price of butter

Lurpak here, its about £3 for the second size up, but i remember when my dad had a grocers,he used to get Danish butter in a slab, best butter i ever tasted, very light in colour compared to butter today,
I try to get Kerrygold too, as i was told it was organic,but not everywhere sells it
I have never heard of President, i wonder if its a location thing,i am in the north

Anchor or M&S spreadable, and Stork for cooking. Because I'm on my own I don't use a lot of butter, so I divide it up and freeze it, the same with Stork for baking.

Yes - Sainsbury's - English, you can have salted, slightly salted or unsalted - all much less than Tesco. And if its a problem - use it less often.

I only ever use unsalted butter, after reading some of the ingredients in so-called healthy spreads. I buy Waitrose own, Sainsburys or President when it is on offer. Never pay more than £1.60.

I only eat butter - it’s healthier for you. Kerrygold is one of the better ones as cows are grass fed, as is Isle of Man Creamery. I hate to think what’s in margarine to stop it hardening - antifreeze comes to mind!

Always try to buy Scottish products but Lurpak is the exception.
It is £2.39 here for 250 g, the penalty for living in the highlands.

Always unsalted Lurpak. Rarely pay more than £2 and often see for £1.70

10 seconds in the microwave softens it enough to spread without it melting, and we rarely keep it in the fridge, inishowen.

Butter only - it has essential nutrients, substitutes don't. Also full fat cheese & yogurt - vit D, omega 3, essential fatty acids ….. - no diluting oils.

Always Lurpak for me. It spreads easily and tastes lovely. For a special treat I buy a block of Golden Cow, an Irish butter. It's great on toast but being a block it's hard to spread.

Always use butter for toast, sandwiches etc but use olive oil and Rapseed Oil for cooking. Keep my butter in a butter dish on the work top and my stock of butter is in the fridge. Now I buy butter costing about £1.45 or £1.60 and use unsalted which always seems to cost more. Also treat myself to farm butter sold in slabs in the markets and buy th low salt version and just love it. Don't know how much it costs as its all different weights and sizes. Last one was a huge chunk for£3.54 and has listed me ages. Will never change from using proper butter butter.

Always butter and any oil should patriotically be Rape seed. What is this nonsense promulgated about hearts needing marge', yuck axle grease. My friend of 97 was praised by her heart specialist for sticking with great tasting butter. Own label butters are around £1.60. Spreadable a little more.

Lurpak £2.99 for 500grams from Costco. If you live near Uxbridge I’ll take you

Anchor butter is made by Arla, a co-operative started by Swedish and Danish farmers! But yes, that factory is in Wiltshire.

I agree with Poppyred
Full fat always. Milk cream yogurt butter cheese...yummy.
I also use buttermilk in baking.

Tesco butter is nowhere near £3.
It's £1.60 for their British butter (salted/unsalted) per 250g block and that is virtually the same across all 'own make' brands. M&S butter was £1.50 last week (usual price)
Spreads are full of all sorts of other stuff, butter is simply butter with no additives except salt (if you want salted)
My preference is for French 'President' butter but @ £2 for 250g it's a bit much as I use butter in cooking and baking.
There are some brands that I don't like, Anchor being one.
I read something unsavoury about the company some years ago which put me off their products.
When there is an offer, I stock up and it goes in the freezer.
I never use spreads.

there had to be some benefits to running our own businesses for over 40 years,I guess making decent provision for retirement ..later this year or early next year is one .Its my idea of a nightmare having to scrimp at this time of life .I really feel for people like Waspi women who have had the rug pulled from under their feet .My friend is one of them and is stressed to the max when she should be able to relax after a 2 year battle with cancer ,Now her benefits have been cut as they expect her to get a job.She's 64 ..theres not a lot of employers taking on 64 year olds .

Lucky you, having cash to flash! We're retired so have to watch the pennies but I also buy as much Scottish produce as possible. There is no milk delivery service in this (ironically farming) area now but I get Scottish milk at the supermarket. Ditto Scottish organic eggs which are becoming more widely available now.

I buy all my meat from Scottish farmers ,local farmers suedonim my milk is delivered from a farm I can see from my window ,lamb from a friends farm at the other side of the village .My half pound of butter a week wont bankrupt them I'm sure .I buy Anchor because my youngest GD 's other GP's live in Wiltshire and she will only eat butter from where her Grandma stays .She doesn't eat cheese or drink milk so butter is our only hope of getting dairy into her diet .To be honest I dont really look at what it costs ,if I need it I buy it .

I always buy Scottish butter. (I'm surprised you don't support Scottish farmers, Paddyann) The price varies but it's usually between £1.50 - £1.70 for 250g. If it's not too much more expensive I'll splash out for Scottish organic.

I keep it on the worktop in an insulated butter dish from Lakeland (oh no, will this be regarded as advertising?). It's not the cheapest dish but I've had for over 12 years and it worked well even when I lived in the tropics.

I buy Kerrygold as it’s allegedly from grass-fed cows. Tesco, Sainsbury’s just over £2.

my OH doesn't eat butter never has ,or spreads .If he has toast for breakfast he has it with primula cheese spread from a tube or bacon .He has no idea I use butter to cook with .When we have a rare break away he takes his Primula with him

Alima perhaps, but on toast ….
And it does stop the salad ingredients making the sarnie soggy.

I use Pure spread
Which one - the Sunflower, Olive or Soya?

Notice: We recently changed our recipe for Pure Sunflower Spread. The aim was to deliver a more buttery taste


I would like to see a list of ingredients and how the fat is solidified, although I did recommend Pure Soya Spread to someone who was lactose intolerant a while ago.

Anyone else not use butter or spread at all? It always seems to be a layer of grease in a sarny.