Nice butter, tastes better than lurpak and at nearly a 1/4 of the price.

DON'T buy Anchor! It's not Anchor New Zealand anymore. It's been made here by Arla Foods for some time now under licence. Years ago it was imported from NZ in large blocks.
If it just said ARLA BUTTER would you still pay the extortionate price for it? NO.
Just check the back label of any butter, to be 'real' butter it should be at least, the very least, 81 per cent butter.
If like Aldi Lidl it does not quote the percentage just says buttermilk or similar, you know you have butter of a sorts that's all. Nonetheless, even this is far superior to ANY spread. DON'T buy flora crap or spreads except for making cakes. Flora - with butter LOL Are they worried or something that people are changing back to butter? ie people are waking up at last.

Get yourself a bottle of FULL milk too, preferably from Jersey cows, or Gold Top, DON'T buy crap milk that is semi-skimmed or worse, skimmed. It's all a ploy. Buy the REAL stuff.

Back to butter, one of the best out there is Trewithen Dairy Cornish Butter, guess what the percentage is on the ingredients? Cornish Butter ...98.2%!!!! NOW that IS butter! :innocent:
Not sure where I bought it now, might even have been Aldi (poss Morri's?) Think it was 90p Must get some more. Imagine what a fool you'd feel paying more, far more around £1.75 for Arla so-called Anchor. Oh dear.

Hot for this deal. ANYTHING that brings down the price of butter, even 'almost' butter, is a good thing.
Do away with the spread rubbish. For good. Bring back how it used to be.
Upset the nutritionists and all their rubbish so-called 'healthy eating'. Arrrrrrggggh! FAT!!! CREAM!!! Arrrgggghhhh!
Idiots! No wonder there is so much obesity. People are frightened to death of the word, fat. Yet they keep getting fatter! LOL.

where is this made ? presume it's from battery cows that don't ever go out ?

Good find and can be frozen.

Time to ask the wife if she'd like to tango in Paris.

Wow- amazing price !

This is churned in a meadow, yes? If not time to file a lawsuit for mis-representation.

So this is why I got butter today at Farmfoods for 49p. :neutral_face::stuck_out_tongue:

Nice butter, tastes better than lurpak and at nearly a 1/4 of the price.

cheers op ideal for making clotted cream or ghee

Heat added :wink:

Lovely tasting butter and cheaper then costco

Are there any other 7 day deals?

where is this made ? presume it's from battery cows that don't ever go out ?

How is this a deal it's always 50p instore any or if you buy online it's 85p so your saving 30 odd not much is it

What's the taste with this compared to Anchor is it similar or better

WTF? clotted cream? you're certainly not making clotted cream with butter.

And ghee is generally made out of unsalted butter.

You're giving your fellow Cornishmen a bad name

Still 85p online

not grass fed, cold.

Thanks

thanks good find. will go for making ghee normally use willow.

I picked 2 up this morning, thank you op :smiley:

You can pretty much use butter as a 'pulse' on the global economy....remember a few years back when butter was averaging about £1.50 .....now at 50p.

No matter what the politicians tell us...deflation rocks.

​Nope, the cows are out in town at night and then they're bought back to get buttered and milked. :stuck_out_tongue:

Lurpak spreadable is 25% oil (unlikely that you were referring to that though) making it more margerine than anything & damn bland to boot!

Heat for the deal OP, freezes well, buy enough to tide you over to the next deal.
thanks for sharing!

freeze butter?? didnt know that as the ones ive seen always say do not freeze

yes, it's really funny if you don't know what happens....

'Her fate is to eke out a short existence inside a large shed, shared with hundreds of other cows.Each has a narrow metal-barred stall. They are
moved two or three times a day to the automated milking unit. Some operations also have covered
‘loafing’ yards. It is the cow equivalent of battery hen production – a system now widely recognised
as being inhumane. Between 4 and 10 per cent of the national dairy herd is subjected to this
regime.'

so yes, there are battery cows. many never go out and are kept in narrow pens. a machine pushes their **** through slats in the floor.

Like many things, ask why / why not, it may boil down to a marketing departments stipulation because freezing changes the colour of a product etc.. rather than actual health / longevity purposes.

It might be that the salt strength (if salted) is reduced affecting the overall "perceived flavour" !? (for instance).

