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Julie Bove

"micky" wrote in message
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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?

I would venture to guess most places no longer have a milkman. We still have
one here. The problem is, they have a minimum order and even though they do
deliver other goods as well, we just didn't need enough of what they sold.
Some of what they sell costs more than I'm willing to spend.