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2 or 4 litre milk....does anybody know if someone sells these milk bottles....I'm finding that the plastic milk containers start smelling way before the due date and also the milk starts going bad before the due dates.....

First question is, where is your milk stored? In the door or on shelf, Should be on a shelf,  
Second is How cold is your fridge?  
Your fridge should be about 4 deg, max of 7 deg.

An old tale (believe it or not) is that milk will bad quicker in the summer because of the amount of thunder storms. Better to buy smaller containers in the summer.

Shelf....which is the one always going bad before the due date....the white milk is on the door....which has been good even past the due date so the myth about not putting your milk on the door is wrong. It is the plastic container that starts smelling.....my fridge temperature is set at its proper temp.

Would any glass jar with a lid work.

Maybe not milk bottles, but large glass containers that could be used for milk or juice because they have a pouring spout, they didn't have lids which might cause problems if other foods in the fridge were left open. Guess a person could always just sealI it with stretch and seal.

Where are you buying your milk from? Walmart leaves their milk out for hours until it's counted. Every time I bought it there it'd go sour almost a week before the due date. Won't buy it there ever again because of this

Sassenach said "Where are you buying your milk from? Walmart leaves their milk out for hours until it's counted. Every time I bought it there it'd go sour almost a week before the due date. Won't buy it there ever again because of this "

Wal-Mart handles their milk like any other store. ..

Jim.48.000 said "First question is, where is your milk stored? In the door or on shelf, Should be on a shelf,   Second is How cold is your fridge?   Your fridge should be about 4 deg, max of 7 deg. "

Actually, the proper temperature is between 0-4 degrees Celsius. 7 degrees is way too high. This is the actual measured temperature, not the setting on your fridge. You can buy fridge thermometers at Walmart and it has this area marked in pink. Higher is marked in red, too low is in blue. I added a picture.  
 
Keeping it on the bottom shelf makes sense too, as it should be the coldest place.  
 
We periodically look at the thermometers in the fridge section if we are buying any dairy. There are usually a few of them in each fridge. If the temperature is above this, of course, the product won't be optimal and the product will already be changing for the worse. It is best to bring this to the store's attention so that they can correct it.  
 
I remember hearing on a show long ago that the products further back most likely won't just have the furthest away BBD, but will also be less exposed to warmer air and also light (fluorescent is the worst) which is also not good for the milk.  
 
We milk a cow, so don't bother with plastic jugs. We use gallon jars. I am curious if you transferred the milk to a glass jar, if that might help?  
 
I found in the past, that sometimes the rim of the plastic jars held milk on it which went bad as well. It might not hurt to wipe the rim with a paper towel to wipe that off? Just a thought.  
 
Edited by Flutterby, 2017-08-04 10:25:35

At Sobeys and always buy Lucerne....have tried Walmarts & Superstore....did not like the taste plus Superstores milk was worse for it going bad before the due date....my fridge is set at 2 degrees Celsius so it is set properly. I have always bought Lucerne milk but lately buying it at Sobeys is turning my milk bad before the due date....especially the chocolate milk.