![]() I just feel like they are a bit better quality and it’s my donation for animals. GMOs, price comparisons, and the outer rim of the grocery story – Also for my college kid who drinks nonstop, I buy the cheaper stuff because he burns the sugar at football. “Do you have a local farmer’s market? We have Shatto milk here and it’s cheaper than Fairlife and about $1 more than grocery store milk. But we buy our fair share of Uncrustables too.” They also love spaghetti squash and think it’s regular spaghetti, along with a ton of bananas because they are cheap. I do buy them the Oikos greek yogurt because it’s super high in protein and decent in the sugar department. They also only drink milk and water – we never have juice! So I don’t feel too bad about the sugar. “I go cheap with milk because mine also used to drink a TON! But they only have about 1-2 cups a day now. “We do Fairlife and it’s $2.99 at the commissary! You can buy in bulk because it lasts 3x as long as regular milk and you can freeze it!” I take it with a grain of salt but they do a lot of environmental work to get laws for safer products for us and our babies. If they didn’t have a great rating, I passed.” She continued to add that the EWG database “takes into account all of the ingredients, nutrition, and processing done. If they were expensive but had a good EWG score, I was all about spending the extra money. What I did was look at ALL brands of almond milks and researched them on the EWG database. “…we have to buy our little one almond milk (she had constipation issues from regular). Real talk: we don’t have cable so that we can afford to do it.” “I never sacrifice when it comes to food. I pulled just a few of the responses I received to share with you, since many of you asked me to share what others’ opinions were. I couldn’t believe so many people were interested in MILK, but then again, it’s something almost all of us buy, so of course we’re all interested? What items do you shell more money out for if it means that it’s a healthy/organic option? My inbox was soon FLOODED with responses. So I polled the audience so to speak on IG stories and asked for your thoughts on not only milk, but on other grocery store purchases. I am absolutely positive this is the definition of #firstworldproblems. Jamie and I agreed that we were at a crossroads.Īrg. So my thought process a few days ago was all “There is no way we can boost our already-high monthly grocery budget 50 extra bucks just for milk!” and then was all “But if my kids drink that much, they might as well get as much of the good stuff as possible, right?!” (Side note: My girls each drink three cups a day, and Jamie drinks one tall glass every night with either a sleeve of Oreos or two PB&Js – ha!) Fairlife has 13 g of protein and 6g of sugar, compared to Walmart’s 8g of protein and 11g of sugar.Īnd this is where ignorance used to be bliss because I never second-guessed the milk I was buying $9/week was enough! But now we’d be looking at $21/week (almost $50 more per month!), and that just seems crazy! ![]() What floored me though was the comparison of nutrition labels. Jamie and I also burst out laughing when Hadley took a sip of her milk during dinner a few nights ago and out of the blue said “Ohhh dis is so creamy and yummy guys!” Our three year old could taste the difference! She quickly pointed to the “creamy” milk (Fairlife). SO delicious! Jamie agreed, and so did my kids! In fact, I poured a little bit of each kind of milk into separate cups and let Hadley have a sip of both, and then asked her which cup she wanted. I’m not a big milk drinker (except in shakes, which is why we have almond milk), but as soon as I tasted the Fairlife milk, I could taste the difference. A half(ish) gallon (seven cups) of Fairlife whole milk was $3.50.ĭo the math: Fairlife is more than double the milk we regularly buy (we always stick with the store brand)! I was intrigued though about what the fuss was about Fairlife, so I decided to quickly grab one Fairlife whole milk, two of Walmart’s brand of whole milk, and do a little research later (i.e. Last Friday we did our grocery shopping at Walmart for the first time in forever, and when I went to grab our weekly three (!) gallons of milk, I noticed a brand of milk that I’ve seen more and more people talking about online lately – Fairlife.Ī gallon (16 cups) of Walmart’s brand of whole milk was $2.98.
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