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Old 10-13-2011, 06:01 PM   #1
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Two litres (half gallon) of milk over here (if you buy a name brand off the shelf) is about $3. If you want to buy A2 (which is pure jersey milk and better for you) you're looking at about $5 and organic is over $6 for the same amount.

Cheese is an expensive luxury which we still make room for in the budget. For a 1kg block it's about $11. That's 2lb and is just basic cheddar or colby. Nothing fancy.

Icecream is about $8/gallon.

Au dollars are comparable with US at the moment, so that's a pretty even comparison.

I get the shits every time I have to go shopping. lol
Maybe you're lactose-intolerant.
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Old 10-13-2011, 08:21 PM   #2
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Cheese is an expensive luxury which we still make room for in the budget. For a 1kg block it's about $11. That's 2lb and is just basic cheddar or colby. Nothing fancy.

Icecream is about $8/gallon.
That's pretty cheap for cheese... but I guess they more than make it up on ice cream.
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Old 10-13-2011, 08:33 PM   #3
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That's pretty cheap for cheese... but I guess they more than make it up on ice cream.
Yeah well, I still think it's a crazy price to pay for something we eat every day around here. Having the kids makes a difference. If it was just me and Dazza, we'd only be buying small amounts, or larger amounts would last longer.

These boys can go through a kg in a week without any trouble at all. That's a huge wack of the grocery bill, which is why I've put the stops on all the cheese gobbling. We're back to just plain eating now. It helps. lol
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Old 10-13-2011, 05:51 PM   #4
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Have you ever heard of 'Milk Wars'?

The big supermarkets over here have their own home brand lable for milk, and a year or so ago, they started competing by dropping the prices of their home brand milk down to $1/litre. They did the same with bread by making it $1/loaf.

While this is good for the consumer, it's not so great for the farmers. I feel sorry enough for dairy farmers. As it is, I reckon they have the shitties type of farmer job you could have because of the hours they're stuck with and so forth, but they run on a pretty tight budget already. If their contracts are renewed at lower prices, can they afford to continue? Possibly not, which means that if the inevitable knock on effect goes ahead, this bubble is going to burst big time and we're all going to wish we could afford to drink milk.
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Old 10-13-2011, 09:41 PM   #5
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Have you ever heard of 'Milk Wars'.....snip
sounds like a porno i'd like to star in!
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Old 10-13-2011, 06:06 PM   #6
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lol....nice, but no.

It's amazing how many people are though.
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Old 10-13-2011, 06:38 PM   #7
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The gene for lactose tolerance is the recent mutation in our general species. Lactose intolerance is far more prevalent worldwide.

(Though it's also important to note that aged cheeses have no lactose in them, because it's a sugar that's all been fermented out by the cheese-making cultures. Soft cheeses like mozzarella still contain a certain amount of lactose.)
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Old 10-13-2011, 08:56 PM   #8
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Wow, milk that doesn't go off? I wouldn't be drinking that if you paid me. lol
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Old 10-13-2011, 11:11 PM   #9
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Old 10-14-2011, 01:16 AM   #10
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Tescos sells standard milk at .52p per/litre. Since there's something like 3.8 litres to an American gallon that would work out at around £2.04 per/US gallon. Which is around $3.20
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Old 10-14-2011, 01:18 AM   #11
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Now compare our cheese, please.
I need to know whether it is cheaper to buy mature cheddar here or there.
This could make the difference as to whether I up sticks and marry Sarge.

What? I should do it myself?
Ah well in that case I'm staying here - far too complicated a sum...
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Old 10-14-2011, 01:24 AM   #12
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Geeze, poor Sarge will be sad when he sees the main reason you're not going to run into his loving arms are a few sums!

You're a wicked woman!!!
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Old 10-14-2011, 01:25 AM   #13
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Old 10-14-2011, 01:59 AM   #14
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I bet she knows what 23 times 3 is, though.
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Old 10-17-2011, 02:36 PM   #15
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why, yes, grynch - I'd LOVE some cheese!

I just, frankly, am flabbergasted at how much I spend at the grocery and I DO coupon and I DO take advantage of sales and I TRY to watch it - it's me and my 20 year-old son, so it's not like I'm feeding four or five people. I just can't believe the prices. It's really disheartening to spend so much for so little. And I don't like feeling like a miser, but that's what I have to do to make it on my pittance of money.
Have you noticed that there is much less variety of "store brand" products? A year ago you could find store brand diet caffiene free cola for $0.69/2 liters. Now, your lucky to get diet cola for $0.99/2 liters.

Consumer products have all increased in price, income has not.
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