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?

Great to hear there’s a way to make real butter spreadable, for health reasons we switched to unsalted real butter and making lunches is really difficult now!! Also: I miss spreadable butter, I adore lowlow!!!

I buy real butter and keep in a butter dish

My word! I knew things had gone up (just got myself a delivery slot for tomorrow morning) but not that much!! 🌹

We've always just used the supermarket own brand block butter but the jump in the cost of that has been crazy recently. We've started buying it in Farmfoods instead. It's 227g instead of 250g for a block but it's something like 2 for £2.60 so it still works out cheaper.

Thankfully DDs prefer spread on sandwiches so they're not stealing all of my delicious proper butter every time they eat something.

I have two butter dishes I alternate between and cut half a block lengthways at a time and keep on the side. If I want to use it straight from the fridge then 10-15 seconds for the butter dish in the microwave and it's perfectly spreadable without being liquid. We do that in winter too when our kitchen is so cold the butter in the fridge is probably warmer than the butter on the side.

£2.09 for 500 grams of Norpak (same as Lurpak) in Aldi (was £1.99 last month). Works for us.

The spreadable stuff has added ingredients and goes off more quickly

Yep, but only rapeseed or sunflower oil, no other nasties...... and no, it doesn't go off at all!

I have found that the spreadable butters are more likely to go rancid

Silly question but always wanted to know the answer: if you keep butter in a butter dish is that in the fridge or not in the fridge! Would it go off if not kept in the fridge? Would love to know the answer!!

Lurpack is now £4.49 per 500g tub. Kerrygold is £2.15 per 250g so not much difference really. Cheapest 250g block of butter is £1.75
"I cant believe its not butter" is £1.25 for 450g.......... ie much much cheaper than butter............... Ive no idea why there are people on this thread saying a block of butter is cheaper - it clearly isnt. All Tesco prices btw.
Im a fan of Kerrygold - well I was when it was £1.60 a block........ currently reconsidering.

And Flora buttery is £3.80 a kg!

I keep the butter dish out of the fridge except for very warm days.

We use the Aldi or Lidl spreadable butter. Can't tell the difference between that and Lurpak.

revolting thanks!

I can't find anything I like atm.

I get normal butter and keep it in a butter dish by the toaster . Even in winter it's spreadable

Shame this was a typo, would be peak Mumsnet if it wasn't lol

Honestly, I used to be a butter snob and would only use butter in all my cakes.

Nowadays, for casual cakes, I use Stork. It is not too different (some people prefer it, famously Mary Berry), it is easier for kids to use and makes very light cakes but it is sooo much cheaper. Butter for special occasion cakes :-)

I agree with everyone else, it seems just a month ago the cheapest butter was £1.45 and now the cheapest is £1.90. Milk also seems to be going up but not at the same rate.

Why is this?

I was moaning about the cost of butter to my Mum the other day. When she came to visit she said she'd left a present for me in the fridge. It was the biggest pack of Lurpak 😂
She said this is where the world is now, people used to bring presents of flowers or chocolates and now I'm bringing you gifts of butter 😄

It’s not true that all spreadables are full of all sorts of junk.

Since I’m the only one in this house who eats it, I often buy Anchor Spreadable, which is 90% butter and 10% British rapeseed oil.

In summer I can manage with block butter though, a little at a time in a dish.
I never buy Lurpak - there are plenty of perfectly good U.K. butters to choose from. Why not support our own farmers?

Give it time 🤔

Lurpak has gotten ridiculous.

Cheaper to buy double cream and make your own butter.

But who's got time for that?

Is it though? Unless you get it reduced and/or want the buttermilk too?

You probably need 1.5 to 2 tubs of cream to make a block of butter so the saving will tiny, if anything.

Plus you have an appliance to clean.

Like the pp who makes their own spreadable butter. That sounds like a recipe for a sticky mess.

@lilo: butter (& milk etc) are getting more expensive as price of animal feed (& other costs incl fuel) are going up. I work for a food manufacturer: like everyone else am a bit concerned about rising costs