Milk That Can Last All Day!

When we decided to visit the Greater Vancouver Zoo yesterday, I packed a wack of snacks, including juice boxes and a couple of ‘special’ boxes too…

Getting Milk in the mail was cool for the kids.  The children in this family are milk junkies so discovering ‘milk-to-go’ was most awesome for them.

Now I grew up in the UK….we had UHT Milk as kids.   It came in little triangle containers at school.   The packaging and the UHT treatment replaced the tiny glass bottles that when it was REALLY cold pushed the lids of.

I don’t think I have thought about or heard about UHT or Ultra High Temperature Milk since coming to Canada and honestly didn’t think about how they process Organic Milk….until I got an email about the UHT treatment and the environmentally and recyclable Tetra Paks that these handy lunch time sized drinks are packaged in.

People claim that the Ultra High Temperature Milk tastes different than regular pasteurization, but my kids have not mentioned noticing this at all.  I think it is a bit sweeter, so perhaps us adults are more aware.

But it is this UHT treatment that allows the milk to be unrefrigerated and have a longer shelf life than ‘regular’ milk.    Hence the ability to have it packaged in these handy dandy sizes and great for school.

I know Caitlyn will be happy to have cold (freeze it the night before for cold milk for lunch) milk at school this year.  Though I have to admit I will have to search for the UHT milk at the stores…I do know that the Liberte brand 250 mL cartons are for sale  at Whole Foods and Starbucks.

Please Note That Under Full Disclosure GolinHarris Provided CC With This Milk Sample