I tried butter from Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons and found one as 'moreish' as Lurpak

Butter is simply a staple successful astir households and, with truthful galore antithetic types to take from, it tin beryllium hard to cognize wherever to start.

Spreadable food is simply a happening of beauty. It's acold tastier than margarine and mostly much affordable and convenient for sandwiches than blocks of existent butter.

But erstwhile newsman and mum Zoe Chamberlain spotted that Morrisons was offering blocks of food successful its Savers scope arsenic a rival to Lurpak, she decided it was excessively bully a woody not to try. Avaialble for a fraction of a outgo of the premium brand, Zoe discovered that Aldi and Lidl besides connection likewise priced blocks of butter.

Eager to spot however they measured up, she said: "I decided to drawback a artifact from each supermarket to spot however they stacked up against the archetypal Lurpak. I sampled each connected a portion of lukewarm toast to comparison taste, texture and easiness of spreading and here's what I discovered."

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Here's what Zoe thought of the rival butters:

Lurpak Butter

Lurpak Slightly Salted Butter is priced astatine £2.15 for 200g from Morrisons, which equates to £1.08 per 100g. Lurpak has been successful the butter-making concern since 1901 and their food is touted arsenic being cleanable for everything from spreading and baking to drizzling and frying, reports Birmingham Live.

It's suitable for vegetarians and contains 52g of saturated abdominous and 1.2g of brackish per 100g. This was creamy, salty and addictive, I could easy bask it by itself connected crusty bread.

Zoe's favourite, she described it arsenic "delicious" adding "I awarded it a afloat 5 retired of 5 stars."

Morrisons Savers Butter

Savers Salted Butter is priced astatine £1.69 for 250g from Morrisons, oregon £1.79 online, which works retired to 72p per 100g. It contains 52.1g of saturated abdominous and 1.5g of brackish per 100g.

This vegetarian-friendly enactment is made with Red Tractor certified milk. It dispersed good onto the toast but was alternatively bland, lacking the creamy, salty flavour you'd expect from Lurpak.

Not overly impressed, contempt the bargain terms tag. Zoe called this food "a spot of a letdown" standing it 2 retired of 5 stars.

Aldi's Cowbelle British Butter

Priced astatine £1.79 for 250g from Aldi, which equates to 72p per 100g, Cowbelle British Butter contains 54g of saturated abdominous and 1.5g of brackish per 100g.

Certified by Red Tractor and made with British milk, this food is suitable for vegetarians. However, it was somewhat hard to dispersed consecutive from the fridge and I recovered it lacked flavour.

Unimpressed Zoe said "it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't thing peculiar either. I gave it a people of 2 retired of 5 stars."

Lidl's West Country Butter

West Country Butter from Lidl costs £1.79 for 250g, moving retired to 72p per 100g - astir connected par with Morrisons and Aldi. But that's wherever the similarities ended.

Zoe said: "This 1 truly took maine by surprise. It boasted a fantastic creamy texture. Although lone unsalted was disposable erstwhile I visited the store, it turned retired to beryllium conscionable arsenic moreish arsenic the Lurpak. It besides dispersed truly easy consecutive from the fridge.

"I awarded it a afloat 5 retired of 5 stars."

Final Verdict

Following connected from her investigations, Zoe said: "It's wide this was a two-horse contention and I person to accidental Lidl emerged victorious owed to the terms and the fantastic flavour. It was 36p cheaper per 100g than the Lurpak but tasted conscionable arsenic good.

"It's an fantabulous mode to chopped costs connected my market shopping, truthful I'll decidedly beryllium purchasing it again."