Just out of interest. As a family of 4 2 adults and 2 small children we use about 4 litres per week. Some for baking, cheese sauce but mostly for breakfast and hot drinks. The children do drink it straight on occaision. Other people I know with similar sized families go through up to 10 litres p/week!
2 adults, 1 toddler and one baby (breastfed) and we would use about 10 litres a week I would say. Our toddler can go through 6 litres of full fat on his own with breakfasts and bottles.
As adults we don't use a huge amount and still can get through 4 litres a week.
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2 adults, 3 children (12, 16 and 19) and we use a couple of litres per month. It used to be more when the children were younger - maybe 2 litres per week.
Milk actually isn't that good for you if you are an adult. Yoghurt and cheese are a much better choice.
2 adults and a 7yr old, 2-3 litres a week. We don't drink it, just have in coffee and on cereal occasionally (usually have yoghurt) and in cooking i.e. cheese & white sauces. I used to use so little that one of my friends would bring his own if coming to visit as mine was always off lol
Two adults, 6-8 L of light blue milk a week, used to drown porridge and weetbix every morning, general use for other things, and I also drink a fair bit by the glass - yum! []
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2 adults here (at work full time). We occasionally buy a 1L container and struggle to use it all by its expiry date (is that 2 weeks usually?). We used to buy just a 300ml carton per week, but OH has decided the occasional half glass is nice with some biscuits hence the switch to a 1L sometimes. The unfortunate thing with the 300mls is if we get unexpected guests who want tea/coffee with anything more than a tiny splash of milk in it then we're in trouble!
We go through about 15-18L/day. But that's feeding 6 4-legged kids, making cheese and a milk-loving teenaged boy. Us 2-leggeds go through about 2L/day just drinking it, more if I'm baking and 10L at one go if I'm making cheese.
Crikey you lot are a worry.... we used to buy (excluding cheeses, butter and ice cream dairy allowances) for 2 adults and 1 growing 11 yo, 6 litres at shopping once a week, and then during the week top up with another 4 litres.
We love our cups of tea, and when SOH returns from night shift I get a hot chocolate in bed about 2.00am (because he cannot help but wake the rest of us up as he enters the house) and E might make herself a milo drink after school. I will tipple on milk after walks around the land and heavy working.
I don't think I go out of my way to cook with milk for the sake of using it when buying it, but now I have my own milk.....
we produce approx. 33 litres every morning, pure jersey milk. Yummo. I feed 8 calves of a morning, 2 litres each. There goes nearly 1 cow's production, and the rest is refrigerated. When I come home 5 calves get another 1.5 litres each. Later in the evening just before dark, they (5) get another 2 litres each approx..
As my calves grow (I have 13 now) I start to skim off the cream for butter making. I know we daily go through about 1.5 litres at the moment.