Stopping buying milk..am i wrong ??

GSXRCarlos

Haha, i drink a lot of milk at home, get it from my dad.

Now i'm realising why she goes mental at me all the time (i'm 25) but i do always have the courtesy to leave at least enough for a brew in the morning

Plus my dad's been at home after a knee op, so she's been buying 6 pint jugs more (there's only me and my dad that regularily drink glasses of milk - lol)

Money_maker

I would not ration my lot on milk. I think its one of the most important drinks they can get. I would ration the cheese if need be - much more expensive.

Then I would use powdered to ensure the kids get enough.

jackieb

valk_scot wrote: »

Just a thought, but do your kids like skimmed milk, skint,single mum of 4 ? It tastes okay in tea but not so great to drink neat.

We normally have semi-skimmed as we don't like skimmed. But Wiseman's 1% milk (called, 'The One') in the purple bottle (like the one in my picture) tastes exactly the same as semi-skimmed - and it's £1 for 2 litres from Farmfoods. http://www.theonemilk.co.uk/

septemberblues

Well, I think the OP should stop buying milk for a while to give hers kids a short, sharp shock! Or buy carton milk, it's fine in tea but not so good to drink, do this for a week or two, they should get the message. It's not fair that the OP doesn't even have enough for her coffee, but I would also keep some dried milk in the house to solve that problem.

jordylass

Stompa wrote: »

It's all very well suggesting juice as an alternative, but you'd be hard pressed to find juice (other than the squash that you dilute) cheaper than milk.

It's council pop in our house or nothing. They occasionally drink milk, but I'd go beserk if they were drinking that much. Over 2 year old no one NEEDS the amount of milk we drink in this country, and juice is full of fructose, easily converted sugars yuck.

culpepper

Buy powdered for a couple of weeks and point out that the consumption was so heavy it was breaking the bank.
People are more likely to think about their fair share if the alternative is having to mix it up in a jug and have it tap water temperature.

GSXRCarlos

corporation pop - ftw!

anguk

jackieb wrote: »

We normally have semi-skimmed as we don't like skimmed. But Wiseman's 1% milk (called, 'The One') in the purple bottle (like the one in my picture) tastes exactly the same as semi-skimmed - and it's £1 for 2 litres from Farmfoods. http://www.theonemilk.co.uk/

I buy that too, my local tesco also sell it for £1.

valk_scot

Money_maker wrote: »

I would not ration my lot on milk. I think its one of the most important drinks they can get. I would ration the cheese if need be - much more expensive.

Then I would use powdered to ensure the kids get enough.

Well to be absolutely accurate milk is a food, not a drink. Very sloppy food yes, but it should be counted in towards their food intake when it comes to nutrition. Many ethnic groups lose the ability to digest milk at all as they reach puberty, did you know? So it's not exactly an essential.

thriftmonster

valk_scot wrote: »

Well to be absolutely accurate milk is a food, not a drink. Very sloppy food yes, but it should be counted in towards their food intake when it comes to nutrition. Many ethnic groups lose the ability to digest milk at all as they reach puberty, did you know? So it's not exactly an essential.

Yes I keep telling ds1 that he's in the majority of the world population (75%) by being lactose intolerant from age 9 like me - he's not being weird!