I was in the middle of making dinner when this happened. I’m grateful I poured it into a measuring cup first. Thankfully I don’t live too far from another source.
I remember milk staying good almost a week past its expiration date when I was a kid. Boy have the times changed.
Don’t you have ultra high heated milk? It keeps fresh for several months at room temperature as long as it’s unopened. It usually tastes a little less great than normal milk but that’s especially not much of an issue if you use it for baking or cereals.
To be fair, to most of those who are used to fresh milk find the taste of UHT milk off-putting, myself included. North Americans do tend to drink more milk too so they go through a bottle long before it goes bad.
I’m baffled that America insists on selling milk by the gallon. That’s so much milk to finish after opening.
The maximum size we used to get while I was growing up where I live was 1 litre. Then came the big milk, 1.5 L. Now we have this even bigger one that’s 1.75 L, I think. Seems like it’s going to converge on 2 L. 😄
Dairy is heavily subsidized in the US. 1 gallon (3.8L) barely costs more than 1/2. Might as well buy the whole gallon and turn what you aren’t going to otherwise use into yogurt or cheese.
You can buy it in half gallons and quarts, too, but a lot of families go through a gallon in a couple days.
I used to go through 2gallons a week
Kids drink lots of milk i used to think people who bought multiple gallons was crazy…
Now I’m at the point we use a gallon in about a 2 days…
I have two kids, and I drink milk as well. The three of us that drink milk in the household might finish a gallon or so during a week. Maybe a gallon and a half.
I still maintain that a gallon is a lot for one person though. But sure, people will have their anecdotes about consuming lots of milk. 👍