Milk Prices, again

**YankeeMom** · 06-28-2007, 03:16 PM

Milk Prices Could Soar to $5 a Gallon by Summer's End

The national average price for the calcium-rich drink that "does a body good" could hit a record $5 a gallon by September, MarketWatch reported Tuesday. The current average price is about $3.50 a gallon nationally, say dairy experts. That's more than the current national average gas price, which is $2.975 a gallon, according to AAA.

**Dixie** · 06-28-2007, 03:22 PM

The cheapest milk I can find here (Wal-Mart brand) is already $4 a gallon. I hate to see the price rise even more.

**orlivin1225** · 06-28-2007, 03:23 PM

I noticed this the other day... The Safeway store that is near my house went from advertising a non-organic gallon of milk, for $1.98 on a huge sandwich board in the dairy dept., to quietly changing the prices tag on the milk to say "2 for $5.00" That is a $.52 increase!!!! Overnight!!!! Sheesh!

**Buckeye5** · 06-28-2007, 04:40 PM

I bought milk for $2.09 a gallon at Krogers today. I know this is not going to last. I use a lot of milk to cook with...dry milk may be coming to home. I bet that will go up a ton too.

**Holly** · 06-28-2007, 04:51 PM

Farmer's won't get it.
Its the blood sucking milk companies.

**PB&J** · 06-28-2007, 05:22 PM

It is 4.39 here.

Fortunately I have 3 gallons in the fridge and 3 coupons for more free milk. Kroger had a deal last week, buy 3 boxes of cereal and get a free gallon of milk. The cereal was 3/$5 and I had 1.50 coupons. I got free milk instantly at the register and then the coupon machine printed me ANOTHER free milk coupon! So for 3.50 I got 3 boxes of cereal and 2 gallons of milk.

We don't really drink a lot to begin with. I buy whole milk and dilute it so it lasts a bit longer. We just use it mostly on our cereal, for cooking and in my coffee.

**Luv2BeFrugal** · 06-28-2007, 05:57 PM

It's 3.79 at one store and 2/$7 at the other... I hope that article isn't true.

**Radish4ever** · 06-28-2007, 05:58 PM

I'm so glad we have a ton of milk in our freezer right now! All free from the aforementioned cereal deal when my store was having 10/$10 cereal that qualified! I still have 3 free milk coupons! I gave a man my 4th coupon today bc he was having all sorts of problems with some raincheck and I was able to cure a lot of frustration on the part of the man AND the employees by offering it up!

hehe

**baxjul** · 06-28-2007, 07:39 PM

Eleni loves milk and used to drink alot of it everyday. I've made her cut down to 2 8oz. glasses a day.

Now, she thinks that I should cut down on my Diet Pepsi:surprise:. We drink alot of water during the day, and some koolaide.

**Its_Donna** · 06-28-2007, 08:37 PM

Our CVS has milk on sale for 2.59/gal this week. We drink lots of milk around here. I have never used powdered milk.....does it taste good?

**cheriede** · 06-28-2007, 09:14 PM

I heard that milk prices are expected to go up this summer. Right now, the price of milk is around $2.29, so it's not too bad. Probably a good idea to stock up..

**Mom23boys** · 06-28-2007, 10:27 PM

I think that is crazy....$5!!!!

**Neeley** · 06-28-2007, 10:37 PM

We don't buy regular milk, only powdered. We did some grocery shopping tonight and the powdered milk we buy went up from $4.68 to $5.88 a box. It is still cheaper for us to go with powdered milk though.

**Cricket1** · 06-28-2007, 11:01 PM

This is really bad news around here. Both of my boys are huge milk drinkers.

**orlivin1225** · 06-28-2007, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by cheriede

I heard that milk prices are expected to go up this summer. Right now, the price of milk is around $2.29, so it's not too bad. Probably a good idea to stock up..

You can freeze regular gallons of milk? Why didn't anybody ever tell me that? I've wasted 'great buys' by not freezing.... grrrr....