Milk With Every Meal?? (meat, fat, roast, weird)

[Prince_Frog]

I drank a gallon of milk every week growing up as a kid, some weeks I would drink more. Drank it for breakfast even when I had cereal, because mixing juice with milk didn't work with my stomach. Every meal I would get a glass of milk. I'm not the same now as I was as a kid, but I think if I could continue drinking that much milk and could pass up on water I probably would.

I'm a midwest white folk, born and raised in a small town white neighborhood. Pretty sure there were only a couple black families that lived here at the time.

[Ringo1]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

Appropriate???? Who the heck gave you the right to declare when milk is "appropriate?"

Do I really have to preface every opinion about milk as in 'this is my opinion' on a thread that is CLEARLY about individual preference?

[maciesmom]

Originally Posted by Ringo1

Do I really have to preface every opinion about milk as in 'this is my opinion' on a thread that is CLEARLY about individual preference?

In all fairness, use of the word "appropriate " did make it sound like a judgement or rule that people should follow. When talking about personal preferences, "appropriate " isn't often used. It is however frequently used to describe the approval or disapproval of the behavior of others.

Thanks for clarifying your intent.

[Blondy]

We drank ice tea growing up. Don't think it had anything to do with being white.

More like my mother didn't like milk so she didn't serve it to us or make us drink it.

For breakfast we drank coffee as children lol......albeit much watered down with milk.

I have never drank milk for any meal.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Blondy

We drank ice tea growing up. Don't think it had anything to do with being white.

More like my mother didn't like milk so she didn't serve it to us or make us drink it.

For breakfast we drank coffee as children lol......albeit much watered down with milk.

I have never drank milk for any meal.

How is your bone density? Have you ever had it tested? I read that coffee leaches calcium from the bones.

[Blondy]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

How is your bone density? Have you ever had it tested? I read that coffee leaches calcium from the bones.

I had it tested recently. Its fine.

[TabulaRasa]

Family of six in middle American farm country. We went through at least four gallons a week. Milk at every meal. My twin brothers, especially when they were teens, could polish off a gallon alone, each of them.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

How is your bone density? Have you ever had it tested? I read that coffee leaches calcium from the bones.

Drink coffee, did as a kid only with cream and sugar: as stated before I have never been a big milk drinker and every bone density test I have had: about 3, I have been fine. Even at my age, not bone problems. there are lots of ways to get calcium and there are lots of studies we read about that are more wrong then right.

[Mr_Geek]

I'm from the Midwest and had milk at every meal growing up. My wife and I were watching leave it to beaver and she commented how they drank milk at every meal. I thought everyone did this back in the day until she said this. I didn't grow up in leave it to beaver era though (I grew up in the 80s).

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by Miss Crabcakes

OK, I had to ask this cause I think this is the oddest thing.

Milk with every meal 'the oddest thing'? Seems really, really low on the 'odd' scale to me. So, for that matter, does not drinking milk with every meal. Or even never drinking milk with a meal. None of those things strike me as particularly odd, to say nothing of being 'the oddest'.