butter prices

geordie_joe

preciousillusions wrote: »

Kerrygold's 'spreadable' butter in the tubs which used to be pure butter with just salt added (that I always bought) has now also been diluted with oil like all the other 'spreadable' kinds, I noticed today! Pushes down their costs of course and basically gives less actual butter for the money (price hasn't changed).

It can't have just been butter with salt added, if it was it would have been exactly the same as their non-spreadable butter.

Butter is not spreadable, well not in this sense, and can only be made spreadable by diluting it with something else.

And if you think about it, if they have butter that is spreadable with nothing added to it, and they start adding oil to it, it's going to be even more "spreadable". It would have the consistency of Mayo!

RuthnJasper

cathyjb wrote: »

What is happening to the price of butter? Tescos 'economy' butter has gone up from 83p to £1.27 in less than a year - more than 50% increase! And funnily enough all the other supermarkets have put their prices up at each step to exactly the same price. Whatever happened to competition? Time for MSE to investigate I think.

Thanks for starting this thread CathyJB - it's something I've been annoyed by just lately. Like some of the others who have posted here, I make the majority of my meals and cakes from scratch and there really isn't much substitute for proper butter. I don't mind tub spread for a sandwich (actually, I quite often use mayonnaise instead for my bread filling). In my part of the world, Sainsbury's value butter went from 98p straight to £1.10 and the local Co-Op value brand is £1.28!

I mean, butter is basically only a milk by-product. What's with the price hikes?! (And whatever happened to the fabled "EU Butter Mountain"?!)

Still tasty on spuds and veggies though (in moderation, of course...;))

geordie_joe

s_b wrote: »

i also had to buy milk with a red top,wife said i would hate it as its watered down rubbish, but it brings the flavour of the tea out and its cheaper too:cool:

It's even cheaper if you make your own "watered down rubbish".

If you buy unskimmed milk and dilute it with an equal part water you get "semi-skimmed" milk. I reckon if you diluted it 2 parts water to 1 part milk you would "get" red top milk.

Not sure where you buy your red top milk, but in tesco and iceland it's the same price as blue and green topped milk.

Mrs_Chip

Kerrygold spreadable did not have anything added (until now it seems ) - I suspect it was whipped to add air, but it did not have any added oil. It said on the blurb that it was naturally softer? Same goes for the M&S stuff. This is very annoying as we only buy butter with nowt added (apart from salt), and it is a pain trying to spread it straight from the fridge.

MrsE_2

geordie_joe wrote: »

It can't have just been butter with salt added, if it was it would have been exactly the same as their non-spreadable butter.

Butter is not spreadable, well not in this sense, and can only be made spreadable by diluting it with something else.

And if you think about it, if they have butter that is spreadable with nothing added to it, and they start adding oil to it, it's going to be even more "spreadable". It would have the consistency of Mayo!

It was just butter. Aparantly it was all down to the churning. It wasn't as spreadable as some, but it was more spreadable than regular butter. I klike butter from the fridge, I hate soft yellow squidgey butter, so I used to get it.

spammy29

Sainsburys has their basics butter today at £1.25!!!!

sarwaa

The olny problem I can see with diluting milk is that you will get less nutrients, while properly skimmed or semi-skimmed milk will still have a full complement of calcium ect. So this might be ok if you are not a child, pregnant woman or woman suffering from osteoperosis (?sp) I however wouldn't recomened it for those groups who need their calcium.

marywooyeah

Stompa wrote: »

Now £4.29 for 40.

no way!!!!! what a gyp!

antrobus

spammy29 wrote: »

Sainsburys has their basics butter today at £1.25!!!!

Yes, when the thread started on 21-07-2011, basic butter was £1.27 at Tesco, and £1.10 at Sainsbury's and ASDA. Now on 27-07-2011 Sainsbury's have stuck their price up to £1.27, but Tesco have slashed theirs back down to £1.10 again.

Oh the joys of being a consumer in these troubled times!

nomoneytoday

My personal objection is to the use of Palm oil in veggie spreads from certain parts of the world