Cheap milk

Edwardia

Doing a Waitrose shop I spotted Duchy Originals semi skimmed fresh milk 4 pints on offer at 2 for £3 until 10 April at Waitrose so 8 pints. I make that 75p a pint - is that cheap for organic fresh semi-skimmed ?

I know Lidl does UHT skimmed for 49p per litre and I think whole UHT is 62p. Most supermarkets seems to do UHT skimmed for 49p but with Lidl's you get a proper pourer,it's not a snip the corner/flip the plastic job.

If you've seen cheaper milk please post it here

StuartMacpherson

Does it has to be organic?

If not Farm Foods sells milk £1 each or 2 fr £1.80. (4 litres each.)

Most other super markets etc sell it 4 litres for £1.

Edwardia

Thanks..no I was just asking if that was cheap.. I've switched to lactose free semi-skimmed myself because it's proper milk but lower carb.

OH has UHT skimmed from Lidl 49p per litre but 4 litres for £1 is 25p a litre so much cheaper. We don't have a FarmFoods handy and our Poundland doesn't sell chilled stuff nor does local 99p Stores. No Home Bargains here either. Any ideas ?

StuartMacpherson

well farm food does whole, semi skimmed fr 1% fat milk :-)
I've also noticed at Asda they once in a while have 1% milk for 87p

kitschkitty

I was going to say Tesco did milk for a while at 87p for 4 pints,. but then stopped however Asda have had it at that price for quite a while now.

TESCO_R+R_RAIDER

poundstretcher does it for 87p but it depends on the store. in swadlincote we have 2 of them one for normal stuff, the other food. they are in the high street facing each other.

kandfs_mam

StuartMacpherson wrote: »

Does it has to be organic?

If not Farm Foods sells milk £1 each or 2 fr £1.80. (4 litres each.)

Most other super markets etc sell it 4 litres for £1.

I think most sell 4pints for £1, not 4 litres for £1. Current prices paid to farmers are approx 28p per litre and milk would need collected from farm, processed, packaged and delivered/sold to stores after that.

Stephen_Leak

ASDA 4pts skimmed milk is £1.18 each, 2 for £2.00. And the special offer is on the labels, so they can't muck about with this until all the old stock is gone.

StuartMacpherson

kandfs_mam wrote: »

I think most sell 4pints for £1, not 4 litres for £1. Current prices paid to farmers are approx 28p per litre and milk would need collected from farm, processed, packaged and delivered/sold to stores after that.

I meant 4 pint...

The_Household_Gremlin

Usually I am content to just read posts and rejoice that there are others who are as thrifty and as wise to a bargain as myself; so here's my once-a-year post.

4pt/2.27l whole milk (3.6gms fat per 100ml) is £1.00. 1 litre is 44p.

A 600ml pot of Tesco Double Cream (50.5gms fat per 100ml)is £1.50 in the current buy 2 for 3.00 offer.

By watering the cream down to bring the grams of fat per 100ml to roughly the same as the milk is much cheaper than buying milk outright.

Add 8400ml of water to the cream to make 9000ml total. 100ml now has 3.3gms of fat. The better news is that milk made this way is a little more than 16p a litre.

Ask friends and family for empty milk cartons, screw the tops on tight and freeze.

If you are one of them strange types that insists on drinking semi-skimmed or skimmed milk, add more water and it will work out even cheaper.

I find this a perfectly adequate substitute, but to ensure that you don't waste a whole pot of cream, do a tester by taking 100ml of cream and add enough water to make 1500ml. I only make it up to 8000ml but it is still cheap.

Ken68

Lidl , a couple of weeks ago were selling the 49p skimmed UHT milk for 39pence.
Thanks Gremlin, I like the cream reduc tion method, will give that a go.