It freezes fine, just make sure you understand your freezer, it's limitations, & take appropriate storage measures so it doesn't taint if kept in close proximity to fish (for example).

Basically, don't believe the hype, I am wrking my way through a LARGE tub of cream cheese that was bought as it was near "best before" expiry (2.5kg in weight as I recall) ..our modern fridge is kept at 1c ..the container has been used for 3 months beyond it's best before give or take a week! ...no mould, no curdling, no sourness.

I also (cold) smoke butter, it is fine in my fridge after a year!
We don't store butter long term in our freezer(s) rather use as a feeder, so typicaly stored 6-8 weeks under normal conditions, if bought in bulk longer. (20+ blocks), then wrapped in a clipseal, ..all is well.
1c for a fridge is almost "stasis" often equates to massive longevity & savings.

bought some only allowed 4 per person

​Have some heat op.

DON'T buy Anchor! It's not Anchor New Zealand anymore. It's been made here by Arla Foods for some time now under licence. Years ago it was imported from NZ in large blocks.
If it just said ARLA BUTTER would you still pay the extortionate price for it? NO.
Just check the back label of any butter, to be 'real' butter it should be at least, the very least, 81 per cent butter.
If like Aldi Lidl it does not quote the percentage just says buttermilk or similar, you know you have butter of a sorts that's all. Nonetheless, even this is far superior to ANY spread. DON'T buy flora crap or spreads except for making cakes. Flora - with butter LOL Are they worried or something that people are changing back to butter? ie people are waking up at last.

Get yourself a bottle of FULL milk too, preferably from Jersey cows, or Gold Top, DON'T buy crap milk that is semi-skimmed or worse, skimmed. It's all a ploy. Buy the REAL stuff.

Back to butter, one of the best out there is Trewithen Dairy Cornish Butter, guess what the percentage is on the ingredients? Cornish Butter ...98.2%!!!! NOW that IS butter! :innocent:
Not sure where I bought it now, might even have been Aldi (poss Morri's?) Think it was 90p Must get some more. Imagine what a fool you'd feel paying more, far more around £1.75 for Arla so-called Anchor. Oh dear.

Hot for this deal. ANYTHING that brings down the price of butter, even 'almost' butter, is a good thing.
Do away with the spread rubbish. For good. Bring back how it used to be.
Upset the nutritionists and all their rubbish so-called 'healthy eating'. Arrrrrrggggh! FAT!!! CREAM!!! Arrrgggghhhh!
Idiots! No wonder there is so much obesity. People are frightened to death of the word, fat. Yet they keep getting fatter! LOL.

Can someone check the ingredients on this butter at Iceland?
Need to know percentage of Butter. Will be listed after ingredients, should give percentage. if it doesn't, means it low standard butter. I don't like the word 'Creamery', could mean very low butter content. Still good at 50p though.
Can't find % content of this anywhere online. Meadow Churn is under the banner of Fayrefield Group. Business all over Europe.
So, if you have a pack, let's know what ingredient percentage is.
Cheers

I'd find out myself but nearest Iceland is 8 miles away! :disappointed:

​82% :smiley: d lurpak is only 80% :disappointed:

It mentiones 82% fat.. the ingredients are listed like this : butter (milk),salt(1.7%). contains milk.

Is this really always 50p instore? If so why is it being advertised as a one week special deal and limited to 4 packs per customer?

interesting post ! I had never really thought of checking the %butter content.. just went through the butters I have in stock and the sainsburys(at 85p) has 98%.... lidl(at 75p) lists 82.2% fat .. might stick with sainsburys in future!! :smiley:

Aggressive or what

% butter and % fat are not the same thing, butter contains butterfat, water and milk solids. If it says "butter" on the label, it must be 100% butter. If it says "salted butter", it usually contains around 2% salt and the rest is butter.

If it says something with "churn", "spreadable" or something like that on it, check it's not a blend. This says "pure creamery butter", so all good!

About Arla, they have been buying into allsorts over the past few years, for instance I bought a big expensive cornish brie, very nice too, ...BUT upon doing some research it is actually part of the Arla group, ... http://www.ccl-ltd.co.uk/aboutus.htm

BUT what is arla!? ..arla is actually a co-operative of approaching 13000 farmers across europe
http://www.arlafoods.co.uk/

http://www.arlafoods.co.uk/products-overview/all-our-brands/

A co-operative is in my opinion offering a better deal overall to the farmers, (doubtless not perfect) but better than some other options depending on who tries to monopolize from within! ( e.g. the maple syrup wars)

Got 4 today, was in there randomly, fairly decent date, 14 July on ours. This is the same butter they sell in Costco that works out at about 75p a pack but you need to buy four. It's as good as any other.

