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MinnieM123

Premium Member
have you tried shelf stable milk? you refrigerate it after opening
How long does shelf stable milk last unopened?
6 months
and, since the product won't go bad as quickly, less is wasted: Whereas typical unopened dairy milk expires within a matter of weeks under refrigeration, the unopened shelf stable stuff lasts up to 6 months at room temp.
on that famous shopping site

Parmalat Shelf Stable UHT Whole Milk 1 Qt (Pack of 6) $9​


Never tried that, because I figured it wouldn't taste as good as fresh milk. Have you tried Parmalat, yourself?
 

Songbird76

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The hashbrowns are the best part!
I love them...but they don't have them here. There are a LOT of things we don't have here. We finally got onion rings here a couple of years ago. I can only get them at the Sam's Club/Costco like store here, but we can get them now. Same with mozzarella sticks. Still no battered mushrooms, though, so I have to make those myself if I want them. Fried chicken is starting to catch on. There are only a handful of KFCs in the Netherlands, and Domino's has started offering fried chicken, but we won't order from Domino's because of previous experience. IF you get your food, it's usually a couple of hours late and may not be what you ordered, or it might be burnt, or undercooked. We have to drive about 40 minutes for KFC. But those are the only options for fried chicken in the Netherlands. I really miss food in the US. I'm quite happy here for the most part, but food leaves a lot to be desired.
 

Songbird76

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My only recollection of a Continental Breakfast was a hard roll that was hard enough to be mistaken for a rock and coffee so strong that you could use it to fill potholes in the highway. I'm not surprised that any McDonalds style breakfast doesn't take a long time to become popular. Old habits die hard.

I like cereal but more for an evening snack then breakfast. Being by myself and having a tough time to find things to use milk with, I seem to always be throwing out a lot of questionable tasting milk. It seem like very time I decide that I would like some cereal, that milk will have turned ripe and/or chunky. I really should start to use cereal for breakfast as I am consuming way to many eggs. Can't help it, I love them.
Yes, that's relatively accurate. The Dutch typically eat a slice or two of bread with either cheese, or butter and chocolate sprinkles, or peanut butter, etc for breakfast. Cereal isn't really a "thing" here. Some will eat yogurt with fruit, but it's just not a big thing here to have nice breakfasts. It used to drive me nuts that every year, for every holiday, my MIL would invite us for "brunch"....at 1:00 pm or later. She'd say "I thought we'd do brunch." so I wouldn't eat breakfast, and we'd go there around 10 am, and then at about 1:00 she'd start heating the oven for baguettes and croissants. I finally explained to her that "brunch" is a combination of breakfast and lunch and was a larger meal you ate in between normal breakfast and lunch times, in lieu of those two meals. She just thought it was a "fancy" lunch, meaning baguettes instead of sliced bread. To them, that's something more special, whereas to us, it's like prison rations.

When I first moved here, my husband and I went for a weekend away at a CenterParcs resort...it's kind of like a big campground where they have bungalow cabins you can rent, and there's a central complex with restaurants and a swimming pool, and other entertainment like bowling, mini golf, or you can rent bikes to ride, or go rafting, etc. They advertised an "American breakfast" at one of the restaurants. I was looking forward to stuff like french toast, biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns, etc. Nope....they had cheerios and cornflakes, scrambled eggs with salmon in them, and something they called pancakes, but weren't. Nothing American about it, but somehow that was their idea of what Americans eat for breakfast, but modified to Dutch tastes (hence the salmon).
 

Mr Ferret 75

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Yes, that's relatively accurate. The Dutch typically eat a slice or two of bread with either cheese, or butter and chocolate sprinkles, or peanut butter, etc for breakfast. Cereal isn't really a "thing" here. Some will eat yogurt with fruit, but it's just not a big thing here to have nice breakfasts. It used to drive me nuts that every year, for every holiday, my MIL would invite us for "brunch"....at 1:00 pm or later. She'd say "I thought we'd do brunch." so I wouldn't eat breakfast, and we'd go there around 10 am, and then at about 1:00 she'd start heating the oven for baguettes and croissants. I finally explained to her that "brunch" is a combination of breakfast and lunch and was a larger meal you ate in between normal breakfast and lunch times, in lieu of those two meals. She just thought it was a "fancy" lunch, meaning baguettes instead of sliced bread. To them, that's something more special, whereas to us, it's like prison rations.

