Just watching a show on British TV called “food unwrapped” and they are talking about rising food prices.
Totally ecstatic to watch a segment on rising butter prices and the reason behind it? Butter is in greater demand as people are realising its actually good for you. Demand is outstripping supply.
LOVE IT.
The revolution continues!
Well yeah but have you seen how much it’s going up … almost weekly pice increases…
What am I going to do… !
The price of butter skyrocketed over the new year.
In December you could get store-brand and savers-brand for 89-99p and now the lowest store brands Im seeing are £1.60-80!! That’s a big leap! And the ‘savers/economy’ versions have completely disappeared in my local supermarkets.
Have others noticed this?
I believe the culprit is Brexit. I checked the ingredients etc. And was surprised to find that the store-brands (in Scotland) were butters from mainland Europe.
Kerrygold prices are going to go through the roof 
for those in the UK. And no one should have to live without the wonder that is heavenly Kerrygold 
Hey,
The UK price increase is 3 fold:
1 - Brexit as milk prices are set in USD and as we know the exchange rate has gone to shite!
2 - Increased demand due to people realising its not the bad fat its made out to be
3 - Decrease in production, lots of UK dairy farmers have sold their stock due to the decrease in demand for milk and it will take them a few years to gear back up again due to the increase in demand for butter.
£1.90 for Kerrygold here, used to be £1.60 so could be worse… can still get Tesco cheap stuff but it’s not the same. Countrylife (which I love) is £1.80 now.
Butter here (Fayetteville, NC, US) is all about the same price, around $2.75 for a standard sized package of 4 sticks. The store brand is a little cheaper, but contains carbs (added sugars?). I never liked the taste of the store brand, no butter flavor at all 
So for a long while, several years, I started buying the brand with the American aboriginal woman on the box (you know, the box we had fun with as kids 
. It tasted ok. Even though the store brand was about 50 cents to a dollar cheaper, it was worth it.
Then I began hearing about Kerrygold on this forum and the podcasts. I had no idea what they were reffering to, because its name was used, but not what it was. THEN, one day in Walmart, I saw it, right next to the pretty girl on the box brand. Imported from Ireland it says, $2.88 cents?? I grabbed one to try. From then on I keep three bricks of it in my fridge. If you’ve never tried it, you are missing out.
(this comment is not a paid endorsement. If Kerrygold would like to pay me, I have no problem with that, and in fact, is encouraged).
Thanks Allen but, no, I referring to the changes in EU trade taxes and levies on foods brought into the U.K. from EU countries. Due to Brexit. Specific food items are being hit more than others. Like lettuce, weirdly!
A surprising proportion of our most common butters are not from the U.K. Last week In Morrison’s I couldn’t find even one that was. They were all from Italy, France and Ireland.
You can get some nice ones in Lidl and Aldo. I remember a Welsh type with actual salt crystals in it…
I don’t think it has to do with Brexit. The price has gone up in Germany, too. Normal butter was at 0.99 € at the lowest and is now at 1.65 € (something like that. Kerry gold 1.99 €). It was so cheap up until 2015 due to a fixed EU milk quota. The current price reflects the world market value and the growing demand in Asia according to newspapers.
Hmm. I believe you are wrong about EU trade taxes and levies on the UK but happy to be proven wrong. The UK is still a 100% full member of the EU until 2019 so it is illegal for any EU country to impose trade tax / levies on imports into the UK.
After we leave, then that is still in negotiation.
And yes, EU import prices have gone up too because of the exchange rate movements.
I bought some Greenfields because it was cheaper than Kerrygold. I think I saw in another post somebody saying it was similar in taste. Also “grass fed from Ireland” which is why I took a chance on it. Haven’t finished my last package of kerrygold so I haven’t tried it yet.
So It will all increase again in 2019. Awesome.
Just FYI, I was never disputing the other reasons for the increase. They just weren’t my point. And the taxes and tariffs themselves don’t need to be in place yet for private companies to start to adjust the amount or frequency with which they’ll export to the U.K. given the upcoming changes.
If you look up the financial newspapers or online sites, the hike in food prices was greater in the U.K. compared to the other Euro countries after the Brexit vote. So butter will have increased for you too, but more so in U.K.
Bottom line - sounds like all of us Keto-ers in the U.K. have even more excuse to go on holiday and eat more butter