What quantity do you buy milk in? (freezer, healthier, cookie)

[case44]

Usually a half gallon.


And for chocolate milk, I sneak out a buy a quart.

[plain and simple]

I'm single and I buy milk by the CASE! 24 at a time!

Ok, ok,... so it's the cans of evaporated milk, but I still buy a case at a time. I use it for everything - baking, cooking, coffee, tea, etc., I used to be in love with Carnation Evaporated Milk but, now, I found a brand for only $.65 a can and it tastes BETTER than Carnation! (At HALF the price!)

Today's milk doesn't agree with me. Not because of the lactose, I'm fine with that. Because I tend to eat pretty healthy and make everything from scratch, my body is no longer used to chemicals, additives, preservatives, etc., in boxed and canned foods. It's even in milk. I cooked myself into a healthy, from-scratch corner and now I have to stick with it. Oh darn.

[Jrsygrl51]

When my kids were small, we used to buy a 2 gallon with a twist that they called the BIG MOO. (true story) Now, I buy gallon FF.

[Ohiogirl81]

I buy it in pints, and freeze it in half-cup containers. I can't use a whole pint before it goes bad.

2 percent freezes better than 1 percent or skim.

[jlawrence01]

We buy one gallon of milk (usually $1.79-2.29/ gal) We freeze about 4 pints and use the rest in 20 days or so.

We cannot detect teh difference between frozen and fresh milk.

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by vmaxnc

How much milk does he drink???

A lot and when we have his family (4 brothers and their families) for Holiday Gatherings you can quadruple that amount. They all love milk and I don't mind a bit, it is just good to be able to spend some quality family time.

[debzkidz]

When my sons are home during the holidays, we will go through about a gallon a day. We're all milk drinkers and I use it in cooking and with cereal.

[molochai2580]

I drink about 3 gallons a week. If I had to buy anything smaller than a gallon, I would go crazy with trying to fit it into the fridge, not to mention the expense.

[freemkt]

I usually buy milk by the half gallon and fortunately I have a way to do it cost-effectively.

Kroger runs in-store coupons every other week on half gallons, and with the coupon, the unit price per ounce works out to 10-20 percent cheaper than their gallon milk. With their in-store coupons, the cashiers almost always have coupons at the register and you can just ask them to ring up a coupon for such-and-such item (so that at the end of the week when the store is out of coupons, you can still get the coupon price).

I usually buy a half gallon at the beginning of the week (Sunday-Monday) and then another at the end of the week (Friday-Saturday) and since they're fresh for (usually) up to two weeks, I don't have to buy any the following week when they don't have a coupon.

[tgauchsin]

With as many kids as we have, we buy milk by the cow.