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When you're ordering food for yourself or your family, knowing exactly what you're buying matters. For customers living with a food allergy or intolerance, that information can be particularly important.

At The Milk Round Company Ltd, we want allergen information to be clear, accessible and treated seriously.

How we obtain our allergen information

Many of the products we deliver are manufactured or produced by other businesses, including our dairy, bakery and branded-product suppliers.

We obtain ingredient and allergen information from the relevant supplier or manufacturer and use that information when listing products through our website.

For our Fresh From The Bakery range, for example, we obtain the bakery's ingredient and allergen specifications for the products we sell. Where we apply our own product label, the information used is based on the information supplied to us by the bakery.

For branded products, customers should also check the manufacturer's packaging, as this remains an important source of the current product information.

Allergens are shown with individual products

Where applicable, we provide ingredient and allergen information against the individual product.

This is particularly important with products that have different varieties. A White loaf, Tiger loaf and Granary loaf, for example, may not have identical ingredients or allergen information.

We therefore don't want to make assumptions simply because two products look similar.

What about our Deals & Bundles?

Our bundles can contain several different products, each with its own ingredients and allergens.

We therefore provide an allergen warning on our bundle information and ask customers with an allergy or intolerance to check the individual products contained within the bundle.

Where choices or substitutions are available, customers should check the information relating to the particular products they select.

We check — but recipes can change

Suppliers and manufacturers can occasionally change recipes, ingredients, production methods or allergen information.

We will take reasonable steps to keep the information we provide up to date using information supplied to us. However, customers with allergies should always check the current information supplied with the food before consuming it, particularly where a manufacturer's original packaging is present.

If something doesn't look right or you're uncertain, please don't simply assume — ask us.

We would rather check than guess

This is particularly important to us.

If you contact The Milk Round Company with an allergen or ingredient question, we may not always know the answer immediately.

And that's okay.

We would much rather tell you that we need to check than give you an answer we're not confident about.

Where necessary, we'll go back to the relevant supplier or manufacturer and make enquiries to obtain further information for you.

We cannot provide medical advice or guarantee that a product will be suitable for a particular individual's allergy, but we can help you obtain the product information you need to make an informed decision.

Fresh food, with information you can access

The Milk Round Company isn't just about leaving milk on the doorstep.

As our range grows to include fresh bakery products, eggs, dairy, juices and everyday essentials, we want the information supporting those products to grow with it.

Our approach is simple:

List the information clearly.
Use information from our suppliers and manufacturers.
Keep records where appropriate.
Never knowingly guess about allergens.
And if you need more information — ask us.

Need allergen information?

If you have a question about the ingredients or allergens in one of our products, please contact The Milk Round Company Ltd before ordering or consuming the product.

If we don't have the information immediately available, we'll make enquiries with the relevant supplier or manufacturer for you.

The Milk Round Company Ltd
Fresh to your door.

The Milk Round Company is getting ready to launch, and we thought we'd kick things off by doing something a little different...

🎁 We're planning to give 50 local households TWO PINTS of fresh milk absolutely FREE — delivered straight to their doorstep!

But there's one problem...

We haven't decided which estate gets it yet! 👀

So we're handing that decision over to you.

🏡 COMMENT BELOW with the name of your estate/area and tell us why we should bring the Milk Round there!

Get your neighbours involved too — the more people we see asking for the same area, the more attention it's going to get. 👀

🥛 2 pints of fresh milk
🚪 Delivered FREE to your doorstep
🏠 50 local households
💳 No purchase necessary
❤️ A proper local milk round coming back to your neighbourhood

LIKE 👍 SHARE 🔄 and TAG your neighbours so they can vote for your area too!

https://www.facebook.com/TheMilkRoundCompany/

Which estate is going to shout the loudest? 📣🥛

👇 NOMINATE YOUR ESTATE IN THE COMMENTS! 👇

The Milk Round Company
Fresh local products • Real local service • Straight to your door

Every business has to start somewhere.

Ours started with four chickens.

Henrietta, Gwendaline, Peggy and Penelope arrived for one fairly simple reason: we wanted fresh eggs.

And fresh eggs are exactly what we got.

What we hadn't quite anticipated was just how strangely satisfying keeping chickens would become. There is something about opening the coop in the morning, watching them wander around scratching for whatever treasure only a chicken can see, and then finding a freshly laid egg waiting for you.

