How much of the extra 16 pints of milk and 5 loaves of bread bought just in case are actually consumed

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Will be celebrating Xmas Day with my parents and a couple of their friends. Our milk and bread consumption is less than normal as drink Buck’s Fizz instead of coffee.

I see shoppers buying ridiculous amounts of milk and bread.

I reckon the extra 16 pints of milk and 5 loaves of bread, bought just in case - of what? Most will be binned.

So people are buying more than is reasonable and having excessive amounts of milk in their coffee 😂

It’s just in cereal!

If I had to walk to my local Asda and back it would take me two days.

so you started an entire thread because you use a lot less milk than other people but you wonder why they buy more than you? 😂

This.

I don’t do a “Christmas shop” because I am not hosting a dozen people for 3 days. Some people do because they are.

Simple.

My family of 6 go through 6 pints of milk a day. We dont buy bread because my husband works in a bakery but could easily go through a loaf in two days.

We are going to family for xmas. There's going to be 17 of us for five days. We are all big milk consumers. None of us want to be popping to the shop at any point, especially as most of the adults will be drinking and dont want to rely on expensive corner shops for milk top ups.

My mum will buy a ridiculous amount of milk and bread to see those few days through.

Many of us only order 1 food shop delivery a week all year round. And yes, that means "stocking" milk and bread and whatever staples you need to avoid going to the supermarket at all.

Why should we order less because it's Christmas, when we spend more time at home, don't eat out or not as much and have lots of friends or family coming round? 😂😂

Milk: bread sauce, trifle, custard- for 8 people - that will be 6 pints instantly, then all the coffee. Bread I wouldn’t use but if they were having left over turkey sandwiches they might.

I might look in your trolley and think ‘how the hell do they get through that much booze?’ - because I don’t drink alcohol. Everyone is different - or hadn’t you noticed?

2 litres over 8-10 days is minimal. Clearly others are using much more than you so it will seem a lot higher than your really low usage. I personally go through about half of our 16 pints a week and that is mainly in coffee and to drink. No cereal for me.

As mass consumers of milk in our house, we go through 3 plus pints a day. That goes up to 4 plus with some extra family, we just love it.

Why for gods sake?
Shops are only closed 24hrs.

Does anyone shop every day,

We use three of the 4 pint bottles a week, there's two sometimes 3 of us in the house.
we have 9 here for Christmas, so I'll buy our three bottles on Tuesday and if it all goes I'll buy more Friday. I won't buy loads of bread, I have a couple of bags of the bake at home stuff for extra. If we don't use it it has a long day so will be used by new year.

I’ll make a couple of bead/milk heavy dishes that I wouldn’t regularly over Christmas:

leeks in cheese sauce
cauliflower cheese
stuffing
bread sauce

(I’ve used two bloomer loaves just for the bread sauce!)

so definitely all gets used - in fact I might need to pop out for more

Also I’ll do my last shop on 23rd and expect that to last through until 31st. I don’t want to be buying more and continuing to fill fridge in that period.

I like stuffing the fridge and then using every last bit in increasingly interesting ways

We have gone through 8 pints of milk since friday evening (3 teens!) so our normal usage is through the roof!
christmas we will be double the people staying over the few days so 10 of us. Will need to ensure enough milk for hot chocolates, cheese sauce, custard, etc.

Breadwise i will need bread to make toast for pate, bread for prawn cocktail. Nice Breads for soup on christmas eve and then will get some par bake rolls fo boxing day leftovers.

I don’t want to have to pop to the shop every day (which for us would involve driving as only shop in village closing from 23rd until 29th. I want to be able to have a drink and not worry about running our of something.

Also, for every person ‘stocking up’ there will be somebody else not doing a shop at all that week as they are going to stay elsewhere for christmas

We have 20+ for four days. Won't be going shopping in that period so extra bread, milk and everything is necessary.

even if it was just 3 home from uni and 3 off school/nursery we'd still need a bigger shop.

We did have an amusing moment last Christmas when one of our guests said "People get ridiculous - I saw a woman with five loaves in her trolley in Tesco. Who needs five loaves?" and then something clicked and he looked around the table and said "... probably someone with a family like ours..." 😂 He took everyone's amusement with good grace.

But who wants to be going back to the shops over Christmas? It’s much easier to buy a few day’s worth of bread and milk so you don’t have to go again. The shops are busy all over the holidays and it’s bad enough having to go once.

When you have like an extra 6 people staying with you for the week, you can easily go through 4 pints of milk and a loaf of bread a day. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have no Christmas house guests this year, but when I do, the food shopping for the week is easily £400-500+. Yes, that can include a lot of milk and bread because they eat enormous amounts.

Our closest proper shop (not a petrol station) is 30 minutes away.

I saw someone in Aldi last Thursday with 16 X 6 pints of milk! That was all he had in his trolley. I thought 'What in earth are you going to do with all that? Bath in it?'.

I buy extra because I don't want to go shopping during the holidays, but nothing is ever wasted.
People judge and mock others for piling their trolleys high, assuming they are greedy and stupid , but you don't know how many people they are hosting & catering for or for how long do you ?
When I was a child all the food shops local to me would shut on Christmas eve and only re-open the day after new year, so you had to stock up a bit, only news agents opened on Boxing day because there were papers to sell.
We didn't have much of a freezer back then either so we bought things like part baked bread rolls and bread mixes, long life milk, tinned milks and creams, tinned ham & salmon etc to tide us over. We even had a whole chicken in a can once and tinned sausage rolls! They were delish!

My teens drink endless amounts of milk. 6 pints last less than 2 days because both have cereal and drink a pint of milk a couple of times a day. Tbh I'd much rather they drink pints of milk than alcohol. I fill up the door on my fridge Xmas Eve and will need more by 27th.

Surely they go in the freezer and used when needed.

Hardly difficult.

The supermarkets are closed for one day. Just one day. Those very same people filling trolleys with so much food will be back for more on Boxing Day.
I worked Boxing Day and couldn't believe how many people lack the ability to cater for a few extra visitors. One customer in particular had spent over £200 on Christmas Eve and back again on Boxing Day spending another £200. I asked " have you eaten all that food already?" The reply was "no, we have visitors and can't give them leftovers so threw away the turkey, left over veg, potatoes, pudding etc etc?
As for the milk and bread, some care homes do a big top up as they have a lot of mouths to feed and usual delivery stops over the Christmas period.

You’d be surprised. I’ve got a houseful of visitors here for five days and the bread and milk disappear at an alarming rate!