Don't buy any real milk.
Tom uses white water(1%) on his cereal in the morning, and half/half in his coffee. When I need milk for cooking, I use a combination of the half/half and the 1% to make a milk substitute.

Soy milk only here. I love Silk Plain with DHA Omega-3 and Calcium.

A half-gallon usually lasts a week. I buy a quart of half-n-half for coffee every week,too.

Probably about 2 gallons a week, 2%, we use it on cereal quite a bit, plus cooking.

I buy a half gallon one week and 2 the next. We don't go through it much though..if the boys aren't eating cereal. I make pudding and hot cocoa to use it up alot...oh and ice cream.

When DD is here (home from college), she drinks the 1% (white water as Monica put it lol). She'll drink about a half gallon in a week. DH might have a couple glasses. I might use some for cooking... sometimes I buy whole milk for a recipe.

I don't drink milk, especially not soy milk which affects me badly.

We usually go through a gallon and a half maybe a week. We use 2% we have tried the white water and can't stand it. I drink very little milk, maybe a glass a week if that. Bobby and Mike drink the rest. Mike is the biggest milk drinker in the house.

I use about a gallon of skim milk a week and there's only me. I drink it with breakfast and with lunch, and of course on cereal. I've gotten so used to skim that if I have to drink even 2%, it tastes like I'm drinking cream. It's funny how our tastes can and do change as I once thought 2% was too watery.

Shirley

Depends, sometimes I pour it out after it's gone bad because no one drinks it. I only buy one gallon at a time because of this. Sometimes the kids will drink it up right away and I have to go back and get more.

I remember my mom going to the commisary when I was a kid and buying like 10 cartons of milk at a time. It was drunk pretty fast at our house. I can't imagine buying that much for my kids. It was only me and my 2 brothers too.

I usually throw out more than what is used. I don't drink milk...and won't touch the "blue stuff", which referred to as "white water". It has a blue tinge to it. That to me is gross. I won't even use it for cooking. I use whole milk. DH and MIL want the "blue stuff". But DH only uses milk if he is having cereal. That's not often. DS is like me...he won't drink milk.

If I were to put a glass of milk to my lips, I would probably hurl. It's just nasty stuff. DS thinks the same thing. LOL

I buy 2 gallons of WHOLE milk a week. I do use it in cooking also. Sometimes I need more - sometimes less. Right now - we are not quite using 2 a week.

Everyone is slim and trim at my house. My kids have all drank whole milk since they were 6 months old. They are also very athletic and don't eat much junk food.

I seldom buy milk unless I have visitors. I have never liked milk, and my spouse doesn't care one way or the other.

I keep a box of non-fat dry milk on hand for cooking. A box that makes eight quarts lasts a long time when I only make one cup at a time!

We use a gallon of whole milk per week. DH likes to make his own frappes and I use it on cereal and in cooking. Growing up on a dairy farm I never had pasterized milk until I went to school. I've tried the 2% and just can't get it past my lips, but I can drink it as chocolate milk.

Dang.

We just got back from Costco, where we bought 6 gallons of 2% milk, which will get us through one week. There's three of us here, and we all drink milk altho DS does like to turn his into chocolate milk.

'Blue' milk is skim in this house. I should say NOT in this house -- ick. We're used to 1%. Now 2% feels like cream. I don't know what 'whole' is like -- haven't had any since DS was a child. We both like milk and want half & half in our coffee. (My coffee is more cream and milk than coffee!) I buy a gallon a week. I only know that because one empty gallon goes out in the recycling every week.

How can you have 'Milk and Cookies' without the milk? LOL

I LOVE milk. I usually buy 3 gallons a week. (2 skim and 1 whole) I tend to panic if there aren't 2 gallons in the fridge! I can drink it at each meal and inbetween. When I was pregnant, I drank even more! It was the only thing that settled my stomach-water made me feel bloated. The baby drinks whole for a year, then I'll see if she can tolerate skim. I used to think skim was so yucky and watery, but now 2% feels thick!

Luckily, we buy at Costco or Wegmans (loss-leader there) and only pay $2.10 for skim!

Have to drink milk with Peanut butter, chocolate or popcorn. I can drink milk with anykind of food. My co-worker used to say if she saw milk on the table with Italian food, she'd get sick? Not me!

My DH jokes that I'll have the strongest bones in town when I'm 90!

We use 1-1½ gallons a week. I only buy whole milk and get it at Aldi's for $1.49gal!

We go through (or I should say, I go through) about 1/2 gal a week, give or take. I hate throwing anything out.
I prefer whole, but 2% will do. Mostly for cereal and cooking. I need to start drinking it with meals again. Always seemed as though a meal was not complete without a glass of milk at the head of the plate. I love the stuff.
I reminds me of a cute story a good friend of my shared with me. She was never allowed anything to drink with her meals when growing up. Only after she finished her plate.
He mother told her she would get too full and not be able to eat her meal.
To this day, when I have her over, I always ask what she wants to drink with supper, and she always refuses anything until she is finished. Gotta love it.

