A Correction and an Amendment to Jean's Powdered Milk Selection Methodology

Powdered milk as far as the eye can see.


Freebies are attached to cans as big as your head.

It is not often that I say this, but I stand corrected. The powdered milk can with the young Asian woman doing yoga is not purple, but PINK. Please make a note of this for your powdered milk excursions in the near future.

I also realized that I had omitted a very significant (and possibly overriding) criteria when I went back to the powdered milk aisle tonight because my supply of baby blue gringos is starting to run a bit low.

JEAN'S POWDERED MILK SELECTION METHODOLOGY is therefore to be amended as follows:

add Criteria 5: Check out the freebies they give away with the purchase, which is usually shrink-wrapped together with the can.

The larger cans tend to have the freebies, which can range from pink little plastic microwaveable containers with a matching pink nylon strap and a clasp that looks like a cute little cow, to a travel mug with a cute little cow on a green pasture. And then I spotted a little glass teapot that looks like a tiny coffee pot, no cows or anything fancy, it is small but still big enough to hold about two cups of tea. I could get more use out of the teapot for sure, the only problem is that it was attached to the geriatric milk, and it even says on the can that it is formulated for those 50 years and over - I don't care if they were giving away their mascot cute cow and a 50-acre pasture for it to graze, I'm not ready for this milk.

In the end, I chose a small glass jar with a lid, it has a picture of a little cow on a green pasture (the pasture also comes in baby blue and pink, collect them all!). Oh yeah, it came with a pink can that is as big as my head.