This is the milk we order but we just order it by the case. It last for something like 5 years unopened and up to a year once opened.

Instant Milk Substitute CAN - 92-122


We use warm water in a big mixing bowl and mix as indicated on the directions on the back of the can. Then pour into a pitcher with a snap lid. PLace in the fridge and use within 4 days or so. I mix up 4 cups at a time since I only use it for baking and cooking and my son just uses a wisk for about 3 minutes and it mixes great!

This may not matter to some people so please read the label

Ingredients for Morning Moo (Chocolate)
cane sugar, whey, non-fat dry milk, partially hydrogenated soy bean oil, cocoa, corn syrup solids, sodium caseinate, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, salt, dipotassium phosphate,lecithin, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin D3 cholecalciferol.

Ingredients for Country Cream Nonfat Milk
100% real instant nonfat milk, vitamins A&D

I know that one is Chocolate and one is nonfat regular milk but that is all I have on hand. I was running out of milk so I mixed the Country Cream and reg milk the night before, the next morning DH used it and did not know

They have that at Publix down here in Florida. Personally have never tried it but friends say they love it. Alot of friends like to RV and such and they take it with them. They don't have to find refrig space for it until it is openned. I think I might get some before Hurricane season this year just to have on hand. In case.

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I also use mine in cooking and baking when the recipe calls for fat-free milk, as that's what I purchased. I also have bread machine and dog biscuit recipes which call for the milk powder. I didn't know you could buy full-fat or 2% as someone else mentioned. Sometimes if I'm running low on the store milk I'll add a bit to the carton to stretch it. I usually buy a big box at Costco which makes 10 gallons, but the price went waaaay up a while ago, from $18 to $32 a box. It's certainly not cheaper than Safeway, where you can get 2 gallons (1% milk) for $4, but to be fair, I last bought it back when 2 gallons of milk were over $6. To help it dissolve faster I'll add a bit of warm water to the measuring cup, then add the powder which dissolves pretty fast in warm water, and then add the rest of the cold water to make the quantity I need. I also weigh the powder out which I believe is more accurate than using a measure cup.

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When buying powdered milk....if you are at all concerned about the RBST (artificial growth hormones) added to the dairy supply in recent years...be very, very careful. Most of the brands, if not all, listed in this thread are not RBST free. You have to splurge a little and buy the organic powdered milk to be safe. I buy Organic Valley (Kroger sells it in the natural section) and use it mainly for recipes.

Again, many people are unaware of the potential risk of these added hormones and there are simply people who just do not care. Either way, you may want to investigate the products a bit further and decide what's best for you and your family (especially if you are using the milk as a daily beverage)- at least you'll be making a fully informed decision! Also, a great thing that has happened in the last 6 months or so is that many big grocery store chains (Kroger, Safeway) have changed their liquid milk suppliers (of store brand milk) to ones that do not use RBST/RBGH- it'll usually say "RBST free" somewhere on the label, in small print- or on the cap. Hopefully they'll extend this practice to the store brand powdered milk as well. I haven't seen it happen yet though, so just make sure to read labels as one of the previous posters suggested. It's so important.

DH's grandparents get commodities for seniors and give us their extra so i have lots of powdered milk around, i dont have to buy it.i just mix itup ahead of time, keep it in the fridge and use it for all my cooking. my only tip is to make sure you mix it up at least a couple hours before using it or it kinda separates... idk why.

I've always used powdered milk for baking....I don't even really measure it; if a recipe calls for a cup of milk I put in a scant cup of water and then add about a third cup of dry milk with the flour, etc. For buttermilk, add up to a tablespoon of lemon juice along with the dry milk and water. Using dry milk saves a little bit of money and also keeps me from using up the fluid milk so quickly.
My mother always gave us reconstituted dry milk, very cold, to drink when I was a kid, but since I hate milk (turned out I am a bit allergic to it, but I never realized that until after my first baby was born---when I stopped drinking milk both of us felt a lot better,) I can't really comment on the taste...it's all equally yucky to me! My siblings thought it was fine. My mother, who was raised on a farm, still prefers the reconstituted dry milk to fresh-from-a-cow whole milk. I'd try half fresh milk with half reconstituted to see how your family feels about it, if you want to stretch your fresh milk supply.

Morning Moo's is my favorite too, but it isn't the same as powdered milk as it is a whey product. There is also chocolate, orange, and strawberry Morning Moo's that is quite good. We drink lots of it in the winter hot (use it just like hot chocolate powder, but more nutrition).

In addition to cooking, I make yogurt with my powdered milk.

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Katie--mom to ds--22, dd--19, ds--17, dd + dd--7, dd--5

It looks a lot like Morning Moo's, which has a very good flavor. But again, don't confuse it with powdered milk because it isn't.

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Katie--mom to ds--22, dd--19, ds--17, dd + dd--7, dd--5

Once you reconsititue the dry milk, how long does it last?

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