Milk (and dairy products)

npsmama

Having read up on the way supermarkets ruin dairy farmers and insist on homogenised milk I would very much like to support dairy farmers by not buying in supermarkets.

I only buy organic (having tasted the difference I figured non organic was not really milk anymore).

So the issue I have is that if I buy milk/dairy from farmers' markets they are almost double the price - given the amounts we consume that doesn't fit the budget.
Also I usually buy in bottles of 6 pints, whereas at the market they only do 2 pint bottles.A minor detail but annoying with regards to fridge space.

Does anyone here exclusively buy dairy from non-supermarket places?

I wondered about buying milk and butter from markets and making cream myself with my Kenwood attachment. I usually only use butter in baking but I could switch to lard and only use the expensive butter for spreading.

Any thoughts welcome!

ailuro2

My b-i-l comes from a dairy farm- his father is still farming down in Lincoln, and my b-i-l recommended we buy Co-op milk, as they're the only ones who treat the farmers fairly.:T

I gave up buying organic because it went off rather quickly, and tbh I can't afford the time to shop for it every day.

ScoobieGirl

Our Waitrose sells local organic milk and seems to be more ethical than the other supermarkets.

Do you pass a dairy at all on you usual travels? There are a few small ones near us and I think they may have farm shops - might be work checking out thier prices - the overheads might be less than the farmers market