Milk (1 Viewer)

[Moodybrook]

Just recently home from a three week jog round our provinces ie Europe, sorry mainly Germany. Spoilt a little by the inconsiderate lack of fresh milk. Our pucka UK stash ran out about day five.

How are we ever to consider them civilised when it is so difficult to make a decent cup of tea. They are at a serious disadvantage. No wonder so many of the blighters want to come here !

Do you seasoned tourers have secret suppliers or do you end up resorting to the coffee demon with jars of coffeemate ?

 

[old-mo]

Past your eye`s...... or what ever that long life stuff is called..

Just have to make the tea or coffee a bit stronger to take away the orrible taste..

 

[buttons]

You would have difficulty identifying long life fully slimmed milk in cartons from fresh skimmed milk. Put it in the fridge before you open it and it drinks like fresh milk. The rest will keep for months unopened. I prefer Asda's but they are all ok.

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[DBK]

Earl Grey with a slice of lemon is very refreshing during the day but we do use real milk for the first couple of cups in the morning - although you do have to search it out in Spain.

At least they don't use Carnation milk in their tea here - which they do in some countries. That is an acquired taste!

 

[parknride]

Drink black tea. Find Uht is fine in coffee.

 

[Cat53]

Rooibos tea....no milk
Black coffee
Koko milk on cereal ( from coconuts).

Am sure we used to get milk from the German hypermarkets....but maybe it was the NAFFI! Well it was the early 80s.....many moons ago now!

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[MichelleRyall]

No no no ....I also refuse to drink that disgusting UHT muck. We did manage to find fresh milk in France but Belgium???? Not a a sniff anywhere. Sadly I had to resort to alcohol, hard to understand I know but someone had to take the fall.

 

[rosalan]

I do believe that the further you travel south, the warmer it becomes and milk is not a great fan of 'warm'. So the further you travel south the less likely that you will find 'fresh' milk, although Spain nowadays does tend to keep a few bottles in the supermarkets fridges.
My personal answer is to replace milk with Sangria out of the fridge, its great on cornflakes, in tea, coffee, pastry, Sangria shakes etc.
Have you any idea what part of the cow milk comes from?
Sangria comes from a bottle, which is far more hygienic.

 

[Styx]

Depends on the quantity you think you'll need, of course, and the facilities you have available but you can freeze fresh milk - just leave room in the container for expansion and defrost in the fridge
May be the answer for an emergency pint or two...

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[Moodybrook]

Seems like I am not the last man standing. They have refrigeration so what happened to teutonic mania for organising things. We saw probably thousands of cows, dairy cattle, WHY, they can't make a decent cheddar either !!

UHT milk, has to be the most pointless article invented. When it ends up tasting and smelling like soured milk, why bother ?

 

[Stealaway]

Depends on the quantity you think you'll need, of course, and the facilities you have available but you can freeze fresh milk - just leave room in the container for expansion and defrost in the fridge
May be the answer for an emergency pint or two...

I didn't know that. - Thanks

Coffee is not a problem, I have it black. But I must have real, full fat milk on cereals. (non of the watered down muck)
It is a problem and certainly Aldi in Germany don't stock it. We did manage to find enough during a month in Europe in April

 

[Mikeco]

We use UHT semi skimmed even when we are home so no problem when away.

Mike

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[horshamjack]

Take a tin of Nido with you.
Great tastes like full fat milk or goldcap if you can remember that? We use it with our cereal.


You can buy it on Amazon, we bought a tin before we left in Nov and restocked with a massive tin in Morocco,

 

[dave met]

Like Styx said just buy the one pint plastic, no need to empty any out as they don't split when in freezer, we took a few of these when we went to Austria last year and they kept us going for a few weeks

 

[mariner]

Even in the South of Spain, Lidl always has a good supply of fresh milk.

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[mariner]

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[Irishrover]

Would rather drink red tea than use any pseudo type milk. We have top quality milk here in Ireland so it's always a challenge sourcing anything half decent when abroad. Whilst on the subject of tea.....cant drink teabags either...grew up using loose leaf tea and it's streets ahead taste wise.......fussy aint we!

 

[Beacons]

Aldis long life skimmed milk in the mh
always easy cartons to store fresh milk
cartons too big for fridge and pint sizes too small if in a remote area .

