488419 Mon Feb 11 03:29:32 -0800 2008 49 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 3384727 A previous thread about food costs rising got me wondering what the price of milk is where you're at: Northern New Jersey: 1 gal. =$4.29 at A&P Mon Feb 11 03:29:32 -0800 2008 18608 sixelagogo 1 3384729 around $3.50 plus or minus 25 cents for organic whole milk (1/2 gallon) in arlington, va (dc suburb). Mon Feb 11 03:31:52 -0800 2008 3384727 105717 alkapal 2 3384888 and i'd say that is a 75 cent increase from a year ago. Mon Feb 11 06:03:24 -0800 2008 3384729 105717 alkapal 1 3384865 Boston = $3.89 a gallon for Oakhurst (regional dairy from Maine) at a bodega in my neighborhood Mon Feb 11 05:53:26 -0800 2008 3384727 17548 BarmyFotheringayPhipps 2 3407164 Or $3.79 for a half gallon of Organic Cow 1% from Stop & Shop. Sun Feb 17 14:26:55 -0800 2008 3384865 10532 LindaWhit 1 3384880 $1.45/half gallon from Byrne's Dairy in Southern Tier, NY. They still sell it in glass jugs so that's after the .50 deposit on the jug. Mon Feb 11 05:59:35 -0800 2008 3384727 160677 morwen 2 3384892 WHAT???!!! We're paying $2.55 per half gallon down here in SW Florida....$3.89 - $4.29 per gallon depending on which grocery store you shop at, $3.59 per gallon on sale at Walgreen's or CVS IF it's on sale that week. Mon Feb 11 06:06:14 -0800 2008 3384880 11983 Val 3 3385186 Same here in SE Florida. It's a conspiracy. Mon Feb 11 08:02:06 -0800 2008 3384892 12101 lax2mia 4 3385239 It's probably similar regulations as in California. We can't bring in dairy from out of state, there are legal minimum prices on all dairy products sold here (not even a sale price can be below $1.79 a half gallon for milk)(cheese can't be below $1.99 for 1/2 lb). I don't buy gallons. Also all of our milk has to have Vitamin D3 added. Mon Feb 11 08:11:46 -0800 2008 3385186 12123 Cathy 4 3385483 pretty sure I paid $2.79 at Publix in South Fl yesterday, and it's about a dollar more for organic Mon Feb 11 09:09:35 -0800 2008 3385186 22559 smartie 1 3385283 I think around $2.60/gallon for whole milk. Mon Feb 11 08:23:43 -0800 2008 3384727 26725 swsidejim 2 3385673 Regular price for non-organic supermarket milk is about $3.89/gal here in the western suburbs of Chicago, but sale prices go from $1.99 to $3.00. You can usually find a sale somewhere, so we only buy it on sale. Mon Feb 11 09:58:54 -0800 2008 3385283 41864 optimal forager 2 3406011 actually paid attention to the price yesterday, $2.90/gallon for regular whole milk Sun Feb 17 07:12:40 -0800 2008 3385283 26725 swsidejim 1 3385292 Manhattan: about $4.50 for a gallon at the local supermarket (skim, nonorganic). It definitely bites. Mon Feb 11 08:25:58 -0800 2008 3384727 12045 gloriousfood 2 3402838 I pay $5.69/gallon for Whole Foods organic skim in Manhattan. It's just not useful comparing NYC prices to the rest of the country - ours is a different economy. I bet you non-New Yorkers wouldn't pay my $3100 rent for a 2 room studio either, but I don't want to move anyplace else! ;) Fri Feb 15 18:34:46 -0800 2008 3385292 108675 eastvillgirl 1 3385583 fwiw 2 litres (about a 1/2 gallon....0.53 gallon technically) organic milk here in Calgary is $4.99-$5.30. Mon Feb 11 09:36:14 -0800 2008 3384727 138472 maplesugar 1 3385592 $5.50/gallon for some truly excellent milk here in Baltimore. Pastured, "free-range", Jersey cow milk from Trickling Springs Creamery. And worth every penny. Mon Feb 11 09:38:58 -0800 2008 3384727 84765 onocoffee 1 3385724 £1.47 for 2L of Cravendale at Waitrose in England ;) Mon Feb 11 10:08:31 -0800 2008 3384727 158180 nanette 1 3385747 $5.99 for a gallon in a glass bottle, non-organic but fairly local Mon Feb 11 10:13:02 -0800 2008 3384727 39874 chowser 2 3396828 I'm thinking the bottle I buy is half gallon, not a gallon. I pay to much for milk, it seems. Thu Feb 14 08:11:41 -0800 2008 3385747 39874 chowser 1 3386030 $3.89 a gallon for Smith's dairy hormone-free 2% milk . N-E Ohio. Mon Feb 11 11:10:26 -0800 2008 3384727 22220 Kelli2006 1 3386103 