Monday, March 20, 2006

Your Nails, They’re Like Butta!

A few months ago we started getting our milk from a local dairy. It’s a great set up. You place one of their coolers on your porch, doorway, cave entrance, whatever, and they bring you milk. Just like the days of yore. Except the milkmen drive a big truck instead of a horse driven wagon. And they swoop into your checking account to get paid every other week.

Anyway, the milk is great, comes fresh from “happy cows” out in Payson, UT. No gross hormones, no MSG, basically, it’s organic, though they don’t certify it as such with the USDA. It’s more expensive than normal milk by a long shot, but it’s way cheaper than the organic stuff Reha used to make us get. That stuff is about what you’d pay for a gallon of gas in England, man.

So though the milk is more expensive than “normal” stuff, I do think we end up spending less on groceries in a month. Winder offers all kind of other stuff besides milk. Produce, bread, other dairy products, etc. Practical upshot? We go to the grocery store far fewer times a month. No more quick runs to the store for milk, which ends up saving money, because it’s a LAW, that “You shall NOT ever just buy milk, when you go to the Piggly Wiggly.” You will end up buying WAY MORE stuff then you planned. The CPAs at the grocery stores plan on this, by the way. Why do you think they put the milk cases at the back of the store? It’s so you’ll walk up and down at least ONE aisle on your lactose voyage.

We like getting the milk, but Winder’s online ordering system leaves something to be desired. Mostly, because you can’t view your current “standing” order and just add or subtract items from that. In order to add something, you have to re-create your entire shopping list, which is kind of a pain.

And sometimes things like this happen:

If you count, that’s seventeen (17) POUNDS of butter. Due to circumstances not entirely explainable, we got butter in our regular Monday order for a few weeks straight. I know one time was my fault, but the rest is a bit of a dome scratcher.

My arteries are hardening just looking at all that. Luckily, butter freezes well and we are set for the next year or so.

1. my dad was actually a milkman when i was a wee one. and they still get it delivered in glass bottles to the front door.  (sigh...)

   i have an amazing recipe for butter shortbread if your cholestrol loosens at all;-)

   Posted by joy  on  03/20/06  at  12:03 PM

2. You could make a stack of crepes 50 feet high with all that butter. 

   Or, thaw it all out lump it all together, refreeze it and break out the chainsaw!  Chainsaw butter carving!

   Posted by michael  on  03/20/06  at  12:41 PM

3. We used to get Winder Dairy when I was a kid. They came on Saturdays, though, and would scare the living daylights out of me if I was in the kitchen watching cartoons; one time to the point where I fell over backwards in my chair. That was..fun.

   However since I had been drinking Winder Dairy ever since I could remember, I thought that all milk was delivered like that until I was about eight or so when we stopped having it delivered.

   I had a very confusing childhood. :(

   Posted by Saaasha  on  03/20/06  at  12:49 PM

4. I did consider a butter sculpture. But I don’t own a chainsaw.

   But now I have a reason to get one!!

   Cool!

   Posted by Jon  on  03/22/06  at  12:30 AM

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