Here are the items you will need to start mixing your milk. Personally, I use a Sterilite 1 gallon jug that you can get at Wal-mart for a couple of dollars. It has an easy pour spout and has measurement lines for your water. Best of all it fits well in my fridge door.
Fill your jug with half of the water you will need. If you are making a gallon of milk then add 3 C. of powdered milk. Mix with a wire wisk.
The milk should look like this. It will be thicker, but don’t worry we’ll add the rest of the water later.
There are two tricks you can do to milk your milk taste fantastic! The first is to add 1 1/2 t. sugar.
The other is to add 1 t. of vanilla (which is about a cap ful).
See which one/both of the tricks your family likes best.
Then add in the rest of the water and mix again. Your milk will be a little frothy and because of that you may not be able to fit all of the water in the jug. Make sure to add a little more water to it before serving. (I’ve found that adding just a little more water than is called for also helps a great deal.)
This is a MUST!!! You HAVE TO, HAVE TO, HAVE TO serve the milk chilled. There is nothing worse than WARM powdered milk.
I taught my mom these tricks and now they drink powdered milk too. In fact, she had my niece over once and served her some milk from the jug and she didn’t even bat an eyelash that anything may be different. So again I say, DON’T warn your family. Just see what they do. 
If you’re worried that your family isn’t ready to go straight powdered milk, don’t worry! Mine wasn’t either. We began by mixing it half and half with whole milk which creates 2% milk. Then we mixed it half and half with 2% milk and got skim milk. Now we just drink powdered milk. It’s great! I never have to worry about how much to buy, if we’re running out, or the rising cost of milk. Even if you never go straight powdered milk, mixing your powdered milk with store bought milk is a great way to extend the expensive milk and save you MONEY!
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It sounds delicious. I would like to try it…but I’m not sure where to buy it. I looked at the cannery list and thought…whoa! It’s really expensive! Do you know how many gallons you get per box that you buy?? Is the cannery the cheapest place?
Lindsey J
I am mixing up my drinking milk!
My suggestion is on adding the vanilla; 1 teaspoon is too much for my liking. Start with a drop or two and taste. That is actually all I needed so don’t waste vanilla or over do the flavor.
Where do you come up with this?! You’re AMAZING!!! I’m going to have to try it out!
Many years ago bought a bunch of powdered milk from the cannery. My family would not drink it at any cost. The expiration dates came and went. (This was before we knew milk had a much longer shelf life.) I ended throwing it all away.
As I continued to work on my storage, again, years later, I decided that I had to have milk and since the storage life was longer now, maybe it would work out. Milk was my last big item to add to my long-term storage. Began using milk in recipes and it was fine. However, remembering the reactions of the family the last time I bought cannery milk, I wasn’t quick to try again for their drinking/cereal.
This week made a batch with the sugar and vanilla. YEAH!!!! I’m not a milk drinker, but I thought it tasted like milk. Last night enticed the hubby to have some with cookies. HURRAY!!!! I think we can DO THIS! I’m SO happy. Now with all your other ways to use the powdered milk, I can foresee rotating through it just fine. Thank you, thank you.
A few other suggestions to help with using the powdered milk. Begin by taking whatever milk the family usually drinks (regular, 2% or 1%) and combine it with equal parts reconstituted powdered milk. Continue to cut the milkk the family drinks 1/2 & 1/2 with reconstituted powdered milk until they are drinking 100% reconstituted powdered milk. Another big rule of using powdered milk for drinkining or cereal is to let it chill at least 8 hours in the fridge. This allows the flavor to mature and it will taste much better. (This is also true of the fruit drink mix.)
You can also mix a little whole powdered milk with the regular powdered milk. NIDO, is a brand of whole powdered milk sold in the Spanish section of Wal-mart. One added advantage of adding the whole powder is it takes away the foam from making the storehouse powdered milk.
Personally, I use a ratio of 2/1 (2 qts non-fat to 1 qt. whole) in making my powdered milk. This also means I go through about 4 #10 cans of non-fat milk to one can of whole powdered. At about $14 a can, it is a very reasonable addition to the food storage.
Keep in mind, whole powdered milk doesn’t store as long as non-fat (2 years as opposed to 30), but if you use it regularly, it is easy to use within its storage life.
I was wondering if you are suppose to mix the powdered milk with warm or cold water or if it matters?
I like the powdered milk ideas! Is the LDS powdered milk organic, and can consumers find information on where the milk originated? Also, I have seen a plastic jug with a plunger in the lid to swish the milk, does anyone know where to find one?
It originates from their dairy farms.
It originates from their dairy farms.