Lurpak madness or no?

[Downunderduchess]

I’ve just been updating my grocery app and went to put some butter in my basket. I realised how much it has increased in price. A 400gram tub of Lurpak is $9 AUD now. I think this is where I draw the line. It’s madness.

I went on to Aldi salt crystal butter years ago. It’s better and cheaper.

I never use lurpak. We buy own brand block butter and keep it in a butter dish on the worktop.

I buy the own branded lurpack dupe.

I used to use spreadable butter as my only butter, but since I’ve learnt it’s half butter half bad for you oils, I only use spreadable butter, yes lurpak, when I need it for spreading. Anything else - say a mashed potato - I now use the proper blocks of actual butter which are cheaper anyway and better for you.

I get the lurpak when its offer & get the big tub so it usually lasts till its on offer again. I refuse to pay full price!

I like the unsalted lurpak, all of the dupes are salted ones so no good.

When I lived overseas I did make my own spreadable by blending room temp softened butter with olive oil.

I have given up on spreads altogether. Margarine is full of crap, butter requires a second mortgage to buy. I just put whatever I'm having straight on the bread.

Lurpak is a funny one - we don't buy it because of the additives and because we like proper butter. If you want butter just buy butter.

Me, too. I only buy it on offer. I stockpile it in the fridge in my garage and keep my eye on the sell- by dates. Big tubs are nearly £8 but they were recently on offer for £5.75 so I bought 2.

Ive been buying the block butter from farmfoods that is 3 × 227g blocks for £5. They have unsalted and salted versions

I’m not a fan of Lurpak. The lactic acid they put in it gives a weird taste.

Much prefer west country butter.

Agreed.

I only buy block butter now since giving up UPFs. I don’t know about Australia but I buy supermarket own brand Tesco 250g £1.99 (Aus$3.99) or any own brand with similar price. Some of the prices for butter are crazy!

I won’t buy Lurpak any more - it used to be our brand of choice - since they have gone over to 200gram packs, which is shrinkflation at its most blatant. I cook a lot, and you usually need 4 or 8 ounces, so a 200 gram bar makes no sense at all. It is outrageously expensive, too - like others, I have traded down to supermarket own brands, with beurre Président for high days and holidays.

I've never understood the love for lurpack. Whenever I've tried it it either tastes like nothing or a bit weird.

I just buy a block of non-branded butter and leave it on the worktop so it's spreadable. I'm not a butter connoisseur though. Is Lurpak much tastier/somehow supposed to be healthier?

But yes, I've heard previously that the price is extortionate...probably on here.

I buy the spreadable Lurpak. Doesn’t have any additives though. Just milk and rapeseed oil which is a healthy oil in moderation of course.

If I was making cakes though I’d buy Stork spreadable for baking as couldn’t afford Lurpak butter for that!

Surely the madness is shipping a relatively low-value product like butter half way round the world. Does Australia not have any cows and dairies?

Lurpak spreadable ingredients: butter (64%) rapeseed oil (23%) water, lactic culture

Nothing there UPF.

I’m assuming the salted version just adds salt and not anything else.

I bought some butter the other day in Woolworths it was $4, a new brand I hadn’t seen before. Ingredients all checked out nothing dodgy or artificial. It’s only when I opened it I realised it was a really pale colour in comparison to my normal butter. After further reading on the label I realised it was from the USA! Couldn’t believe it!

Yes Lurpak is a bit wrong. But your overall point - yes butter is crazy expensive.

What confuses me is since when did Lurpak spread in a tub become something that 'everyone' buys and seems to use as a marker of the CoL crisis.

But YABU for referring to 'spread in a tub' as butter. We only ever use block butter and just get whatever's cheapest, which hasn't gone up that much, you can still get 250 g of own brand for £2 in the UK. However here in winter, we tend to move to 'winter butter' which is still 100% pure butter but we get the M&S softer one.

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Whichever one we have we never keep it in the fridge because, well, why would you? Seems that people are making a problem for themselves by keeping it in the fridge when they don't need to, and then feeling that they need to buy some awful 'spread' because butter is too hard.

I use own brand baking spread as its cheaper than stork for making sponges

We only ever use block butter and just get whatever's cheapest, which hasn't gone up that much, you can still get 250 g of own brand for £2 in the UK.

It has gone up – that 250g block rocketed up from its previous level of about £1.20–1.40, although it seems to have stabilised once it reached £2.

Lurpak is minging. Proper Irish butter is what you want. In a block, none of your spreadable nonsense. Although I'm not sure that would be a cost effective option in Australia. Do you make butter in Oz? That presumably would be the cheapest option.