Yeah, yeah...strange topic. I know. My family and I have been using powdered milk exclusively for the past three years. That's right. No "regular" bottled milk. Here are some thoughts:
It's cheaper
With two adults and four kids, we go through about 3 quarts a day (see above)
It really doesn't taste as bad as you might remember - just refrigerate it overnight
Look for powder that has a bigger "grain" - the fine powders clump up terribly and that does taste bad
Brand-names (Carnation, Milkman, etc.) = expensive and annoying little pouches
Flavorite brand = good
Western Family brand = better (and you can buy it in 10 pound boxes)
Safeway brand = bad
The kind you can get from LDS canneries = horrible (read above about clumping)
The suggested one year supply of powdered milk for my family is 83 pounds (whoa)
That's about 21 boxes of the 20 quart size
That's 420 quarts
At three quarts a day - that's only 140 days
Therefore, we'd need 1095 quarts for a year...
...54.75 boxes...
...219 pounds...
Egad!
4 comments:
Does powdered milk remind you at all of Powdered Toast Man? I always giggle when I see powdered milk.
We occasionally use the stuff in recipes when we don't have milk handy. The kind we bought comes in packets... not sure the size of them though. It's also suppose to give home-made ice cream an extra edge of yum, more creamy or some such.
We don't use much regular cow milk anyway... the kids both drink soy. Yeah. It keeps the sanity at normal levels though. After almost 3 years I *still* haven't gotten up enough guts to try it... not even the flavored kind... I'm a weenie.
Heh...Powdered Toast Man...I actually thought about that too. I was going to include some joke about clinging precariously to someone's buttocks, but wasn't sure if anyone would get it. Besides, saying something like that is just plain WIERD!
I don't get it...Powdered Toast Man? See my Blog about toast.
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