Cheapest butter?

mardatha

I'm the same - use butter for bread and marge for baking.

AllFumbs

Butter at Lidl for £1.27, suki1964? (That's in Northern Ireland, I take it?) In Bedfordshire when last I bought their el cheapo butter (a couple/three weeks ago) it was £1.45; which I daresay is already out of date.


AF.

peachyprice

AllFumbs wrote: »

Butter at Lidl for £1.27, suki1964? (That's in Northern Ireland, I take it?) In Bedfordshire when last I bought their el cheapo butter (a couple/three weeks ago) it was £1.45; which I daresay is already out of date.


AF.

Yes, £1.45 here in Lidl too (Essex), it's the same price as Sainsbury's basics butter.

I'm always astounded at the price of butter in Sainsbury's/Tesco in Belfast, it's around 50p more expensive than here.

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I use Stork for baking and always have for the past 50 + years I use butter only for shortbread as I don't eat bread at all and use soft cream cheese or pate on crackers

suki1964

AllFumbs wrote: »

Butter at Lidl for £1.27, suki1964? (That's in Northern Ireland, I take it?) In Bedfordshire when last I bought their el cheapo butter (a couple/three weeks ago) it was £1.45; which I daresay is already out of date.


AF.

Yes it's Northern Ireland and the butter is the local creamery which is over £3 a pound in Tesco


I always have half a dozen blocks in the fridge. It really is excellent value and I only very rarely need to buy spread

monnagran

Another Stork user here. Always for cooking. Proper butter that I use for sandwiches etc. I always leave out on the counter top except in a heat wave. It spreads much more economically at room temperature, even the spreadables.

As for filling up hollow legged teenagers I always had a couple of tins of things that they could help themselves to. Bread pudding was a favourite and the only thing that I bought heavily discounted loaves for. Also a twink type oaty biscuit. If you look on the Grocery challenge thread you will find recipes for biscuits and cakes that are mostly quite heap to make.

It's no good trying to break the snacks habit, they are always ravenous when they they come in from school/work/sports practice/anything really.

Good luck.

midnightraven3

The blocks of Willow are 50p in Iceland just now. You can freeze it, I cut it in half and freeze

Savvy_Sue

If you can buy industrial quantities of CousCous, he might like that. We buy the big tubs of the Ainsley Harriott Spice Sensation from CostCo but a quick google indicates you can get it online, so maybe buy a small pack first.

DS3 used to come in from school, eat two scoops of it immediately (a scoop is one normal portion) and then eat whatever I'd prepared for tea an hour or two later. Sometimes came back for more couscous if he felt peckish later.

Other options were available but that was the thing I didn't object to him eating, unlike multiple packs of crisps ...