Powdered Milk

Purplekylie22

Any ideas where I can get this relatively cheap? Asda and Tesco seem to be expensive but maybe I expect too much I'm looking for 1 - 1.5Kg of it. I'm making a HUGE batch of home made instant hot chocolate (Snowman soup ) for the kids to give to teachers and their friends at school. But most places seem to be £10 ish for that quantity I think £6 for 1Kg is the best I found so far... and Macro was useless, no Cost-Co card as it doesn't prove very money saving when I keep buying extras! :rotfl:

VfM4meplse

Do you have any Asian grocers near you? Milk powder is the basis of many Indian sweets, so whilst it may not be knock-down cheap, you're bound to find it there in big bags and the price will reflect that.

Purplekylie22

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Do you have any Asian grocers near you? Milk powder is the basis of many Indian sweets, so whilst it may not be knock-down cheap, you're bound to find it there in big bags and the price will reflect that.

why did I not think of that! We have a few Indian and Chinese grocers, We can go have a look when kids are at school tomorrow, thank you! :j It seems so obvious now

MandM90

Purplekylie22 wrote: »

Any ideas where I can get this relatively cheap? Asda and Tesco seem to be expensive but maybe I expect too much I'm looking for 1 - 1.5Kg of it. I'm making a HUGE batch of home made instant hot chocolate (Snowman soup ) for the kids to give to teachers and their friends at school. But most places seem to be £10 ish for that quantity I think £6 for 1Kg is the best I found so far... and Macro was useless, no Cost-Co card as it doesn't prove very money saving when I keep buying extras! :rotfl:

Sorry to be no help, but the snowman soup intrigues me. Are you layering the powdered milk, cocoa and sugar in a jar? Is there a recipe somewhere? Sounds interesting

Purplekylie22

No I'm mixing it all together, otherwise it would need to be mixed before its used anyway as there's more than one serving. I have bought a Huge 1Kg bag of mini marshmallows and some Cone shaped cellophane bags , the end result should look like this

(stolen from a website)


And I order little cards with the snowman soup poem from VistPrint so I can hole punch them and attach with a ribbon

Purplekylie22

You could cheat and just buy a Big jar of drinking chocolate and portion it, but the kids really like the idea of making their own and we are adding cinnamon to it so its a little bit christmassy!

MandM90

Oohhh sounds nice; I might make something similar next year and add some chocolate stirrers (plastic spoons with sprinkles/mashmallows on top; even better if you can find some christmassy ones)

Couldn't find a better example but there are nicer ones!

Purplekylie22

Oh wow they look awesome! I bought some jazzy cocktail stirrers, but I will definitely make those chocolate covered ones next year!

rosie383

Try Sainsbury's for your powdered milk. Cheaper than any I have found. £1.61 for 400g/ £4.2 kg. Mind you, I'm sure a few months ago it was about £1.40.

Purplekylie22

rosie383 wrote: »

Try Sainsbury's for your powdered milk. Cheaper than any I have found. £1.61 for 400g/ £4.2 kg. Mind you, I'm sure a few months ago it was about £1.40.

Oh thank you! I will try there if I have no luck at the Chinese and Indian stores

Whistling_Gypsy

I normally use T£sco Value Skimmed Milk Powder (we get through quite a bit in yoghurt, drinks and baking etc ) - just checked MySupermarket and this is 40.3p per 100g - 3 x 454g boxes at £1.83 should sort you out - £5.49 in total.

Thanks for bringing it up - been getting it at Aldi but think this works out cheaper for a change!!!