Sep 11 2008
Put some Horizon Organic milk in your child’s lunch box
Horizon Organic sent me samples of their single serve milk, which is available in reduced fat plain, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Immediately got the cooperation of two test subjects – my children. Nathan tried the plain and the vanilla for two school lunches. And Lucie got the chocolate and strawberry.
Our review
Both children LOVED the flavored milks. And enjoyed the expandable straws that come with the milk even more. (Both children kept the straws and insisted that I wash and save them.)
They’ve had Horizon flavored Single Serve Milks before at Starbucks and have always enjoyed drinking them. However, Nathan did not like the plain reduced fat. He thought it tasted weird. I’m not surprised after having a flavored drink. Plus, ultra-pasteurized milk does taste odd when you’re used to fresh milk.
Is the expense worth it?
If I was to buy the milks for my children, I’d stick with the flavors. However, while I love the idea that Horizon Organic Single Serve Milks are safe to drink at room temperature, they’re very expensive. This week they were on sale at my local grocery for $1. They’re usually $1.25. That’s a lot of money for the convenience of organic milk.
But what are your options? Either you buy the 25 cents milk at school that isn’t organic, send them in with a thermos of milk from the organic milk that you have at home, or better yet, let them drink water during lunch. After all, water doesn’t sour, it’s free, and is probably the healthiest option of all.
Still, if you want your kids to drink organic milk when they take their lunch to school, Horizon Organic Single Serve Milks are a practical – and delicious – option.
For more of my reviews of Horizon Organic products, go to:
For links to delicious recipes using Horizon Organic products, check out:
- The “Smart People Drink Milk” Contest
- The “Milk is Brain Food Contest”
- What Eddie can do with some Jack-O-Lantern Smoothies
7 Responses to “Put some Horizon Organic milk in your child’s lunch box”
Where did you find them on sale? I love the idea of giving them to my kids, beats all the other juice boxes and milk out there. I just need to find them on sale or in bulk pricing. Any ideas?
Kroger has them for $1 fairly often, and you can buy a case from Babies’R'Us for around $16 or on sale for $13.
About a month ago, I bought 25 $1/2 coupons on Ebay for $3, so I was able to buy 50 for $28. I’m ready for another coupon like that again!
My only problem with Horizon is that it’s hard to find the small individual sizes in my neck of the woods.
Anyway you look at it, organic is better for children than regular milk. Organic milk has no hormones and no antibiotics.
Organic does cost more, but it is much healthier!
I found them at King Soopers (Krogers), but I believe you can also buy them by the case at Costco. Of couse, Whole Foods has them and I’m guessing Trader Joes may, too. Go to the Horizon Organic website to locate your local retailers.
Yikes! Did you say that Horizon milk is ultra pasteurized??? If true, this means that with the milk being organic no extra toxins have been added with chemicals, but that all the health giving enzymes and other valuables in milk have been quite destroyed by the ultra pasteurization.
Plus the fact that the whole reason for ultra pasteurization in the first place is so that dairies can be mass production facilities and any unclean results are killed by the pasteurization process.
Since nothing is left living in the milk, including the milk itself, it can sit unchanged on the grocery store shelf for a long time. But the dead bacteria and their toxins remain in the milk, they just can’t reproduce.
I quite agree water is a better idea!
Lexi, only the little cartons are ultra pasteurized, which is why you don’t need to refrigerate them. The Horizon milk found bigger cartons in the dairy section isn’t, which is why they’re refrigerated.
What you’re paying for is convenience, and I don’t think it’s worth it. It’s better to send kids to school with a thermos of organic milk or have them fill up their sports bottles with water at school.