Wednesday 14 April 2010

A Little Tradition on Your Breakfast Table

We are all interested in shopping local, to have food that has traveled the smallest distance to reach our tables. It is not all convenience and cheapness anymore. Food and how we buy it has a connection to our communities, our families as well as to our traditions and memories.This is an easy, convenient, only pennies more, simply joyous way of doing this.

Get yourself a milkman!Such simple pleasure to be had in opening the door and finding your fresh milk on the doorstep. Such convenience in a new swizzy email supported ordering process...you can change your delivery right up to nine o'clock the night before! Such variety....milk, eggs, juice, fruit boxes and even pet food! Such a sense of tradition, a pride in supporting millkman and not the local GIANT!

Recycle the last of your plastic bottles and have a peep at these lovely folks website

http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/OA_HTML/ibeCZzpHome.jsp?minisite=10040&site=&respid=22372

I am loving it!

9 comments:

Rebecca @ Belle Blog said...

I wish we had local milk delivery here. I would sign up in an instant. I remember living in England for a bit as a child, the milk there was so different than here in the US. It had cream at the top. I remember my aunt would let me sip some as a treat once in a while.

Locally made items are starting to become more popular here in the US too. Luckily I live in an area surrounded by farms. We can get so many things fresh from the farm...eggs, veggies, etc.

I have a small business making candies and I think part of why my business does ok is because people like buying from a small local company, not a GIANT.

Mrs B said...

Rebecca its brilliant, isnt it? It makes such a difference...its all about connection, relationships and a wee bit of responsibility...

x

Clare said...

it is so important, its good for the community but most importantly it seems to inspire creativity and quality as people feel they can afford to make the best that they can without being tied to cheapness. surely food is the most important thing we spend our money on! x

Jen Walshaw said...

No one delivers to us, otherwise I would have no option. FIL is a dairy farmer, so he never fails to inform me how much he gets for milk for the dairy 17p a litre at the moment - shocking

LPFish said...

OH, the childhood memories xxx fighting over the top of the milk...look at your gorgeous doorstep too...

Sarah said...

We have a milkman, hubby has a bottle of full fat delivered on a Friday for the weekend. He says it reminds him of when he was a child xx

becca said...

Hey girl, I like your blog!
The pictures are fun and interesting, and your writing style is easy to read.

Have a great Monday!

Melissa said...

i love this...not sure how i found you gals -but soo glad i did...we have lived in the uk for 2 years- sand freckled family of 5 from the beaches of sydney..& i have not got around to ordering milk from our local farm yet- purely as its soo foreign to me on the beaches at home....this has made me think- pull your finger out- and thanks to you ladies i'm going to head out to our closest farm after school drop off tomor & SORT this out!

love the blog!

melissa

http://misssewandso.blogspot.com

SallyF said...

ooh i have those exact same milk glasses! love the cold white stuff, I must have the strongest bones in the world :-)