Milkmen - They can be cheaper

seabright

Another pro-milkman vote. I'm sure it's cheaper per pint in the supermarket, but I'd have to drive quite a way and I'm sure I'd buy some other stuff too, therefore costing me petrol money, wear-on-the-car money and extra grocery money.

Also, reusing glass bottle and recycling the foil caps - how green is that?

anguk

I get 4 pints delivered on a Monday & Saturday and pay £7.50 a fortnight so I've worked that out as about 47p a pint which I don't think is bad. My milkman has never missed a delivery no matter what the weather is like (we get some bad weather up here) and it's always delivered by about 7.30am as the milk lads who work for him have to be finished in time for school!

The milk also comes from a local dairy that takes milk from local farms. My only gripe is the milk comes in plastic cartons, not bottles!

thriftlady_2

Looks like my milk is the cheapest by far:j

OK, so I have to drive to a farmshop either 10 mins away or 20 mins away but I'm buying fruit and veg there every week anyway. I may not be supporting alocal milkman but I am supporting a local business. I buy their cream too -which does cost more than supermarket cream, but it tastes of more particularly in the summer.

Mawley Milk

nikki1306

well i have decided to give it a go and have my milk delivered from monday:j x

talulahbeige_2

I started using a milkman 6 mths ago and wouldnt change back to buying from the supermarket.
The quality is much better, I get skimmed but its virtually the same as semi skimmed (which suits my other half).
I get a dozen eggs evey week and they are often double yokers and the old orange juice in a bottle. He also leaves me potatos on request.
I'm pretty sure its cheaper than buying in a supermarket (Have you seen the price of eggs!) and even if it wasnt the few extra pence is worth it for the nostalga aspect of having milk in bottles

mama67

I've just added bacon onto my weekly delivery as I have seen in the literature that he left that it is British Bacon, this is another good thing as it is also supporting the pig farmers and not Mr T and their imported EU stuff.

tawse57

exlibris wrote: »

Ours sacked us 2 months ago. He found it wasn't paying and being alone with twin 6yr olds he needed to bring in the pennies.

I now buy 12 pints a week in 6pt containers and decant into 2 pt bottles to fit into the fridge. We were paying £5.50 for 12 pts delivered and paid £3 yesterday (Mr T's offer). The milk keeps for this long.

I was hoping to keep him going as an early warning system for when we got old enough to have mobility problems!

Anyone know how much milkmen earn? I did a google and found a few articles saying it was about 18K or 19K. Most of the articles were about milkmen quitting because the pay was so poor and the work so hard.

I hear that some are self-employed and own their own small 'dairies' so perhaps they earn more but even then I suspect they have to buy the milk from someone like unigate or dairycrest? I can't see how they make a living out of it and the hours must be awful for their partners?

I looked into milk this year as I have asthma and have been reading a great deal about milk intolerance and milk allergy - two separate things - being perhaps a cause of asthma.

I mention this as I read up on how milk is produced these days - the process is scary. Most milk is heated so much that any goodness in it is virtually destroyed, they then do this process where they basically squeeze the milk proteins through tiny holes in order to break them down as this makes milk last much longer - this destroys most of the calcium in milk and so they add cheap calcium to put back into it - so it stays on the shelves longer and also in your fridge longer.

I have been reading about milk from Jersey and Guersney cattle - you buy it online now and some supermarkets sell milk which part made from milk from these cows. It is apparently much healthier for you. I bought some from Tesco and it was like milk from the 70s but, boy, it made my chest tight so I will not be drinking it again.

Then there is raw milk but you need to read up on that and the TB dangers before considering using it.

shellnapier

i dont have a milk man here

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I would lose out badly if I had a milkman as I go to our local shop(one of 5) who all sell 4 pints of milk for between 95p-99p.
I've also found that in my local market you can buy jumbo free range eggs for £1 a dozen.
I thought I was getting a bargain at £1.50 a dozen from the fruit shop on the corner.
What I can't understand is why supermarket milk is so expensive when you consider what their discounts must be when they buy so much.I'm finding that by not popping into the supermarket when I need milk I'm saving even more as I don't pick up things I don't need.Sometimes I only do a shop once a fortnight now.I've saved a fortune.

tawse57

Here is a link to Guernsey milk - http://a2guernseymilk.com/cm/