Milk going off.

*pheonix" I only buy long life semi skimmed milk and the use by date is normally about 3 months in advance. That may help, if you like it of course. I do not drink tea, only coffee and I find it fine. No visitor has ever complained.

I blamed our village shop to start with but Tesco, Waitrose and Aldi milk is just as bad.

Good point about full fat milk but I hate it in tea.

I find my goat milk keeps far longer than cow!

Keep some long-life cartons for emergencies. These days it tastes just as
good as fresh milk.

merlot that's confirmed that at least it's not just me! I only buy a pint at a time too, and this one was over half full, but was still off.

Merlot our front door faces west so the early morning sun doesn't get it.

Phoenix your reply conjures up a vision of feast and famine! Days when you all binge on milk and designated abstinence on others

Buy full-fat. We never have a problem with that going off!

Aka our milk consumption is too random to have it delivered.

sunseeker it's not worth the petrol for a special trip, and there is nothing else I need from that shop. (Anyway, I'd only get tempted to buy cakes and pastries)

This has happened with milk from Waitrose, Morrison's Lidl and the village shop, but I always check the dates and my fridge does seem to be on the right setting.

Someone did say that semi skimmed goes off faster than full fat, but surely it should last until it's date?

Glad somebody else has this problem. I've had semi-skimmed milk going off days before the use by date.

I don't buy anything larger than a pint these days because we wouldn't get through it before the date but even one pint with a long date doesn't last. DH gets nagged to always put it straight back in the fridge and there's nothing wrong with the fridge temp. I've taken to freezing two or three pints per week and getting them out the night before I need them so they can defrost in the fridge.

Aka, If you have a milkman, does he not leave it on the doorstep in the early morning sun?

Take it back to the shop - it obviously was not stored properly before you bought it.

Get a milkman?

I've had exactly the same problem with my last 2 lots of semi-skimmed. Have frozen it ready to make scones but probably never will !

Buy a cow?