I just spent 15 terrifying minutes searching online for "Instant Nonfat Dry Milk"

[librechik]

Just FYI, there isn't any. Not at my local Sams, Safeway, Kroger. Not at AMAZON, or random Google Shop.

I finally found dehydrated milk for sausagemakers. It's the old-style fine powder that we used to buy
at the co-op back in the hippy days. At least I think it is.

Pretty sketchy. But these are cruel times.

What do you think? Did I buy it? (5 pound buckets.) I won't say the price, but it was reasonable.

[hlthe2b]

1. I eat little meat, but dairy is a big protein source for me (home-made yogurt)

I sincerely hope they continue to deliver fresh milk on a regular basis. At least that is hard to hoard.

As to dry milk, I'm not surprised. Even before this, I had diffulties finding it. Seems a lot of people don't use it any more. Glad you found some though.

[librechik]

9. yes, we still have fresh milk, but it's rationed.

I never used the stuff until recently, but my stepson was visiting and he drinks it like a beverage! By the glass!

home-made yogurt is awesome.

Take care!

[voteearlyvoteoften]

2. How bout some camel milk 🐪 🐫

Then when you serve coffee you can ask one hump or two.
Seriously that’s what they had when I looked last week.

[librechik]

8. nice!

But only on Humpday~

I was unaware--I don't use it, but hubby lives on smoothies w milk.

[SharonClark]

3. Why was that terrifying?

[marble falls]

4. Its one of her sources of protein.

[johnp3907]

21. You don't think powdered milk is terrifying?

[MLAA]

5. Plant based milks sit on the shelf for a long time (6-9 months at least)

You might try looking for them. 🙂

[librechik]

11. yes, we do that. But old habits die hard!

If we live, I foresee us turning to an all plant based diet, by necessity. But hubby works daily in a bread factory (essential business) and he needs his smoothies! Hope the bakery manages to stay open. It's owned by a huge global corporation so they should be fine. They were already overworking everybody in the plant.

[MLAA]

15. Here's a good smoothie recipe

Banana, powdered peanut butter, cocoa powder, a date (remove the seed!) plant based milk, a little ice. You could use honey instead of the date. I also assume, though haven’t tried it, you could use regular peanut butter instead of powdered.

You can play with the amounts of each to taste. I use plant based milks in all my smoothies. My current favorite is Oat-ley oat milk. But it comes refrigerated and needs to stay that way. I get it at Whole Foods, Target or Sprouts. I also have boxes of almond milk in the pantry for when I can’t get Oat-ley.

Good luck to you and your husband on the bakery plant staying opened.

[librechik]

20. Oh, he has his own recipe, and he's allergic to peanut butter

but thanks! I hope the supplies of plant-based milks never "dry" up ! That reminds me, I have an envelope of dehydrated coconut milk
in the cupboard right now. Cheers!

[Nonhlanhla]

6. I have frozen regular milk

I bought some freezer baggies and have frozen some milk in it in small batches. About 5 baggies per gallon. We don't use a lot of milk, but I want to be sure that we'll still have some in case there is a problem. I only froze 2 gallons, so it hardly counts as serious hoarding.

[marybourg]

17. When I had little kids,

I always had a frozen quart or two in the freezer. There was enough empty space in the quart container. At least in those days.

[bhikkhu]

30. You could look into ultra-pasteurized milk too

That lasts for about 3 months on the shelf (unrefrigerated), and probably for a year in the fridge. My mom switched to that years ago, as she lives alone and hardly uses milk. It tastes the same and doesn't go bad before she's gone through a quart.

I always wondered why they still don't sell it in regular grocery stores, but she gets it at the Dollar Store. Walmart has it too (a quick check shows it in stock still), as "shelf-stable milk".

[sarcasmo]

7. I purchased dry milk online too from sausagemakers in the 5 lb container.

Quick ship, decent price, last I checked it was out of stock.

[jrthin]

10. Thank you. I too have been searching for dry nonfat milk.

[sarcasmo]

24. Here is the link

https://www.meatprocessingproducts.com/16200.html

[HarlanPepper]

12. Looking for it was your first mistake.

[Greybnk48]

13. We looked for dry milk almost 3 weeks ago.

There wasn't any to be found. Back in the 60's we always had Sanalac in the house and my dad made it by the pitcher. I think he was following some sort of Adele Davis advice (his diet guru).

They still make it, and it's really good. Unfortunately, it's sold out on Amazon and nothing in any store we went to including Woodman's, which usually has everything you could want.

[librechik]

14. Mostly I was terrorized by the implications for all of us that this one (important) item

is MIA

[Historic NY]

16. The Government used to hand it out back in the RayGun days

[Kaleva]

18. My FIL gets it every month from the government commodities progrm

He gives it to me and I make cheese with it.

[librechik]

19. +1

[smirkymonkey]

22. I don't use milk at all.

That is one thing I don't have to worry about.

I have cheese and butter, but never use milk unless I am baking for a special occasion.

[customerserviceguy]

23. I looked for powdered milk, too

I only found it on one of my shopping trips made in the last few weeks. It was pretty expensive, too, I thought, but it's not ever been on my shopping list before. The last powdered milk I had was in the early 1980's, when you could line up for a box of that and some government cheese.

[MoonlitKnight]

27. Government cheese and peanut butter

The best. Or at least I didn’t know any better so it was great when we got it.

[MissB]

25. It hasn't been on the grocery shelves around here for the past year.

I still have some in my basement so I could use it in a pinch.

[madaboutharry]

26. As others have said, as long as it is not in a glass bottle,

milk does fine in the freezer.

[Paper Roses]

28. I tried to find it last week, none in my neck of the woods.

It is an easy way to have milk on hand to bake things like cornbread, whatever requires milk.
Can't figure that out. Must be hoarding, why else would such a simple thing be unavailable?

[Runningdawg]

29. I bought a case of canned & 4 boxes of powdered from the $ store last week. They were fully stocked.

[Hearthrob]

31. Survival food

I haven't checked the links myself.
Maybe you have groups of friends, neighbors to split the cost with.

https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-1-m&q=survival+food&oq=survival+food&aqs=heirloom-srp..