What the HELL happened to the price of spreadable butter?!?!?!?

[anonymousbird]

That's it really.

Lurpak spreadable is TWO POUNDS NINETY EIGHT PENCE!!!!!

I don't always buy it, only when on offer, but I'm sure it was closer to two pounds not so long ago...

That's for a500g pack... A 250g block of ordinary butter is £1.50 now.

I used to buy my butter at Lidl for 85p, but even that has gone way up in price

What's value supermarket butter like?

Could never afford spreadable butter anyway!

Lidl 'Danpack' is £1.68 for 500g - not sure it's quite the same thing but seems ok.

Agree. We've had to resort to the bogging "I can well believe it isn't butter" type stuff. I refuse to pay £3 for butter that the unappreciative DC's spread an inch thick on toast.

£2 in Asda at the moment. I have been putting off buying any until it was on offer! I only have lurpak spreadable!

Lurpak spreadable was on offer in Tesco on Mon, £1.98.

I have tried lesser butters but I don't like them, the Tesco own 'Lurpak' is horrible, tastes like plastic.

Aldi's version is 1.69 iirc. Tastes pretty good (have just had some on a toasted hot cross bun, yum)

I buy ordinary butter and keep it out of the fridge in a (I know, I know) butter dish. Therefore it is always spreadable.

Waitrose is about the cheapest at the moment (I've been so shocked at the price increase I have been comparing notes with other people) at about £1.20 for 250gms.

i like the lurpak sreadable, cant find a similar thing in own brands, they have them but not unsalted.
all those "spreads" have lots of other dubiuos things added in.

But even ordinary butter kept out of the fridge is a similar price overall..

Sadly no Aldi.

Will have to have gopping stuff until some offers come up on something half decent. At least the stuff freezes so I can stock up properly when a good offer comes along...

I mean, butter FGS, it's a staple, and it costs a FORTUNE!

Will re-check Tesco as I have to go there to take something back later, so I might be lucky.

I refuse to compromise on butter, decent bread and meat. I will live on gruel if needs be to facilitate this.
If it goes to £20 a tub I will still buy Lurpak and use a scraping each a day.
PIL buy "course it's not bloody butter it costs 10p" or some such it is vile, especially spread on plastic bread.

Spreadable butter is yuck anyway. Just have butter and don't keep it in the fridge, I doubt the 29 degree weather is coming back.

You should really buy British butter if you can.

Or so I believe.

I can't remember why, supporting farmers or something like that.

I don't like spreadable butter anyway - I too just have a block of butter in a butter dish on the worktop. And all the 'healthy' ones like 'I can't believe it's not made of cak' are disgusting.

Yes...spreadable is gross. Tastes WRONG! Just buy ordinary and use a butter dish.

The Lidl butter is a bit ... odd?! I can't explain it but its texture is a bit like mousse, as though it has been whipped.

I buy Waitrose butter. About £1.08 for 250g if I remember rightly, although it's so long since I checked the price that I'll probably find it's gone up to £2,500 or something.

What's wrong with keeping butter out of the fridge?

Oh, and are there nasties in the spreadable stuff to make it spread? Just give me good ol' butter anyway. The yellowed the better! (More vitamins)

Yellower, obv

Waitrose butter now £1.20 for 250g.

Sorry, cryhavoc had already pointed that out! [Note to self: READ THREADS PROPERLY!]

I have a tres cold house regular butter is never spreadable unless it's the height of Summer. It's rock-hardness reduces scones to crumbs, crumbs I tell you.

Same here, Notso.
But we usually mildly toast things to get around that (not a marg fan).
I leave butter out year round. We get thru it too fast in hot weather for it to go off, anyway. We even ate a 7month-old block of butter that had sat in storage (inside the fridge, which didn't grow any mold either, since you wondered).

Spreadable butter is pointless. Taste is ok but invariably its not fucking spreadable !! Tis a subject of many rants in our house

Try making your own. Whisk 250g softened butter till nice and light in colour, then gradually whisk in approx 120ml of sunflower/light olive oil. Pour into a tub, stick in the fridge and you've got spreadable butter. The consistency is not quite as good as manufactured, but the flavour is better, and as you've whisked in air you tend to use less. This amount fills a 500g tub.