Cheap milk

SailorSam

TESCO_R+R_RAIDER wrote: »

poundstretcher does it for 87p

I normally get my milk in Heron for £1, but sometimes go to Poundstretcher and have been paying 79p there. Has it recently gone up or are different stores charging different.

Edwardia

My small chest freezer is too full at the moment to contemplate freezing watered down-cream in it, though that is an ingenious idea, I must say.

OH prefers organic wherever poss. Taste-wise, I don't think there's really much difference (any in some cases) and there's certainly no difference nutritionally. BUT, organic = no chemicals and I can quite see OH's reasoning on that, after all we don't really know what pesticides, fungicides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers are actually doing to us.

POPPYOSCAR

Edwardia wrote: »

My small chest freezer is too full at the moment to contemplate freezing watered down-cream in it, though that is an ingenious idea, I must say.

OH prefers organic wherever poss. Taste-wise, I don't think there's really much difference (any in some cases) and there's certainly no difference nutritionally. BUT, organic = no chemicals and I can quite see OH's reasoning on that, after all we don't really know what pesticides, fungicides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers are actually doing to us.

According to a documentary I watched, apparently organic is nutritionally better. If I remember correctly, I think it has more Omega 3.

TESCO_R+R_RAIDER

SailorSam wrote: »

I normally get my milk in Heron for £1, but sometimes go to Poundstretcher and have been paying 79p there. Has it recently gone up or are different stores charging different.

was 79p has gone up though.

Mrs_Money

I get my semi-skimmed milk in Iceland £1 for the 4 pint size if that helps anyone.
(although it's not organic of course).

wyebird

Edwardia wrote: »

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

If it's 8 pints for £3 then it's 37.5p a pint not 75 P

In_Martin_We_Trust

what an extraordinary thing to have to do. shows how broke we all are if we get free wrights bread with a charity coupon were not supposed to have and buy cream and water it down simply because milk is too expensive.

Ken68

Not extraordinary at all...it is MSE way of reducing costs without cutting down. If it tastes the same at half or quarter of the cost...why not.
If bringing cream back to its original state and I save est. £73 per year that is a GOOD thing.

franskies

It's quite a good offer but Sainsburys Organic is also on the same offer.
If I'm too skint for Organic then the corner shop down the road do 4 litres for £1.50 which is quite cheap

surfsister

The_Household_Gremlin wrote: »

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.

Thanks, good idea, one of the best I've seen on MSE. Double cream is often half price at my Co-Op and sometimes 10p at Asda when they do their reductions. Will definitely do this if I get cheap cream.