Winter soups provide warmth and comfort during the colder months. They can also help to top up on your five a day, with all sorts of health benefits, including improved gut biodiversity and raised levels of immunity (it was on a documentary the other week). Our carrot and sweet potato soup might even help you to see in the dark...
If you’re part of our milkround, you’re already helping to reduce plastic waste, but if you want to go one step further, here are a few extra tips to save energy around the home, whilst reducing your carbon footprint and household bills.
Our veg boxes come in cardboard boxes, which you can put in your paper recycling bin when you've finished. But if you want to get creative, here are a few ways you can reuse them...
There are lots of things you can do with your Christmas dinner leftovers. If you're bored of turkey butties by now, you could experiment with a Christmas dinner pie or make a nice bubble and squeak with your leftover veggies...
Try our nutmeg and orange coffee recipe as an after-dinner treat this Christmas. Combine four tablespoons of ground coffee, one small cinnamon stick, a pinch of nutmeg, a strip of pared orange...
This creamy eggnog recipe will get you in the party mood this Christmas, even if the guest list is a bit thin on the ground.
It's the new garlic bread; everyone's trying it. So, dip your toe in the water and spread it all over whatever takes you fancy. Here are our favourite three ways to enjoy our boozy butter:…
Get creative with your gift wrapping, whilst saving waste and adding your own personal touches. Recycled brown parcel paper gives your gifts that nostalgic look of a bygone era, which looks classy and is better for the environment…
We’ve all had to adapt during lockdown and make tough choices, like the people and places we visit. To get through this challenging time, we’re reluctantly introducing a couple of changes…
We’re really grateful for your support at what is a challenging time for us all. We’re snowed under, and we’re a little tired, but were battling on. We want to pay huge credit to our wonderful staff. Hats off to them. They have just ploughed on…
We are offering a temporary daytime delivery service for staple groceries to include meat and veg packs. We will be taking orders for delivery between 9am and 5pm Monday – Friday. As you can imagine, there is a huge demand for this and we are working to get all orders out as soon as possible…
Due to the recent outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), We wanted to inform our customers of the measures we are putting in place to ensure the team here at Modern Milkman…
You would be forgiven for thinking that every time you throw a plastic bottle into the recycling bin it would eventually be recycled into another plastic bottle. Unfortunately, that’s…
Here at the Modern Milkman we pride ourselves on actively backing British farming. It’s a huge part of what we do, delivering local goods to local people. British farmland…
We’re all about shopping local, and we try to source our produce as locally as possible. That’s not just because it sound’s nice, buying from Farmer Dave down the road. It’s because…
The great debate! David Attenborough’s Blue planet II sparked the start of the single use plastic conversation we’ve all heard so much about. The movement began got underway at full speed…
Let’s make 2020 be the year you remember your bag for life, on average a plastic bag is used for 15-20 minutes meanwhile that bag will have a lifespan of 500-1000 years in the landfill. Paper…
With the introduction of our new cereals range from our friends The Hird’s at Yockenthwaite Farm, we thought we’d have a look at the super health benefits of oats, which make up most…
Christmas – the most wonderful time of the year! It’s easy for us to get ‘wrapped up’ in the magic at this time of year, but Christmas can have a detrimental effect on our environment…
We got the cows drunk, and you’ll love the results for Christmas. It’s the question on everyone’s lips. What the heck are you supposed to do with brandy butter? Well, fear not…