How can I have milk in my office with no fridge?

[MrsTumbletap]

I would love a kettle or coffee machine in my little office but don't have a kitchen nearby to store the milk and no room for a mini fridge.

What do you all do? I'm not a fan of black coffee or tea.

UHT only comes in big cartons doesn't it and once opened I don't have a fridge. How do I have a coffee in the daytime?

I came in to say a chilly type bottle. Icy cold milk will stay cold for a good 12 hours. If not more. You can buy smaller ones. Or you could buy a can cooler thing. You put it in the freezer and pop the milk bottle through it. It's like a cold insulated jacket.

mini fridges are expensive.
you need a good thermos for your milk

I got a Sparrow bottle and it keeps my coffee hot for 10-11 hours and drinkable (if not super hot) until the next day.

The 1l bottle does about 4 large mugs, so I just take my own so I don't need a kettle.

Thanks all

B&M do the little cartons- 10 for 29p

If you only need enough for two portions a day I would freeze it in ice cube trays, pop out a few cubes a day and take in little pots and experiment how long it takes to defrost and how long they stay cold for. Sistema do packs of three small round pots.

Alternatively I'd use a chillys bottle!

Kenco coffee sachets. You don’t need milk with them and they stay fresh.

I had a 1 pint plastic container and just filled it with enough milk daily for my needs. Which are normally done within 3 hours of arrival, so not soon enough for the milk to go off. There are slightly cooler places in the office to keep it, too. Also tried powdered milk but that was desperate measures. Rinse the plastic container out daily.

Yea to the chilly, they really work. I left one in a hot car all day in the summer and the contents were still cold.

[quote thenewaveragebear1983]You can buy little individual sachets of UHT in places like b&m? I used to buy these from Tesco too, they have more in than a sachet

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/267309503[/quote]
I've bought them in Poundland as well; or you could use powdered milk or coffee creamer, depending on how rich you like your milk.

Yes to a Chilly's bottle.

Buy a good thermos flask (or a couple of good thermos flasks) and fill with tea before going to work. When I go out for the day I make a flask up of tea (with milk) and it keeps so hot it's still steaming hot when I pour it even hours later. No need to faff around then with making tea, just pour yourself a cup as and when you want one.

Freeze it.

Ice cube tray at home. Pop a few in a bottle each morning. Or freeze a small amount in a plastic bottle.

I take the sachets of coffee with powdered milk when I'm in different clinics.

Get a Tassimo machine for your office...no fresh milk required and does tea, coffee and hot chocolate.

Came here to say freeze it too. Ice cube tray is perfect and as it melts it's still cold by the end of the day if you put them in to a small soup flask. If it's not melted, a few cubes in your coffee will soon melt away.

I use coffee mate powder.

Uht milk stays fine out of the fridge for longer than fresh milk too. You can get UHT with a screw cap and take it home at the end of the day

Thermos or other insulated bottle is the way I would go. If it needs some help, make some milk ice cubes and drop a couple in the bottle.

Milk powder? Just keep in an airtight tin.

The metal drinks bottles by Chilly’s keep drinks cold for 24hrs, so you could take your milk in one of those.

I agree with PP and using coffee mate. If you only want 2 coffees a day mind and dont like coffee mate i would just go for broke and do a week of black coffee, you do really do get used too it very fast!

5th December sorry bit late to the party