My 16 month old has been having some stomach issues, so I've switched him from regular whole milk to Lactaid milk. $6.29 per gallon in Westchester County, NY. YIKES! (And at one other supermarket it was $6.89!) For skim, it's around $4.25 to $4.50. We try to buy our milk at Stew Leonards, in Yonkers, NY, where the milk quality is fantastic and the prices are a bit lower than this. Mon Feb 11 11:27:11 -0800 2008 3384727 10205 valerie 2 3386334 $2.98 for a gallon of Guida's skim here in CT. Mon Feb 11 12:19:52 -0800 2008 3386103 10646 javaandjazz 2 3403794 valerie--if you can find it, try Acidophilus milk--it beats the heck outta Lactaid for flavor. here in California, it's made by Knudsen. about $3.59/ 1/2 gal. Sat Feb 16 07:56:16 -0800 2008 3386103 11234 toodie jane 1 3395788 $3.79 for 1/2 gallon organic cream line whole milk from Trader Joe's in San Francisco North Bay area. Wed Feb 13 20:15:40 -0800 2008 3384727 16301 Non Cognomina 2 3395859 $7.50 for 1 1/2 gallons (a 3 pack) of organic 1% milk at Costco here in Charlotte. Nearly $2 a liter for my back-up Parmalat. Wed Feb 13 20:46:53 -0800 2008 3395788 100727 hipquest 2 3399120 That's believed to be Strauss btw; I may $3.29ish for it in SF. Thu Feb 14 18:26:37 -0800 2008 3395788 79880 xanadude 1 3395900 In Toronto about $2.29 for a QUART/LITER. I used to pay about $0.89 for a quart in NYC. 4L is about $5 give or take. WON http://whatsonmyplate.wordpress.com Wed Feb 13 21:12:23 -0800 2008 3384727 92591 wontonfm 2 3396052 That's true, but if you buy 4 litres in bags, it drops to $3.99/4 litres at No Frills or Price Chopper; Loblaws and Dominion are always more expensive. The $2.29 is a convenience store price; my local No Frills has a litre of chocolate milk (2%, 1%, or fat-free) at only $0.99 - I just this minute checked the flyer. And my local Dominion is offering a "buy one, get one" on 1.89 L (half gallon) of Tropicana not from concentrate OJ for $3.79. Seems like our prices aren't as bad as we Canadians thought. Wed Feb 13 22:46:03 -0800 2008 3395900 48210 KevinB 3 3396389 I pay $2.29 for a L of regular milk at No Frills... I don't buy chocolate milk :) I was just shocked when I moved back to Toronto from NYC and saw that I was paying so much more for milk. I don't buy larger than a L/Quart because I don't use that much milk to make it necessary. Thu Feb 14 06:20:33 -0800 2008 3396052 92591 wontonfm 1 3395904 Here in Los Angeles, half-gallons of supermarket nonfat milk have risen to about $2.79. My local Ralph's always has good sales if you buy two gallons at once, but I can't carry that quantity, much less drink it before expiration. I buy my milk at Trader Joe's, where it is $1.99 per half gallon (up from $1.39 about six months ago), or $3.39 per gallon. Surprisingly, the 365 house brand at Whole Foods is the same for half gallons and a dime more per gallon. That is a 33% increase in barely half a year for a half gallon of milk. OJ is even worse -- a half-gallon carton of not-from-concentrate at TJ's was $1.99 a year ago, and rose to $2.99 when there was a frost in Florida. It hasn't come down, not that I expected it to. Wed Feb 13 21:13:45 -0800 2008 3384727 10855 nosh 1 3396865 $7.99/gal in the Bahamas. The price of living in paradise! Thu Feb 14 08:16:59 -0800 2008 3384727 69330 byeCalihelloBahamas 2 3397202 sunshine tax. Thu Feb 14 09:35:29 -0800 2008 3396865 26725 swsidejim 3 3397496 Right around $4/gallon in southwest PA. Thu Feb 14 10:41:58 -0800 2008 3397202 15507 Rick 2 3397533 $ 8 per gallon? holy cow! ;-) Thu Feb 14 10:50:11 -0800 2008 3396865 105717 alkapal 2 3399576 Bahamas, thank you for that. I feel better already. Today at the store I started wondering if they had legislated a VAT when I wasn't paying attention...so it's a comfort to know there's someplace with higher prices than Chicago. Thu Feb 14 22:24:30 -0800 2008 3396865 15521 Querencia 1 3398897 $4.49 for a gallon of Hannaford brand skim in central Maine. That's a grocery brand. Oakhurst is usually about 30 cents higher, and