thumperrabbit Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Currently we buy our children's milk when we are doing our weekly shop and they drink it out of stage appropriate cups, we are a pre-school running from a church hall. What we are wondering is does anyone have the small cartons of milk that they get given in school nursery/reception? If so where do you get them from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredbear Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Think they come from cool milk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louby loo Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 We have ours delivered now - and have the choice of small cartons or large bottles, we go for the bottles and use jugs. Found we had a lot of waste with cartons, one mouthful or so then we had to physically empty them before we could chuck the empty boxes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 We get ours from coolmilk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumperrabbit Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 We have ours delivered now - and have the choice of small cartons or large bottles, we go for the bottles and use jugs. Found we had a lot of waste with cartons, one mouthful or so then we had to physically empty them before we could chuck the empty boxes. Thanks for that, I will tell the staff, never thought about they could be too big Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Thanks for that, I will tell the staff, never thought about they could be too big Hi thumper - so are you paying for your milk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lashes2508 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 we use Scotts milk and they give us a choice , they also sort the funding out for the free milk and we get free fruit and bread each week , have mentioned this before - we get the small cartons for our older ones session as they drink them all and like the cartons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredbear Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Sorry to keep asking you but how do Scotts milk sort out the funding ? Do you tell them how many children drink milk and have attended each session or how do they do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Sorry to keep asking you but how do Scotts milk sort out the funding ? Do you tell them how many children drink milk and have attended each session or how do they do it? Oh yes I'd like to know about this too....we use Cool Milk but I would change if there was something better on offer - free fruit sounds good :1b 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lashes2508 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 we registered with them , tell them how many children on role and they sort out the rest - check out the website- think it was aminimum of 20 children per day to get free fruit, the bread, we get 3 loaves per week - Kingsmill 50/ 50 , our treasurer sorted after i made initial enquiry but very straightforward as far as i know http://www.milkforfree.co.uk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredbear Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Thanks Lashes 2508 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumperrabbit Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 Hi thumper - so are you paying for your milk? Hi, we pay for it then claim it back. I am definitely interested if we can get free fruit too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lashes2508 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Thumper - thats what we used to do but this way they do all the claiming on your behalf and you dont have to pay anything out or lug bottles milk every week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 hi i was just wondering if you used whole or semi skimmed milk? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klc106 Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 We get semi-skimmed milk from cool milk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie-pops Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Yep - we also use Scott's. We did use Cool Milk before but when we saw we could also get free bread and fruit, we couldn't really afford to turn it down. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 We get semi-skimmed milk from cool milk thanks i wasn't sure the pre-school that i have just moved to use whole milk but the pre-school i have just left used semi- skimmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melba Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 I have looked at the Scott's website but there is no mention of free fruit or bread, just free soya milk. Does that mean the deal has changed. Trust me to be late! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 i have looked 2 but also cant find anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 We were also offered a free (on loan) fridge by Cool Milk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lashes2508 Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I have looked at the Scott's website but there is no mention of free fruit or bread, just free soya milk. Does that mean the deal has changed. Trust me to be late! Just ring them and ask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anju Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Semi skimmed from cool milk in one pint bottles which we put in a jug and use ikea coloured plastic open cups. I didn't think you could get free fruit in nursery? Maybe it's just Scotland? Great if you can - make the most of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lashes2508 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 (edited) the free fruit Anju is just an incentive offered by Scotts milk not a government initiative Edited May 14, 2012 by lashes2508 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 i phoned Scotts milk and they said because of the amount of children we have per day we can get a free fruit for a year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anju Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Thanks, lashes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 i phoned Scotts milk and they said because of the amount of children we have per day we can get a free fruit for a year Can I ask how many you have ? I have used Cool Milk for a couple of years but also didn't know fruit was on offer elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Can I ask how many you have ? I have used Cool Milk for a couple of years but also didn't know fruit was on offer elsewhere. we have 26 in the morning and 26 in the afternoon but the children who stay all day can't be counted for both am and pm so it would be about 36 children a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Thanks Sammy. I rang Cool Milk today to see if they would offer fruit and they said they were not allowed to offer anything but milk under the government guidelines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest babyjane31 Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Thanks for this lashes just phone and was offered free fruit, bread and soya milk which will save us a fortune, they did say that this was a free incentive for 1 year but that they were loooking to extend it to two. can i just ask how much fruit and what sort of thing you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 wow this is very exciting.. we just used the usual NMRU forms to claim for our milk usage and this will not only save us time each month making the claims, but also hopefully get us free fruit, bread and soya milk!!! Thanks for this info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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