All of this milk is for preparing the dishes for the Christmas table for 3-4 people, and the chocolate milk is for drinking. I don’t really drink milk myself but my partner, her mom, and her sister drink it with their meals, and they use a lot of milk for baking and cooking the various foods and desserts for the Christmas table. No judgement at all but every time I’m here in Etelä-Pohjanmaa for Christmas I’m a little shocked by the amount of milk in the fridge 😂.

by seirus17

22 comments

  1. You do not cook and bake at all to say this, sorry to say that.

  3. Only shocking thing is, that its the flavourless stuff. Only redmilk in my house, preferably the vanha ajan with true fat percentage.

  4. My parents fridge looks allways like that when I am home. I guess it is partly because they know there is going to be more people, but they also live further from shops so they stock things for whole week.

  5. Milk industry has been brain washing Finns for more than half a century. Honestly most boomers believe you will die if you don’t drink a litre of milk a day.

  6. This is the result of the “milk mafia”, a form of lobbying. After the war, milk was raised to a health food pedestal and it has been only recently that the food recommendations have gradually scaled down what comes to milk. You really don’t need to drink those amounts of milk.

  7. As a side point, the Uuniomena youghurt on the left is sooo good, I love it to death 😀

  8. as a finn who only consumes oat milk in coffee i used to collect food orders at a grocery store and i often went ”at this point buy a cow DAMN”

  10. The only problem there is fat-free milk. That stuff tastes horrible and is even worse for cooking. Can’t understand why people use that.

  11. The light blue rasvaton/fettfri milk should be illegal. Vile stuff. Unfathomable how it is so popular in this country.

  14. Same in Denmark. Lots of milk used for gravy, mashed potatos, all kinds of baked stuff and lots of deserts. In Denmark at least, the fatter milk (3.5%) is exceptionaly cheap, like 1/3 of the usual price. Maybe it’s the same in Finland?

  15. The best befor -date seems to be very long on those, up until 7.1. – that’s over 2 weeks.

  17. The weirdest part to me is that do grownups drink those chocolate drinks or are there kids in the house? It’s a kids drink.

    I can understand people having that amount of regular milk for cooking even tho I don’t understand why would anyone cook with light milk. In general Finns drink too much milk and have bought into the propaganda of needing milk when it’s not really needed for anything.

  18. My grandma’s fridge looks the same throughout the year, it’s crazy how much milk a three person household can go through in a week.
    Not complaining, though, milk is good. I drink it with most meals and in coffee. But usually one carton lasts many days for me.

  19. Thats our avarage fridge (milk amount) every 2nd or 3rd day

  21. My son and myself drink 8×1.75 ltr / week. Our bones are pretty hard 😁

  22. Etelä-Pohjanmaa has traditionally had rich farming lands, lots of cattle and grains growing. I am not surprised one bit that the  people there still drink milk and use it in cooking. 

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