I usually buy the 3 litre Budget milk at Pak n Save (our only supermarket). But lately have been buying the 2 litre because 3 litres is too hard to pour from. Two litres is only about 5c per litre more and I am willing to pay that for the easier to use size.

Milk powder. Mix it the night before and leave in the fridge. I use the green milk (skim) and it mixes very easily – so long as it is added to the nearly full amount of water. Do NOT use the make a paste method.

I have been using milk powder now for everything for the past 15 years and I found that you have to make the milk at least half an hour before you use it so it gets cold. How I introduced it to my family was that I started out with normal milk in a 2 […]

We have used milk powder since we stopped milking cows 25 years ago. We used the skim milk powder but now we have recently changed to buying the whole milk powder as it is the same price. We water it down to the consistency/colour of skim milk and voila, the saving is great….it goes twice […]

When the price of milk escalated a few years ago I had 2 kids (now 3) which all loved milk – as a drink, hot chocolates, in cereals and in baking. So it was becoming VERY expensive to buy fresh milk as the rate we were consuming it. In my own childhood I was born […]