And, thankfully for Henrietta, Gwendaline, Peggy and Penelope, we've discovered chickens are considerably more enjoyable in the garden than at Gas Mark 5.

So they're staying.

In fact, we're planning more.

Then came the milk…

Somewhere along the way, a simple idea about fresh eggs started getting bigger.

If people appreciate genuinely fresh eggs delivered locally, what about fresh milk from a dairy, delivered straight to their doorstep?

And if we're delivering the milk, why not the bread?

And if we're delivering the bread…

Well, you can probably see how we ended up here.

The Milk Round Co. was born.

We're taking something many of us remember — the traditional local milk round — and giving it a modern twist.

You can order online, manage your regular deliveries and add the things you need, while we concentrate on the bit that really matters: getting fresh food to your doorstep.

And then we found the bakery…

This could prove dangerous.

We're now able to offer fresh bread and cakes from a bakery, alongside the familiar retail-packaged loaves people want for the everyday bread bin.

There is something very different about the smell of freshly baked bread first thing in the morning.

The only potential flaw in this arrangement is that Andy and Chris will occasionally be collecting it at around 5am.

Whether every cake ordered actually survives the journey is something our quality-control department may need to keep a very close eye on.

Purely for professional reasons, obviously.

So, what can we actually deliver?

We're deliberately building The Milk Round Co. gradually rather than trying to become a supermarket overnight.

We're starting with the things we think people genuinely want delivered to their door: fresh dairy, milk in traditional glass bottles as well as plastic options, fresh and packaged bread, eggs, bakery products and cakes, Friday fresh vegetable bags, tea, coffee, sugar, cereals and other everyday essentials.

And we'll keep adding to that range as we grow.

Some products will be available regularly. Others might be seasonal, limited, locally sourced or simply something we discover and think our customers will love.

That's part of what we want this blog to be about too.

We want you to see The Milk Round Co. being built, rather than pretending we woke up one morning as a huge established company.

There will be new products, new suppliers, more chickens, probably a few mistakes, hopefully plenty of successes and almost certainly some ideas that sound completely ridiculous before somehow becoming part of the business.

Where will it end?

We genuinely don't know.

Right now, we're concentrating on doing the basics extremely well: good products, sensible prices, dependable doorstep deliveries and friendly local service.

Then we'll see where our customers take us.

What started with four chickens and a few fresh eggs has already turned into milk, bread, bakery, dairy, vegetables and household essentials.

So perhaps being slightly mad isn't such a bad thing after all.

Henrietta, Gwendaline, Peggy and Penelope certainly don't seem concerned.

Thank you for supporting The Milk Round Co.

Whether you place an order, recommend us to a neighbour, follow our journey or simply tell somebody that the traditional milk round is making a comeback, you're helping a new local business get off the ground.

And from all of us — Andy, Chris and, of course, the four ladies who inadvertently started the whole thing — thank you.

The Milk Round Co.
Fresh local products. Real local service. Straight to your door.

To celebrate the launch of The Milk Round Company, we're giving one lucky household a Family Breakfast Bundle absolutely FREE!

The winner will receive:

🥛 2L Fresh Milk
🍞 800g Loaf of Bread
🧈 250g Butter
🍊 1 Pint Fruit Juice
🥚 6 Free-Range Eggs

And we'll deliver the lot FREE to your doorstep! 🚪🥛

HOW TO ENTER

Entering couldn't be easier — and every successful referral gives you an entry into the draw!

📱 Open The Milk Round Company app
👥 Go to Refer a Friend
🔗 Share your personal referral link with friends, family and neighbours
✅ When someone joins through your link and becomes a qualifying customer, you receive an entry into the competition

The more successful referrals you make, the more chances you have to win! 🏆

Already got our app? Get sharing your referral link!

Haven't joined us yet? Visit The Milk Round Company website, create your account and download our app from the homepage.

📅 Competition closes: 31st August 2026
🏆 Winner announced: 2nd September

Competition open to customers within our current delivery areas. One winner will receive one Family Breakfast Bundle. No cash alternative.

⚠️ SCAM WARNING: The winner will be contacted directly by The Milk Round Company. We will never ask for bank/card details or payment to claim a competition prize.

🥛 THE MILK ROUND COMPANY
Bringing the milk round back to your doorstep.