Ways I save...

Powdered Milk
One of the reasons I started my Blog was to Journal things that my family does to make our meals and money stretch.
With this in mind, for the next month or so I am going to share different"Ways I save"...
little things that make a difference in our family life.

Okay,
so in 1999 in preparation for "Y2K", we purchased a 50 pound bag of Morning Moos Powdered Milk.

My attitude of NOT wasting anything
meant that I didn't want all of that milk to go to waste.
So, I have always used powdered milk anytime I made up muffins, cornbread, or anything else in baking that called for milk.

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A little over 2 years ago,
Tracy was talking with a co-worker and this person said that they mixed their Powdered milk and Regular milk 50/50.
I went kicking and screaming telling Tracy that
I WAS NEVER GOING TO DO THAT.
Cooking with powdered milk was as good as it got for me.

But, one weekend in 2008,
I realized that it was a week until payday and I wasn't going to have money to get milk until payday and so I took my
half full milk jug,
mixed up 2 quarts of powdered milk,
and funneled it into the milk jug
and low and behold we now had a FULL gallon of milk.
My family couldn't tell the difference and so I was hooked and that is how we make our milk stretch and use up our food storage powdered milk as well.

It makes it so I buy milk half as often as I used to...

and no more running to the store just to get milk, only to find yourself coming home with more groceries than just milk. It really has helped us save.

Obviously, WHOLE MILK
(Vitamin D milk...
milk with the red lids in the store)
is the best
(it is hard to pull this off if you use 2%, 1% or skim milk)
and so with half powdered milk/half whole milk,
your family would be hard pressed to suspect the difference.
(After the milk is half gone,
I mix up 2 quarts of Morning Moos and put in the jug and then I make an "X" on the jug so I know that it is half and half and then once that is gone, we rinse out the jug and recycle it at our local recycling bins and then buy another gallon of milk..and then the cycle starts over again.)

Since we don't drink a lot of milk we enjoy Whole Milk, also known as Vitamin D milk although everyone has their own personal preference in this category.
Our milk is used for our morning steel cut oats, various baking and cooking, and to enjoy every once in awhile with homemade cookies,
but as far as
drinking a tall glass of milk everyday, or eating bowl after bowl of cold cereal, this is something we DO NOT do at our house.

SO, next time you notice your gallon of milk half gone...
Mix in 1 cup of Morning Moos powdered milk into
2 quarts of water, shake and mix well,
pour it into your milk jug and see if you family can tell a difference.

Great way to save on your groceries
and to make sure your food storage doesn't go to waste!