The price of milk is out of control

[lottaLove]

Does anyone else feel like the price of milk is going out of control? For us it's shifting from necessity to luxury we can't afford.

We go through a bag of milk every 2 days, and a 4L bag costs $5.36 right now. Thats $80.00 a month just on milk.

Cheese and yogurt aren't much better, cheese is almost 8.00 a brick and yogurt is 6.99 for a 16 pack. I just don't understand how the powers that be can expect you to get enough calcium in a day at these prices

[Debbie-cat]

Milk has been skyrocketing here as well. I use to be able to get two gallons for $5. Now it is two gallons for $7.50

[Neeley]

Geez! That is outrageous.

Currently our prices are:
*Milk: $2.15/gallon @ Costco
*Cheese: $2.00/8 oz block, shredded or 16 oz singles
*Yogurt: $0.25/4 individual cups w/sale and coupon

[stinkbug]

Really? We don't drink much, but I haven't noticed a huge increase here. (ID)

[monkeywrangler71]

Nope, a 4L of milk is down to $5.33 now, I'm thrilled. That's more than a $2 drop, although I'm sure we're paying for it somewhere else since the stores pay a set price and they must be eating the cost. Whatever they're doing it beats paying the nearly $8 per gallon that the price is fixed at.

[Russ]

Kroger has it on special.. $1.99/gallon

[Jamielane]

I rarely pay more then 2.49 a gallon and can get it as low as 1.79 on sale sometimes. I hope the prices come down soon for you. We only go through a gallon a week at the most. Although when my girls were little we went through a gallon every every day and half or so.

[pollypurebred39]

Milk is $3.99 a gallon regular, or $8 for raw

Single slices like kraft-$5, an 8oz brick of cheese $4-$6 for regular Joe stuff. The real good stuff can run as much as $20+ for 8oz.

yogurt is $1 to $1.29 a container, or if you get Greek yogurt $2 to $2.50 a container.

I'm in a high $$$ area. Every thing's high- food, housing, clothing, entertainment like movies, bowling, theater. Even our thrift stores are crazy high in pricing.

Almond milk is $3.50 a half gallon. My youngest drinks two gallons a week, my DH drinks a gallon of it. So $84 just for them. DS2 drinks a gallon of regular milk a week, so $15.96 for him. I rarely drink either. So I spend $99.96 every month in milk.

[HappyMama]

Yes , the price of milk is getting higher or well..... the dollar is falling in value .
Mine is pretty high as I buy organic, but then make my own cheese and yogurt so that does help save quite a bit. At least with the savings in yogurt alone. I also make a lot of my own butter with the cream I buy.

[pollypurebred39]

I'm thinking about making my own butter. It's $4-$5 a pound here. I can get an entire gallon of cream for $7.50 from our local dairy. I'm thinking it would be better to make my own. I've always, or since I read about how much Debbie & FF love it on the homesteading thread, wanted to try it.

And

I have a yogurt maker. Homemade yogurt is better and far less expensive.

[HappyMama]

I'm thinking about making my own butter. It's $4-$5 a pound here. I can get an entire gallon of cream for $7.50 from our local dairy. I'm thinking it would be better to make my own. I've always, or since I read about how much Debbie & FF love it on the homesteading thread, wanted to try it.

And

I have a yogurt maker. Homemade yogurt is better and far less expensive.

Wow Polly that is an awesome price for cream! The rule of thumb is 1 pint of cream equals 1 cup of butter I use my kitchen aid, and food processor but the family favorite is a mason jar treatment

I make a half gallon of yogurt in the crock pot , and make regular as well as Greek. I never got around to getting a yogurt maker but they seem cool.

[druthb00]

I've noticed a gallon went from a regular price of $3.09 @ Publix to $3.33, in the span of a year or so. Save A Lot just opened down the street, though, and their price is $2.67 still, so I'm buying my milk there now unless Publix runs a sale where I can make money (that's right, actually MAKE money) on Smart Balance Milk. My freezer is just too small to hold more than a few cartons of it, though...

8 oz. shredded cheese 2/$4 on sale
16 oz. sour cream $1 normal price for off brand, sale price for Breakstones/Daisy
12?oz. sliced cheese 2/$4 on sale

Once in awhile there's good Kraft or Sargento Coupons to be used, and that'll bring the price down a bit...but I have to say, I do miss prices a couple years ago at Kroger back home

Milk half gallon 4/$5 (I think my dad said they still are doing this sometimes)
8 oz. shredded cheese 3/$5 sale price...which was pretty much a weekly thing (sometimes 4/$5!)
16 oz. sour cream/dip 10/$10 ALWAYS

I also wish we got a price break for buying block cheese, vs. shredded. I'm happy to use my shredder on it if it'll save me money....but they're always the same price down here

[daylily]

Does anyone else feel like the price of milk is going out of control? For us it's shifting from necessity to luxury we can't afford.

We go through a bag of milk every 2 days, and a 4L bag costs $5.36 right now. Thats $80.00 a month just on milk.

Cheese and yogurt aren't much better, cheese is almost 8.00 a brick and yogurt is 6.99 for a 16 pack. I just don't understand how the powers that be can expect you to get enough calcium in a day at these prices

I know this thread is about prices but milk is actually not a very good source of usable calcium because the phosphorus content of the milk negates much of the calcium. Leafy greens and broccoli are much better sources.

[ladytoysdream]

I get our milk and cheese at Aldi's.
Gallon of skim is around $ 2.19.
8 oz chedder cheese is $ 1.79

We used to get whole milk. Now if I do, he says it too creamy.
He uses somewhere between 1- 2 gallons a week.
I don't drink it anymore. I use powdered to cook with.

[shoiji]

The prices seem to be going up slightly here. I still hold out and buy cheese and butter when on sale and freeze.