Milkmen - They can be cheaper

davetrousers

tanith wrote: »

Get mine from the supermarket about 8 pints a week, we have a local milkman but the price is significantly more than the supermarket and I just can't justify the expense .... its mostly the elderly people locally that rely on him but I think its most unfair they have to pay more just because sometimes they cannot get to a shop.. it would make such a difference to some of their lives if they could get bread and milk delivered but at a similar supermarket price..

But surely you would expect to pay more to get it delivered to your door.

Zazen999

I used to support our local milkie. Then they sold the round to someone else, who used to deliver Mondays, Weds and Fri [which was fine] but decided to start delivering milk at 8:30 rather than before we actually left the house - so we had to stop. Having no milk every 3 mornings started to get on our nerves, and the milk being sour when we got back from work in the summer was a waste of money.

Butterfly_Brain

I get through 4 pints a day and I buy it in Farmfoods because it is only £1 for 2L - I can't afford to buy it anywhere else

thriftlady_2

We get through about 14 pints a week. I buy it from one of two local farmshops. It comes from a local dairy and costs £1.25 for a 4 pint carton -cheapest milk I've found. It is unhomogonized so you get that old-fashioned cream line with the whole milk.

Just over 31p a pint.

davetrousers

thriftlady wrote: »

We get through about 14 pints a week. I buy it from one of two local farmshops. It comes from a local dairy and costs £1.25 for a 4 pint carton -cheapest milk I've found. It is unhomogenized so you get that old-fashioned cream line with the whole milk.

Wish it was easier to find unhomogenised milk. I don't want my milk to have smaller fat molecules.

thriftlady_2

davetrousers wrote: »

Wish it was easier to find unhomogenised milk. I don't want my milk to have smaller fat molecules.

I'm with you there Dave. Try your local farm shop or farmer's market. BigBarn is useful;)

nikki1306

Some great replies thanks, can anyone tell me how much a pint of milk is from the milkman compared to the 45p it costs at Tesco as the dairycrest website doesn't say,many thanks x

Horasio

I haven't seen a milk float for years

maman

We've had Dairy Crest deliver for years mainly to support our elderly neighbours. After lots of confusion when we went away, milk piling up in fridge/running out and then a price rise to over £1 for 2 pts we cancelled. Off to Farmstores for me! (and I've noticed most of my elderly neighbours don't use milkman either, many have UHT delivered with groceries)

anniemf2508

We used a milk man up until about a year ago but it just got too expensive.
I now buy 8 pints a week from waitrose (£1.53 per 4 pints), i get a discount so doesn't work out too bad really