Dry Powdered Milk

This was the topic of the enrichment activity my ward RS just had. It was AWESOME!!

FYI:
-Morning Moo's Low Fat Dry Milk Alternative is NOT milk. Kind of like Tang is not orange juice! So even though you might like the taste of it, it does NOT have the nutrition that real milk offers (Our instructor did not know if it works in cooking or not:).

-Dry Powdered Milk is an excellent food storage item because if necessary you could survive on it.

-Instant Dry Milk (what you buy at the store) is the same thing as Dry Powdered Milk, except it has been loaded with air. So, if you use instant dry milk in place of dry powdered milk you would need to double the amount. For example, 1 C. Instant dry milk = 1/2 C. Dry powdered milk. This is helpful when trying to purchase dry milk. Just recently Macey's had a sale on their instant dry milk, 5 lbs for 7ish dollars. The Dry Powdered Milk from the cannery, also a #10 (5 lbs) can, is about 5ish dollars. Actually then, you would need to buy two instant dry milks from Macey's to compare to the one dry powdered milk from the cannery. That means you are paying 14 dollars (sale price) instead of 5 for the same thing!!!!!!! I'm sure there is a much better way to write this, but since I am writing this from the notes I took, this is the best I can do! I hope it makes sense.

-Dry Powdered Milk has a shelf life of 20 years. It will only taste decent (FOR DRINKING) within the first 3 years on the shelf (but, it will be fine for cooking). After it is opened the shelf life changes to ONE year.

-A person (ONE person) would need 17 lbs of dry powdered milk in order to have ONE glass per day for a YEAR. For food storage, that is the recommended amount of dry powdered milk, per person, for a year supply. So, my family of 3, needs just less than 9 #10 cans.

Now for some recipes: