If you tried it on a toasted bagel, you wouldn’t need to ask! 
Its devine
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Don’t get me started on butter!^^
I buy this because it is not pasteurised:
Currently £3.50 for 250g.
Guess how much it was when I started buying it (and what it stayed at for ages).
£3?
Nope
£2.50?
Nope!
£1.80!!!
It’s practically doubled in price! 
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You’d have a rough time here, it is illegal to sell raw cow’s milk in Australia for human consumption that hasn’t been pasteurised (or put through another approved safe treatment).
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My grandkids love Mr Kipling French Fancies so I always have some in …they used to be £1.25 a box…yesterday I paid £2.65 can you believe such an increase? How can they justify that its outrageous
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Sugar tax, Brexit, transport fuel costs, cost of baking them, cardboard packaging costs are rising, blah, blah, blah …I’m sure Mr Kipling would regale a huge list at you from the top window of his mansion, then wave you away dismissively!
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I don’t know, Annie, can’t stand the stuff myself - it’s flavourless and waxy.
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It’s so full of flavour though 
Do you recommend anything else? I can’t get to Waitrose since it’s across the other side of the city and I’m not doing public transport in this heat just for butter. I also like Flora light…or Bertolli because it has olive oil in it (expensive again though)
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I’ve been buying Lidl’s Danepack butter lately instead ofLurpak spreadable and find it quite good. I am more likely going to changeover to “proper” butter, i.e. the hard traditional kind, because the cost is more reasonable. The spreadable butter is not really butter anyway as it is a mix of cheap vegetable spread. I mostly use butter in cooking, so hard butter is probably better than the soft stuff. Won’t hurt to keep a bit of hard butter out of the fridge for spreading on toast etc.
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I have found hard butter (kept in the breadbin in a butter dish) does not go off for weeks even in this weather and is nice and soft for spreading.
Much prejudice against butter but it’s a fabulous ingredient in moderation. Better to use it in from scratch cooking rather than eating processed junk containing hydrogenated or palm oil.
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Your farming standards may be even lower than ours then Bruce. There’s absolutely no need to pasteurise milk if the cows are healthy and the milking process is done correctly and cleanly. It’s only because they use dirty equipment, and if you’re highly suspicious, because pasteurised milk is much much more difficult to digest (RAW milk contains bacteria that helps digest lactose for instance) - thus one more thing to keep people dumbed down/subjugated (similar to the gluten in wheat for instance, a known neurotransmitter blocker).
In the UK you can buy RAW milk directly from a farmer, and RAW cheeses or other milk products under certain circumstances (but not milk). It’s a dumb law - instead they should be prosecuting farmers with poor standards, instead of bringing in laws that just help businesses/greed.
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I remember drinking raw milk as a teenager when helping out on a farm up the road from me. Squeeze and drink, it was so good and I have never tasted anything like it since. I got to take a bottle home with me
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I buy the alternative to Lurpak in either liddle or Aldi Danpak or Norpak…I can’t tell the difference
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They used to clean the milking equipment with iodine and that was how most Australians got their dose of iodine but now it cleaned using other methods.
A few years ago some specialist cheesemakers (blessed are the cheesemakers) were complaining that they couldn’t use raw milk to make cheese. within a month some kids were ill from drinking raw milk which can only be sold for bathing (sounds like a conspiracy case for OGF)
Personally I am quite happy with my homogenised, pasturised, lite milk, though I preferred it when it was $1 a litre
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Found this Azz. Apparently farmers have to be registered differently to legally sell raw milk.
" Dairy farmers not registered as a raw drinking milk producer should not give away or sell raw milk straight from the tank, warns the Food Standards Agency. It is illegal to sell or give away raw milk and cream free of charge if you are not registered to do so."
Years ago, I used to keep a few dairy goats, and I sold the milk raw at the farm gate. Drank it myself for about 20 years too. Smashing it was, too.
Then came along new rules and regs, and we were no longer able to sell it for public consumption unless it was pasteurised.
It was only the bigger concerns that could afford the money for this, so most of the smaller goatkeepers sold their animals instead.
Cows milk tasted really strange after so long drinking the goats milk. My puppies really thrived on it too and loved it while still warm and freshly milked.
I even had my milk lab tested to check the quality and was told it was ‘cleaner’ than any cows milk, but I still wasn’t allowed to sell it any more.
I think some more unscrupulous farmers would sell raw milk that never should have been sold. For example, cows receiving Mastitis treatments, and antibiotics for other complaints. I believe their milk was supposed to be discarded, but it wasn’t always.
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It’s…Lurpak Spreadable … currently on offer at £4 
It went up to £5 a good few weeks back .
I shop online now alternately , Ocado and Sainsburys. Most things have gone up which inevitably has seen my weekly shop around the £50 mark .
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Prior to it being currently on offer it was £5 ? I bought a tub this week .
However I might well follow that tip of putting a small amount of block butter in thae bread bin after buying a little butter dish.
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Pop on to Sainsbury website I think you’ll find most possibly all 500g packs of Lurpak are now £5 except one or two offers
What they were 2 weeks or a month ago I’ve no idea .however not long ago you could get specials at almost half that price
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I tried a tub of something described as “Buttery Spread”, a mixture of margarine and butter and while it was OK I didn’t think it was good enough to replace the 1kg tub of Flora margarine that I usually buy.
When my 8 year old grandson was staying we were discussing “butter” and I told hime what he thought was butter was actually margarine and had never been near a cow. We went to the fridge to have a look at the tub. He discovered that the word “margarine” doesn’t appear on the tub at all. It is described as “spread”
BTW the 1kg tubs cost about $8.50 (£4.25)
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I was shopping today when I noticed we have Lurpak butter etc
It’s a bit pricey at $6.90 (£3.50) for 400gm