I am coming to the defense of powdered milk. I use it a lot...in cooking, I also mix it with my coffee creamer half and half. We have a bread machine ans we use it when we bake bread. It is a great was to stretch a dollar as well as cut fat and cholesterol in the diet. Would I drink a glass of the stuff. Only if my Mamma makes me which she did when I was a kid. We used to get it government surplus. For a long time I thought food came in olive drab boxes with black lettering. We got cereal and cheese that way too. It got us through some hard times. My parents were raising five kids on one paycheck. Mom later went to work and then number six and seven arrived. Good Catholic family ya know. I can honestly say we did not feel poor. We were just like everyone else on the block. Oh my Mom God love her did the cod liver oil bit with us too. Called herself hiding in the the orange juice. There it would be all thick and slimy floating on top of the OJ. I remember her saying drink it, it will make your bones strong. Ya know all this talk about the good old days I think I'll give the old girl a call. I still have both of my parents near. Now that is a blessing.