Extreme moneysaving - milk!

swampytiggaa

i freeze breastmilk [not to use in my cuppa lol altho that really would be extreme moneysaving :rotfl:] and altho it seperates as it settles and freezes it goes back to normal [whatever that is] with a little shake... would imagine normal milk would be the same......

btw in case anyone is interested i express my milk to donate to the local milk bank so it can be used for the special care babies - they are always looking for donars so if you know anyone who is breastfeeding a small baby could you suggest it:?: as the health professionals never seem to think to mention it......

thriftlady_2

Sarahsaver wrote:

I wouldnt buy powdered milk it's sh*te. :rolleyes: the teeny tiny bit of milk i have in tea has to be proper milk, I tried soya and thats awful in tea too.

Powdered milk is great in baking though, and when making yogurt

Penny-Pincher!!

I freeze milk all the time.

TBH I could not be arsed to mess around with cubing it though just to save a few pence!

Could you not buy a 2 pint carton and put half in fridge in jug and freeze the other half. Should last quite a while.

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redballoon_2

I buy fresh milk and powdered milk.
I use fresh milk on cereals and in tea and coffee
I use powdered milk in porridge, custard, bread pudding, basically anything that needs cooking with milk.

you can't taste the difference!

I wouldnt use powder milk in tea - it's not nice.

AussieLass

Powdered milk is pretty cheap here and not too bad. I don't like it by itself but what I do is buy skim powdered milk & buy full cream milk. I halve the milk between two containers and mix the powdered milk and top up making my own low fat milk. It tastes nice & is a lot cheaper. I then freeze it.
So 2 litres of milk I can make 4 litres.

thriftlady_2

AussieLass wrote:

Powdered milk is pretty cheap here and not too bad. I don't like it by itself but what I do is buy skim powdered milk & buy full cream milk. I halve the milk between two containers and mix the powdered milk and top up making my own low fat milk. It tastes nice & is a lot cheaper. I then freeze it.
So 2 litres of milk I can make 4 litres.

I've done this too, got the idea from the Tightwad Gazette. In the US I think dried milk is considerably cheaper than fresh, whereas in the UK it is a bit cheaper (works out a 19p a pint).

tootles_2

Sarahsaver wrote:

Can you imagine the kids faces when they get frozen cubes of milk on their weetabix!

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andrealm

Milk can definitely be frozen although I never do as we drink quite a lot of milk especially my OH, I always say we should keep a cow in the back garden.
We buy 2 3L cartons of milk when we go shopping and this lasts us about a week. I would never used powdered milk, it tastes disgusting

Sarahsaver

I have my 2 experimental cubes in the freezer now...;)

Sarahsaver

Gave OH a coffee with one of the cubes of milk in it and he said it was fine