milk in bags

[JillA 2]

Milk in bags in amazing. I miss bagged milk. Here I buy those stupid plastic jugs, and you know what always happens? When I go to twist off the lid after using it a few times, there is crusty dried milk pieces that fall off into my tea/cereal/etc. It SUCKS. I hate milk here, or the cartons that is.

[Sprailenes 47]

Or the "Buy before date"

I don't want to know when I should buy the milk, I want to know when it's okay to use the damn thing!!!

[bogartnoir 1]

I lived in Brazil for many years and for a long time there they had milk in guess what? Bags.... I always thought it was kind of weired, but got used to it.

well it's only odd to me because we have no beverages in bags here at all (unless you count 'capri sun') in the u.s.

you know whats funny? i'm a huge kids in the hall fan and after i saw the bagged milk in canada i noticed they had a pitcher of it in one of their skits.

i've been a fan since the 90's, but i never noticed it for some reason!

so interesting. bags of milk in more countries than i originally suspected. and here i thought i was a citizen of the world clearly not!

but why only MILK? why not juices?

[JillA 2]

Or the "Buy before date"

I don't want to know when I should buy the milk, I want to know when it's okay to use the damn thing!!!

YEAH!! That's on yogurt too, and alot of stuff here. "Sell by" date. It should be "use by" date. I don't care when I need to buy it buy, how about using it? In Canada, it's simple. EXPIRATION DATE

[Sprailenes 47]

They have bagged juices too. I have seen bagged fruit punch and other types.

[christeen 966]

The box "o" wine??/ most are Actually a bag in a box... So it is a bag "o" wine... Nothin says quality to your guests like, ok, let's crack open a nice bag of wine!!!

[bogartnoir 1]

Or the "Buy before date"

I don't want to know when I should buy the milk, I want to know when it's okay to use the damn thing!!!

YEAH!! That's on yogurt too, and alot of stuff here. "Sell by" date. It should be "use by" date. I don't care when I need to buy it buy, how about using it? In Canada, it's simple. EXPIRATION DATE

ugh i'm a TOTAL hypochondriac and need strict guidance about when to use things like that, so it annoys me too!

[SapphireDreams 71]

They have bagged juices too. I have seen bagged fruit punch and other types.

Yeah, I remember it being more common as a kid. I don't see it as often anymore, not sure why.

[bogartnoir 1]

The box "o" wine??/ most are Actually a bag in a box... So it is a bag "o" wine... Nothin says quality to your guests like, ok, let's crack open a nice bag of wine!!!

prison hooch!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Oh, I miss milk in bags! It was always so convenient to buy 3 litres (3 one litre bags), freeze two and use the one litre. I never had sour milk - it was always fresh and seem to keep fresher than milk in cartons. Here we buy a gallon of milk, the expiry date is often never more than 10 days ahead and it almost always goes sour before the expiry date so we end up having to throw out (I can only do so much baking with sour milk!) what's left. The bags fit into the freezer so easily, you then just let it thaw, slip it into the pitcher, snip off a corner - and voila! fresh milk. I run out of 'fresh' milk here (even though I still have milk) and I never ran out of fresh milk in Canada. Bring on the bags!

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

The box "o" wine??/ most are Actually a bag in a box... So it is a bag "o" wine... Nothin says quality to your guests like, ok, let's crack open a nice bag of wine!!!

prison hooch!

No, you need a toilet for that.

[Rhiannercakes 14]

I hear some states have bagged milk.

My friend told me when she lived in Cali they had it, but I've never seen it.

[SuperDuper! 230]

I dont know why bogart wonders why milk comes in bags. It did from the beginning--mother's milk!

[Sprailenes 47]

[antda 13]

Hi Everyone,

Oh my gosh, a Canadian thread about bagged milk! Moo!

I admit, as a Canadian, I prefer bagged milk for the following reasons:

1) Bagged milk is easier to carry from place

Lol...I remember having a hard time with those darn plastic jugs that they sell here in the USA...

Felt like I almost broke my arm carrying that extra weight of the jugs...very awkward, indeed....

Because of that awkwardness, I decided instead to buy the equivalent of 6 quart sized boxes instead of a 1 gallon plastic jug..

Unfortunately, now I'm back to the gallon jugs...because WIC won't let me do the switch to quart sized boxes....Sigh...

Imagine: Going from the car to the house, with the baby in one arm, plastic gallon jug in the other arm...not a pretty sight..lol....

2) Gallon jugs take up too much room in the fridge

Lol...The way that my fridge is shaped and with the other food and beverages I put in there, I can only put two 1 gallon jugs at a time in there...Can't stock up on jugged milk here.....

3) Bagged milk is somewhat healthier than plastic jugged milk, as the chemicals frm the plastic can get into the milk if not stored correctly and/or placed under bright lights (so I've read...please corrrect me on this if I'm wrong)...

4) I can freeze bagged milk. I cannot freeze milk in plastic jugs (I tried that once, and the jug exploded all over the kitchen..lol...)

Sigh...It's too bad they don't sell bagged milk here in the USA!

On the bright side: Milk here in the USA is way less expensive than milk in Canada. For example, 1 gallon of milk costs $2.50 and the equivalent 4 litre bags of milk in Canada costs $4 or so, the last I checked...

It kind of reminds me of gas prices too...less expensive in the USA....For example, 1 gallon of gas costs $2.50 and the equivalent amount of gas in litres in Canada costs $4 or so, the last I checked...

Lol..Wouldn't if be funny if gas was sold in bags, and that we ran our cars with milk instead of gas....

I wonder which one would be better for the dollar...gas or milk....the prices on both seem to be going up almost the same way!

Lol..this reminds me of a funny story my husband and I had with bagged milk:

-It was back in our dating days, and my husband used to drive over the border to Canada to visit me. We used to "share" groceries, where he would bring his American foods over the border to Canada for the both of us to eat, and I would in return share my Canadian groceries for the both of us to eat. So one day, we decided to "switch" milks...He gave me a gallon jug of milk, and I gave him a Canadian milk pitcher, and a three 4 litre bags (lol..how 3 bags equal 4 litres..I never know). So he took the milk back home in the USA...and panacked.....

"Ummm the milk is spilling all over the place in the open pitcher..." (or something like that...he instant messages me online...)

He then tells me that he cut the entire bag in half, poured the milk pitcher and all the milk came spilling out...

Lol..apparently I had forgotten to tell him how to use a Canadian milk pitcher....

So I then had to explain to him that he was supposed to: Shake the bag, Put the bag in the pitcher, Cut a small hole in the corner, and Pour the milk from the pitcher from the hole....

Lesson learned: Teach an American how to use a Canadian milk pitcher before you give it to them!

Lol..needless to say, we still have that pitcher, and still laugh about it....

Oh and then we have other jokes about bagged milk too..(but that's between us...).....

Hmm..maybe I should stock up on bagged milk the next time I cross into Canada...

I wanted to do that last time, I admit, but it was the middle of summer that we went, and we thought the milk would spoil on the way back home...

So instead, I went to a Canadian grocery store, and took a photo of the bagged milk behind the dairy case....

Lol..I still have that photo..makes me laugh too....And makes me miss Canada a bit, I admit....

But if I go during the colder months...maybe I can stock up on that?

Bagged milk and smarties, here I come!

Anyone else like bagged milk too? Any other bagged milk stories around here? Humour me...lol...

Ant

Edited October 25, 2009 by Ant+D+A