tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post3039433034219778860..comments2023-09-27T09:18:09.684-05:00Comments on Our Plain and Simple Life: Milk...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02315996496008524220noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post-43936652956757038802010-03-18T19:53:58.798-05:002010-03-18T19:53:58.798-05:00We have raw goats' milk, and as much on hand a...We have raw goats' milk, and as much on hand as we can use - it is a real blessing. :)<br /><br />Praise God that our son can now milk the goats!<br /><br />Have a wonderful week,<br />Blessings,<br />Jillian ♥Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post-34985079670383218032010-03-18T14:41:59.677-05:002010-03-18T14:41:59.677-05:00Thanks for sharing....Not sure what we'll do.....Thanks for sharing....Not sure what we'll do...although, we're not shopping for any really long stretches, there are times I can't keep enough milk for just the one week. Right now, I'm driving 30 minutes to a nearby town and buying raw goat's milk at $6 a gallon, plus gas, that is when she has it available. Otherwise, I'm buying the expensive pasteurized stuff at the store for about $16 a gallon. For the rest of us, we just drink good ole' 2%, but I have been taking and making it last longer by mixing half and half with powdered. <br /><br />And I totally agree...what isn't "tainted" with some form of something that's bad for you, unless you're growing/raising whatever you eat right there in your own backyard, you really have no idea. Thanks again, <br /><br />saraNaturally Blessed Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15374570019873246461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post-49960765616757170582010-03-17T20:02:23.890-05:002010-03-17T20:02:23.890-05:00There's been something wrong with everything s...There's been something wrong with everything since the fall. We just all do the best we can, huh?MyBulletinBoardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07961091298654325887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post-64008365138916482792010-03-17T18:15:38.807-05:002010-03-17T18:15:38.807-05:00I'm sure there's chemicals in powdered mil...I'm sure there's chemicals in powdered milk, as in just about every other thing one might add to their storage pantry. Without fresh-from-the-goat milk this year, powdered milk is our staple. <br />Without doing a lot of gathering, I have to go with the feed store supply of feed for those goats, so chemical processing on some level there as well. The chemical-treated food stuffs are everywhere -- including those gallons of store-bought milk. <br />One has to do the best they can with what they can produce themselves or purchase. We are no longer big milk drinkers here because it isn't the be-all/end-all source of nutrients it once was, and it's not cost-effective for storage. Powdered milk is our substitute for baking needs, and every so often, free drinking. We're talking maybe 3 meals a week as a drink. <br /><br />What, would you say, is out there available for consumption and storage that *isn't* tainted with some kind of chemical insult?<br /><br />And, no, we haven't found any wheat or corn yet at the feed store we would feel suitable for our own consumption. There is a mill over in Alabama I'm told, and we might check that out. <br /><br />Still, without knowing the cow or goat, the farmer's level of sanitation practices, the handling from point A to point B and onward to consumers, the feeds and vaccination practices of those farms and their livestock, the conditions surrounding the fields where the corn, wheat, oats and what-have-you were grown, as well as those areas surrounding those fields in terms of run-off and the like...right down to the transportation companies who supply my grocery stores and the stores themselves (our once local grocer had a habit of not getting the refrigerated items directly into their climate-controlled areas...milk and other dairy, as well as meats, were often not *right* long before their dates came up)...<br />Without knowing all that line of 'history' for each item and each component of each item that we consume, how do you know what is actually safe and what is not?<br /><br />Seems powdered milk is probably the least on the list of worrisome eating. <br /><br />Just a thought.<br />DeannaDeannahttp://plainhomesteading.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post-15969281487815956762010-03-17T15:23:52.615-05:002010-03-17T15:23:52.615-05:00Love your blog. Dried powdered milk leads to all k...Love your blog. Dried powdered milk leads to all kinds of health issues, as well as feed store grains . Check into it , it would be better to give no milk then the sprayed dried chemical dry milk. There are tons of nutrition sites you might want to check it out.<br /><br />Blessings,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com