When the price of milk escalated a few years ago I had 2 kids (now 3) which all loved milk – as a drink, hot chocolates, in cereals and in baking. So it was becoming VERY expensive to buy fresh milk as the rate we were consuming it. In my own childhood I was born and bred in Sydney and was the 8th child out an 11 child family. So we used and drank powdered milk mostly. The fresh milk was delivered at night but by the morning it was normally all gone. My memories of powdered milk was quite bad – mostly do to with lumps – lots of them which made it most unpleasant to drink. So I decided I would try out powdered milk here in Auckland and see if it was something I could use to reduce our fresh milk costs. Well I was so surprised as the powder seemed to melt into the water and mixed up beautifully – with no lumps at all. I even did a ‘taste test’ of a cup of fresh milk vs a cup of made up milk with my son who loves milk, and he chose the powdered milk cup as being the fresh milk. So since then I have used powdered milk in all my cooking bar one – my cup of teas. I have found the taste is noticeably different in a cup of tea. So now I buy a 1 litre that I keep for my cup of teas only and the rest I use made up milk. Apart from the massive cost savings I am making I find that having powdered milk in a container ready to go means I am never having to rush out and ‘get milk’ or ask my husband to pick up milk on the way home from work. Just before I retire for the night I quickly mix together a jug of milk and put it in the fridge for the next mornings breakfast round and it is delicious.
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