The price of butter!!!!!

[Coffeeholix]

With the price of my favourite spreadable butter now having hit £5 per SMALL tub in my usual supermarket, I’m going to have to look for an alternative brand / shop brand. Any recommendations for butter that tastes nice that you don’t need to take a loan out for?

Real butter is much cheaper than spreadable. Keep in a cool place and it will be spreadable.

What type of butter is that?!

My posh Welsh butter is almost half that for one pack and no awful extra ingredients

Real butter in a block. Cut a pice off to put in a butter dish. (Or in your now empty spreadable container).

You don't need spreadable butter in this weather

I just get whatever normal butter is cheapest. £1.75 for 250 g seems to be the standard lowest price at the moment. I've no idea what you're buying at that price. Is is cut with gold leaf?

We use country life spreadable that's £3.25 a tub...which one is £5?!

I'm shocked at spreadable being £5 per small tub. Which one is it?

Willow butter is often on discount for £1 a block and I stock up on that because real butter freezes well.

If it's the same brand I use, I almost choked when I saw the price.
Costco have the massive tubs of it for, I think £6, and I saw in Lidl that they have that brand for £5.19 but again it's a bigger tub than the 500g one.
Not an alternative but hope that helps

Just out real butter in a butter dish!

@DenholmElliot1 willow isn’t butter, it’s only 10% buttermilk, the rest is vegetable fat, water and emulsifier.

Is it Lurpak? I noticed the massive price hike too! And cathedral city cheese was suddenly twice the price!

Lurpak spreadable is over £7 for the mid sized ones!

Definitely ditch the spreadable, it’s not good for you at all.

Even the M&S French salted butter is only £3!

Willow is a food crime. Sitting there in the supermarket fridge masquerading as real butter.

Oh man, lurpak. It's nice but it's not a bottle of wine nice.

I buy real butter (in a block) which I keep in a butter dish. It's, on average, £140 a packet. It tastes far better than Flora etc., as well.

Try Aldi's Norpack (sp?). I can't tell the difference between that and Lurpack.

😂Obviously it's not £140! That would be mental. It's £1.40

Why is Lurpack so much more expensive than everything else, it's alright but not remarkable, when I saw it at over £5 I couldn't believe it and wondered who's buying at that price. We keep real butter in a butter dish on the side, never had it go off ever, if you don't use much put just half the block out at a time.

Switch to real butter, with spreadable you're just paying for them to add oil, this is the good spreadable butter from the butter dish season, it's in winter when the spreadability even at room temperature is more iffy.

I did wonder where you were getting your ridiculously expensive butter from 😂

Yep... even a block of butter is £2 now. I've realised that baking a cake with DD needs to become an occasional luxury rather than something we do every weekend.

Butter £2
Eggs £1
Sugar/icing sugar 80p
Flour 10p
Vanilla 10p
Cocoa powder 40p

Very roughly costed but basically £4+ for a basic homemade cake.

Agree with others, just get a block of butter. The only spreadable I'll eat is anchor, have tried other brands and own brands but would rather go without tbh.

Thanks "Astitichintimesaveswine*, I'll give it a try.

Why is Lurpack so much more expensive than everything else, it's alright but not remarkable

I think Lurpak is horrible. Anaemic and yuck. I always go for Kerrygold.

We use the Lidl Deluxe butter in the butter dish. It’s £1.85 for a pack and it’s far nicer than spreadable butter, as well as not being ultra processed. There’s a standard range which is slightly cheaper, though for me the difference in upgrading is worth it.