I used to love milk, and I suspect, the truth be known, I still do. But sometime in my junior or senior year of high school (1969 or 1970), I became lactose intolerant. The physical effects of lactose intolerance are not very pleasant. So, I stopped drinking milk. But I was able to continue consuming other milk containing products: pudding, ice cream, cottage cheese, cheese, yogurt.
As the years progressed, the limitations on what I could comfortably consume decreased. The household in which I grew up considered ice cream a primary, major and necessary food group. It was not unusual for there to be 4 or 5 different flavors of ice cream in the freezer at my house. Sometime in the late 1990's, ice cream started triggering the lactose intolerance symptoms. After that, cottage cheese started causing me problems. I can still tolerate cheese, yogurt and pudding.
So, I do not usually buy milk. I keep powdered milk on hand, so I can constitute milk for cooking as needed. This time of year, I do buy milk, for cooking, and for the outside kitties, so I can give them something warm on the freezing cold days. This year, the outside kitties have not always consumed the milk offered. I give sparse amounts to the inside kitties, and it usually disappears, but not always.
Milk is really a good food. I just can not tolerate it.
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