OMG - Look at the price of this in Sainsbury's !

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Went to Sainsbury's this afternoon . Wow !

Err, or its just completely normal food preparation/cooking..

No more of a faff than someone saying they're going to make a cake.

But if you have a nectar card Country Life is £2.80 not £3.10.

Oh , that's useful information, thanks. It's nice to know these things in advance for when I restart my yogurt making operations! It was always a bit of a pain to make sure I'd remembered to buy a carton of natural yogurt, then only needed a small amount ...

I paid £2.79 for a dozen large, brown, free range eggs in Aldi today.

How can you stop buying it though? It's a necessary ingredient in many basic recipes. 🧐

That isn't butter though.

What do you mean? Of course it's butter, it comes in a block and is labelled butter. I bought 2 packs of unsalted lurpak yesterday for 1.90 each with nectar card.

I’m so sorry I read that as minge.😀

You can use a food processor.

Actually you can use a screw top jar.

not really a faff, you’re just over whipping the cream til it separates, no need to drain if you don’t want to, just shape into a block or roll with your hands!

Really! It’s usually more expensive😩

Not so long ago Lurpak spreadable was selling at £7 a pack and had security tags on it!! Blocks of butter are "pure" butter, spreadables are blended with oils 🤔

We're both in our 70s and have changed the way we eat, mainly out of financial necessity. Our appetites are smaller but we do appreciate good food in smaller portions just less often. We regularly have a main meal based round eggs (omelette with onions, peppers and little bit of grated cheese, fried eggs with potato wedges from leftover baked spuds, etc) or even just baked beans on wholemeal toast or pasta with a bit of something stirred in. We do however buy Cirio chopped toms, Kellogs crunchy nuts, Gold Blend coffee and Heinz ketchup and baked beans and Hellmans mayonnaise - all much pricier than own brands but, to our taste buds, much better. The only meat is chicken breasts (about twice a month) and served with home-made roasties and yorkies with carrots and gravy, a proper feast! The only fish is tinned tuna, again about twice a month.

So, we have very basic easy suppers most days but made with, to us anyway, the best ingredients. Oh, and a cheese and tomato toastie with Heinz cup-a-soup - perfect on a miserable winter day!

I don't know how you all manage to feed hungry teenagers with healthy meals and still balance a budget every week! 👍👏

(I'm back to lurking!)

If you dont drain off the buttermilk there’s a chance it will revert to (very thick) cream again

Oh yes it is!

I made butter with reception class children last month. In jam jars. If a four year old can manage, there's no need for a churner except for the aesthetic.

The supermarkets just have a different butter on offer every week. Last week at Sainsbury's it was Lurpak, this week it's Anchor.

I'm going to give making my own butter a go. I can't see if being much cheaper than buying the on offer butters though especially when you factor in the time it takes.

Look closer - I suspect the organic butter is £3.05 for 200g not 250g so actually £3.87 for the equivalent weight.

Yes - just to clarify I meant draining it overnight; the whole j cloth thing (reducing the faff!)

The prices of butter and olive oil are crazy now. Even washing tabs cost more than a tenner now - before Covid I was £8. Now £12 on club card or £14 without. How can they justify these huge increases?!

The price of butter has increased because there are far more people in the world willing and able to pay for it - that's competition.

The price of olive oil has increased massively due to poor olive harvests in recent years - hello climate change.

Washing tabs- well you're paying for the convenience. Laundry powder is cheaper.

£1.99 in Aldi

No actually I’m not ‘paying for convenience’ as you so ignorantly stated. I have young children, one of which has bad eczema and reacts to powder, or I very obviously would’ve switched to a cheaper alternative.
I’m not choosing the more expensive brand for convenience.

There are many brands of powder or liquid@coldscottishmum, as well as other options such as those ecoball thingies, if eczema is a problem. Tabs are not inherently eczema friendly, though I know it's a total pain trying to change brand when you're dealing with sensitive skin.

At least buy British!