Aldi Countryside Creamery Grass Fed Irish Butter

#1

In case anyone is interested, Aldi sells these double wide sticks of Irish grass fed butter for only $2.79. To me it has a much richer butter flavor than the Kerrygold Walmart sells for $3.49.

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#2

Wow! That’s great to know.

#3

What do ya think of the avocado oil from aldi? $6.99 for cold pressed avocado oil (17 fl oz). Just got it…tastes pretty good. Would make great mayo.

#4

I want to try the grass fed/finished ground beef from Aldi… $5.29 / lb I heard. They were out of stock today.

#5

Well, those are some cheap prices assuming legit quality. Trader Joe’s grassfed beef is 6.99lb… and Primal Kitchen’s Avocado Oil was something like $9-10 last time I bought it.

Hopefully due to paleo-lowcarb-keto demand, there’s sort of a co-op influence=bringing the price down!

#6

There was a TV show about Aldi. They save so much by just throwing the delivery boxes on the shelf that they can underprice almost everybody.Their display looks like shit, but they make up for it in price. So yeah- the quality of their products good.

#7

And my Walmart that I shop near me just upped this price to $3.99. I went the other day for some and was SO surprised to see this increase. Now the only place it is my cheapest is a little local independent store selling it for $3.69 down the road.

Countryside Creamery has a gazillion products from doing fast research on them. Avacado oil in butter. Canola Oil Spread butter and more. This one also…pure irish butter.

I got this review on it: Sep 14, 2015 · We have been buying Countryside Creamery butter sticks from ALDI for a long time. Several months ago the color of the butter changed from almost white to a deep yellow. I suspect they are now selling us margarine marked as butter. -----this wasn’t a irish butter review but when I see something like this in their line of products I think, hmmm, what about their other things :slight_smile:

heck, not sure. I don’t know but when I research this product you can’t find the farms used in this irish butter. You can’t trace it back ya know to it being a smaller company with roots you can dig into vs. a mega corporation offering so many products you truly wonder where this ‘grass fed irish butter’ really is all about.

Did you happen to find info on it at all? I am just curious. I got duped on a lot of products in my time LOL and at some point I am gun shy changing from a company where I can get my hands into their product manufacturing and real info about it vs. a mass produced, massive line product company playing around with the lowest standards and guidelines. You know, meet the minimal amt of standards in a product to be able to ‘stamp a label on it’ and call it that. A lot of companies doing just that out there LOL

just curious on it :slight_smile:
just a good chat about it. the price really seems too good to be true on grass fed butter.

#8

yea, has me going that way also. assuming on the quality end of it.

(bulkbiker) #9

Just a heads up… here in the UK a number of supermarkets have been “caught out” selling stuff that appears to be made by someone else but is in fact just their regular stuff in fancy branding. I can’t find a company called “Countryside Creamery” listed online anywhere so I’m guessing this is just Aldi butter masquerading as something else. It may well be grass fed and it may well originate in Ireland but… check the back of the label carefully…

#10

good one Mark. I am tending to agree with you in that direction.

I did a search and it is not a company at all. It is this: Within the past year or so, Aldi began transitioning the Kerrygold out of stores and replacing it with its own private label Countryside Creamery Pure Irish Butter in stick form.

It is a private label brand from Aldi itself. So one has to go directly to Aldi to get any knowledge of this product. Only Aldi knows anything about their quality control on this product that I can find. You can’t trace this product to any cows in Ireland that I can see LOL but again, without direct info from Aldi on it you just don’t know and can’t make a fast, easy decision on its quality etc.

it is very very interesting.

(Bob M) #11

My local, high end grocery store has this for $5.99/pound. I usually buy the “regular” stuff instead, as it’s several dollars per pound cheaper.

#12

@fangs
Aldi could sell its own butter- but no way they could sell margarine for butter. They would damn themselves, ruin their reputation, and could close shop. I think that some butter might just be that little bit older, or when you leave butter for longer sometimes it gets more yellow in color. But beware the markets and competition. Lots of times they attack their opponents in the press just to get rid of the competition.

#13

Yup, very true.

I guess on this one or any purchase we all have to just do some research or just buy it and be fine with it LOL we all are kinda in that same boat.

#14

Umm this stuff isn’t margarine, I’d know the difference. It tastes better than Kerrygold as well. Ingredients do not mention vegetable oils either.

#15

no I wasn’t saying it was. Just saying one reviewer commented that their butter changed. it wasn’t about the irish butter. I might have confused ya there, sorry :slight_smile:

#16

@Fangs
We always have to keep our thinking caps on and keep vigilant. How I hate being duped.

(Daisy) #17

Mine just upped to $3.89, bought it yesterday. I’m thinking I should have gone across the street and checked out aldi lol

(Windmill Tilter) #18

Grass fed butter is always more yellow than grain fed butter unless dyes are involved. I read somewhere that the climate in Ireland allows for grazing nearly year round, and that there are tighter controls around the “grass fed” desination than elsewhere.

Interesting. It doesn’t necessarily mean the quality is lesser though I don’t think. This is pretty normal in the grocery industry where margins are razor thin and the cost of the “brand” and/or distribution exceeds the cost of the actual food itself. You also have the “MAP” issue with specialty products (contractually binding Minimum Advertised Price).

It’s not impossible that the butter is made by KerryGold itself and rebadged. Somebody with the market power Aldi has can simply say "you can lose $500 million in sales from our 1000 stores or rebadge your product and accept $400 million in a fashion that won’t impact your brand or other retailers.

Questions of food quality and sourcing in the grocery aisle is a bit of a rabbit hole. It basically comes down to trust at the end of the day.

#19

Wow. The cheapest, not tasty butter here is around $8, well in Hungarian forint but it is clearly expensive…
I chose lard instead, WAY cheaper and tastier. Of course, sometimes butter is needed so I buy some and use it sparingly.

Margarine is absolutely nothing like butter, it’s extremely easy to notice (though there are surely people who are less sensitive), I really doubt a big place would risk it, it would be an extremely stupid decision.
I can’t even comprehend how could people eat margarine, it tastes watered plant oil because it is that.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #20

In the U.S., that would be consumer fraud.

My mother, who grew up on a dairy farm, told me that the colour of the milk and of the resulting butter differed according to the breed of the cows used to produce it (different breeds give milk with different butterfat content). I’m not sure, but it is possible that the cows’ diet may also affect the colour (I definitely remember Mom’s saying that the type of forage had an effect on the taste of the milk). So it is at least possible that the change in colour you mention is benign and could well be the result of the dairy’s using milk from a different breed of cow.