kerrygold Stocks?

[Fruitella]

Yeo Valley butter is UK and organic and the cows are grass fed whenever possible according to their site. Kerrygold cows are not grass fed 100% of the time either. Personally I like a Cornish salted for cooking and the Yeo Valley organic spreadable for the occasional crispbread. Uses organic sunflower rather than rapeseed oils in the butter/oil mix.

 

[JohnEGreen]

For me it's 100% butter or nothing if not kept at cold temperatures in the fridge it's perfectly spreadable and as we don't eat bread often we don't often have a need to spread the butter.

 

[HSSS]

I don’t keep mine in the fridge. I always have some in the cupboard. It keeps just fine for a while and is easier to spread. In summer I just keep smaller amounts out as obviously it’ll turn quicker in warmer weather. I use it before there’s a problem.

 

[Member496333]

My butter stays in the fridge simply because the only thing I spread it on is bacon

 

[Prem51]

Butter up that Bacon!

 

[Bluetit1802]

Uses organic sunflower rather than rapeseed oils in the butter/oil mix.

I think you will find that rapeseed oil is healthier than sunflower oil, organic or not.

I put part of a slab in my butter dish and keep it out of the fridge, then repeat when that has been eaten. It is perfectly spreadable. My husband also eats it and spreads it on his bread very easily.

 

[Mr_Pot]

All the talk of Kerrygold made me curious so I bought some today and tried a taste comparison with my usual Sainsbury's Slightly Salted butter. There was a just discernible taste difference but without tasting one straight after the other I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. If one is from cows more grass fed than the other I have no way of knowing.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Two days Sainsurys have had an Out of Stock label where my butter should be. Today Morrisons was just the same.
Has anyone heard of a supply problem? Other butters seem unaffected.

kerrygold was in Asda yesterday

 

[Listlad]

I am currently looking at locally produced milk, butter, eggs and greek yoghurt from a local Lancashire farmer. Delivered to the door.

 

[Bluetit1802]

I am currently looking at locally produced milk, butter, eggs and greek yoghurt from a local Lancashire farmer. Delivered to the door.

Send him down the A59 to me please!

 

[Listlad]

Send him down the A59 to me please!

. He assures me the cows are grass fed but then they all say that.

 

[Mr_Pot]

. He assures me the cows are grass fed but then they all say that.

I think all cows in the UK are grass fed - except when there isn't any grass.

 

[Listlad]

I think all cows in the UK are grass fed - except when there isn't any grass.

Good point.

 

[Bluetit1802]

. He assures me the cows are grass fed but then they all say that.

They are all grass fed in the summer months. It is how they are fed when they are kept in barns in the winter. Hay is dried grass, so that is fine, but some are fed on grains. Hopefully most are kept on hay.

 

[Listlad]

I need to look into it a bit more. Delivered products like this are more expensive. But I run out of Greek yoghourt for example really quickly.

 

[lucylocket61]

They are all grass fed in the summer months. It is how they are fed when they are kept in barns in the winter. Hay is dried grass, so that is fine, but some are fed on grains. Hopefully most are kept on hay.

Cows are fed on silage and hay in the winter/spring months before the grass gets long enough for them to eat (approx 4" long and upwards, as they have to be able to rip it up with their tongues.). Sileage is grass which has been preserved . Haylage is semi dried grass/hay. This is as well as hay itself. So yes, they are fed on grass all year round.

 

[Listlad]

Send him down the A59 to me please!

Well, I should be taking delivery of locally produced grass fed livestock butter next week. This will be on a trial footing. It’s taken a while but I finally found a local source via a chef at work.

 

[Listlad]

Send him down the A59 to me please!

Try these people:

https://www.carronlodge.com/products/carron-lodge-butter/

They do not retail though but are in East Lancs.