Originally Posted by Psydotek
Skim milk = 2% reduced fat milk? Because i go through like 2 gallons a week...
Skim milk = 0% fat.
A cup of skim has 85 calories, 1% has 105 calories, 2% has 120 calories, whole milk has 150 calories. The difference is the number of fat calories.
If you drink 2 gallons a week, that's 32 cups. If you switched to 1%, you would save 32*15=480 calories. If you switched to skim, you'd save 1120 calories.
To look at it in the long term, switching from 2% to 1% would save you about 7 pounds of fat over a year...
I don't find 1% much different from 2% in taste. Skim is more of an acquired taste.