Hood a bit more than that, but it comes in a 'light blocking' plastic jug. Thu Feb 14 16:53:50 -0800 2008 3384727 160926 Kinnexa 1 3398932 I pay $1/gallon for whole, raw, cream on top milk. But it's from my neighbor. Thu Feb 14 17:02:57 -0800 2008 3384727 50776 cheesemonger 1 3399075 Here in Massachusetts, I find it just crazy that I can go to a market, say Hannafords, and spend $4.19 per gallon or go right around the corner to the gas station and get a regional brand Garelick for $2.99. To me it's worth the extra stop. My family goes through about 8 gallons a week. Thu Feb 14 18:10:05 -0800 2008 3384727 40385 othervoice 2 3399502 wow...how many people are in your family?? thats alot of milk. Thu Feb 14 21:23:54 -0800 2008 3399075 44450 asiansensation007 3 3399630 I'm not who you addressed the question to but my husband and I go thru 3 to 4 gallons a week, I personally drink at least a quart a day. Add in husbands consumption, cooking and the rugrats who visit... Thu Feb 14 23:26:24 -0800 2008 3399502 100727 hipquest 4 3400134 We go through about 4 gallons a week. I never drink milk, but my husband and 3 year old daughter drink it like it's going out of style. My 17 month old son drinks a fair amount too, but I recently cut back on his intake, and now he drinks 24 oz. a day. Fri Feb 15 07:04:08 -0800 2008 3399630 10205 valerie 1 3399642 $2.49 per gallon at Aldis in Oklahoma, but ca. $3.50-$4.00 at other stores. Prices of milk, eggs, and meat went up 18 months ago when the big thing was to shift commodity production of corn to ethanol, rather than feeding the chickens, cows and pigs. Prices are slowly declining toward 2006 levels as the corn-to-ethanol bubble deflates, and the inout-output research steers toward straight bacterial cellulose digestion to provide the ethanol. Thu Feb 14 23:43:58 -0800 2008 3384727 17562 FoodFuser 1 3399731 $3.16/gal-1% here in W. North Carolina. This is down about $1/gal in the past month. Prices do vary from store to store, but I tend to buy all dairy/eggs from one particular store which always has the lowest prices. Fri Feb 15 03:36:18 -0800 2008 3384727 146359 Deepster 1 3399809 $3.19 for 1/2 gallon homogenized organic 1% at Trader Joe's in Phoenix (AZ); same for 1/2 gallon of homogenized organic 2% I just bought in Trader Joe's in Oakland (CA). I think the gallon jugs of homogenized organic milk are going for $5.99 at TJ's. At a smaller chain (Sprouts) store in Phoenix, the regular price was $3.99 for 1/2 gallons of organic milk, but they had one brand (Horizon, I think) on sale for $3.49 at that time. Fri Feb 15 05:03:56 -0800 2008 3384727 86822 hohokam 2 3403466 I also buy TJ's organic 1%--for some reason it's especially difficult to find 1% organic anywhere else except WF. Last time I bought it here (Detroit area) it was $3.29. Sat Feb 16 05:29:16 -0800 2008 3399809 109573 coney with everything 1 3400142 If any of you guys have an Aldi grocery store around, milk's running $1.99 a gallon for any fat content. That's a steal!!!! Aldi (German based) has recently entered our market area (Birmingham, AL). I was skeptical at first, but I really like it. Fri Feb 15 07:07:38 -0800 2008 3384727 44363 sheilal 2 3403409 interesting enough, trader joes is owned by Aldi of Germany...i loved Aldi in germany, though i'm not such a fan here. Sat Feb 16 03:33:49 -0800 2008 3400142 18608 sixelagogo 3 3405890 I agree. The German Aldi's are fine stores but the ones I've been in here at home are hit and miss at best. Most times they don;t have the stuff on the shelves that they list in the weekly circulars and the staff looks at me like I'm nuts when I ask for the advertised items. Since my last post (2/11) our local Byrne Dairy milk has risen .10 to $1.55 for 1/2 gal. Sun Feb 17 06:00:32 -0800 2008 3403409 160677 morwen 4 3407584 you know, i am wondering if i stood near the dairy case for an hour or so, whether i could see the milk price on the shelf just ticking upward like a gas pump does? Sun Feb 17 16:59:26 -0800 2008 3405890 105717 alkapal