Milkmen - They can be cheaper

MrsE_2

I buy long life skimmed milk, I just like it. I buy the Candia one, because I like the bottle style rather than the carton. Its great never running out of milk, I buy it in Sainsburys in bulk.

But like the OP, I've just started having my bread delivered.

We love posh bread in our house, I hate kingsmill & hovis, I liked proper baked bread.
The bakers that supply the sandwiches to our offices do the most amazing bread & the bakeries is just down the road.
But if you go down at lunchtime its all gone, this bread is that good!
So I've ordered 3 loaves a week, Mon, Wed & Fri.
They cut it themselves, but its a little thicker than the supermarket cutters (which I think are too thin), its perfect.

I will save not only money not poping in for bread, but I will save calories on impulse buys.

Its from £1.30 per loaf, I think the organic is £1.50.
I'm going to try them all!

ashlea170706

can anyone tell me how i find out if i have a local milkman please? thanks Ashx

carriebradshaw

I would love to have my milk delivered again but no milkman available where I live, was talking to my OH about this yesterday and he said the same cos we used to be able to get bread,orange juice, yoghurts and allsorts of goodies from him too where we lived before.I want glass bottles back as well,I hate this watery plastic milk we get these days

Penny-Pincher!!

Hiya!

We are just about to increase our weekly milk from the milkman as its alot more convieniant for us and saves us spending money on other stuff we dont realy need.

We use Dairycrest and they have an online search to see if you have a local milkman and you can also order online to:

http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/

Our milk is 52p a pint and will up too 4 pints a week. If you need extra milk on a certain date or a loaf, eggs etc, you can top up online.

HTH

PP
xx

Angelraesunshine

I used to have a milk man about 5 years ago but i was let down so badly by them i stopped it and would never go back. I got the milk man as i had one 3 year old and a one year old she had just gone on to cows milk so wanted to make sure i never run out of milk, but that 1st christmas after a few month of having a milkman they never bothered to show up and i had to send my husband out on christmas eve to go get me enough milk for over christmas for us. I then had the milkman a few weeks later say i had not been paying even though i had canceled and everything was up to date he did this after i had canceled i paid by cheque so i always had a record as i did not trust them anyway to just pocket the money, he would often turn up in the afternoons and not the mornings and was just totally unreliable, they did sack him not long after i heard and i was asked to come back after i had complained to the management but i would never get a milkman again.

razra

the milkman here doesnt deliver until well after 10am, and as I'm at work all day I'd either come back to gone off milk or it would get pinched off the doorstep so sadly no milkman for me:rolleyes:

lil_me

Dairy Crest don't deliver where I live but these do http://www.dfob.co.uk/Content/Page.asp so worth looking if Dairy Crest doesn't cover your postcode. Took me ages to find them.

Angelraesunshine only bad experience I have had so far is when my regular milkman was on holiday, the stand in guy was late every day, he's been told if he goes on holiday and the same guy is covering just to cancel mine for the week.

I needed some milk crates to borrow, my milkmans been dropping them off for me a few a day

Penny-Pincher!!

Angelraesunshine wrote: »

I used to have a milk man about 5 years ago but i was let down so badly by them i stopped it and would never go back. I got the milk man as i had one 3 year old and a one year old she had just gone on to cows milk so wanted to make sure i never run out of milk, but that 1st christmas after a few month of having a milkman they never bothered to show up and i had to send my husband out on christmas eve to go get me enough milk for over christmas for us. I then had the milkman a few weeks later say i had not been paying even though i had canceled and everything was up to date he did this after i had canceled i paid by cheque so i always had a record as i did not trust them anyway to just pocket the money, he would often turn up in the afternoons and not the mornings and was just totally unreliable, they did sack him not long after i heard and i was asked to come back after i had complained to the management but i would never get a milkman again.

Thats awful! I dont blame you for not wanting another milkman.

ATM we get our milk delivered on a Friday (2 pints) and he drops off later as its his collection day but generally the milk is delivered next door on other days at about 8am.

PP
xx

Mummy_Cookie

Could anyone tell me whether the milk in bottles that is delivered from the milkmen is homogenised?

Thanks

mrs_moneyspinner

I get Dairy Crest milk delivered. I do this as I can't stand the plastic cartons supermarket milk comes in and having to recycle it. I think I pay a bit more for delivery but like others have said, it stops me going to get milk and impulse buying.