Milk prices?

[theeedude]

Conveniently, I am now lactose intolerant
I do drink kefir and yogurt though, and prices of that haven't changed much, or maybe I just don't really care about food price all that much.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Ppl here fail at buying groceries. Once I read that people were paying $2, $3 for a dozen eggs I nearly cried. This is not gasoline guys, you can get cheap eggs and cheap milk, and it doesn't even have to be from a shady place. Costco milk.... is what. $3ish for 2 gallons? Come on. Stop complaining. I pay $4 and I get hormone free milk, but it's not organic. If I wanted cheaper milk I could easily hit up Safeway for $2/gallon.

I don't think you've been shopping lately. The MINIMUM price in Kahleeforneeya right now is about $7.00/2 gallons, or over $4.00/ single. That price is set (mostly) by the state dairy board. (sure, there's profit made along the way over their $xyz/hwt of milk, but the price doesn't vary more than a few cents per store.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Ppl here fail at buying groceries. Once I read that people were paying $2, $3 for a dozen eggs I nearly cried. This is not gasoline guys, you can get cheap eggs and cheap milk, and it doesn't even have to be from a shady place. Costco milk.... is what. $3ish for 2 gallons? Come on. Stop complaining. I pay $4 and I get hormone free milk, but it's not organic. If I wanted cheaper milk I could easily hit up Safeway for $2/gallon.

No you can't, especially in the Bay Area. Costco milk more expensive than Safeway? I don't think so.

Safeway is $2.79 for a half gal and $4.xx for a full gal.
About the same price as costco.

I would love for anyone to show me a photograph of a milk price at less than $3 a gallon sometime soon. I don't believe it.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: chusteczka

Originally posted by: Twista
good thing i dont drink milk.. makes me.. well use the bathroom. Lactose int. =[

and milk usually spoils in our house.. no1 drinks it lol. I use to drink it every damn day because its good, but i cant anymore.

whole milk ftw.

How did you become lactose intolerant if you drank milk every day?
I do not understand lactose intolerance.

My wife drank milk all her life, enjoyed cheese, yogurt, sour cream, the entire gamut of dairy products...till about 4 years ago. She started getting an acid stomach and diarrhea. Went to the doctor, who ran a bunch of tests...Lactose intolerance was the final diagnosis.
She quit drinking milk, (and she misses it badly, but says soy and rice mild suck worse than having no milk at all) and really misses cheese, although she'll splurge once in a while and eat some good cheese...but she pays for it.

 

[timosyy]

I drink ~ 3/4 gallon a day (started working out and its good for that), so...

Sucks.

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
My father and that household has gone to goat milk. And they make their own cheese, soap (OMFG that stuff is great--we got some for Christmas), grown their own veggies... Soon they will be getting their own meat.

you can make soap from milk?

 

[Midnight Rambler]

grocery prices in general are on the rise.We've started baking our own bread here

You probably aren't saving much, if anything, by baking your own bread. As noted in this thread, milk and egg prices are way up due to the increase in the cost of corn, which we are stupidly diverting (a large % of) to ethanol production. Consequently, farmers are concentrating heavily on corn and planting less wheat. In turn, the cost of wheat, and products made from wheat (like flour and pasta, :|) is rising just as quickly.

That said, nothing tastes quite like warm, homemade bread ...

 

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: Midnight Rambler

grocery prices in general are on the rise.We've started baking our own bread here

You probably aren't saving much, if anything, by baking your own bread. As noted in this thread, milk and egg prices are way up due to the increase in the cost of corn, which we are stupidly diverting (a large % of) to ethanol production. Consequently, farmers are concentrating heavily on corn and planting less wheat. In turn, the cost of wheat, and products made from wheat (like flour and pasta, :|) is rising just as quickly.

That said, nothing tastes quite like warm, homemade bread ...

Check out this thread. Inexpensive bread ftw.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

buy a cow!

 

[Fritzo]

It's near $4.00/gal in some places here. I've resorted to latching on to the spare one when I see women breast feeding in public.


Oh wait...I did that before...

 

[Journer]

my roommates and i drink it like it's water >_<!!! wallets are hurtin'

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
All in your imagination.

Everythig is cheap, wages rising through the roof.

My aunt and uncle which run a dairy farm sure don't see that, they said they still get about the same for every 1000 gallons.

Maybe a little bit more but I don't remember it being much, mostly due to the rise so they get a little extra cut.

Not sure where the extra costs are coming from... owners of mega farms?

Your Aunt & Uncle are not part of the Corporate collective such as ADM?

They will be soon enough or get an offer for their land they can't refuse to get rid of the cows.

 

[Drekce]

Good old Ethanol...

 

[TwiceOver]

Didn't even notice. I'll have to check that out next time I'm at the store.

 

[middlehead]

Got groceries this morning and paid attention; a gallon of store-brand (which now specifies that it is non-hormonal) was 3.28. A half-gallon of name brand in the "easy carry jug" (Cass-Clay, if anyone cares) was 3.51.

 

[imported_Baloo]

No, I was weaned from milk when I was still an infant. This ain't never never land! Get off the milk already!

J/K

 

[cdmccool]

I drink Dairy Ease, and it's $3 for half a gallon. I go through several gallons per week too.