How much milk?

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Does a normal person get through in a week?

I know my consumption is unusually low. Until I discovered filtered milk, I would rarely get through a pint before it went off. Now a pint generally lasts me 7-10 days.

I am doing shopping for my parents at the moment. On Friday I got them, as asked, 4 pints of milk. Which I assumed would last a week (we'd agreed that I wouldn't go again until this coming weekend).

Today they rang to say they'd run out and would I go and get them 8 more pints! And also a prescription and medical things, so fine, it was an essential journey.

But 12 pints of milk for two people for a week seems, well, a LOT to me.

What's a normal amount for someone who isn't a child/teenager, who has tea and coffee and a bowl of cereal most days?

2 adults 1 teen, four pints a day

Easily 14 pints between 3 of us. More as we are at home.

I hate milk but do have it in my coffee every day and use a little in cooking sometimes and occasionally in porridge, my eldest daughter has milk on her cereal every morning and loves a milkshake, my partner somehow puts more milk than cereal in his bowl every day and also drinks loads of milkshake (usually 2 glasses a day) I'd say we go through about 6-8 pints a week normally.

DH drinks 6-8 pints of semi skimmed a week. I drink soya milk and have 1-2l so if we both had normal milk we'd easily get through 10-12 pints a week

• Milk is not an essential part of the diet past babyhood. Many societies drink none.*

Many societies (or rather, ethnic groups) can't drink milk. But Northern Europeans evolved the ability to continue to digest milk into adulthood, which presumably wouldn't have happened if it wasn't a dietary staple.

We're not getting any yogurt at the moment as we're managing with local deliveries rather than supermarkets so we're getting through more milk instead, including making egg custard to replace yogurt.

2 under 3, 2 over 70 and 2 40 year olds and I would say at least 22-23 pints a week! My kids love it and my in-laws have cereal and milky coffee every day!

We probably use a similar amount, 12 pints a week for 2 adults. DP has loads in coffee, I use much less, but it also gets used for cheese sauce, custard, etc.

We go through 20/24 pints a week, that's me, dh, dd4 and dd1.5, youngest still has a bottle or two a day and 4yo has 200mls at bedtime as well as cereal once or twice a day. I drink a glass most days and dh has shit loads of cereal, I mean I dont know where he puts it but he'll have 8 or sometimes 10 wheatabix for breakfast! I also cook with it a bit and we drink a lot of tea

We get through 25-30 pints a week. The kids (5 & 2) get through around 4 pints a day alone.

We are two adults and a four year old and get through 10-12 pints a week.

Family of four, 6 pints every 2-3 days

DH and DD (5) get through 4 pints a week of milk and we get through two cartons of oat milk too

14-16 pints/week, 3 of us at home now, DS 23 prefers full fat so we have half of semi and full fat. using local farm for milk deliveries for last 2 weeks. much less stressful but more expensive.
i only use for my tea, they are porridge and cereal fiends.

Probably no more than 2 pints a week. I have milk in my tea and sometimes for cereal, baking, cooking. DH doesn't really use any. He doesn't eat breakfast and doesn't drink tea or coffee. DS (3) doesn't like milk. He sometimes eats yoghurts, though.

We get through4 pints a day

Would they have room for a cow in the back garden ? Thinking laterally here.

Our milkman delivers 7 pints a week. Two adults, two teenage boys. I very occasionally have to request an extra, but usually because of custard

Usually about 3/4 pints a week for my porridge, DS's weetabix and his occasional cup of milk. If I'm making lasagne, macaroni cheese etc then more.

None, unless it's needed for a recipe (cheese sauce etc).

My nan used to drink probably 6+ milky cups of tea a day! With 1 sugar.... she probably would of passed away a lot sooner without that full fat milk and sugar in her system 😩

@RedElephants - I think that poster was being lighthearted.

I've just shopped for my neighbours. 2 adults in their 70s. 12 pints, to last just a bit longer than a week.

Between me my husband and son we go through 8 pints in less than 3 days. We eat porridge and cereal every day plus dS has two cups of milk a day and we make a couple of milky coffees a day. We can also use quite a bit in cooking some weeks cheese sauce for lasagne, custard etc

My DH doesn't have milk in his tea or coffee so only uses the milk for cereal or porridge. Me and DH usually go through a 4 pint of skimmed in about 3/4 days and my little boy goes through a 4 pint of whole milk in just under a week

Normally we get through two to four pints a week (one adult, two teens). However, when my son is off his very strict regime he has been known to get through four pints a day!
Your parents must know how much milk they get through in a week. Get them that and don't worry about it.