Help with lots of milk

Pink.

Hi gerturdeanna,

These threads should help with pancake recipes:

Is there a quick and easy method to make pancakes?

Scotch Pancakes/dropped scones

There's an earlier thread on using up milk with more ideas so I'll add your post to it to keep the replies together.

This thread may help too: Freezing Milk

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Beki

OH popped into asda last night on his way home from work (about 10.30pm) and they had a whole pallet load of whole milk for 10p per carton (2pint-ers and 6pint-ers). The sell-by was yesterday, but the use-by isn't until the 6th april.

He came home with TWELVE 6-pint cartons, and SIX 2-pint cartons :eek:

Now, we do get through a huge amount of milk here - probably about 3 pints per day. But 76 pints in a week (we don't have much freezer-space at the mo, as it's packed)?! :rotfl:

My mum took 1 of the big cartons, and 3 of the small off my hands... and we don't know the neighbours well enough to go and offer them cartons of milk :rotfl: (there's only us and 3 other houses in the little farm-type hamlet here - and no elderly, or i'd be round there like a shot)

I've been looking through my recipe books and all i can find that will use some of it is bread and butter pudding and custard....

Has anyone got any other uses for it?

I suppose if all else fails and i'm left with a load of it by the 6th, i can give some to the piglets that are arriving on the afternoon of the 6th :rotfl:

recovering_spendaholic

Quiche, rice pudding, pancakes, milkshakes, yorkshire puddings, - mind you if you have no freezer space you may not gain anything by making stuff with it IYKWIM. Good luck!

Pink.

Why did he buy so much? We use a lot of milk too but I would be so cross if my husband did that when he knew I couldn't possibly use or store that amount of milk. I think I'd be tempted to make him drink all 76 pints.

What about giving some to your neighbours and friends so it doesn't get wasted and you could freeze some too. This thread might give you some ideas:

Help with lots of milk

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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scaredy_cat_2

hmmmm rice pudding

Beki

thanks for the ideas guys!

i can't really give any to neighbours as i stated above... and as we're so rural, to go and give some to our friends would cost us more in petrol than it would for them to buy the milk at full price lol

Sooler

Pink-winged wrote: »

Why did he buy so much?

better to just buy what you actually need and leave some for other people

SunnyGirl

Could you use up some of the stuff in the freezer over the next couple of nights to free up some room for the milk? Otherwise I can only come up with milkshakes, smoothies, rice pudding or lots of cereal & porridge

Sooler

Beki wrote: »

to go and give some to our friends would cost us more in petrol than it would for them to buy the milk at full price lol

but if you gave it to your friends it would cost them LESS than if they buy the milk at full price

Beki

Sooler wrote: »

better to just buy what you actually need and leave some for other people

to be fair to him, he thought he was doing me a favour. and as i also stated above, there was a whole pallet load.

he said he only took about a tenth of what was there, leaving plenty for the hoardes who would have snapped it all up in the remaining hour before they took it off the shelves :rolleyes: