Tell me! How do YOU buy your milk?

[thebitterguy]

[Poll #681122]

Comments

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

I find bags are more cost effective, and I can drink a lot of milk. Love the stuff.

Doug.

[caias.livejournal.com]

I actually drink powdered milk at home.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

Carton, though it's usually Soymilk, and vanilla soymilk at that.

[proemial.livejournal.com]

When I want milk, I will send one of my slaves to the store with a glass. There, they acquire the exact amount of milk needed, and bring it back in that glass.

I keep teams of slaves, in case I may need a lot of milk in a short period of time. Say, if I'm baking a series of different things which all require different measures.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Carton, even though bags (and occasionally jugs) are available, because all other formats are huge. If I buy more than a litre at a time, some of it will probably go bad. If I'm going to do some milk-heavy cooking or baking, I might buy a 2L carton.

[thebitterguy]

We, too, taste of the soy, but only as a supplementary beverage. And we get chocolate, becasue it's like eating candy.

It's milk on cereal and tea.

[thebitterguy]

Hmmm. Have you considered a cow, for freshness? That way, you could have milkmaids (or possibly milkboys).

If space is an issue, you could get goats. They would also help with waste disposal.

[proemial.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big fan of goat milk.

And I'm not so fond of the smell of cow pasture.

Sending my slaves off to the convenience store is just so much more... convenient.

[thebitterguy]

Really? We usually go through a 4L a week or so, easy. But we have tea and cereal as our breakfast staples.

[gnaremoob.livejournal.com]

at the moment I splurge on real milk. Powdered is soo much cheaper.

Uhm milk here is werid

there are jugs

but there are also weird sort of paper things kinda like cream containers, only wiht out the rectangluar paper thing on top, but with that twist off hole thing. its weird, silly brits, eggs go in the fridge section at the grocery store!

[thebitterguy]

Interesting. Any particular reason for that?

[caias.livejournal.com]

Because it's cheaper than regular milk, which means more money for the skin reduction surgery.

http://caiasversion2.livejournal.com

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

How many people is that 'we'? This is just me, and I eat two meals out of three at work. If I'm eating cereal for breakfast I'm likely to take a little tub of it to work and use the office kitchen milk. ^^; If I ate cereal every day I'd definitely go through a litre faster than I do. But sometimes the only thing I do with it is put it in tea.

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

Mostly cartons. If we know we're going to use a lot one week for some reason, we get bags. If 7-11 is having a sale, we may get a jug instead. :)

Cu,
Andrew

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, the We is me + Cindy. Breakfast is usally taken at home, along with morning tea and possibly an evening tea.

Sorry, didn't think about singlehood when I asked about that.

[thebitterguy]

Trud Dat on the convenience.

Although I DO hear that orchids flourish in a high methane atmosphere, so, hey.

[proemial.livejournal.com]

That may (or may not) be true about orchids.

But the reality is that I don't flouish in a high methane environment.

And really, I am what matters. :)

[enginelovin.livejournal.com]

I drink Promised Land (http://www.promisedlanddairy.com/) milk, which comes in glass bottles. It's yummy Jersey cow milk. :D

[thebitterguy]

Glass bottle was one of the choices I thought of after I posted it.

Sounds tasty.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

They sell goat's milk in bottles at the gourmet deli/kaffehaus up the street from work. It tastes sour even when it's not. (Goat's milk cheese, however, is of the good.)

Powdered milk, IME (having done the reconstituting math in the store aisles during my Tightwad Gazette phase) costs more than liquid, even at the bulk food store. Maybe it's cheaper in the States, but it sure isn't in Toronto (if there's a place to get it cheap, someone please tell me). Also, it's not organic.

We buy 4L bags of organic 2%, most of which is consumed by the kiddo, usually every week and a half or so. Time was, I'd go through 4L a week, all by myself. Nowadays, I only have it in tea, coffee, or if a recipe calls for it, and occasionally when reflux or spicy food require cooling, fast. Any more than that and my ADD flares up, bigtime. Wish that connection had been made 20 years sooner... :P

[dogbreathcanada.livejournal.com]

They don't sell bagged milk here ... otherwise I'd buy it, because less packaging.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Milk in your tea?

*shudders*

Milk is for coffee!

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

I'm single, and I generally consume between 1 and 2 gallons of milk a week.

Bagged milk?

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise bagged milk was a thing of the real world.

No, seriously. My only exposure to milk in a bag was through the federal prison system, so I thought it was basically a cafeteria-experience sort of thing. At FTC OKC (Federal Transfer Center, Oklahoma City) we got single-serving bags of milk with our meals. We had to routine smell each one to make sure it hadn't spoiled (I kid you not), so we could turn it in for a fresh(er) one. (No, really, I'm not making this up.)

At FMC Lexington (Federal Medical Center Lexington, KY) in the cafeteria, we had beverage stations and the milk was in bags inside cardboard boxes, and you had to hook them up underneath the machine, and being that everyone had to work in Food Service before you were allowed to get another job assignment, that's how I learned about that.

Outside of that, my milk experiences have been mostly plastic jugs and cartons, though I have, on occasion, partaken of glass bottled milk.

[thebitterguy]

Nay. Cream is for coffee, the stronger the better. Milk is for tea.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Now, I don't mind cream on occasion, but I'm a milk-in-coffee sorta guy. Depending on the tea, I'm a honey and lemon, sugar and lemon, or just sugar kinda guy.

[thebitterguy]

That is one advantage, yeah. Although glass & plastic bottles are generally return for deposit.

Re: Bagged milk?

[thebitterguy]

The retail format is four litres divided into three bags. The bags are put into a plastic container and a corner snipped off for pouring. It's the primary milk delivery method in this area, apparently, and unknown everywhere else.

Re: Bagged milk?

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Wacky.

So, why three bags? That'd be 1.3333333... litres per bag. Why not four 1L bags?

Re: Bagged milk?

[thebitterguy]

Pffft. One litre bags? That's just crazy talk!

Honestly, I have no idea.

Re: Bagged milk?

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Wacky!

[the-adzo.livejournal.com]

I realized that my favorite source of milk isn't listed. I like those desktop sized cows that can graze on a chea pet or a little 6"x3" strip of desktop grass. When you want a drink, you just pick it up and suck on the underbelly.

AH, nothing like fresh desktop milk. Of course, it's only practical for about a cup or two, otherwise you need more cows, and you can't have too many otherwise you end up with poop on the keyboard and difficulty getting at your phone.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, there was this toy... it was a cow, and you put these white tablets into it, and some water, and when you milked the cow, real milk came out.

I am not kidding.

I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Never did get one, though. :(

Re: Bagged milk?

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I think it's because the size fits well into most fridges. The total contents fit perfectly in a fridge drawer. The individual bags, when put into oval pitchers, are the right width for the fridge door.

It's a theory, anyway. I've no clue as to the real answer.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

In cartons, thanks. I'm a little leery of wasting anymore petroleum on that sort of thing. Besides, who knows what's leeching into the milk via those bags?

Re: Bagged milk?

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

Bagged milk is the way most people buy it in Montreal, though there you can sometimes actually find places that sell single bags or two-bag bags. What is impossible to find there, though, is the plastic jugs.

Cu,
Andrew