The price of butter and general price rises

[FlatteredFool]

My favourite Kerrygold has just jumped from £1.90 to £2.00. We use a lot of it with the dcs' toast addiction. The price of butter has risen steadily over the years but that's a big jump. Is Brexit to blame as it's imported from Ireland? I've noticed things increasing in general but not to this extent all at once. It is it covid related? Or is butter a luxury now?

Out of interest does anyone know how much Kerrygold costs in Ireland?

@roses2

Out of interest does anyone know how much Kerrygold costs in Ireland?

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Really weird weights as well. 227g? That's just such a lovely odd number to have there

227g is half a pound - pretty standard!

@Annoyedanddissapointed

Really weird weights as well. 227g? That's just such a lovely odd number to have there

It’s a hangover from imperial measurements. 227g is the equivalent of half a pound.

Own brand is hovering around 1.50 or 1.60. Can’t get it any cheaper. Use Marg for baking now.

I am from metric land. We get confused by these things. Thanks!

Yellow sticker butter is our number one target in the supermarket - just gets frozen til we need it

Butter has been increasing in price for many, many years. Sadly we have become far too used to cheap and plentiful food and too much choice. It's unsustainable.

@HHSchultz

We are used to having things that would have been considered a luxury in the past. My very elderly friend tells me she had butter growing up but that was unusual as most families she knew couldn't afford it. Even myself, I'm quite old, and had parents who were well off, we only had things like chicken on a Sunday for dinner. Life seems like it's going to be so much harder now for lots of people .

Yes, I agree with this. Lots of things we consider usual or common now weren't when I was growing up in the 70s/80s. We had margarine, not butter to start with. Butter was a luxury for occasions. Same for roast dinner, it was only that sort of meat (chicken, beef etc) on a Sunday and not necessarily every Sunday. We had mince in the week if we had meat. We didn't have loads of toast and snacks and all that. It was bran flakes for breakfast, sandwich and fruit for lunch and baked potatoes/cottage pie/fish pie/casserole type thing for dinner. All quite simple. If I was to replicate that diet it wouldn't be expensive today. We had not a fraction of the amount of takeaways, posh olives and deli stuff, frozen food, snacks, biscuits, cakes, pastries etc that there are today.

TBH most of us could live on a fairly plain nutritious diet which wouldn't be that expensive but if we want to eat butter and bake our own bread then a plainer cheaper yet still nutritious diet won't seem palatable, literally.

Food in the UK has always been relatively cheap, so perhaps now it will be more reflective of a fair cost of production? For too long the food industry has relied on cheap labour.

What is different to other countries is the huge variety you get in the supermarkets and all the convenience food in the UK. When I first moved there, I was amazed at all the pre-chopped produce and ready meals .

Ive noticed a big jump in prices for most things and obtaining GF food is a hit and miss. Especially GF food for the freezer. GF flour is a ridiculous price. I used to get it for £1.40, now it's £1.65-£1.70 I don't know how people on low pay afford things and as others say its not just food. Toilet roll and kitchen roll both suffer from 'shrinkflation'.

I checked today and we are paying around 7 or 8 Canadian dollars for essentially a pound of butter.

I love coming to England because most food staples are so much less. I hope your prices don't go up!

Not sure if it’s because of Brexit because we are also seeing big increases here in the US.

Last summer petrol was just over $2 a gallon in our state. And that was high. We used to go to the reservation and get it for 69 cents a gallon. Now it’s $3.71 here and even the reservation is charging over $3 a gallon. Not even worth the extra drive.

Milk was $1.99 a gallon for ages. I bought a gallon today of supermarket own brand for $3.29 and that apparently was a special offer.

Lumber has increased in price so much that many construction projects have been halted. In our part of the country most buildings have to be made of wood because of earthquakes.

And eggs. Was doing my shopping list on the app last night and added eggs at $1.59 a dozen. Went to the supermarket today and could only see eggs for $1.69 a dozen. There was an employee standing by the eggs so I asked what happened to the $1.59 eggs and he said “that was yesterday. Today they are $1.69”. I grabbed a few dozen before they could increase again. Then remembered I had a coupon for $1 off every dozen.

I am in NZ and the cheapest butter in my local supermarket is $5 for 500g which is £2.57.
So £2 sounds pretty good to me!

Price increases I have noticed over the past few weeks in Asda.

L'or coffee, normally on offer for £2.50 and is now £3.
Milk has gone from £1 to £1.10 for 2l.
Rocket has gone from 50p to 55p.
LLoyd Grossman has gone from £1 (always on offer) to £1.15.
Asda own brand butter is £1.48 today, so one thing that has not risen in price.

I buy softer butter from Home Bargains for £1.29 a pack. Every few weeks I go and get 4 packets. It's pure butter but softer, so it spreads easier and you can use less.

The Common Agricultural Policy farm subsidies Stopped Jan 2021 (now we are out of the Eu). Perhaps this is affecting prices.
The Gov wouldn't have expected a lorry driver shortage when that plan was made!
Rewilding the land etc is the plan - and we rely on imports.

It’s Brexit. My EU-based relatives have not had any price rises and very minimal supply chain issues compared to here.

@MurielSpriggs

Just wait until the UK actually implements Brexit properly by enforcing the border controls which it was supposed to introduce at the beginning of this year, but has had to keep postponing because it didn't plan properly, and doesn't have the staff or infrastructure to implement. Importing anything has certainly been made more complicated already, but you ain't seen nothing yet

This.

You beat me to it @ClemFandangoCanYouHearMe - I was just thinking how cheap butter is in the UK compared to here in NZ! I buy spreadable butter and it's around $8 per pack (but it usually lasts for months)

Kerrygold is in huge demand with the Keto diet community as it’s made from grass fed cows’ milk. Happy cows, better butter.

It’s always been the best brand in Ireland, nothing else comes near it. They now have an increased client base so why not impose a 10% price rise? I would.

Yes you're right

I get yeo valley and it's now over £2 a pack

I get three a week 😭

We're in Germany and Kerrygold is about £1.40 per pack. If I want to splash out and buy the posh organic stuff, then it's about £2 per pack.
We don't tend to buy Kerrygold. We don't use a lot of butter and have Aldi's own brand organic butter, which is about £1.80.
Might be Brexit. Always thought food here was more expensive than in the UK but we left about 3 years ago.