Milk in pint bottles @98p

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.

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

I’ve just checked, ours is 89p.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I’ve no idea how my dear mother managed all the milk deliveries for seven of a family. We didn’t even have a fridge until I was in senior school but I don’t ever recall being given milk that had gone off.

I am environmentally friendly at around that price (I'm not actually sure of the exact price per pint charged by our milkman).

Yes it's more expensive, but it is organic, and I believe it to be "friendlier" to the cows and to the farmer/producer. Worth it, for me, to pay the extra.

My daughter had milk delivered, but sometimes she'd end up with too much, then it would get muddled up - older bottles to fresher ones.
Sometimes she would be waiting on the delivery.

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.

silverlining48

Glass is washed and reused, time and time again. plastic isn’t. Or am I missing something?

Yes, simple to understand I thought.

No, I wouldn’t either.
The supermarket milk is from British farms and Morrisons have a ‘for farmers’ thing where you can pay an extra 10p a litre if you feel so inclined. That is given back to the farmers.
It’s delivered when I want it, not at 3am in the morning and I don’t have to bother cancelling it if we go away.
I don’t see why glass bottles are more environmentally friendly - I rinse out the plastic ones and the council recycles them.

No, I wouldn't pay for delivery.
I also wouldn't want lots of glass bottles hanging around.

I don't drink milk, but DH does. I get milk delivered ,otherwise I would forget to buy it!

I buy my milk from a local farm. I get one 6pint plastic bottle a week. It costs me £1.70. I could have it delivered for 85p per glass bottle.

We are continuing with milk deliveries as I like to buy organic milk in “pint” bottles. Our local coop only
sells organic milk in litre bottles.It is certainly a luxury and can imagine families would find the cost unsustainable , like only buying free range chicken .I have no idea what time it is delivered as the delivery man is so quiet. Unlike the paper delivery person who wakes us by reversing up the drive at great speed. Didn’t our parents spend a greater proportion of their income on food than we do now?

I have had milk in bottles for a few year 85p a pint but we only have about 6 pts a week as there is only x2 of us now.
I don't think milk should be in plastic anymore but understand if you have big families who drink loads.

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I don’t think it’s righteous to have deliveries in bottles, just a matter of economics. We use over 16 pints a week so I buy 4x4pints then top up.
I was interested to hear that for some people it’s only 70p per pint instead of 98p so that would be £11.20 instead of £4.60. It’s slightly better than £16.52 but I think I’ll have to stick with the supermarket.
I’ll miss the sight of frozen milk and the blue tits on the bottles though.

Obviously I would prefer glass in bottles like it used to be.
But at that price I would be hard pushed to afford it, especially now with rising prices. I'm already having to economise.

I must say Calendargirl I haven't noticed anyone on here "being very righteous about their shopping, not difficult if you can afford to be". I am lucky enough to be able to be out and about most days in my car and pick up milk when and if I need it but my DS has been using a local milk delivery for the past two years and is very pleased with it. I bought him a small crate with a handle for his doorstep.

I’m afraid with ever increasing costs on just about everything now, we have to make what savings we can where we can and paying so much more for the cost for milk that is doorstep delivered would mean a no for me, unfortunately, as I suspect it would for many other people, too.

We’ve always had the milkman here. Admittedly it is more expensive, but to me it’s worth not having to lug another heavy item home from the shops, plus a lot less plastic in the recycling box.
He also delivers FR eggs weekly, and a lot of other items are available if you order (or cancel) the evening before. All done online now.,