You can never have enough...

[popeye333]

I buy a kilo of low fat or skimmed milk for around $12 . It lasts me a month. I have a couple of glass milk bottles with plastic lids and  I make up one of those every couple of days, so about 850 mls? Maybe? Five tablespoons of powder to a bottle of water, lid on, shake, and into the fridge. So maybe 35 grams of powder, is that about right? Let's say 40... So, 30 odd days ÷ 2 x 40 grams plus the odd extra bottles on days when I bake or make porridge (I go all milk, no water) or sauces... Yup, that's about right, a kilo a month. And I don't have to lug all that water home from the shop,and I can use non chlorinated water if I have prepped some., which is why I started doing it when I came back to the city after years in Blenheim. Auckland water tastes awful after their tap supplied pristine glacier melt champagne..

And I cannot tell the difference between bottled milk and mine.

It's not a very 'green' choice, considering the processing and energy costs to produce the stuff, but it certainly beats buying whole milk on budget...

Yeah we have Auckland water out here too. And it still goes through me even after 21 years being back here. 

Ohh to have bore water, it would be lovely. 

I use milk powder when baking and in my creamed rice.  After soo many times of forgetting to keep a record I finally started a new bag of powder and am keeping track. I used  long-life in the pudding today and will use it till I've finished that box. 

Also trying to figure out how long one of the 3 kilos of peaches lasts too. They were such a good buy at $5-99. I still have one bowl full in the freezer.  I have 4 tins in the pantry.

So once the steamed pudding is gone Ill be back into the rice and peaches. They just go so nicely together.   Even if it looks like Im committing murder opening the cans cos the electric can opener wont work on that size tin. So I use one of those Jam that sucker in and rip the tin open type can openers... Safely with a teatowel wrapped around it lol. 

I only opened a box of milk the other day cos my friend had a milo while here. Finished it on my breakfast since I hadnt made rice. 

I simply wont pay $4-50 for 2 liters / litres.