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?

Lidl west country with salt crystals is lovely - about £1.85. Even the M&S Jersey one isn't that expensive. We keep butter in a butter dish on the kitchen worktop. For the 2 days a year when the butter melts, we keep it in the fridge.

Agree... don't get me started on Elmlea 😡

Name and shame this rip off butter op!

Tesco's own salted block of 250g is £1.80 i think now, previously £1.49. Is as good as the branded, in my opinion.

As for home baking, I use stork when making the cake and real butter for icing etc. keeps the £ per slice down.

My guess is Lurpak from Sainsburys or Morrisons and the OP having a different definition of SMALL than the rest of us:

www.trolley.co.uk/product/lurpak-slightly-salted-spreadable/JKB278

Most supermarkets do their own version of Luella so buy that

I might sound really stupid here. But if I start buying butter.. where do I keep it? In a butter dish in the fridge??

I keep it in a butter dish on the side. When it’s very warm I’ll keep it in the fridge or I might just cut smaller bits off.

Where are you all finding butter at 1.75? It’s 1.90 in Sainsburys and 2.00 everywhere else. The price jumps every week.

I dropped a pack last week unloading my supermarket delivery and it didn’t end well. The delivery driver just handed it back to me, I almost cried.

In a butter dish, at room temperature. It lasts at least a week or two outside the fridge. If you don't use it that fast, put out part of a block.

When it's not quite so warm, if you slice it into quite thin slices, say 1 cm thick, it goes a bit softer, so easier to spread.

Keep in a butter dish on the side, if it’s very hot then keep in the fridge.

Butter is butter.

It pretty much all tastes the same imo.

Keep it in a butter dish on the side in the kitchen, it only needs to go in the fridge in heatwaves

www.trolley.co.uk/search/?from=search&q=butter&NR=1&order=price&size=250g

Suggests that all the own brand butters are £1.75. Ignore Willow because, as we've already established, it's not butter.

Literally any brand British butter. Whichever supermarket i'm in I get the own brand salted. Its around £1.50-£1.80 per block. Its also nicer tasting, better for you and no single use plastic to chuck into landfill.

Buy real butter. Keep a bit in a covered crock on the counter. Fake butter is not worth the calories.

watch for sales on real butter. The prices have gotten crazy, but it goes on significant sale occasionally and it stores basically indefinitely in refrigerator or freezer. I just stock up when it is cheap.

My husband blitzed up a block of butter with some oil and made us spreadable butter, it was lovely, we'll be doing that from now on. Our kitchen is so cold in winter butter isn't spreadable even when it's left out on the counter lol

President french salted block butter is delicious and only £2 per block.

This is what was thinking - baking with your kids has always been the go-to cheap & affordable activity, not so much any longer.

Great suggestions, thanks everyone! Good idea to get the block butter, I’ve tried that before but gravitated back to Lurpak. May try again though as certainly not paying £5!! May try the Norpak from Aldi too next time I’m that way.

If it's Lurpak, then get Danpak from Lidl instead. It's exactly the same.

I've always bought lurpak, no matter how dire my financial situation (piece of buttered toast and tea for lunch, love it) there wasn't anything like it, until I discovered Danpak 😁

Because they think they can get away with profiting out of the general public. It’s called taking advantage of a dire situation.

Butter in a butter dish on the side. We buy it at £1.75 from Tesco.

In the summer I keep my butter dish in the microwave (& my bread).
It's warmer than the fridge but tends to be a lot cooler than the rest of the kitchen on a hot day.
Bread lasts longer in there than out on the side & butter is easier to spread than straight from the fridge.
If your microwave is in the direct sunlight it might not work so well for you.

We rarely use the microwave, so it sort of took the place of my bread bin.

The price of Lurpak is ridiculous now. Yes. £5!

That’s the one. I believe that’s their smallest tub they do? I may be wrong.