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[Weaver]

This week there’s no milk at all in The Island. "No lorry drivers" chaos affected the Co-op, same for Tesco’s, who deliver from Inverness. A local cafe shut its doors today, can’t make hot drinks. Black coffee or lemon tea anyone?

[burakkucat]

I guess that there has also been a surge in demand for coffee whitener or powdered milk . . . 

If really desperate, purchase cans of ready-to-serve rice pudding and filter the contents, thus separating the solid rice from the fluid.

[g3uiss]

Perhaps the plant equivalent

[Alex Atkin UK]

I'd love to find a substitute I can tolerate, every one I've tried tastes horrible.  I'd basically have to give up Coffee without milk and only have fruit/herbal teas and flavoured iced tea.

Not that standardised milk is great either, I moved onto unhomogenised milk many years ago and it seemed to dramatically slow how quickly I was putting on weight (despite being higher fat content as it was only available in Jersey milk from Grahams back then), didn't make me feel sick and tastes how I remember it from school before they "standardised" homogenisation of milk.

[tickmike]

Baby milk powder    Milk the sheep / mountain goats    Not seen many cows around the island.

[Weaver]

There are plenty of goats on the mainland and we have plenty of cows here. Good tip about the rice pudding.

[burakkucat]

Cans of evaporated milk and condensed milk are another two options. (Assuming the "local locusts" haven't emptied the shelves.)

[digbey]

There's always Tibetan tea using butter instead of milk.
Ideally it should be Yak butter.
It's not something I'm keen to try.

[Weaver]

Black goats can be seen every day right by the main road at Shiel Bridge near Cinn t-Sàile on the mainland. There are bins by the road that attract them. I haven’t tried going up to one so I’m not sure how tame they are, but they came down from the hills where they range over a huge area I believe, from the evidence of place names such as Àird’ Ghobhar.

There’s no way I’m up for milking one, and I’ve never milked a cow (my father had milking machines for that job) although I think my mother did when she was young. Janet’s hands are no good - arthritis - and she has no more experience than me.

Can’t milk our donkeys as they are males.

[roseway]

The donkeys might object if you tried.

[Weaver]

Doesn’t bear thinking about. They do kick! (Although they’re very very friendly.)