Am using this right now. Tastes quite salty. Which is the reason we like it so much. Yum !

Butter has always been freeze able

Well it is a Deal! because you are paying 70% more normally, divide 35 by 50 X 100. OK ?

you mean holy cow ?

Glad to hear from the other posts, 82% figure. That's ok. Well, for 50p who would complain. :smile:
Yeah, I knew Arla was a co-operative but I still say if they changed Anchor and simply called it Arla Butter, their sales of butter would plummet overnight!

Re my mention of the lovely Trewithen Cornish Butter (92.8% - few, if any of the so-called top butter brands will match that. In essense, butter, real butter, should be nothing but butter). I asked my misses where we bought the Trewithen from and she said ....ALDI! I thought it was, but wasn't sure. It is sold by other supermarkets, but usually as dear as Anchor (Arla!). But Aldi do have it on offer every now and then, and we bought it at 90p.
Just looked and it's currently still the cheapest place to buy it at £1.19. It is a lovely butter! Even at that price, it's a steal. Don't buy the named brands at far more cash when you can have this true British butter. And no, I'm not anything to do with them. I do love Cornwall though! Just give up spreads, in fact, turn one over and look at the ingredients - there are SO MANY! Think before you put that crap inside your mouth again. Unless you don't care about getting obese.
That's strange, it was available in Asda, now it's not. Someone read this thread! :stuck_out_tongue:
Link to prices of Trewithen butter.
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Butter_Margarine_And_Spreads/Trewithen_Cornish_Butter_Salted_250g.html

Just spoken to a friend about this. It is correct that the fat butter content should be as high as possible for it to be 'real' butter, but he says people are so scared of the word 'fat' today, that few butters are above 82%. He says Jersey or Guernsey butters should be top. Many real butter lovers swear by them.
Interesting I thought. So did a bit of searching. Guernsey Dairy Salted Butter, just under 2 quid - butter/fat content says min. 80%. That's no different to Meadow Churn!!!
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Guernsey-Dairy-Salted-Butter/41340011?sku=41340011&parentContainer=&voucherCode=&dnr=y

Trewithen Dairy Butter will be getting all my sales from now on if it's price at Aldi is kept low.

​We freeze butter all the time,stock it up when its on offer for ghee!.

Butter has always varied and can be as low as 60% if you make it yourself from cream. It is a product only a few things can be legitimately added to anyway. 100% fat butter is available... as Butter Oil, normally a commercial product, not something you would want to spread on a piece of bread, not unlike Ghee.

Nothing special about Trewithin and it only has 82% fat just like many (almost all) other butters, might be a tiny bit more in the unsalted version I suppose. Don't' know where the 92% comes from, I have never seen a brand of butter with that fat level. If you like the taste, then eat it; personally I prefer Lactic fermented butters like Lurpak, although any butter is FAR better than ANY pretend butter, and rarely buy Lurpak as it is so overpriced usually. These spreadable products are pumped full of Sunflower oil usually, so ruin perfectly edible butter.
Anyway, Trewithen seem to have sloppy procedures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28839960

I don't like it best for flavour, but if you want a proper butter from mainly grass fed cattle (after all that's what they are supposed to eat!) then Kerrygold is one of very few widely available brands that are. Sad that is is not fully grass fed now though..

KTC Pure Butter Ghee (2kg)
by Jalpur Millers
£16.59 Free delivery
83p / 100g
Perfect for cooking

Ingredients99.8% Butterfat
Contains Milk

http://shops.mysupermarket.co.uk/merchant-jalpur-millers/product-72025463?TrackingCode=41.hRRauZRSgE2zTSFC7tWRzA

Did you read the article properly, if not I suggest you do and then come back with an apology, scaremonger.

Of course I read it properly. Clearly they didn't!

I am confused what you are talking about with this 92.8%. Do you have a packet you could upload a photo of?

Plenty available today and I was surprised.

Taste good. Contains 82% fat from milk. Salted. Good butter. Much better than aldi. No veg fat inside