General Chat

There is still a family-run dairy that has been in business for over 100 years in this city that delivers to the door here (or to grocery stores in some parts of the province), and supplies organic milk in several types and sizes. They produce Skim;;1% (ie 1% fat); 2% (2% fat); Homo; Standard; and Chocolate Milk

"Homo" is what maggie would like, and "Standard" is with the cream on the top.

The 1 litre size in all types is in glass bottles, and the bottle cap is a different colour for each type.

They also supply what they call traceable milk, where you can trace back to the farm that produced it, in the same types and sizes .... and glass bottles

Where I live, in Eastern Ontario, Canada The only place where you will see a glass milk bottle is in an antique store and home delivery of milk is nonexistant.

We buy our milk in plastic bags, 4 litres in 3 bags. we have a plastic pitcher, you drop the bag in, cut off a corner and pour. Most people use 2% milk which is the cheapest, you pay more for skim milk and homogenized which is 31/2 % butterfat.

Milk in plastic bags were introduced in supermarkets a few years ago. However, they can't have been very popular as they aren't offered for sale now.

Are glass bottles more environmentally friendly? We've always assumed so.

I haven't seen plastic bags in years here on the West coast. I must have a look to see if they are still available.

I must admit we only tried them for a very short time because we ddin't like the taste of the milk. We do still have the pitcher somewhere :-)

We buy our milk and soy milk weekly from the grocery store, in either 1 or 2 litre cardboard cartons, depending on amount of it used during the week. Larger plastic bottles are also available.