Milk..what type do you drink?

I have green milk but am thinking of changing it. I don't usually drink much milk but lately I have been making banana milkshakes for breakfast for me & DH & using the green milk but I wonder if I should be using a milk that has more calcium for my bones...

What about kids?

I buy green for me & DH & lite blue for the kids...Just after seeing the adds for other types I was thinking about changing to the calcium one but not sure if it really is all it is made up to be.

I drink light blue - don't use heaps, just for tea, coffee and oats.

I read somewhere although can't remember where... that we can obtain enough calcium from a healthy diet and that special milks aren't required but are more of a marketing ploy. Don't quote me on it though, I can't even remember the source but it might be worth investigating if you were concerned about the milk. We don't buy special milk for the kids though, and they eat plenty of dairy, yoghurt and cheese etc...

We have light blue, for everyone. DS is on formula

I knew there was a reason we changed the whole family to light green.

Got this for you from the one site just now:

Which milk has the most calcium?

    

Skimmed milk has a little more calcium than semi-skimmed, which in turn has a little more calcium than whole milk.

The reason is simply that as the fat is removed, the watery proportion of the milk goes up, and this is the part that contains the calcium.

In actual fact the difference isn't that great - per 100ml the figures are 122mg for skimmed milk, 120mg for semi-skimmed and 118mg for whole.

Of course there is another main advantage to drinking lower fat milks - they are lower in calories, fat and saturated fat.

Per 100ml, skimmed milk has 32 calories, 0.2g fat and 0.1g saturated fat; semi-skimmed milk has 46 calories, 1.7g fat and 1.1g saturated fat; and whole milk has 66 calories, 3.9g fat and 2.5g saturated fat.

What you do lose by taking the fat out of milk is small amounts of vitamin A, but you can more than make up for this by eating plenty of beta carotene-rich vegetables, which the body makes into vitamin A.

These include carrots, red pepper, cantaloupe melon and apricots.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-197372/Which-milk-calcium.html#ixzz1Xt2o7Ne8

wow SMoody thanks for that. So will stick to my green & only need to buy that now, lol