"Who said that?" I asked Bob at breakfast "It's either the Bible of Shakespeare" was his prompt response*. We had a bottle of milk on the table at the time. I know, it ought to be in a jug - but this was a rather special bottle.
OK I know that costs more than buying a similar quantity in a plastic bottle in the supermarket - but it is a lovely treat - and the bottle will be recycled many times. And the farmers are getting a fair price for the product. Ticking all the ethical and eco-boxes!
We have semi-skimmed for our tea, for baking, and for making milkshakes- but on cereal this has a creamier taste. In the winter, our go-to cereal is porridge, so I always have oats on hand [I use them a lot in baking too] but in order to offer a choice, I usually have just one other box of cereal on the go [multigrain hoops, malties, miniwheats, granola....] For some time now, I've kept these two cereals in large Hornsea biscuit jars which I found cheap in a CS.
I like your solution to keeping the oats separate from the other cereals! :D We used to have milk in bottles, delivered to the house, daily, when I was growing up. Here, most milk is bought in cardboard cartons or plastic jugs.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of the milk bottle and the dispensing machine. We once stayed near a farm in Austria where they had a vending machine for their milk.
ReplyDeleteThat seems a good price for milk. I think we pay 93p for a pint of Organic semiskimmed milk from our milkman. I like the Not Oats idea.
ReplyDeleteI do like to think about how many plastic bottles we've not used since signing up for the milkman. It's been 2.5 years and we get 2 bottles of milk and 2 of juice a week so that's around 520 bottles (without including holidays) so far! There's a shop in Hexham that has an oatmilk dispenser!