With the cost of milk so high, you can save a little by using evaporated milk for cereal and cooking and saving jug milk for drinking. Also once the can is opened you can keep the rest fresh and ready by pouring into an ice tray and freezing into cubes. One or two cubes tossed in a bowl in the fridge overnight will be melted and ready for your breakfast cereal by the morning.
Evaporated milk is not cheaper than fresh. In fact, because it is processed, it is more expensive! How many bowls of cereal do you get out of a can of evaporated milk, vs. a gallon of fresh milk? If you add up how many cans of evaporated milk it will take to equal a gallon of fresh, you'll see you're not saving anything, but instead spending up to SIX TIMES what you spend on fresh milk. Yikes!
I use evaporated milk for cooking. When I find it on sale, I stock up. I keep regular milk for drinking only. I've been doing this for many years. It's come in handy with everything being so high in the past year or so.
I love the idea of freezing the leftover milk. I am going to do that from now on....that will keep the can from going bad in the fridge....we also buy dry milk and it lasts a very long time....
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