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[jockaneezer]

Take a tin of Nido with you.
Great tastes like full fat milk or goldcap if you can remember that? We use it with our cereal.

Do I have to drink it from a Tomee Tippee cup ?

 

[horshamjack]

Do I have to drink it from a Tomee Tippee cup ?

Lol had me thinking till I looked back at the linky I put in

 

[JockandRita]

Take a tin of Nido with you.
Great tastes like full fat milk or goldcap if you can remember that? We use it with our cereal.


You can buy it on Amazon, we bought a tin before we left in Nov and restocked with a massive tin in Morocco,

I'd have to taste it first, before committing to buying it.

I've managed to buy lait frais demi-écrémé (fresh semi skimmed milk - blue cap plastic bottles) as far south as Mimizan Plage in France, and found Halbfettmilch Milch (Frisch) in most Aldi/Lidl supermarkets throughout Germany, but you have to be early in both countries, as limited stocks do go qiuckly.

Cheers,

Jock.

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[buttons]

I think the answer is to drink nothing but fully skimmed milk both at home and while you are away. They taste the same from cartons or bottles. We have been on it for 30 years and now prefer it to any other. It is a lot better for you too.....

 

[appydaze]

Seems like I am not the last man standing. They have refrigeration so what happened to teutonic mania for organising things. We saw probably thousands of cows, dairy cattle, WHY, they can't make a decent cheddar either !!

UHT milk, has to be the most pointless article invented. When it ends up tasting and smelling like soured milk, why bother ?

'Whey' to go................. sorry bit early for a bad joke

 

[Judge Mental]

Green tea - No milk - Simples

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[gus-lopez]

My Father would only drink sterilised milk when I was young which was delivered by the milkman so on the odd occasion there was no full fat normal stuff , I became accustomed to it. So the UHt stuff isn't a problem for me.
Even in the UK these days finding fll fat with cream on top for your cornflakes/weetabix had become hard so on the occasions now when I eat them for breakfast I buy 'Nata' here, cream, & refrigerate & use that .
Fresh milk is available here , as others have said you just have to find where it is hidden in the supermarkets. In all the main supermarkets they stock it but ,they might not stock a lot.

Both Lidl & Aldis stock fresh milk . it will be at one end of a refrigerated cabinet & dependant on usage, with Aldis normally keeping far greater amounts .
If you are in to soya stuff or Goats milk that'll be found in Mercadona.

As an aside it isn't any different for us when venturing back to the UK to spend ages in lidl's looking for the UHT stuff only to find a few sad & lonely cartons hidden on a shelf somewhere!
Same as them not selling distilled water by the pallet ??

 

[Jim]

Milk, the most over-rated product of our times. Good quality tea with no milk, orange juice on your breakfast cereal. We only use a fraction of the milk we used too.

 

[MikeandCarolyn]

Earl Grey with no milk-and why oh why would you want cereal in countries that produce wonderfull pastries and breads etc.
Embrace the culture and go native

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[John & Joan]

We went on a low carb diet and cut out milk (lactose). Now we don't have to go looking for milk when were are travelling. A similar amount of cold water to the milk we used, cools the tea to drinkable. After a while you notice just how sweet things are these days. Joan made some gravy from a well known brand and it tasted absolutely sweet. We checked the packet and that contained a lot of sugar. When you check the packets its amazing just how much sugar and salt are added to our foods these days. Fat is not really a problem but it becomes so with carbohydrates. I have lost a lot of weight by simply cutting down on carbs (Sugar, White Flour and Rice, Cereals, etc.) and eating protein including natural fats, butter and vegetables.

 

[32143]

Can't stand milk, have used soya for years and always able to get on travels

Nige loves milk and cereals, after using uht for three months, but no cereals, just for drinks whilst away, got back and he went back to real milk and cereal, been ill, very bad intestinal pains and cramping.
I told him he's prob intolerant to milk
Not a happy boy, he has agreed to try using lactose free for a while to check though.
Our loo is very grateful

Lin

 

[John & Joan]

I read somewhere that the further south you go, the more people are intolerant of lactose, the sugar in milk. The reason, apparently is because people in northern latitudes didn't have the fresh milk and vegetables and so had to get their vitamin D from other food sources. Something like that anyway.

Joan.

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