One of the things I miss most since moving here to Boa Vista, is milk. I'm a big fan of milk and milk products like yogurt. But here in the middle of nowhere, far from grassy fields where cow graze, milk is far from abundant or cheap.
As far as I can see, searching high and low, there is no fresh milk available...at all. I'm not even talking FRESH from a farm, I mean just any kind of milk that needs to be refrigerated. The options are milk that is liquid in form, but is sold by the liter in a box that sits on an unrefrigerated shelf. Imagine nonperishable liquid milk. It looks like this:
I comes out to $6 a gallon and is ok tasty for coffee or cereal, but not good enough tasting to want to drink a whole glass (except for Elijah who doesn't know the difference :). But at that price who can afford a whole glass on a regular basis anyway!
So, the other major option is powdered milk. It works out to cost about $4 a gallon or so and you have to mix up batches of it to keep in your fridge or by the glassful. The taste is....well you know if you've ever had powered milk while camping or something. It's...ok.
Yogurt and ice cream, they do have them here, but they are very pricey. Cheese is decently affordable so we do eat that as well so we can get enough calcium
But as much as I am bummed about the lack of milk here in Boa Vista, I can't imagine living in Venezuela. When we went over the border a few weeks ago (where powered and box milk is usually much cheaper) the city was completely OUT! Maybe that's why the cereal was so abundant :)
Anyway, so when you pour yourself a large glass of fresh milk with dinner tonight, drink one for us too!
2 comments:
That's crazy!!
Got almond milk?
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