Fresh skim milk - a.k.a. skimmed milk

For others who might be interested, I spotted for the first time ever fresh SKIM milk in the store. It's a premium priced product at 79 cents a liter (compared with the 1.5% at 49 cents) but at least they have it now. Available at Plus markets.

Good one! Thanks.

fab now all I need to do is find a Plus...

What, Skimmed and not just 1,5% fat ?

Topsy, there's a Plus on Landshuter Allee at the corner of Volkhartstrasse.

That's where i do my lunchtime Chav shopping!
Well either there or Penny round the corner on Leonrodstr!

Oh... baby!

Grtho, yes, skimmed. 0.1% fat. I do know what I'm talking about.

Parnell, thanks for your support and encouragement.

I know, I was just in shock!

PLUS is getting mcu and much better. I think I only ever go to theposh supermarkets for brand name gin now!

Okay, sorry to get uppitty. By the way, it wasn't in the normal "milk cupboard" but rather out with the other dairy products. Seek and ye shall find.

Actually thats more a reflection on meself Madame... I useta drink 4 litres of the stuff back in Ireland per day but after I came over here I was packing on the "mass" with the 1.5% variant...I love milk...cant wait to suck it down again.

0,1 % = the taps are silting up again dear.

1.5 % = not milk, chalky water maybe.

3.5 % = aha, suitable for a cuppa.

Heretics the lot of ye!

If you don't shop at Plus, Campina has just launched fresh 0,1% milk under the Optiwell brand.
My local Spar stocks it already.

Katrina, I think it might be the same brand. I didn't write down the brand name.

anyone know if they have milk for the lactose intolerant?

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Possibly not in Plus, but you can get this in large supermarkets and Kaufhof food halls (at least in the Rotkreuzplatz one). See the MinusL range here on the offical website. The lactose is split so that the lactose-intolerant can drink it without problems, it tastes slightly sweeter than normal milch for that reason.

I don't understand why anyone would possibly want "white water" as we call it back home (skim milk)

I've always drank 2% and had to switch to 1.5% here, not much different. I just find it facinating that someone would want white water...

On a side note, there's a plus in Herrsching, it's the only place I can find decent-priced energy drinks right now. Aldi used to have some, but discontinued it last fall.

more beer.

To be honest, reducing the fat content from 1,5% down to 0,5% or lower won't do an awfull lot to help you on your healthy way to a slimmer figure. You would have to be drinking an awfull amount of milk for it make a difference on your waistline whereas the taste difference is quite big. Don't see the fuss about "virtually fat free milk" myself.

i second the "more beer" motion. can we now have a vote?

Skimmed milk makes better froth for cappuccino etc.
That's why it is important to know if you like froth as UHT can taste, well, UHT.
And I like the taste of skimmed for drinking alone. It is more refreshing somehow.

To be honest Owain, it can help. An "awful" lot is of course true. But it can help. Let's leave out the fat content for the moment and just look at the calories.

A pound of fat (pardon the heathen measurements) has 3500 calories. A glass (200mL) of 1.5% milk has 96 calories. A glass of skim milk has 72 calories. Let's assume you drink 4 glasses a day. That's either 384 calories a day or 288 calories a day.

So by drinking skim milk, you reduce your caloric intake by 96 calories. So in around 36 days, you will have lost one pound. That means by doing nothing other than changing your milk, you could lose 10 pounds in a year.

Actually the reason why skim milk helps so much is because of milk being mostly carbohydrate - any fat is shuttled very quickly into the body.

I like the tastelessness of skim milk. My mom used to buy homo milk (3.5%) when I was little, and that is how I ended up hating milk, and consequently, never grew much.

Plus, I don't know why but in Switzerland UHT milk was cheaper.. is it like that in Germany too? I don't think it was

Homogenized I believe. I hope actually.

Homogenized milk. Full fat. My understanding is that only Canadians can read that and not immediately think of the other.

What udder ?

