What butter and spread have you downgraded to?

[heartbroken22]

Anything similar to anchor butter and the anchor spread?

I upgraded. We used to always buy shite like utterly butterly or flora. Now I used butterpak from Tesco (lurpak dupe) occasionally buy lurpak for special occasions and I recently started buying real salted butter too.. delicious!

Kerrygold is my favourite too - salted only, I use it for baking too.

They will take it out of my cold dead hands.

I fecking hate spread, anything with crap in. I like butter own brand love salted. I saw someone leave a spread out In the middle of the heatwave as an experiment and it didn't even go weird!!! 😱. I just get the cheapest one I can. I hate the taste of that spread stuff. The dH gets the spread stuff and uses it for the kids but. But I pop mine a butter dish so it's fine anyway

Bloody edit button the kids steal mine anyway!

Lurpak here & not the spreadable but the proper butter.

Will downgrade on somethings but butter isn’t one of them 😂

Seems to me the price of butter is going down again, Lurpak is always on offer these days. I tried the dupes but they’re not as nice so we’ve stuck with the original

There's no way in fucking hell I am compromising on my butter. Country Life all the way for me. Always. (And DH too.) It's only 50p to a quid more than the cheapo one, and it lasts me and DH a month. (The 250gm one.) It had gone up to £2.85, but just recently I have got it as low as £2.00.

So in answer to your question @heartbroken22 we have not 'downgraded' to any other butter/spread.

Have always bought Country Life spreadable and won't change, however I refuse to pay full price in the supermarkets where the small tub is almost £4, I buy a few when i'm in Home Bargains for £2.75.

Haven't downgraded from Lurpak.

Icelandic butter was the best I'd tasted. Can't exactly import it easily though

I haven't. This is not the hill to downgrade on IMHO. Still buying Isigny-St-Mere unpasteurised salted butter. Albeit £2.80 to the OPs claim of a fiver for decent butter. And, if I CBA to go to Aldi (25min drive so need to take into account the fuel) their dupe is really a spectacularly wonderful alternative so I could recommend that also. Spread is of the devil so you could cut that out altogether?

I go by what’s on offer usually at Tesco or Sainsburies but we tend to like Lurpak best .

@lastchancesalmon sorry did I say I buy good quality butter for a fiver? No just to clarify we buy anchor butter that's obviously not a fiver or Kerry gold or Aldi own brand butter. But my kids prefer anchor butter. The anchor butter spread last time DH bought it was 4.75 so close to a fiver. That's the only spread DH and kids are willing to eat in sandwiches or on toast.

How are people making a pack of butter last for 3 weeks? We get through at least 1 pack a week, often 2!

2 packs a WEEK?! How many of you are there in the house?!

I just buy lurpak when it's on special offer and freeze it

We use kerrygold. It used to be shops own brand butter when the adult children were all at home cos of cost. If a branded butter was on offer, then I would buy it. Getting older, there are some luxuries I won't change/give up, so it's kerrygold only now

Only 2 adults and a young child! Trying to think through what we use it for… I think about half a pack goes on toast and sandwiches etc, and the other half in cooking? More if I am cooking several things with butter in them. Is this not normal??

Sorry, that was in response to @PleaseGiveMeBackMySummer

Sorry for misremembering. I guess the spread packs are 500g and my butter is 250g? Still I feel ok about decent butter vs spread with that comparison. Not sure what the answer is? But the decent butter you want and secretly downgrade the spread for the rest of the family?!

*buy

In downgrading, we've upgraded. Bought a butter dish and tried different packs of real butter in foil wrappings. It's way more tasty than Lurpak spreadable in a tub. I am currently enjoying M&S real butter with salt crystals in. I'm not comparing it with the price of Lurpak anymore as I'm never going back. It hasn't gone off by being kept out of the fridge to keep it soft so far.

I can't compromise on my butter. It's Kerrygold for every day. And the nice French stuff with Fleur de sel for eating with toast and breads etc

My butter lives in a butter dish on my counter for up to a week at a time. It's never gone off

Also just to mention for those of you who may have not noticed, but both Anchor, Yeo Valley & Lurpak have reduced their butter size from 250g down to 200g blocks.