When I first moved here, my husband and I went for a weekend away at a CenterParcs resort...it's kind of like a big campground where they have bungalow cabins you can rent, and there's a central complex with restaurants and a swimming pool, and other entertainment like bowling, mini golf, or you can rent bikes to ride, or go rafting, etc. They advertised an "American breakfast" at one of the restaurants. I was looking forward to stuff like french toast, biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns, etc. Nope....they had cheerios and cornflakes, scrambled eggs with salmon in them, and something they called pancakes, but weren't. Nothing American about it, but somehow that was their idea of what Americans eat for breakfast, but modified to Dutch tastes (hence the salmon).
Didn't realize that there were center parks outside the UK.
 

Songbird76

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I check the date too and always think I have plenty of time to use it up because even 5 or more days after the date it is still good. The only true measure you have is what it smells like and how solid it has become. I buy it and even if I had two weeks to use it I lose track of time and all of a sudden I have a mess. The next size down is Quart and that isn't enough when I actually use it for things. Can you freeze milk if the container has room for expansion? Never mind I just googled it and some you can and some you can't. Separate when frozen and it will need to expand without breaking the container.
My ex's parents lived 75 miles from the nearest grocery store, so they only went once a month or so and they just bought tons of everything, including milk, and put it in the freezer. We actually had a grocery store in our town, though it was small, overpriced, and had horrible produce. We only bought milk and bread there, or anything we forgot to by "in town" when we went shopping every few weeks. The grocery stores were in the next town over, 40 miles from us, so we went about every 2-3 weeks and stocked up on everything and put it in the freezers. We bought everything in bulk and separated meat into 1lb packages in freezer paper, and put it in the deepfreeze, but bought milk at the local store. So I know you CAN freeze milk, but I'm not sure how it tastes or how long it lasts once you thaw it out.
 

Songbird76

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Didn't realize that there were center parks outside the UK.
Oh yes...lots of them. Several here and in Germany, and I think some in Belgium, too? We also have "Landal greenparks" which are basically the same thing, but a different company. I have a friend who lives in Germany now and she is some sort of manager at one and her mom works as a chef there. They are from Sri Lanka, my friend married a Dutch man, then his mom passed away and his dad fell in love with my friend's mom....so father and mother together and son and daughter together. They all moved to Germany a few years ago, and the mother and daughter work at Landal in the Harz mountain area.
 

NYwdwfan

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I check the date too and always think I have plenty of time to use it up because even 5 or more days after the date it is still good. The only true measure you have is what it smells like and how solid it has become. I buy it and even if I had two weeks to use it I lose track of time and all of a sudden I have a mess. The next size down is Quart and that isn't enough when I actually use it for things. Can you freeze milk if the container has room for expansion? Never mind I just googled it and some you can and some you can't. Separate when frozen and it will need to expand without breaking the container.

Never tried that, because I figured it wouldn't taste as good as fresh milk. Have you tried Parmalat, yourself?

My ex mother in law freezes milk and when she unfreezes it it's always yellow. Let me tell you it might taste the same but I'm not drinking yellow milk. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fat content because @JenniferS doesn't seem to have that issue.

We use Horizon organic milk singles at my office. No one trusts the open milk so this way if it's questionable and we are tossing it it's just a small amount. I've had it in coffee, cereal and my kids have come in and drank it straight from the box with the little straw. Tastes the same. What's nice is since it's both shelf stable and organic it lasts forever. It's great to have on hand at home in a pinch.

 

MinnieM123

Premium Member
My ex mother in law freezes milk and when she unfreezes it it's always yellow. Let me tell you it might taste the same but I'm not drinking yellow milk. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fat content because @JenniferS doesn't seem to have that issue.

We use Horizon organic milk singles at my office. No one trusts the open milk so this way if it's questionable and we are tossing it it's just a small amount. I've had it in coffee, cereal and my kids have come in and drank it straight from the box with the little straw. Tastes the same. What's nice is since it's both shelf stable and organic it lasts forever. It's great to have on hand at home in a pinch.


Ewww . . . yellow milk. :hilarious:

That's a good tip on the Horizon milk singles though. Thanks for that.
 

Goofyernmost

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That’s just the milk fat separating.
Thaw, shake, good as unfrozen milk.
We used to do that all the time before homogenization. The milk came in bottles and the top two or three inches was a pale yellowish color. We had to shake the bottle every time we had milk because the cream would come back to the top if it sat for a while. My grandmother used to skim the top off and use it for the cream in her coffee, which is exactly what it is.
 


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