The price of butter

ps similar point to 2 other Grans above.

Love butter, detest all the substitutes, wonderful for cooking. I have door step milk too, and buy two pints of Jersey Milk per week, please try it, that third of rich cream on top is such a treat, think it is 64p per pint, the other delivered is semi skimmed. So will continue to buy proper real butter whether cow's or goat's, regardless of the rise. Before you all descend on me am dress size 12. A little of what you fancy enables your soul to fly and does you good.

Wow, here in Canada the best butter is about $5.00 per pound. Send cheaper butter here please.

The video clearly shows workers grabbing dollops of cream and jam slapping it onto cooked cake bases with bare hands YUK! Who knows if hand washing is careful or carried out at all I won't be buying cakes from that very large bakery factory that supplies lots of supermarkets .
It wasn't about the cakes being handmade but the bare hands being used.

I stopped eating butter (and cream, and cut down on cheese) 11 years ago after a heart attack. At the time this was advised - cholesterol - but I think medical advice has changed since then .

Talking of price hikes...I went into Asda a month ago to buy my usual Glade perfumed candle, which is £2.00. They had risen the price to £5.00. Knowing that I could get the same thing from any other supermarket for £2.00. I took the item to the cashier and asked her to check the price..indeed it was £5.00, a £3.00 uplift in one go! Naturally I put it back and went to Morrisons and got it for the normal £2.00. I was in Asda yesterday and took a look at the current price, it was on offer for £2.50! What's going on! Supermarkets really do try to take the 'p', therefore I am not loyal to any of them!

I think the price rise is something to do with the squeeze large supermarkets put on the dairy farmers which forced some of them out of business and created a shortage. Less butter means higher prices. The exchange rate movements of late would mean that we couldn't buy butter from alternative sources so cheaply abroad either.

I am still buying three packets a week as I make a lot of cakes.

With the high cost of butter here, I only buy it for the Christmas shortbread bake. Am sure, soon enough, that it will be sold in downsized packets like coffee, bacon and other items.

Watch out for coffee too. Going manic. I've stockpiled before my source does the same.

noticed price hike in butter a while ago so buy my favorite Anchor (in the block form) in bulk when I see it cheap, I
remember my father saying when we entered the common market we wouldn't be able to get Anchor any longer as it came from New Zealand, he was wrong there ..or was he?
just noticed Anchor , along with its new packaging tells you its made in the UK, must admit my taste buds have gone up the swanny lately but really thought I could tell Anchor butter from a cheaper version, seems I might as well have bought the cheaper stuff all along, bit like falling for the Kellogs ad for ORIGINAL special k, still taste like the sad replacement.... hard and oversweet

OMG you don't know how lucky you are!
New Zealand, dairy suppliers to the world, and we pay $8.40 for a 500gm block (1 nz dollar=53p) A tub of semi-soft is $8.70. The supermarkets think tgey are being generous putting it on special for $8. Global price of milk powder increases...our dairy prices increase and we are told we have to pay market rates?

UK butter is normally sold in blocks of 250g - so half the siz of NZ blocks.

W11girl that's a typical selling trick - an item has to have been a certain price for so many days (don't know how many) before they can promote is as 'reduced'.

So if they double the price they can then later reduce it and boast '50%' reduction which is an eye-catcher and to which we're all susceptible!