We always had 50 lb bag in a corner of the kitchen, and often I was the one mixing up a pitcher at night so it wouldn't

Jul 11, 2019
1:44:14pm

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be warm and icky on my cereal the next morning. I was so glad when we made the switch. My youngest siblings don't remember ever having had it.

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Anyone else forced to drink powdered milk growing up?

Doctor Rosenrosen

7/11/19 1:26pm

Yes

BYUFam1

7/11/19 1:27pm

Yes sir

TNT

7/11/19 1:28pm

This explains so much.

Cougar TD

7/11/19 1:56pm

We went through periods where we would use powdered milk. I remember using it

durandal

7/11/19 1:29pm

I wouldn't call it "forced".

Eddie

7/11/19 1:29pm

Only a couple times when money was especially tight

Slim

7/11/19 1:31pm

Yes. I was the youngest and up the last, so my sibs would use the real milk. My

Iman23

7/11/19 1:33pm

Not regularity.... just at times we had to use it before expiration dates.

kotacoug

7/11/19 1:38pm

We could choose sugared cereal with powdered milk, or non-sugared

Alister Mackenzie

7/11/19 1:41pm

We got sugared cereal at Christmas time. The rest of the year was corn flakes

Goliath

7/11/19 1:49pm

We did it because we were sometimes poor. Now the stuff is super expensive.

Dwight Schr-UTE

7/11/19 1:42pm

Not forced, but we would cycle through our food storage and use it occasionally.

cosmohio

7/11/19 1:42pm

Ew, yes. Tainted water

Frank Castiglione

7/11/19 1:43pm

We always had 50 lb bag in a corner of the kitchen, and often I was the one mixing up a pitcher at night so it wouldn't

Smack'sWife

7/11/19 1:44pm

Milk from a gallon jug was a luxury

Goliath

7/11/19 1:47pm

I had someone offer me some on my mission. I told her I was fasting. I didn’t

Little Britches

7/11/19 1:49pm

My mom would buy a gallon of milk then add powdered to it as the jug went down. When I was

soupie

7/11/19 1:49pm

yes, and my dad grew up on a dairy farm, he drank real milk but forced us kids

7/11/19 1:51pm

I don't remember ever being forced to drink any milk.

Belboz

7/11/19 1:57pm

Interesting point, food used to be larger percentage of the overall household

kolob32

7/11/19 2:23pm

Growing up we either had powdered milk or dairy milk

USMCdad

7/11/19 2:30pm

Not straight, but my Mom would mix it with store bought to stretch it out...8 Children

Bonoman

7/11/19 2:35pm

The Pope

7/11/19 2:37pm

We drank it for the last two years but we got the NIDO whole milk powder

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