IDEA: Use Milk Powder
Its half the price, tastes exactly the same and you dont end up with piles of empty Plastic Milk Bottles to throw out.
We started using Powdered milk about a month ago when found out that the milk we were buying from the supermarket in plastic bottles was made from Powdered milk. It cost us half as much to make up twice as much milk and it tastes exactly the same as the brought stuff, we have kept 2 plastic milk bottles which we clean and reuse over and over again. Our plastic recycles have reduced by a whopping 70% and we are saving over $10 a week.
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Originally submitted by arhume on 09 Dec 2007
Using milk powder?
Had you thought about the carbon omissions from the Dairy Factories which take whole milk and use energy intensive processes to evaporate the water only to have you rehydrate it? Not sure if this suggestion is as simple as one might think.
Regards
Russell
using milk powder
yes, although milk powder doesn't need as much refrigeration and weighs less so you can fit more per truckload, etc etc
and if the normal milk you buy was once powder anyway... (this is the first i've heard about that, and to me it DOES taste different).
it's pretty difficult to get an accurate handle on all the different factors, aye
i've stopped drinking milk completely, anyway.
I use milk powder also & so does my friend
I switched 2 milk powder as 1 of the current affairs programs (Campbell Live or the TV 1 version) reported that the milk you buy in plastic bottles at the shop is just reconstituted milk powder anyway. So if you think about it, using milk powder instead of milk cuts down on one big process & saves a HUGE amount of plastic, which I reckon is a great saver to the pocket & environment. It does taste different, but as my Mum always said "If it was poisonous I wouldn't give it to ya!!". Happy Holidays.
I've switched to milk powder
I use milk mainly for baking, cooking, coffee. Milk powder is easy to use in these ways.
Ideally i'd like to find a source of organic powdered milk. That way I could buy in bulk and it saves heaps of trips to the shops, because it doesn't need to be kept 'fresh'.
Even if you use regular powdered milk, buy the biggest quantity possible, that will reduce packaging even more.
real milk
Or you could try buying real milk. Most supermarkets sell Farmhouse non-homogenised milk which is not made from milk powder and the only processing it has been through is pasteurisation. If you live near a dairy farm you may also be able to buy unpasteurised milk from the farm gate (legally up to 10 litres at a time).
We do.
We use Milk Powder instead of "wet" milk too. Not just because it reduces plastic waste (we rinse & re-use the milk bottle too) but also because the cost of milk in NZ is unrealistically high and we're typical struggling kiwis. Considering New Plymouth is a diary region, there's no logical reason why milk in Taranaki should be twice the price of milk in Australia.
Switching to powder is a good move for the environment, the wallet and to sound insane, I quite like the taste of powdered milk! :)
Goats Milk and Powder
On the grand scale - Milk is very political. Remember the discovery of the 2nd milk protein derived mainly from goat milk and how unlike the 'other protein' found in cows milk that was 'not so good' for human consumption.
Well, in spite of a 'large corporation' decrying the truth of such a matter - goats milk still remains the best.
Although we can't all have a goat on our back lawn to supply the family (and wow! this is the very cheapest option by a 3 1/4 minute mile) (and not to put too much emphasis on the theraputic value derived from milking her twice daily) purchasing a 25kg bag at $120 is hughly economical by anyones standards. And hey, it tastes far better. Once one gets over the intial 'different flavour' - cows milk tastes and smells just like cows do.