HEB Milk is all out of the plant in San Antonio. We buy the HEB brand only because the HCF usually has dirty milk jugs and gets sticky on the way home lol no idea why.
We go through a little over 6 litres of milk a week, or 1.7 gallons. A 3 litre container costs €2.19 ($2.40?) and would have around a 10 day life on it when bought. But there are also much smaller containers too.
@justdairy that's fascinating about milk in the US!
I don't buy organic, but I do try and buy local. The stuff I was buying is usually $4ish a gallon at target and one day as I was picking it up, the guy stocking it was out there and told me not to waste my money. The target market pantry was coming from the same place and is around $2.50. So there it is.
Wait, he told you that the local milk you were buying was the same as the market pantry milk?
Yeah, that the local milk company was providing the target brand milk for the local target stores.[/quote]
He may not be wrong on that. There are a lot of variables. The Target processor for your area maybe one in which bottles Target's house brand. It happens.
The creamery we ship our milk too specializes in cheese. It makes all the cheese for the Papa Murphy's chain.
I might be crazy but I've been paying a little more for the milk that's in an opaque container because I swear it tastes fresher longer.
Is this a real thing or am I just fooling myself?
Eta: we don't drink a ton of milk and sometimes use a gallon before it's bad. And sometimes not. So having fresh tasting milk until the end is important if it does make it taste fresh longer.
You are not crazy. Air and sunlight are "hard" on milk. It loses it's taste more quickly when exposed. It explains why more milk these is in opaque containers. Certain kinds of plastic and cardboard are also more likely to leech which makes the taste go off.