Milk in pint bottles @98p

We had steralised milk.
It was kept in a bag (in it's bottles) in the coal bunker.

My mum wouldn’t buy sterilised milk. She didn’t think it was good for you.

0.98p seems a lot for a pint of milk! I have 5 pints a week, all in glass bottles at .80p a pint, delivered to the door. Might be worth shopping around for a better price.

We buy milk from a machine, we have bought four 1 litre glass bottles that we take to our local green shop and just fill. A sticker is put on the life to show the date and it costs just over a pound a bottle. I sterilise the bottles when empty for reuse . I also buy sterilised milk milk for my yoghurt making.

No!
Would like to but couldn’t afford to ?

I'd have my own cow if I could afford it.

I’ve just checked, ours is 89p.

£1.09 for a great big plastic bottle in our local shop.
4 pints? I don't know the size but big.

SueDonim

Everyone has their own priorities as to how they spend their money. Spending 98p on a pint of milk seems cheap compared to £5 on a bottle of wine or paying almost £3 for one cup of coffee in a cafe.

The milk my dairy delivers comes from just a few local farms who cooperate to sell their produce. I know there’s no factory farms involved and I could probably go and say hello to the cows, if I wanted to!

That’s my choice, others may choose differently.

SueDonim, That’s almost how the milk I get is organised; a few farms work together and one farm organises the bottling up. We do research on the milk as part of a ‘Where does our food come from?’ project.
I know part of the 85p per bottle would go to the farmer, but the rest would pay to employ the milkman and run the milk van. I can’t afford to pay £5.10 instead of £1.70 for my 6 pints. That’s nearly £180 extra per year.

We have milk delivered in glass by the milkman 3 times a week and it is more expensive than the same product in plastic bottles from Waitrose. We keep three plastic ones in the freezer against occasional extra need and replenish them. Occasionally we have too much from the milkman and save a pint in plastic in the freezer. We've always done it this way and very rarely do we use the milkman for anything else except last year we bought a turkey. We like the convenience of fresh milk on the doorstep and can afford it. Our choice has nothing to do with supporting local farmers, etc. In my view farmers have had a lot of taxpayer subsidy.

Peasblossom

How is glass more environmentally friendly than plastic?

Because you return the empty bottles to the milkman where they are sterilised and used again. Plastic is used once, ok it’s recycled, we hope, but still single use.

There is a dutch coffee chain that enables customers to make a donation directly to the farmer who grew the coffee instead of tipping. This is done via blockchain. I have suggested this to Waitrose as a means of supporting farmers via our purchases but have had no reply.

We changed to milk in bottles from a local dairy farm not far away when they set up a new business. It's a bit more expensive but everything is recycled (no plastic waste). They are expanding deliveries to more surrounding villages and the things they can offer (all local produce!).

Where does the awful trend to refer to a postman as a 'postie' come from? Yet in the same comment there seems to be no hesitation in talking of a 'milkman'. And I assume the bulk of the discussion on this topic is by - 'women'!

I have milk delivered twice a week and top up from the supermarket. I have noticed that the supermarket milk in the dreaded plastic bottle tastes creamier than that delivered in a glass bottle. Both are whole milk so I’m wondering if the supermarket milk is treated differently.
BTW I’m from a farming family and we just drank it straight from the cow, brought in by my father in a billycan from the morning milking. When it turned my mother made cottage cheese.

I always thought milk cheese eggs veg should be subsidised to encourage healthy diets for children . Successive governments have ignored the needs of the poorest in society in favour of politically popular actions like tax cuts for rich/no Vat on pipe cleaners yet vat on sanitary products!!(yep) /ability for the rich to offset everything from tea towels to that Bentley against tax as a 'tool of trade'........ Everyone else PAYE and shell out for clothes etc for work without recompense. Elitist thuggery. Milk is cheap because government allows big bully boys. To virtually monopolise milk trade by abolishing milk marketing board and price commission as Wolfy Smith said once " up the revolution!" ?. It would be hilarious of it were fiction.....

No, the difference is too much. I do, however, buy organic milk and would pay a little more to support farmers. It’s easy to romantisise the delivered bottle, but there were problems like sour milk in hot weather. An awful lot of energy goes into collecting, cleaning and sterilising glass which as to be factored in to the carbon footprint. I have my milk delivered once a week, whereas the milkman has to drive his delivery round at least 6 days a week..

Plastic milk bottles are recycled here in Brighton. I tried to order milk in glass bottles when I was working, and sometimes they would sit outside until I came home and went off. Also there was no easy way to stop it if there were too many. We need to fund more recycling and have a government policy for it. For example, Brighton Council claims to be Green, but doesn't even recycle yogurt pots! They blame an old contract but there is no reason why it shouldn't be renegotiated when other councils are signing up with the same supplier. The Councils need to work together. There are new plastics being invented which are recyclable, that's the way we should be going! I rather pay extra money for research and invention.

As Cows milk upsets my stomach I buy Goats milk! Asked a Milkman who left leaflets advertising his round if he could deliver Goats milk & was told ‘dont do that rubbish’! So carried on buying Goats milk from Sainsburys with my weekly delivery!

I've been getting my milk delivered in bottles for 40 years (first Unigate now called Milkandmore). I only get four pints a week and a couple of bottles of fruit juice and it's not much more than a fiver. I like the fact that the bottles are re-used.

I buy milk in 4 pint, plastic bottles from my local corner shop. They have a long use by date and that quantity lasts us at least a week. I re-use the bottles many times over as there are four of them, filled with water, stationed beside the four water bowls left out around the house for our dogs. When they're getting on a bit, they go in the recycling.

ecochain.com has a comparison of the environmental impact of glass and plastic packaging. The results of their analysis are not as cut and dried as you might expect.

I have tried to support local milkmen in the recent past but both times they ignored notes I left out to say no milk today because I didn’t need it sometimes. We didn’t consume much milk so it became troublesome and I had to throw it away when it went off. Now we use soya milk from Aldi and I probably couldn’t afford a delivery anyway.

We have just cancelled our doorstep deliveries because the front of our house faces east and the milk was delivered at around 2am so in the summer the milk went off very quickly so I was throwing more away than I useMy favourite milk is raw milk collected from the farm.Unfortunately I can only buy it when I visit my sister in law as it's too far to travel everyday

We have milk delivered in glass bottles, three times a week. (It used to be five times, but about 2 years ago they reduced it to three). The cost is 72p a pint. We just keep to our regular order and if it looks like we may run short for any reason pick up a litre when out and about.
It may be a little more expensive but there is a big difference when compared to the supermarkets. For instance its a lot creamer particularly in the summer when the cows are out in the fields. Makes us wonder whether supermarket milk has the cream taken off it, which is then used for other purposes? It is also convenient and helps keep local people in a job.

I pay 80p per bottle. As I live in a fairly isolated area I am so pleased to support our local dairy farmers and at the same time staying self isolating. My milkman also delivers my papers and, if I need them, cream, orange juice (in bottles) potatoes, and many other goods. As I do get snowed in, in bad weather, he usually manages to make my delivery so I don't go without.