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Thank you for that, your response is much appreciated. I may have to research milk availability further in Costa Rica. I do not want to pasteurize it at all because it kills all the good enzymes and vitamins and minerals in the raw milk itself, which is why I prefer it. My health and skin has improved substantially by switching, something I track very closely.
So it may come down to being educated as to where the milk comes from exactly. If we ever move to Costa Rica or similar, we may have to invest in a milk cow or two. something our current property covenants do not allow. So we drive an hour to the nearest Grass Fed Organic farm and get it. Delicious stuff! 🙂
Though, it seems to me the whole diet in the area is substantially more healthy than here in the Good ole U S of A.
[quote=”pranaspakeywest”]I buy raw milk here in Quepos from a truck that comes around once a week, Quepos is more on the touristy side as far as towns go here, so if I can get it here, I can only imagine that it is even easier in more rural areas. I pay c2500 for a gallon, so that is about $5.00 give or take. It comes in a used container, bleach bottle, salad oil bottle…you never know, but so far, it has been clean, and safe and SO much better then the milk in the carton with the years of shelf life, which really the only other option here as far as I have seen.
I read recently that one of the reasons that they homogenize milk is because the cows can be milked almost non stop, so there is all sorts of things like pus (sorry) that ends up in the milk, and no the process of homogenizing does not remove the pus (again, sorry) but just makes it stay in the mix better, look it up.
Of course there is some danger associated with drinking raw milk, but really only if it is not handles correctly. It is VERY easy to pasteurize it at home by simply heating it up to 160 F., and then letting it cool down. Easy stuff.[/quote][quote=”Scott”]We have done surveys on this site with our VIP Members into healthcare insurance costs where a surprising number of people agreed that: “I can’t afford health insurance.”
Most people paid less than $500 per month but quite a few were paying over $1,000 per month…
[/quote]Just an FYI and to add a cost to this discussion. Our health insurance, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, $400 deductible, no referrals needed, is just under $1200 a month. Very expensive.
Of course the endocronologist specialist I have been seeing would have cost over $7000 so far this year had I no insurance at all. I need knee surgery for a meniscas(sp?) tear and who knows how much that would cost with no insurance.
That aside, our property taxes are only $1300 a year. Quite a contrast to my friend up in New Jersey who pay about $15,000 a year.
That list of groceries that was posted earlier? If I were to go the local supermarket in the very small town (700+ people) that we live in, we’d pay around $50 if not over. So some savings there.
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2 liters of raw milk
[/quote]Hello everyone! My first post … Love the site so far. so very informative. 😀
I saw raw milk. We have switch to raw milk several months ago and pay a VERY inexpensive $5 a gallon for it because we buy 10 gallons at a time and freeze it until we need.
LOVE raw milk. Is it very common down there? I do not want to ever go back to pasteurized milk, and would love to know that raw milk is readily available down there when we coome to visit.
Thank you!
