Milk in pint bottles @98p

Does no one else use an insulated container for their doorstep milk? My milkman just pops the bottles in there and they stay cool until I bring them indoors.

I have my milk delivered by a local farm, 0.72p pint in glass bottles. I only have 2 pints a week & don't always use that up. Whole milk as it's better for sauces, usually 1 coffee per day, milk does keep very well. Delivery times vary but I don't hear him even though my bedroom door is adjacent to my front door, always milk on the doorstep when I get up. My milkman delivers lots of other things as well, cream, cheese, bread, potatoes, yoghurt, fruit juice, eggs etc. No way would I buy from a Supermarket except for the occasional pint of "emergency milk" to freeze.

That does seem rather expensive Mollygo. No doubt it's the cleansing processes, breakages and milkman's wages that push the price up. We buy milk produced on a farm just a few miles away and sold in our village shop in recyclable plastic bottles. It's a little more expensive than supermarket milk but it's nice milk and we like to buy local when we can.

Much as I would like to buy doorstep milk, my budget simply wouldn't stretch to x3 prices ? I come from a dairy area and realise the supermarket effect, but money has to come from somewhere

No, I wouldn't because of the very bad service we used to get when we used milkman services in the past, and we could not afford that huge price difference, given the amount of milk used in our household.

There's absolutely no way in hell that I could justify paying almost 4 times as much for my milk, where does it all end?
I recycle all paper, card, glass, cans, plastics and soft plastics, I compost, my dog rats pretty much anything I might leave on my plate at the end of my meals. Other rubbish takes over 2 months to fill my wheelie bin.
It's not possible to have a charging point on my house, so I drive a self-charging hybrid car.
I'm doing everything I possibly can to be environmentally friendly/ sustainable, in every way I possibly can but some things are just not sustainable for my pocket.

I live in a rural farming village but have never been offered milk delivery, we did in the city I lived in but it came after I went to work and was a giveaway that we were not in. We were burgled whilst I was at work. The police advised us to stop it and any other daytime deliveries.
Now retired in a rural location I have had no offers of veg boxes or milk. We do buy our meat from a local Farmers consortium and can and are willing to pay for superior meat. We buy a few months at a time which saves their petrol and our postage costs.
We do consider ourselves lucky and if I had to use a food bank I would buy supermarket milk at a much lower cost.
No one should feel guilty about budgeting Mollygo and no one should be in the circumstances to have to,unfortunately many are. I sympathise with you.

My GF started his working life as a milkman and ended up running his own dairy. I will continue to have bottles of milk delivered while it’s available.,

No, I cannot afford that kind of price in order to be enviromentally friendly, or for any other reason.

It is a catch22 really, because unless more of us start buying enviromentally friendly produce it won't become cheaper, but until it does become cheaper, we cannot afford it.

Constantly being approached by dairy reps for delivery. When I asked what time the milk would be delivered I was put off by it usually being between 2 - 5 am. Sorry but I don't fancy my milk sitting on the doorstep from that time if day in the summer. Yes, I can put out a freezer block in an isolated bag but why should I need to. I do know that some milk is actually delivered about 12.30 am, I've seen it when I have been out late. I buy local dairy stuff from a local shop.

I would love a milkman call, I used to love it when growing up and he came every morning then came to be paid on Fridays, those were the days, and what about the battery driven milk cart,they say progress has been made with electric cars, but milkmen were around seventy years ago, so whats new. I hope the milk man makes a come back, pricey or not, it saves carrying pins from the supermarket and bottles are far better than the plastic bottles in supermarkets. Just saying.

Unless each bottle is reused 20 times or more, they are just as bad for the environment.
Just saying.

Yes, we've had doorstep milk in glass bottles, for years. Mr. 1968 cooks all.our meals from scratch (we have a local veg box, delivered weekly from the farm shop) and we don't each much meat. He also makes our bread. Having the milk delivered is something we budget to afford. It was a real boon in lockdown.

MissAdventure

Unless each bottle is reused 20 times or more, they are just as bad for the environment.
Just saying.

The Milk & More website says theirs are reused on average 25 times. I’m guessing that’s representative?

Yes, probably.
Either way, I won't be paying for delivery; it's far too much out of my budget at the moment.

An extra £520 per year. No!

I get two bottles a week delivered by milk and more

no way are they charging these prices,

pay £15.68 per week instead of the £4.60 for the milk

£15.68 for 4 bottles of milk??????

Milk and more charge 86p a bottle at the momen,

We still have to go to supermarket for everything else and recycle containers from milk so I can’t see how getting milk delivered on top when I use one 6pt bottle a week would be more environmentally friendly. As long as supermarkets use local milk we don’t need to pay 4 times as much for milk!

No way could I afford that price difference

polnan

I get two bottles a week delivered by milk and more

no way are they charging these prices,

pay £15.68 per week instead of the £4.60 for the milk

£15.68 for 4 bottles of milk??????

Milk and more charge 86p a bottle at the momen,

polnan just to clarify what you read.
The £4.60per week is for 4x4 pint containers.
1x4 pints costs £1.15 so each pint costs 29p.
I use about 16 pints per week so if I paid 86p per pint, it would cost me £13.76 instead of £4.60.

I think it’s great that some posters can and do afford to support delivery services.

There are lots of users for recycled plastic.
I would pay a little more to a,company that recycled and reused.

I’m amazed how many people don’t see how recycling is worse for the environment than reusing. Simple economics: manufacture once and then have milkman collect when he delivers then rinse, reuse vs manufacture, have council collect, deliver to recycling plant, use power to clean, more power to melt down or shred etc, use more power to deliver to manufacturers, power to recreate the bottle, more power to deliver to food suppliers who then fill it……

I get my milk delivered to my doorstep twice a week in glass bottles. I pay £5.15 for 5 bottles of organic milk. The milk tastes so much better out of glass bottles and I think it’s well worth the money.

I stopped getting milk delivered a number of years ago as it kept disappearing from the doorstep, then had to go to shop to buy more.

Sadly in my area the door to door delivery of milk in a bottle has stopped so it’s back to the supermarket