In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:12:12 -0000 (UTC),
(Fake ID) wrote:

>In article >,
>Carlos Eduardo Vieira > wrote:
>>I'm not sure which ng to ask this question in, but it's
>>related to homes
>>but not to repair and it's related to food but not to cooking.
>>
>>I use Costco milk and cream (the real stuff, 100% stuff,
>>not the watered
>>down stuff) for my ice cream and coffee.
>>
>>I live a score of miles from the nearest grocery store
>>(other than a 7-11
>>gas station complex about a dozen miles away at a
>>highway exit), which
>>makes a round trip for milk an hour in transit (there's
>>generally no
>>traffic unless there's an accident).
>>
>>For emergencies for the milk for ice cream and coffee, I
>>have resorted to
>>canned milk (both types) but they change the flavor too
>>much (they're not
>>really milk at all, it seems).
>>
>>Then someone suggested "powdered milk", which I went to
>>the grocery store
>>to buy, only to my horror to find that it's far more
>>expensive than fresh
>>milk! (About $18 for 20 quarts worth of the powder.)
>>
>>Normally the "crap" solution is the cheapest, where I
>>was in for a shock
>>that the price for that crap powdered milk solution is
>>more than twice the
>>price for the fresh milk solution.
>>
>>Why?
>>
>>Do you find the same price disparity where you live?
>>Is there any other "emergency milk" solution out there?
>
>UHT, ultra high temperature, pasteurized milk.

There was another name for that, also, ???, but it seems to have faded
away and your name is all that I can find. Requires no refrigeration.

I've had canned condensed milk and powdered milk once or twice. I was
amazed at how little they tasted like milk.

Can't you just get your milkman to leave both milk and cream?

>Sold in a box container, but whole and non-fat varieties.
>Does not need refrigeration until opened.
>Might be hard to find--last seen at the dollar store.
>Tastes far better than reconstituted powder milk, but not quite as good as fresh.
>
>Dietitian made us switch to almond milk. More expensive than dairy milk, but with a substantially longer shelt life.
>
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