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I had thought the term 'homo' milk was universal, at least within the English speaking nations

i don't drink that much milk in a month! 4 glasses of milk EVERY day is a hell of a lot of milk.

Milk is for baby cows. Drink beer.

edit: HOMO-milk?

Drinking homo milk and smoking fags.

I agree with OG. If you are drinking four glasses of milk a day, it would be smarter to cut down on the glasses rather than the percent fat. You also can not use this addition of calories for a year to see how your change in intake will have an effect on your weight. The truth is unless you count every calorie and purposely make certain your intake will be a certain number, you will make up these calories with other food. People rarely change their calorie intake over a long period of time. In addition, by reducing your intake your body will be more likely to slow down the metabolism, thus creating a larger problem. If you want to lose weight and you are reasonably healthy...exercise...it will be worth the reduction of a thousand milks, and you will feel better as well.

I can easily consume 4 glasses a day. Milk provides more than just calories. Check it...milk.

Not really - fastest way to add weight is with liquid calories - ask any nutrition expert. I have easily consumed upwards of 5000 calories/day in the past which milk helped a lot with (rugby etc.) . 5000 calories is a helluva lot of eating in one day.

I could drink a gallon a day and still do probably twice a week. I am a milkoholic, expecially with a big bowl of chocolate ice cream and After Eight's crumbled up over the top. Ohh, I still have Girl Scout cookies.

Mmm...thanks for the tip

So, as you see, lots of people drink lots of milk. For them it could be useful.

I drink 2 to 3 glasses a day of Soyamilk, as I cannot drink milk, but I do miss it, great way to get some usable calcium for strong bones and teeth!

I dunno, I go back and forth between the 1.5 and 3.5 milk depending on Tengelmann's wishes...(they run out of the cheap stuff a lot, it's the only place within walking distance...) and drink LOTS of milk...

...and I'm 6'2" and 150lbs ...so I don't see it affecting my weight...even if I did just spend the entire winter sitting on my ass in an apartment.

oh, and I'm from Minnesota, and have NEVER heard of "Homo milk" ...sounds hilarious to me ...but so does the chain of convenience stores in Iowa known as "come and go" ...we just call it sperm and split

Okay, enough with the skim-milk bashing. Hearing about fresh skim milk makes my day. I've been here a month and had been trying to get used to shelf milk. Anywhere else I can find this besides Plus (which I will check out -- what's the brand? Where's it shelved?

Happy day!

Found some at Edeka - 0.5% - and the brand is called Exquisa or something like that.

the skim milk is gone!!! And the stocker at Plus told me that they're not ordering any more. anyone know what happened? (Fortunately, Minimal still has it.)

My guess is that the Germans complained that there was too much variety and they couldn't decide what to buy. Hence the supermarkets go back to selling the same 50 products and rotten fruit and veg as they are used to.

It doesn't matter if it's crap as long as it's cheap, appears to be the most important thing here.

You have a point on the cheapness. That is one of the key issues in food retailing in Germany.
Whereas English speaking countries want a LOT of choice it seems, that isn't so important in this market. It isn't WORSE as somme TTers seem to think, just different.

This is basicly the reason why despite pleas from TT users, UK retailers won't set foot in Germany while they are expanding elsewhere.

Food retailers (so called supermarkets) in inner Munich tend to be small with little storage space.
There are also a LOT of them, I've 7 within walking distance, so they rely on a smallish customer base.
A relatively specialised fresh food product that takes up space but doesn't have a high turnover is going to be taken out of the range, simple as that.

You can get Skimmed milk in virtually any supermarket from Minimal to Pennymarkt. Its called "Entrahmte Milch". Been available for years, but usually only as long-life milk.

skimmed milk, why? take 500ml water, pour in a dash of regular milk and there you have it, white water.

(ok, ok, i know that some people can't tolerate regular or semi-skimmed milk but as a 2 pint a day man it's awful stuff to drink on its own)