In an effort to notice more of the ordinary in my life, I have decided to share what I have noticed this week in Take Three Thursday. The idea is to take photos that are linked some how; by theme, by colour, by date, by moment, by points of view. There is no formal link in but please feel free to join in. What have you noticed this week?
Please have a peek at what others have noticed this week:
Maggie at: FarmersWifeDayByDay
Karen at: Random Reflections
Miss Wookie at: Missus Wookie's Wanderings
This week I want to talk about how many if not most Canadians are getting their milk. We purchase our milk in bags - that's right, bags. Although Canadians aren't the only ones using this method of delivery, but every time my American relatives are "home" they laugh & seemed amazed that we have bagged milk. While readily available throughout Canada, Ontario & the rest of eastern Canada seem to be the provinces that truly embraced it.
1%, 2%, Skim & Whole Milk come in 3 X 1 litre bags. It's great that each of the three bags has the expiry date printed right on it. No more guessing or smelling! Plus bags are easy to fit into the freezer.
One of the tools used for opening the bag, which is usually magnetic to keep on the refrigerator - I use scissors, I have enough gadgets.
Yes, we also get our chocolate milk this way.
You can read more about our bagged milk here: Wikipedia - Bagged Milk
Well of course we get our milk in bags! :) I've never used one of those little gadgets, always just a pair of scissors in the kitchen drawer. (Always an issue about someone cutting the hole too big, too!) Our milk bag holder is pottery - much nicer than the plastic ones. -Jenn
ReplyDeleteI'm going to a pottery open house next weekend & I'm most hopeful she has some milk jugs. I think I've mastered exactly the correct amount to snip off the end ...
DeleteWe get our milk in bottles, or large plastic jugs. You can get milk in bags here but it hasn't caught on.
ReplyDeleteI like having my milk delivered to my doorstep and that they take the bottles away to reuse.
I often see in my many Brit shows that milk is still delivered - when we were looking to buy our house, we viewed a house that still had the milk/bread box - the agent said most people didn't know what it was for.
DeleteI'm sure I've seen/bought milk in bags here too, but it's not the norm.
ReplyDeleteIn the smaller quick shops you can buy the little cartons of milk but bags are my normal.
DeleteNever seen or heard of milk in bags. I think it would take me some time to get used to it!
ReplyDeleteIt is one of our unique, maybe even quirky, Canadian things - milk in bags :)
DeleteI remember milks in bags a number of years ago on general sale, and I've noticed that the big chain coffee shops have their milk that way. I buy milk in 4 pint plastic containers, which I recycle.
ReplyDeleteThe plastic bags can be recycle in some areas; it is one of the drawbacks to the bags. The milk board is working with communities regionally to get all bags as part of the recycle program.
DeleteI remember buying bagged milk about 20 years ago but it didn't really catch on here, I'd forgotten about that! We buy ours in 4 pint plastic bottles and then recycle them when they are empty.
ReplyDeleteAs I said to Ruth, that is the biggest draw back of the bags is that not all areas allow recycling. Our community is one that doesn't just yet, soon we are told.
DeleteI don't drink milk and get my milk for cooking in powdered form. I've never heard of it being sold in bags like that.
ReplyDeleteFor us we use milk in our tea & when I made oatmeal, but I'm not a glass of milk kind of person.
DeleteOH, wow - I've never seen milk in bags.
ReplyDeleteTrying to comment using a different browser - let's see if this works! :)
My American relatives are from California & they think it would catch on there ... they still find it hysterical when shopping for milk while here. Your different choice of browser seems to have worked (yeah you).
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