Trin

I buy 2%. I love milk, especially chocolate (Nestles) milk. My husband doesn't like it except for cereal, we eat a lot of cereal. Safeway has been selling it for $1.58 a gallon lately, I usually buy 2, depends on our use as to how long it lasts, maybe a week or so.

Usually about 4 - 5 litres (3.85 litres per U.S. Gal.) of 2% per week, plus over half of a litre of Half and Half (10% cream) for this one person.

Here, the large packages are 4 litre bags and skim, 1% and 2% all cost the same price, with whole milk being at a substantial amount higher price.

Also some cheese and yogurt.

I bought and tried soy - once. Enough.

ole joyful

I don't drink milk or use milk on things like cereal. DH has cereal and uses it in his coffee and I do cook with it a bit. A quart always ends up being too little and sometimes a 1/2 gallon is a bit too much. We buy the half gallon because even with a little waste it's cheaper in the long run.

I used to buy 1% when DS lived at home. now I buy whole milk since we use so little.

None. It upsets my stomach so I don't drink it. Joe uses Carnation evaporated (canned) milk in his tea, twice a week.

I had to think about this. Then I walked by the recycling bin (picked up every Monday) and saw 3 empty gallon jugs, and there is 1/2 full gallon in the fridge. So it's looking like 3-4 gallons. There are six of us here, but DH really does not drink it, just me and kids the drinking it. Myself, I drink 1-2 glasses a day, plus what I put on cereal or in coffee.

1 gallon every two weeks of whole milk. We're were farm kids, we grew up on whole milk and anything else takes bad to us.

about a gallon, more if dh makes his dessert smoothies...

I go thru about a gallon of 2% every 3 days and that is used for drinking and I drink it.....If I could stop drinking milk I might lose weight....Stacy

I don't drink anywhere near what I would like to be drinking. I like milk but it depends on with what. So I've started drinking a glass or two of milk when I go to the buffet sometimes. Milk prices dropped so I had started drinking more and then the prices skyrocketed again so I said nope, since it's easy for milk to go to waste here. Now it's back to about $1.50/gal so I should get some more. But I drink so much water these days that I've gotten away from milk. Then I take a calcium supplement. Like I said I would like to get back to drinking more milk though.

I agree with Vicki. Milk is nasty stuff. I'd gag if I had to drink a glass of it. I do buy whole milk to cook with, but since I almost never cook right now...and when I do, I don't need milk, I haven't bought any in months. The last milk I bought was buttermilk to make chicken and dumplings.

I am one of the people who don't believe that cow's milk is good for you...in fact, I think it is bad for you.

I probably use a gallon a week - just me. Used skim for a long time, but the sugar difference is so slight I went back to 2% as the 2% freezes much better.

For those of you are throwing out money but pouring out milk, try freezing it. I try to buy extra on sale & freeze. Sure helps the unemployment budget, but I did it while working, too. My mom freezes hers 'as is' (doesn't use as much as I do), but I prefer to pour out some for head room as it expands. I mark the freeze date & and expire date on the lid with a pemanment marker. I have a small chest freezer & that lets me see quickly - without removing several containers - which I need to use next so it keeps rotating.

Give it a try...You won't be loosing anything & just might save a bit!

l gallon of skim milk a week.

Vicki and Marilyn you are not alone. Milk is the nastiest stuff I can think of. I started gagging on it by age 2 1/2 or so. I know I never drank after 3 for sure.

Even mayo doesn't bring on the gag reflex like milk does even though I pretty much hate that too unless it's mixed in something real well.

It varies from week to week but I am guessing about a 1/2 gallon a week just for me. I drink two or three big glasses of skim milk a day. I did not like milk so much when I was younger but sure enjoy drinking it now. In between my milk drinking I am usually sipping on ice tea or water. No wonder I have to get out of bed so many times at night. LOL!
Lois

Since it it usually just DH and I here, we rarely use milk.
If his son is here for the weekend or Makayla and Kaden
are here we buy a gallon. If there is any left over we will use it
but we do not drink it nor eat a lot of cereal. At times it has
been known for me to throw away almosst a whole gallon of milk often.
Deb

I go through about half a carton of rice milk every week, on my cereal. My husband doesn't use milk on his cereal, just eats it dry -- I don't know how he can do that!

I love milk and don't drink nearly as much as I should. I buy, maybe, two half gallons a month and probably toss half of those.

It's just me, DH and our youngest son at home now. We go through at least three gallons a week. (And we are not cereal eaters!) We drink milk with most of our meals, either skim or 1% and I also use some for cooking. We just plain like milk the way some people like coca cola.

When my older kids were at home we went through at least one gallon a day.

Usually one gallon a week. I prefer Whole Milk over skim especially with baking.

SamKaren
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