milk, milk and more milk. What do you buy?

[mumnosbest]

There are 5 of us: me, dh, ds 7, dd1 5, dd2 8.5 months.
We have a milkman who delivers as follows:
dh/me-1pt skimmed,
ds/dd1 - 1pt semi
3 times a week.
in addition we buy extra from the shop at the weekend.

DD2 now has full fat in/on her food and in a few months will drink it too. I'm wondering whether to get a bottle delivered but then i'll have 3 kinds in the fridge. I'm thinking I can freeze some and get it out daily so it lasts but that seems a bit faffy.

What do you do if you need 3 kinds of milk?

How much milk will a 1yr old get through?

What age can a child have semi-skimmed milk from?

What age do children stop needing semi-skimned milk and can start having skimmed?

Sorry lots of questions, probably need to ask the HV.

TIA :)

Oh yes. Also we have the tubs of eb milk too. no room for food in my fridge

NHS says 5 years old when they can change to skimmed. See

www.healthystart.nhs.uk/food-and-health-tips/milk/

How about just switching to semi-skimmed to simplify things a bit? That's what me and DH drinks.

Thanks for replying. I can't swap as i have to watch cholesterol levels. Wonder why schools provide semi-skimmed if skimmed is ok at 5. If that's right i wouldn't need semi anymore.

We just have whole milk.

mumnosbest it's 2-5 for semi-skimmed. So it's from 6 sorry. Just bad wording in my part.

But your 5yo can share the whole milk with the baby, and the rest of you have skimmed?

We only have semi skimmed (for us and dds) and whole for ds (2.3 - 2 bottles of milk a day + cereal)

We have a whole shelf in fridge devoted to milk, and have the following deliveries

Tues and Thurs - 2 whole + 3 semi skimmed
Sat - 3 whole + 4 semi skimmed

Thanks that link is very useful. I think i'll stop buying semi untill dd2 is 2.

@ hazey that's my problem. I want some of my milk shelf back!