Comments on: Saving money on milk!

By: rose

rose — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:32:27 +0000

when i visited my sis in law .. she had organic 1% milk .. never noticed it in the store b4 .. when i got home,,, yep the dairy manager said they just started having it in stock ..
i couldnt taste the difference but the price was higher for this brand ..
i like their chocolate milk . its actually processed at the same plant as the t g lee plant/factory (we have one near us and i used to know a man who worked there and he told me its the same milk as the t g lee chocolate milk as in the publix brand chocolate milk) .. same milk but paying much less for it! …

By: Gayla T

Gayla T — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:13:26 +0000

I get by on milk because we are all lactose intolorant to one degree or another. No one in our family ever just drinks a big glass of milk as they would be rolled up in a ball on the floor with stomach cramps. Some over the years have even had to use goat milk for baby formula. The rice milk is unmercyfully expensive so we just don’t use it. We all take vitamins for D and calcium. For some reason, for us if it has chocolate in it the chemistry of it is different and some of us can use it. Also, bringing it to a boil lets us use it in cooking. I don’t remember the science of it but many can use it that way. I can eat potatoe soup if I let it come to a boil before serving it but would be in misery if it isn’t boiled. I use a lot of cheese to get enough dairy in us. It is not good to give children milk now days anyway unless you are buying it from a dairy that doesn’t use hormones on the cows. If you do let them have a lot of milk that is just the regular milk from the grocery store you are getting the hormones that cause the cows to give more milk and it makes girls start their periods much younger. I recently read that the average age is now 9 1/2 years old. In boys and men, it is causing infertility. Many couples who need help getting pregnant because the male has fewer and slower swimmers. Sadly, those same hormones go right through our bodies and back out into the water supply and can be detected in our tap water. The same with birth control pills. I had wondered why so many couples need help getting pregnant and that is the reason. I was thinking it was because women are older when they are ready to have a baby but evidently that is not true. However, we will probably be having a huge increase in pregnancies since Pfizer is recalling over a million containers of birth control pills. So many women were getting pregnant all of a sudden and it has been found that these pills didn’t have enough hormone in them to keep the pregnancies from occuring. There should be a lot of surprises being born in about 7 or 8 months from now and a lot more milk being needed. LOL

By: Melanee

Melanee — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:27:10 +0000

I grew up on powdered milk. It was my job to mix a half gallon for dinner each night. There were five kids. My mom never mixed it in the morning to get it cold so it was tap water cold then I’d toss in some ice cubes to make it colder. I use to suck on those milky ice cubes when they were poured in my glass. You could probably put ice cubes in regular milk as well. I was used to it, but when I got married my husband wouldn’t have anything to do with it. I felt spoiled having regular milk. We’ve done lots of different things over the years. Bought milk from neighbors, substituted rice milk when we thought we might have allergies, had our own cow, bought milk on the marked down, used it only for cereal and had only hot cereal- it takes less. Right now I get fresh milk from a friend who only charges 2.50 a gallon. I skim the cream to use and am learning to make cheese. Cheese and cream are expensive, but this saves a lot. DH would alway buy half n half or cream to make hot chocolate and put in hot cereal after we had to move and give up our cow.. Now we don’t have to.

By: Minda

Minda — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:27:21 +0000

Because I live 100 miles from the nearest big store (our little store in town charges up to $5.00 a gallon), I have always bought and froze milk then mixed it 1/2 and 1/2 with powdered milk and water. It’s not cheaper but I can’t freeze enough milk to make it last until the next time we go to the store. I buy whole milk and mix it with powdered milk and water according to the instructions on the powdered milk. I can’t seem to taste the difference once it is chilled. You must remember to take out 1 cup of milk before you freeze it or you’ll have a mess in your freezer!

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By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:19:22 +0000

I did the math for powdered milk where I live, and it’s not cheaper at all. I like using it in my coffee, so I buy the large boxes and it still costs the same as it would gallon-by-gallon. You can always get coupons for cans of evaporated milk, though, and use them around the holidays to stock up. If you don’t like the taste, just mix it with regular milk and you’ll never notice.

By: Tawra

Tawra — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:49:13 +0000

Rita, dried doesn’t always save. I find milk marked down for $1-$2 a gallon so it doesn’t even come close to being cheaper than that. Just do that math and if it does then it’s worth it at least for baking.

By: Rita Buhr

Rita Buhr — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:17:14 +0000

I have never tried powdered milk. Is it really cheapier to use? Do you mix powdered milk with whole milk, 1% or 2%? I think I will try this as hubby will be retiring from the Marine Corps after 24 years and are not sure what his “retired” salary will be. We think he has a job lined up but I won’t county my chickens before they hatch. I am always looking for a way to get the food bill down and to do it with healthy home made meals and snacks. Thanks for all the great info!

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:49:22 +0000

Great suggestions! My mom always used dry milk for baking/cooking and mixed 1/2 dry milk with 1/2 whole milk for drinking.

If you omit milk from a child’s meal because they’re having another dairy product (yogurt, cheese) please consider that not all dairy products contain vitamin D like milk does. I am a big dairy eater and was surprised to find I was vitamin D deficient! Check the food labels to be sure.

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:00:15 +0000

When my two brothers and I were young, my mom would get our milk right from the dairy farmer. It was easy for us to go through two gallons of milk a week. When things got a little tight, she started mixing the dairy’s milk half and half with reconstituted powdered milk. None of us ever knew until we caught her in the kitchen do the mixing one day.