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?

Anchor and Lurpak I've noticed have both gone up to a fiver! Ridiculous

I use yoghurt instead of butter. Tastes the same to me and with the added bonus it's healthier!

Where on earth are you buying it?! It's a maximum of £2.50 everywhere I've looked (for a normal sized block!)

I thought that was the 500g price too. So two regular blocks.

It's the size I buy and won't pay £5 and stock up when it's on offer. It keeps ages.

The price of regular butter has gone up as well as the spreadable butters, the cheapest butter in Sainsburys and Tesco (their own brand) is £7.00/kg, however it's still cheaper than Lurpack and nicer in my opinion.

Get yourself a lovely butter dish Op, and leave it out of the fridge. If you don't get through butter very quickly then just cut off enough for daily use and keep the rest in the fridge.

Lidl. This is from my receipt from the start of June. I get the fancy sea salt crystal one, so there’s also a slightly cheaper option, maybe £1.50-60 ish.

I'm thinking if prices of butter keep rising I'm going to have to adopt my Mother's mantra when buttering bread or toast which was "spread it on, scrape it off".

OR

Do as they did in the Railway Children "Jam or butter, dear — not jam and butter. We can't afford that sort of reckless luxury nowadays."

Thanks everyone. I think I'm going to make the change to butter.

Real butter for taste and health reasons, absolutely. But it's not cheaper. A standard stick of butter is 250g. The standard tub of spreadable seems to be 500g, large ones 750g upwards. So not comparing like with like, cost-wise.

I swear Tesco have added at least 60p onto the price of the 500g tubs in the last week. I'm sure it was 3.79 (not on offer) the week before.

I always buy the standard pack of Anchor and had to pay £4 in Tesco last week - noticed it is on offer this week at £3.40 so not much saving. I think i will switch to real butter in a dish like you have all said. The cost of everything now is getting so much higher.

I used to always buy Lurpack then I switched to the Aldi spreadable version which was good but last year I wanted to make sure I was buying British butter to support UK dairy farmers so swapped to buying blocks of proper butter and putting them in a butter dish. In actual fact it's much nicer and not loaded with extra oil. Even the posh West Country butter with Maldon sea salt crystals I buy from Sainsbury's is about £2 a pack which has definitely gone up in price but it's so much better than Lurpack.

I was just thinking if it wasn't a typo I might be able to give a tip should you wish to reduce your grocery bill😂

Lurpak is currently £3.75 in Waitrose... bargain!

I only buy own brand but noticed the other day even the Aldi own brand is getting closer to £2 now. We bake a lot and I've bought some own brand stork for cakes as can't afford to keep getting butter for that.

Comes to something when Waitrose is cheapest..

Butter nearly doubled some years ago due to supply/ demand issues in British dairy farming but it's held fairly steady since then. I buy Aldi butter at about £1.85 a block and use a butter dish.

Maybe the spreadable is rocketing because of sunflower/ vegetable oil supply issues.

Farm Foods, 200g unsalted £1.30 (2 for 2.60) Last week I haven't checked this week.

Use Stork for baking - it's good enough for Mary Berry!

Lurpak in Iceland!

Butter in tubs isn't proper butter.

I just bought this:

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/290920510

Butter is delicious. Butter or marmalade/jam not both.
I use salted british butter, and only have it occasionally. It lasts for ages in the fridge

The spreadable stuff has added ingredients and goes off more quickly

That's the 750g tub @MiseryWIthAStent so cheaper than the £5 for 500g Sainsburys are charging

Lidl. This is from my receipt from the start of June. I get the fancy sea salt crystal one, so there’s also a slightly cheaper option, maybe £1.50-60 ish.

The cheap one was £1.74 this weekend! I know because the fancy one was £1.85 so I thought I might as well get that. But yeah, £1.74 for the cheapest crappest wrapped in paper butter at the cheapest shop 😭

And own-brand “baking spread” is cheap and works fine in cakes. Easier to mix for kids too.