Found it in an ethnic foodstore- claims to be whole dried milk, not skim or part skim? Wonder if anybody has used, tried it etc?

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), October 18, 1999

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Don't know, but I bought a smallish can of whole dried milk in the Hispanic section of the supermarket. Might try it this week, will let you know results--and brand name.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 18, 1999.

Whole dried milk is great stuff. Cna you get Milkman dried milk .... "with a kiss of cream"? The adidtino of some dried butterfat or milkfat content to these make them delectable, just creat on cereals, recipes, etc. Oh what a difference. I also ordered some "spray-dried" whole milk which came from a bulk supplier -- evidently has commercial usese: candy and baking, etc., without a brandname. Ordered that through a farm supply store.

-- Roch Steinbach (rochsteinbach@excite.com), October 18, 1999.

we did this over the phone and one of us wasn't fully accurate. it is KLIM, Dried Whole Milk.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), October 19, 1999.

My husband detests the taste of fat free powdered milk. I've used it in the past during snowstorms. Can you give me a ballpark figure on the cost.

ROCH-- can you give the name of your supplier and what the minimum order is?

I read about a whole powdered milk that Nestle puts out. Think the name was NIDO (or something similar). It's evidently sold to hispanic markets. What's the deal? Why are these suppliers figuring the interest in whole powdered milks will lie only in the hispanic market? I emailed Nestle to ask where I could buy some of it and received a reply stating something like, "It's carried by many major retailers." *sigh*

beej

-- beej (beej@ppbbs.com), October 19, 1999.

Beej, I think the canned cream and canned powdered whole milk we find in the Hispanic sections are because that's what they get back home where refrigerators aren't so common and the electricity not so reliable. Familiarity. It's like some of the British food I buy. Occasionally I'll pay about $1.50 for some British baked beans because I really like the taste and it's what I grew up with.

We now have several Hispanic grocery stores here in Durham and I plan to visit and see what other useful stuff they have.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 19, 1999.

i second that request for SOURCE and TEL# for a supplier of powdered whole dry milk!

-- lou (lanny1@ix.netcom.com), October 19, 1999.

I read on this or Michael Hyatt's forum a couple of months ago that Costco had a great-tasting and easily-dissolved brand of powdered milk with the brand name of SACO. Didn't find it in No VA, so a couple of weeks ago I called Costco's buyer and requested that they carry it here. I will go when I get my paycheck this weekend to see if it came in.

By the way, you can call your local Costco buyer and make not only this request, but I gave them several items I'd like to see them have for Y2K and they asked me what else I would recommend, so I kept going!

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), October 19, 1999.

Old Git-- That makes so much sense it MUST be true..grin.

Elaine-- Alas, no Costco's in my neck of the woods. From what I've read in some of the Food Storage posts, I wish we did.

beej

-- beej (beej@ppbbs.com), October 19, 1999.

My wife grew up drinking KLIM (which is MILK spelled backwards).

All she ever said about it was that when she first came to the US and drank fresh whole milk, she could not believe how wonderful it tasted!

I guess once we forget what fresh milk tastes like, KLIM will be much more enjoyable.

-- Sandwich (anon@anon.anon), October 20, 1999.