Does anyone use powdered milk?

VfM4meplse

OP, I'm interested to know why you are bothered by your high milk consumption? If you have use skimmed it's unlikely to do you much harm and has real benefits. The biggest hassle I find is not cost but it's weight if I am walking back from the supermarket and have more than 2x4 pint bottles to carry.

I buy milk powder in bulk but save it for making sweets on special occasions. It is very expensive!

Eta: this is the kind of thing I buy, not the tinned stuff.

Eenymeeny

I've used dried milk in tea for years, just half a teaspoon as I don't like 'creamy' tastes. Maybe that's why I use it...? I think that it began as a lower fat idea in the 70s and it's just a habit now.
I also add it to home-made yogurt with UHT milk saves the sterilisation faff and makes a lovely thick yogurt. Funny, I wouldn't think of using it in sauces, on cereal etc it's just too ' thin' to me.

Ken68

Hi Margaret, I've been using dried skimmed milk powder for yonks. Make up a litre per day, cost 28p.
Tesco seems to have stopped selling their value range so now get it from Sainsbury at £1.40 per 500g.
Also use it for home made yogurt.

SailorSam

I read this on 'a girl called jack' and have been doing this for months and i can't taste any difference.
I buy 2ltrs of the fresh the blue top milk, then mix the powdered skimmed milk in a jug. So for every litre of real milk i'm adding a pint of the powdered milk. I put half of it in the freezer to keep it fresh.
The powder i've been using came in a box from Tesco, but they haven't had it the last few weeks, last time i got a different make tub.
When i'm mixing in the jug i found it easier to pour if i made half pint, then pour that, then make a second half pint and poured that.

Bikingbint

I have used powdered milk for years, I mix mine with a stick blender. I don't find lumps with that method.

I use it in hot drinks, to finish porridge and for cooking.

Can't tell the difference, I use the sainsbury one in a box.

Margaret_

VfM4meplse wrote: »

OP, I'm interested to know why you are bothered by your high milk consumption? If you have use skimmed it's unlikely to do you much harm and has real benefits. The biggest hassle I find is not cost but it's weight if I am walking back from the supermarket and have more than 2x4 pint bottles to carry.

I buy milk powder in bulk but save it for making sweets on special occasions. It is very expensive!

Eta: this is the kind of thing I buy, not the tinned stuff.

It's just the cost, if I buy it I drink it so I get through quite a few pints per week and it all adds up. I guess self control is free though!

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mardatha

I drink tea almost nonstop. I'm a chain tea drinker lol. But I use Lactofree skimmed, and yes it is expensive. Go through 6 cartons a week easy.

VfM4meplse

Margaret_ wrote: »

It's just the cost, if I buy it I drink it so I get through quite a few pints per week and it all adds up. I guess self control is free though!

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Is this the most expensive treat you have? If not, I'd try to economise elsewhere. Your bones might thank you for it

I get through loads of milk too, when I allow myself Weetabix [STRIKE]/ steal the baby's Rice Krispies[/STRIKE] It's not so much the cost of the milk as the problems that excess carbs cause me, so delicious yet so B-A-D.

I always used to be very reluctant to spend money on food, but shopping in Aldi has stopped all that. I can buy a weeks worth of provisions (very little of it processed) for less than £15pw on average, and that includes milk and cream.

mardatha

My god I wish you'd come up here and be my housekeeper VfM4... Milk alone for the two of us here costs around a tenner.