[Tech1] Supermarket milk

[Nick Ware]

Semi-skimmed isn’t ‘not natural’ but is lower fat. I too was brought up on ‘natural’ in glass bottles with those push-in cardboard tops, but the war was a long time ago, in less enlightened times! My Mum used to carefully pour the cream off the top and use it to make custard, scrambled eggs etc. No fridge in those days, but daily milk deliveries and local cows made a big difference. One thing you might look into is whether your supermarket sells British milk or French milk churned about in huge containers on Channel ferries. That was why we left AN-other supermarket some years ago - that and the “free-range“ fresh chicken that was lime green inside when you carved into it (yes, really!).
Cheers,
Nick.
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> On 10 Nov 2020, at 21:16, dave.mdv <dave.mdv at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> We used to but we always had full-cream during the war and grew up on it and recent info. was published that natural is best! Cheers, Dave
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>> On 10/11/2020 21:07, Nick Ware via Tech1 wrote:
>> I should add that on the instruction of our Dietician daughter, and our personal preference, we buy semi-skimmed. Maybe you should too?
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>> Nick Ware - Sent from my iPad mini 5
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>>>> On 10 Nov 2020, at 21:02, Nick Ware <Waresound at msn.com> wrote:
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>>> Try Sainsbury’s. My wife Judi is high vulnerability due to Sarcodoisis and medication etc., and so am I because compared to her I am an old codger, so we have a weekly home delivery. The milk always has a long enough use-by date to last well over a week. No problem. We always buy the 2pint plastic bottles, and of course always recycle the empties along with the embarassingly large number of wine empties. On the one occasion that the milk didn’t last the week, a quick phone call and it was replaced free of charge.
>>> Needless to say, we trust and hope that the bottles don’t get dumped in the sea!
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nick.
>>> 
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>>>> On 10 Nov 2020, at 20:50, dave.mdv via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>> Is anyone else finding that their whole milk in the 4 pint container is going 'off' before the 'best before' date? My sister-in-law in Nottingham has also noticed this, this morning I had to pour away about a third of the container as it poured out like custard! I have decided to split the 4 pints into two and freeze one half. I did wonder if it was being in plastic which caused it so I tried storing the milk in glass for a while. My daughter in Somerset still has milk delivered in bottles! How quaint is that!? I could of course buy two separate 2 pint containers but that would cost 50p. more!  Cheers, Dave
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