Dairy spreads

Emmia

MrsStepford said:

I buy Sainsbury's SO organic unsalted butter 250g for 1.85 and cheaper than Lurpak, President, Flora Buttery, Yeo Valley, Anchor, Country Life and Kerrygold of same weight.. It's kept in a covered butter dish at room temperature. I'm not paying for 54% butter, I'm paying for 100% butter, without psticides and GMOs.

Flora Buttery is 75% vegetable oil (including allegedly sustainable palm oil) and 10% buttermilk - it really isn't butter. 

Kim_kim

Emmia said:

MrsStepford said:

I buy Sainsbury's SO organic unsalted butter 250g for 1.85 and cheaper than Lurpak, President, Flora Buttery, Yeo Valley, Anchor, Country Life and Kerrygold of same weight.. It's kept in a covered butter dish at room temperature. I'm not paying for 54% butter, I'm paying for 100% butter, without psticides and GMOs.

Flora Buttery is 75% vegetable oil (including allegedly sustainable palm oil) and 10% buttermilk - it really isn't butter. 

And this is where I’m coming from, but even at room temperature, it doesn’t spread like spread.  Not when your watching the calories & trying to do a thin scrape.  

I’d never buy unsalted, I like it salty! 

Kim_kim

Rosa_Damascena said:

I've never come across a dairy spread that does spread thinly, it's just not in the nature of the saturated fat to be liquid in a cool environment. 

I think all dairy spreads, spead thinly.
it’s just butter that doesn’t. 

Kim_kim

Emmia said:

Kim_kim said:

Emmia said:

We used buy either lurpack spreadable or the president spreadable - not sure if either of those are just butter and oil though. 

Currently we buy president unsalted butter, which i find fairly spreadable straight from the fridge... alternatively have you considered not refrigerating your butter, but using a china butter box in the cupboard instead? 

I don’t put it in the fridge, but I don’t know if it’s because I like butter or because it doesn’t spread like spread, but I put too much on!!

How much butter are you using?! If you like butter and find it hard to restrain yourself - perhaps not buttering or using spread is the way forward?

I’d like to find something that spreads easily, so I can have a thin scraping. 

Kim_kim

jon81uk said:

Or if you want actual butter that is spreadable go for something like Lurpack, that is pretty much just butter and oil.
Lurpack spreadable ingrediants: Butter (64%) (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Lactic Culture (Milk), Salt

Lurpac must be the highest butter content of the butter & oil spreads then. 

I got Yeo valley this week, it was 54%

glensmen

Deleted_User said:

I just put what I need on a saucer and zip it in the microwave for 10 seconds. You can spread it as thin as you like. 

Stay away from artificial butter. 

This is what I do - it's a good use for the wee glass ramekins left from desserts. Put a lump of butter in one, 5-10 seconds in the microwave, and you've got perfectly spreadable real butter.

greyteam1959

Kim_kim said:

jon81uk said:

Or if you want actual butter that is spreadable go for something like Lurpack, that is pretty much just butter and oil.
Lurpack spreadable ingrediants: Butter (64%) (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Lactic Culture (Milk), Salt

Lurpac must be the highest butter content of the butter & oil spreads then. 

I got Yeo valley this week, it was 54%

Aldi's Nordpak is 64% butter & considerably cheaper than Lurpak.

Murphybear

MrsStepford said:

I buy Sainsbury's SO organic unsalted butter 250g for 1.85 and cheaper than Lurpak, President, Flora Buttery, Yeo Valley, Anchor, Country Life and Kerrygold of same weight.. It's kept in a covered butter dish at room temperature. I'm not paying for 54% butter, I'm paying for 100% butter, without psticides and GMOs.

Tastes much nicer as well