Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Tried out the Nestle Nido last night. Mixed results. As I understand it, regular off-the-shelf whole milk is soemthing like 4% fat. This stuff is 6 times that. So, if you mix it as a drink its very, very rich. Imagine drinking melted vanilla ice cream. On the other hand, the girlfriend thought it tasted great. For cooking, it seemed fine in the very limited test I gave it. I used it with some of the Idahoan add-milk-and-water instant potatoes and it seemed to work. I'm going to pick up some pudding mix and try it with that as well as some baking stuff.

My opinion is that this stuff does not taste like regular milk, BUT its far and away more palatable (to me)than the 2% skim milk crap that is out there now. Its alot like Half-N-Half….I would say it would be an outstanding substitute for cream and would work well in any application that requires cream or H/H. Probably a great number to add to your coffe.

So….I'll probably pick up a half dozen tins of the stuff at the next opportunity.