The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

boultdj

Is nido dried milk?

Nargleblast

Yes, dried milk but full fat, not water-bewitched (skimmed) like usual dried milks.

tboo

Like everyone else, I have looked up this Nido, so thanks for the suggestion. and hope it's better than the other milk powders.

Seems others state 3 teaspoons (Morrisons, eBay, Iceland and Sainsbury's) so negative reviews are maybe because of this.

My large Tesco doesn't stock it so I am on the hunt for some to try.

boultdj

I don't mind the skimmed milk, but like @tboo, my local shops don't seem to stock it.

Si_Clist

MingVase said:

Everybody always talks about Nido, I think its maybe time to get some for myself.

Aaaaah ... I wondered if you might weaken eventually.

To answer a couple of the questions above, personally I have no idea how long it will keep once opened as we haven't used liquid milk for a couple of years now, so an opened tin simply doesn't sit around here more than a few weeks.

And yes, I reckon the reason why some folk write it off is those damn fool instructions (such as they are) on the tin.  That and the fact that the folk who write  the blurb on the supermarket sites usually take the easy way out and copy/paste from another supermarket's site - sometimes complete with spelling mistakes!

For the record, it's three properly-heaped tablespoons (as much above the spoon bowl as in it) to 250ml cold water to give you full-cream milk equivalent.

Thought it was time for a new profile picture ...

Thriftygifty

After investigating further I believe we have booklice 🤢 although the ones in the box of home pride was definitely weevils.  

MingVase

EEEEK Thrifty - I need to google these because I've got an awful lot of books in this house..

MingVase

PHEW they live in damp conditions. No damp here. *fans brow*

pollyanna_26

MingVase said:

Everybody always talks about Nido, I think its maybe time to get some for myself.

There has always been a proper milkman with milk in glass bottles in my life but I'm considering trying Nido too. As the weather grows colder I eat a lot of porridge, drink hot chocolate and crave sponge puddings and custard. I think there have only two days since moving here in the mid 70s the milk hasn't arrived once some years ago on a very snowy day and then a month ago when a call revealed my milkman had an appt that day and his stand in had missed  a number

of customers which he'd done a number of times, he'd been on his final warning so was I ok to wait until the following morning.

My milkman delivered crack of dawn next day but reading the posts here I think trying Nido could be a good idea. It wont affect my milk order but may mean more custard etc without watching the milk level in the bottle. The fact it can be kept in a cupboard is a positive . Bottles of milk take up a fair bit of room in a fridge and a long power cut doesn't help things although I have done my mums big terracotta plant trick from the 60s.

Apart from heating and hot water here everything is electric. New gas hob and electric slideaway double oven have been on hold due to a busy time in the last few years. We have one of those very shallow stainless steel flues. I didn't notice there was a gas fire when I moved here in a hurry.

I've had some pretty effective outset living flame gas fires over the years but the last stopped working just before Christmas last year. The sweep normally comes from the next village goes up in the loft to inspect the ss thing in there , checks the special tile which vents the fumes out then sweeps the chimney checks things again and if he has the time will fit the new fire he is Corgi registered and been working on these flues and others plus stoves for decades.

Busiest time is summer in to Autumn and then he has an annual break.So he wasn't available , other so called Corgi Registered have proved not to be and I ended up ordering an emergency 3kw Dimplex convector heater which heats a few inches rather than spreading the heat as a previous model did.

I'd been used to a range and coal fire when I moved here so really wasn't thinking when I was viewing new builds.

Current problem is tracking down a high efficiency gas fire outset because of the shallow flue like previous ones which blasted out the heat and needed the heat lowered as it had heated a large room with hard floors very quickly. I will be able to get the sweep if I find one soon.

pollyx

kacie

I was thinking getting some of those joke birthday candles the ones that relight, does anyone think they would be useful to have?