Have milk will travel
Horizon Organic Milk sent me some samples in return for me telling you what I thought of them. (The website has recipes and info about their products.)
We received a single serving of chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and plain reduced fat milk.
The single servings come in juice box form – box with a straw attached for easy portability. The milk is also shelf stable so you can throw it in the diaper bag or lunch box without any worries about it spoiling. I really like that feature because we don’t do juice in our house and I don’t like to take milk in a sippy cup when we are out and about because it gets warm and yucky. Then the cup gets left in the car and I end up throwing it away rather than opening a week old sippy cup with milk in it. These milk boxes save all of those worries. I know many of you try to feed your family organic items so this is another way to bring organic products to the table that your kids will enjoy.
I don’t drink a lot of milk except in my coffee so Sabrina was the taste tester.
I asked her if it was yummy. I think she was a fan.
I give this product very high marks on the convenience scale. And Sabrina loved it – the flavored milk was of course a hit but she also liked the plain. The novelty of milk in a box also was a hit.
We’re Horizon fans all the way in our house. Why consume all those extra antibiotics and hormones when you don’t need to.
Kerri, Medina, and Ruby
That is the stuff they have at Panera. Ben always gets the chocolate when we go there for lunch. I didn’t know you could order it. Maybe I should get some for school lunches. I’ll have to check the price…
They have it here in the stores and my girlfriend swears by it.
We love these! We buy them for the kids at Starbucks.
I have had the vanilla, and it is yummy! How did you get the free samples?? I love free samples!!
Looks like Sabrina approves!!
we love it too – it travles so well:) JB is a non-milk drinker – but the rest of the Crew loves it:) We try to do as much organic as possible – but it is so hard to go all the way – i wish our country cared enough about our health and our children to find a way to offset the problem of cost. It is so cheap to buy JUNK and unhealthy processed foods. But load your cart up with organic milks, chicken and meats from animals not given steroids, anitbiotics and homones, fresh organically grown fruits and vegetables and you have one expensive cart full of groceries. I don’t like that. if we want our country to be fit and healthy -why can’t our govmt do somethink to help us provide our families with healthy food at an affordable price?Like a refund for healthy eating – or not allowing our kids to fed crap in school.
just a thought – no – more than a thought -a much needed program –
I guess I sort of stuck my own post into your comments – sorry –
I just get frustrated when I leave the grocery store –
love to you guys:)
Good to know… we may have to get little E the strawberry for her lunch box. Strawberry milk is all she will drink and like you I do not like to put it in a sippy!
emma adores them and will wholly and utterly (udderly?) risk a time out by having the MOTHER OF ALL MELTERS when she wants chocolate.
that’s a treatmilk up in herre.
My daughter always gets the chocolate milk from this brand at Starbucks when DH and I get our coffee.
I agree with Ju Ju that I sure wish it didn’t break the bank to buy healthy organic stuff.
I just couldn’t bring myself to buy milk that can be on a shelf. The thought makes me cringe for some reason.
My friend and I were just talking about this milk a few days ago. She loves it. I agree that it sounds convenient, but I have to agree with what Brenda stated above – there is just something that seems wrong about milk that can be on the shelf! 🙂
i’m sorry, i hate to be the voice of dissent here, but it’s important to know that there are some issues with the uht milks, or ultra pasteurized milks, like horizon. we bought horizon for years until i started to do some more reading on milk and nutrition and learned that while it’s organic, the long shelf life has some potentially negative trade-offs. because these milks are heated at such a high temperature, they do indeed have long lives, but that high heat also kills off most of the good nutrients in the milk that we want. so it’s organic, but it may not be as healthy because the nutrients are reintroduced artificially, which is annoying as it’s the artificial additives we’re trying to get away from in the first place. we stopped buying horizon and now just buy a local dairy’s regular pasteurized milk (since i’m not ready to go the raw milk route just yet). just thought i’d share since so many of our families’ have milk as a central part of our diet and it’s good to make an informed choice.
i’m almost willing to drink milk, seeing how much miss sabrina likes it. almost.
We LOVE this and buy it by the case at BJ’s Wholesale club. We have never done juice in our house either so this was awesome to throw in the diaper bag. We still use them if we go out to eat and they only offer soda versus milk!
dang, I was hoping I could get back to crunches next week. You look good in those frames girl and the girls look darling as usual.
I love your blog, Michelle. You are such a great Mom. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
I hate to be party pooper, but I thought you might want to see this article about Horizon. As an organic milk company, it is not all that it’s cracked up to be.
Land of Milk and Money, Salon.com, April 2005
Excerpt:
“In recent weeks, as revelations of Horizon’s farming practices have come to light, a collection of consumer groups and organic dairy farmers have erupted in protest. Horizon and similar dairies are capitalizing on the boom in organic foods, they say, but diluting the true meaning of the term. Contrary to genuine organic practices, which entail raising cows on open pastures, where the animals feed on grass, experts say that a substantial percentage of cows at farms like Horizon’s are confined to pens, fed a diet of proteins and grains, and produce milk that, while free of hormones, is not as healthy as it could be.
At a recent meeting of the United States Department of Agriculture’s organic advisory board, 25 dairy farmers gave public testimony, and 8,000 farmers and consumers sent letters, claiming that by allowing “confinement dairies” such as Horizon and Aurora Organic Dairy, a 5,300-cow operation outside Denver (started by the founder of Horizon), to continue to market themselves as organic, the label’s original promise of excellence is lost.
People are paying more for organic products because they think the farmers are doing it right, that they’re treating animals humanely and that the quality of the product is different,” says Ronnie Cummins, national director of the Organic Consumers Association, a network of 600,000 organic consumers. “There has never been farms like Horizon or Aurora in the history of organics. Intensive confinement of animals is a no-no. This is Grade B organics.”
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/13/milk/