The other day Janine felt she had hit the jackpot when she came out holding a big cardboard box labelled UHT Milk, for just $5. Now we've been living on powdered milk since getting here because of the cost of 'real' milk so this was indeed very exciting for us (you really do have to make your own fun here...and we're easily pleased!). We all assumed we had found a big box containing the smaller cartons of milk, and being UHT we didn't care about the 'best before' date. We raced home and eagerly put the kettle on to enjoy a nice cup of tea with real milk. Until we opened the box...
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| Janine feeling very pleased with herself after buying a box of UHT Milk for $5! |
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| Janine now thinking "One of these things is not like the other.." Can you spot the problem? |
To our horror...and then immense amusement - in fact we LOAO'ed all over the floor - we found we had bought 250 individual servings of milk. These are the little containers you get on a plane!
Now this isn't an issue when we are indeed having a cup of tea or coffee, when one serving does very nicely thank you, but do you know how many of these it takes to accompany my son's Weetbix in he morning, or our daughter's Ricies? Well I can now tell you!
3 Weetbix for George takes six containers
a bowl of Ricies for Milly takes four
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| Good bargain there Janine! |
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| "Tea for two, and two for tea..." |
Now this doesn't sound too bad but do you know how had those things are to open?! I now have numb fingers from opening the blessed things over the last few weeks and swear my finger prints have been worn off! All the while George and Milly are hollering for their breakfast and I'm insisting "I'm going as fast as I can!"
George now knows where the milk is kept to fill up the 'milk jug' in the fridge and helped us out this morning off his own back by refilling the jug after I had emptied out the last 15 - 20 packets getting everyone breakfast this morning!
Moral of the story: Read the box first!
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| The new milk jug |
