Lurpak

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I love Lurpak spread but now it's £5 a tub I really can't justify the expense! What would be a good cheaper alternative? I am really not keen on margarine.

I used to have a butter dish but it was solid in the winter and liquid in the summer.

We go for Aldi Norpak for everyday use and buy President for treats.

www.lakeland.co.uk/1496/insulated-butter-dish

I bought one of these and put President Slightly Salted in it. We just leave it on the counter . I suppose it would take a while to pay for itself, depending on how much butter you use.

We too just use ordinary lurpak in a butter dish.

I recently tried the Aldi butter with the salt grains in and that was lovely.

If you keep it outside the fridge it goes rancid pretty quickly. I don't use enough of it to finish it before it goes bad. I need something I can keep in the fridge otherwise it just gets wasted.

@CaptSkippy -just cut a small block off and put it int he butter dish

You can get really small butter dishes.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mini-Individual-Butter-Cloche-5cm/dp/B01DSXNIUE/ref=sr11_7?crid=C4UU6NO6RYGC&keywords=Individuals+butter+dish&qid=1654985535&sprefix=individual+butter+dish%2Caps%2C73&sr=8-7

Lidl do a spreadable butter with Sea salt its lovely but can't remember the name . It was in the Premier section today for £1.49. Just as nice as Lurpak .

Same.

my mum still buys it and I really don’t like it anymore.

I think I might try that next. I like real butter. I'll see how that goes. Thanks for the tip.

Spreadable butters are not butter. They do contain butter in variable amount, might even be the main ingredient but to make it soft, they add oils, water, cheaper brands will have emulsifiers, colorants
The manufacturing of a spreadable might involve heavy processing by heat/cooling to crystallise higher-melting triglycerides and then adding other vegetable fats to replace these.

As PPs said, just get butter & keep in in a butter dish. If you are worried about it going off (it won't), just cut a chunk off and keep it in the dish. Much nicer. Aren't bertolli etc just margarine? Yum.

Yuk I mean!

My in laws in a hot country blend butter with olive oil and keep it in the fridge which works for them. I might try it this summer.

toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/recipes/homemade-spreadable-butter/