My wife just told me a gallon of milk is getting real close to 5 bucks. Our favortire brand of dairy products, Schepps, has always been higher than any of the others, but everything they make just tastes noticeably better to us. The cottage cheese has a flavor that puts it in a league of its own. Their sour cream and half and half are the same way.
We aren't about to switch to another brand, but it's a good thing we don't go through milk like we used to. When we had all the kids in the house we were going through 1 to 1.5 gallons a day. That would be over $150 a month just for milk. She said that grocery prices in general are getting outrageous.
We might need to get a milk cow, or a goat.
Tammy says not on sale, its 3.69 On Sale, 2.89
Costs me the energy to get out and put a little feed in the box and then milk the goat.
Us lactose intolerants are hurting. 3.69 for a half gallon of the special milk.
Gallon of chocolate is 3.99 ;)
The last I heard milk was $16 cwt in this area. ;D
Wife just told me the other brands are still south of $4 - it's just that her high maintenance husband has to have his special brand. ::)
She prefers Schepps products too, but when it comes to discussing the $1 more per gallon it's all because of *my* dairy elitist attitude. :)
$2.79 at Costco (member warehouse place) and $3.80 at the Grocery store for store brand. The local dairy's price, in the same cooler cabinet, is $6.00.
Mary makes a "milk run" every Saturday morning to a local retired postal worker/farmer in our neighborhood. She pays $2.00 per gallon for raw, whole milk.
She also picked up a couple dozen eggs and any vegetables that are in season. In the springtime its strawberries. The last couple of Saturdays the in-season vegetable was big vine ripened tomatoes about the size of a soft ball. I can eat one a day.
I've found that I can drink the raw milk and not have the problems I remember having when I drank the store-bought stuff.
Milk in mid missouri is 3.49-69 store brand, 3.89-99 for name brand. Had a buddy that worked in diary processing plant, said they made milk for 13-15 different companies. Just like gas, comes mostly from one terminal in our area,but dozen different stations sell it.
In this area chocolate is $4.49 a gallon; store brand 2% milk is 3.99 and name brand (Flavo-rich) is 4.79 for 1% and 4.89 - 4.99 for 2%, depending on the store. It has now surpassed gasoline prices :o.
It's a bargain at any price ;D
$6.20 a gallon here controlled by milk marketing board.
$3.42 for store brand here.
I'm payin 3.79 for a 4 litre jug - lets just call it a gallon and be done with it ::)
That's a pretty good price, sprucegum. Around here you can get charged as much as $500 for littering. :D