How much do you pay for a gallon of milk?

[lgslgs]

How much is a gallon of milk in your area? Do you buy it at a grocery, convenience store, or somewhere else?

Lynda

[pearlieq]

Almost $7 from a local grocery store with competitive prices.

I trust and have a great deal of respect for Organic Valley, and I'm happy to pay a premium for their product.

Regular milk is $1.99 on a good sale, and up to $3.99 at the most expensive grocery stores.

[rduell]

$1.99 at BJ's.

[tinapbeana]

$4.79 for milk from the health food store. non GMHO, antibiotic free, yadda yadda. could get if for under $3.79 per gallon if i drove 30 min to the farm where it's produced, but i don't have the space to freeze it so it's not worth the gas.

regular store brand milk is usually $3.29 or so. the brand name (peelers, pet, mayfield are the biggies here) are about $3.79. i'm happy to get up off the other buck to get something from a local farm...

[LuxLiving]

grocery - $2.29 a gallon.

To buy organic is to drive another hour and pay 4.00+ a gallon. Nobody here drinks much of it anyway. Hubster usually uses about a 1/2 cup a day to eat w/his cereal. Nobody else in the house has ever been much of a milk drinker - sorry to be gross and all but it snots up the noses!

[Cents and Simplicity]

Hi, This is my first post to the forums, thought I'd just jump in and start posting.

We pay $1.92 for skim milk at food 4 less.

[disneysteve]

It varies a great deal depending on where. At Wegman's, it is $2.09/gallon. That's the lowest I've found at the places we commonly shop. The most is well over $3/gallon.

[lgslgs]

We tend to have fairly frequent sales at various stores in the area with 1 gallon for $1.99 - and our Walmart always honors price matches on competitors' advertised specials. If nobody has it on sale it's $3.49 or there's powdered milk (Works out to $1.70 per gallon at Walmart or as low as $1.50 per gallon at a club store.) The club store also has gallon fluid milk at $1.88, but they are too far away for frequent trips.

I was reading the thread about convenience stores and a number of people talked about the low milk prices. I called the stores in our area this morning and they are all at $3.79 per gallon!

Lynda

[DivaJen]

On sale I can get a gallon of organic for about $6.

[threebeansalad]

$2.66 from a local dairy for non-organic but hormone free skim milk. Price does not include the cost of deposit for the glass bottle. I believe this is cheaper than a gallon at the grocery store, but it certainly tastes better!

[Ima saver]

We throw out more milk than we use. I just buy the little 99cent size.

[boefixepa]

I don't buy 'regular' milk as I'm with Ima, I can't use it fast enough. So I buy cases of 12 quarts of soymilk at Costco. I'd have to look up how much they cost. I know it's more then the gallon of 'regular' milk, but it keeps longer and I don't throw it out and it's healther, too bad it doesn't taste as good. I believe you can get regulat 2% at about $2-$3 a gallon at the stores around here, but it's been so long since I've looked at it I could be wrong.

[shelbylovesmelby]

We can get it on sale for $1.98/gal or up to $2.60 or so a gal. I go thru two gal's a week with two lil ones who need all the benefits that milk has to offer & for my morning cereal

[Daylily]

$3.99 for a HALF gallon of organic. Yikes. DH drinks it, I don't.
Since I'm currently unemployed I've made him switch to the regular stuff for the past two weeks and that has been $1.50 for a half gallon.

[Squantum]

Around here, it's typically $3.69 or $3.79 for a half gallon of organic milk, unless it's on sale or I can make it to Trader Joe's where I think it is $2.99 for a half gallon of organic.

For non-organic gallons of milk, I think the cheapest I've seen is about $3.15/gal, more typically $3.69 or so.

[frugalmomof1]

Right now Walmart is has all varieties from skim to whole for $2.17/gallon....recently is has been down to $1.99 and as high as $2.29. Most convenience stores around here sell 1% for $2.29/gallon and over $3/gallon for all other kinds.
Even if Walmart wasn't the cheapest I would still buy their milk...it seems to last longer than milk I get elsewhere.

[beebop25blue25]

We buy milk all the time!! If i'm lucky I can get it for $2.99, but usually the price is $3.49 a gallon!

[debtfreeme]

i have to buy it as half gallon containers. yesterday i bought two for $6.00. i will pay for organic milk and scripm other places.

[ChimbleySweep]

I don't buy a gallon at a time because I don't drink milk! Only my husband does. I use soymilk when I bake.

For my DH, I buy organic, hormone-free milk from pasture raised cows that aren't kept in cruel conditions. I buy a quart at a time, and it's $1.75. Expensive? Sure. Worth it? Absolutely.

[kealina]

we buy ours at Sams Club and for a regular ol' gallon it's 3.50 or so... i think... lol... when don't usually buy just milk there...