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Milk delivered in glass bottles. Anyone do this?

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DizzyPhillips · 30/04/2019 23:43

Quite fancy doing this. Very much like the idea of buying milk from small local business rather than ASDA. Also for the novelty factor if I’m honest.

Questions: does it taste any different? Better/worse? What happens in warm weather if you are out all day?

Answers/opinions/experiences welcome!

OP posts:
bellinisurge · 01/05/2019 08:57

Found our milkman via our local community FB page.

HelloDoris · 01/05/2019 09:34

We are moving from M&M to a local supplier, our delivery is supposed to occur before 7am, it's not appearing till after 2pm when we are all at work/school. This means it's sat out all afternoon till we get home. It wasn't like this at the beginning but it has got worse and worse in the past few weeks.

Our local dairy offers before 7am delivery and milk fresh from the cow, gonna give it a go and see what happens.

Oldraver · 01/05/2019 10:14

It is definitely creamier

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Sexnotgender · 01/05/2019 10:39

We don’t use milk&more, we use a local company.

Aquilla · 01/05/2019 10:46

It tends to arrive at about 3am so you take it in first thing in the morning. On the downside you'll pay about twice as much.

Contraceptionismyfriend · 01/05/2019 10:49

Our neighbours have this and I'm so jealous! I'd sign up today if my kids weren't faulty and allergic.

bibbidybob · 01/05/2019 10:57

Just looked it up, but it's so expensive. 81p per pint - it's almost double the price of the organic milk I buy and it's not organic. Plus your stories of it being delivered at 2am put me off....the dog would go crazy!

OrchidInTheSun · 01/05/2019 11:04

Weirdly my dog doesn't stir. Filed in his acceptable noises folder

JumpingFrogs · 01/05/2019 11:24

Milk and More is the only option round here. More expensive than supermarket but saves dashing to the shop before I can have my morning cuppa ! Put bottles back out and recycle foil tops too. I have recently downloaded the app, so it's much easier if I suddenly realise I need to cancel a day or want to add something to the order the night before. They sell some lovely food too.

Trottersindependenttraders · 01/05/2019 11:34

We do this too, lucky enough to have a local dairy with it's own herd. It's delivered around 4am come rain, snow, ice, wind or shine.

It is more expensive at 70p per pint but at least the dairy is getting a decent price for it's milk, I'm sure they make very little from the £1 for 4 pints at the supermarket and there is far less plastic going to our recycling bin ever week. And it saves me nipping to Sainsbury's for milk and then coming out with a basketfull of stuff I didn't go in for.

Stayawayfromitsmouth · 01/05/2019 11:43

Had a local delivery since September. He delivers around 5am. Only time he didn't manage was when the roads iced over, but he brought them a few days later.
Deliver Mon and Fri. The milk lasts about 7days though.

Sockworkshop · 01/05/2019 20:34

Ours is 84p
Organic and choice of skimmed,semi ,full fat .
I dont drink milk so we have 3 pints a week
Pay the bill online and its brilliant not to have so much plastic but I also refuse to buy milk from Poland etc when we should be supporting our own farmers.

MissEliza · 01/05/2019 20:46

I tried Milk and More and they were dreadful. The milk usually arrived after 9am, although they say it will be there before 7. One day it came at 11. This was during the heatwave last year. If I'd been at work, it would have gone off. There's no other alternative round here which is disappointing because I'm trying to cut down on plastic.

sheepysheep · 01/05/2019 21:09

We have a milk vending machine round our way and it’s fab. It’s in a converted horse box which moves around four local villages. The milk is pasteurised but not homogenised so you get the cream on the top 😋

Milk delivered in glass bottles. Anyone do this?
CurbsideProphet · 01/05/2019 21:12

We have our milk delivered from a local farm. They even do Christmas milk tops in December Smile

Treacletoots · 01/05/2019 21:14

We're incredibly lucky to have a farmer with a milk vending machine 10 mins away. We now make a weekly trip to top up our beautiful glass milk bottles. It's far far nicer and they also do ice cream, butter, Yogurt and other goodies. Bloody brilliant.

If you could see the amount of plastic you'll be saving you'll never think twice.

If you're not lucky enough to have a farm nearby, milk and more are a fab alternative we've used before a few times for the Sunday morning bacon and coffee essentials

TheInvestigator · 01/05/2019 21:20

I've been getting it for a year from our local dairy and it's fab. Always gets delivered at 3am though and I'm on a bungalow so my bedroom is near the path to the front door so he does wake me up with the glass noise! I get up and bring it in lol!

It's 4 times the price of buying the largest plastic bottle in the shop but it's worth it. The daily also delivers free range eggs, butter, freshly squeezed apple and orange juice in glass bottles, cheese and yoghurt and at weekends we can get sausages, bacon, black pudding, haggis pudding, potato scones. It's really handy!

ExpletiveDelighted · 01/05/2019 21:56

I didn't know there was an app, will get onto that.

RandomlyChosenName · 01/05/2019 22:09

But do M&M pay the farmers fairly?

ilovesooty · 02/05/2019 02:38

My milkman couldn't be more local - he lives next door.

ForalltheSaints · 02/05/2019 07:16

My mum still does and it seems to last longer.

JasperRising · 02/05/2019 08:02

I looked into local dairies but the only localish (not that close but would deliver) one uses plastic bottles which I was trying to reduce. So we had to go with milk and more. Haven't had any problems so far with reliability, never hear the milkman and he takes the empties away too which is great. Have a cool bag for the summer but the delivery arrives before we leave so hopefully won't be needed.

That said like pp I would be interested if anyone does know if they pay the farmers better than the supermarkets do.

Teenagedream · 02/05/2019 08:10

We have milk in glass bottles. Love it. We wash the bottles and put back on our doorstep. It is more expensive but I do really like it and so much less to recycle.

MrsCatnip · 02/05/2019 08:11

Milk and More deliver to our street but I think we have the world's noisiest milkman who delivers with a bang and a crash at about 1am, even on a hot summer nights. I liked the novelty of glass bottles but given the price too, didn't keep it up.

neversleepagain · 02/05/2019 08:12

We get 10 pints a week delivered over 3 days. Milkman delivers before 6am so milk doesn't get left in the heat. We get organic whole milk and it has a cream top that my daughters like to eat out with a spoon.
It does cost more though.
10 pints of organic whole milk from the supermarket would be £4.50 a week, from the milkman we pay £8.50.

Milk is from local dairies and I would rather support them than the supermarkets.