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Lurpak madness or no?

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Downunderduchess · 01/11/2025 08:40

I’ve just been updating my grocery app and went to put some butter in my basket. I realised how much it has increased in price. A 400gram tub of Lurpak is $9 AUD now. I think this is where I draw the line. It’s madness.

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IjustbelieveinMe · 01/11/2025 11:37

I bought some butter the other day in Woolworths it was $4, a new brand I hadn’t seen before. Ingredients all checked out nothing dodgy or artificial. It’s only when I opened it I realised it was a really pale colour in comparison to my normal butter. After further reading on the label I realised it was from the USA! Couldn’t believe it!

JamesWebbSpaceTelescope · 01/11/2025 10:56

Lurpak spreadable ingredients: butter (64%) rapeseed oil (23%) water, lactic culture

Nothing there UPF.

I’m assuming the salted version just adds salt and not anything else.

Havanananana · 01/11/2025 10:21

Downunderduchess · 01/11/2025 08:40

I’ve just been updating my grocery app and went to put some butter in my basket. I realised how much it has increased in price. A 400gram tub of Lurpak is $9 AUD now. I think this is where I draw the line. It’s madness.

Surely the madness is shipping a relatively low-value product like butter half way round the world. Does Australia not have any cows and dairies?

MoominMai · 01/11/2025 10:11

MyOtherProfile · 01/11/2025 09:00

Lurpak is a funny one - we don't buy it because of the additives and because we like proper butter. If you want butter just buy butter.

I buy the spreadable Lurpak. Doesn’t have any additives though. Just milk and rapeseed oil which is a healthy oil in moderation of course.

If I was making cakes though I’d buy Stork spreadable for baking as couldn’t afford Lurpak butter for that!

Wonderwall23 · 01/11/2025 09:50

I just buy a block of non-branded butter and leave it on the worktop so it's spreadable. I'm not a butter connoisseur though. Is Lurpak much tastier/somehow supposed to be healthier?

But yes, I've heard previously that the price is extortionate...probably on here.

WashYourDamnRice · 01/11/2025 09:34

I've never understood the love for lurpack. Whenever I've tried it it either tastes like nothing or a bit weird.

sesquipedalian · 01/11/2025 09:33

I won’t buy Lurpak any more - it used to be our brand of choice - since they have gone over to 200gram packs, which is shrinkflation at its most blatant. I cook a lot, and you usually need 4 or 8 ounces, so a 200 gram bar makes no sense at all. It is outrageously expensive, too - like others, I have traded down to supermarket own brands, with beurre Président for high days and holidays.

BunnyLake · 01/11/2025 09:28

I only buy block butter now since giving up UPFs. I don’t know about Australia but I buy supermarket own brand Tesco 250g £1.99 (Aus$3.99) or any own brand with similar price. Some of the prices for butter are crazy!

nomas · 01/11/2025 09:15

MyOtherProfile · 01/11/2025 09:00

Lurpak is a funny one - we don't buy it because of the additives and because we like proper butter. If you want butter just buy butter.

Agreed.

nomas · 01/11/2025 09:14

I’m not a fan of Lurpak. The lactic acid they put in it gives a weird taste.

Much prefer west country butter.

dementedpixie · 01/11/2025 09:13

Ive been buying the block butter from farmfoods that is 3 × 227g blocks for £5. They have unsalted and salted versions

Bleachedlevis · 01/11/2025 09:06

ComfortFoodCafe · 01/11/2025 08:56

I get the lurpak when its offer & get the big tub so it usually lasts till its on offer again. I refuse to pay full price!

Me, too. I only buy it on offer. I stockpile it in the fridge in my garage and keep my eye on the sell- by dates. Big tubs are nearly £8 but they were recently on offer for £5.75 so I bought 2.

MyOtherProfile · 01/11/2025 09:00

Lurpak is a funny one - we don't buy it because of the additives and because we like proper butter. If you want butter just buy butter.

PiccadillyPurple · 01/11/2025 08:59

I have given up on spreads altogether. Margarine is full of crap, butter requires a second mortgage to buy. I just put whatever I'm having straight on the bread.

JamesWebbSpaceTelescope · 01/11/2025 08:57

I like the unsalted lurpak, all of the dupes are salted ones so no good.

When I lived overseas I did make my own spreadable by blending room temp softened butter with olive oil.

ComfortFoodCafe · 01/11/2025 08:56

I get the lurpak when its offer & get the big tub so it usually lasts till its on offer again. I refuse to pay full price!

arethereanyleftatall · 01/11/2025 08:55

I used to use spreadable butter as my only butter, but since I’ve learnt it’s half butter half bad for you oils, I only use spreadable butter, yes lurpak, when I need it for spreading. Anything else - say a mashed potato - I now use the proper blocks of actual butter which are cheaper anyway and better for you.

workingcocker · 01/11/2025 08:52

I buy the own branded lurpack dupe.

dementedpixie · 01/11/2025 08:50

I never use lurpak. We buy own brand block butter and keep it in a butter dish on the worktop.

AlmostDidIt · 01/11/2025 08:49

I went on to Aldi salt crystal butter years ago. It’s better and cheaper.

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