each cup making the fat in 1% milk really 20% of the calories. dkw |
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That's nasty!
Watered down milk.. yuck.. Will~ "billcalley" wrote in message ups.com... Hi All, Why does ANYONE buy skim milk?? For half the price, and with much lower calories, and with better taste, they can easily and simply purchase whole milk and mix it with somer water: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? -Bill |
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Great tasting, low cost, low calorie milk
On 3 May 2007 09:26:36 -0700, billcalley wrote:
Hi All, Why does ANYONE buy skim milk?? For half the price, and with much lower calories, and with better taste, they can easily and simply purchase whole milk and mix it with somer water: 1. Whole Milk (3% fat) = 150 calories, $3.50/gallon, great taste. 2. Skim Milk (1% fat) = 130 calories, $3.50/gallon, OK taste. 3. Whole milk mixed with equal amounts tap water (1.5% fat) = 75 calories, $1.75/gallon, great taste. What am I missing here??? -Bill Chemistry class, you must have skipped out. -- http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/mnnster.html |
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