Butter

[pedi08]

I am new to the Butter learning. I am wondering where everyone buys theirs and what its like? This one I found says oil? Is it just like a spread? or do you take it like the CLO? Any advice appreciated...

X-Factor Gold™ High-Vitamin Butter Oil - 8 oz.

[CherryBomb]

I've never used or heard of butter oil, but it sounds like a supplement to me.

[blessedmama59]

I buy Organic Valley Pastured Butter from the local Kroger. They also have cultured butter. The pastured is only available until September, so I'm trying to stock up a little (it's $3.19 for a pound). I also buy sticks of unsalted organic butter and use that for baking.

[velcromom]

Is that $3.19 for a pound or for one package? All we have out here are 8oz packages and they are over $4 each at the grocery store. The best price I've found on the pasture butter from OV is from Azure Standard online, theirs is usually around $3.50 for the 8oz package. I also have signed up for OV's newsletter emails and they have coupons you can print out so I save a bit that way.

The butter oil is a supplement. For table use, we use the OV pasture butter, for cooking I mostly use organic butter. Costco has it in two pound packs.

[Llyra]

I can get local pastured butter, but the price is prohibitive for us so we only have it occasionally. It's like $9 a pound. So in between, we either use the OV pastured butter, or Kerrygold. I don't know what I pay for it, though. I think it's like $6 or $7 a pound for the OV, and less for the Kerrygold. I buy the OV at a supermarket, and the Kerrygold at Trader Joe's. When the budget is really lean, I buy the supermarket brand organic butter.

[blessedmama59]

Originally Posted by velcromom

Is that $3.19 for a pound or for one package? All we have out here are 8oz packages and they are over $4 each at the grocery store. The best price I've found on the pasture butter from OV is from Azure Standard online, theirs is usually around $3.50 for the 8oz package. I also have signed up for OV's newsletter emails and they have coupons you can print out so I save a bit that way.

The butter oil is a supplement. For table use, we use the OV pasture butter, for cooking I mostly use organic butter. Costco has it in two pound packs.

I'm sorry, I totally meant $3.19 a package which is half a pound. I wish there was a Costco or Trader Joe's here. I don't believe Sam's here has organic butter.

[Arduinna]

I get local butter, but also kerrygold and parmigiano reggiano butter

butter oil is what I consider to be a processed food suppliment, I don't use it.

[Magelet]

I buy local pastured butter for 6 dollars a pound at a locally owned cheese shop. (apparently the normal price is 9 a pound but it's been on sale for a month and a half. here's hoping it stays there.) Before I found that, I bought organic valley pasture butter or a few other types. Different brands of butter at hte store were more or less yellow in different seasons. I think it was 3.50 a half pound, but I never paid that much because organic valley coupons are so easy to find. I always had a dollar off coupon per pack.

I sometimes take butter oil (I have butter oil mixed with cod liver oil) but it's definitely a supplement, not butter.

[tallulahma]

Originally Posted by velcromom

Is that $3.19 for a pound or for one package? All we have out here are 8oz packages and they are over $4 each at the grocery store. The best price I've found on the pasture butter from OV is from Azure Standard online, theirs is usually around $3.50 for the 8oz package. I also have signed up for OV's newsletter emails and they have coupons you can print out so I save a bit that way.

The butter oil is a supplement. For table use, we use the OV pasture butter, for cooking I mostly use organic butter. Costco has it in two pound packs.

oddly enough i find the kerrygold can be cheapest at whole foods- its around $2.69 a package at whole foods and trader joes, both in arizona and california.

i buy either OV pasture fed or kerrygold. depending on price... i get OV on sale a LOT.

[Arduinna]

Costco often has kerrygold butter also.

[daisymommy]

FWIW...I have always bought Organic Valley organic butter (1 lb. box--not the green pastured 8oz. package)--because they say that their cows are on pasture a minimum of 2/3 of the time.

Then I read about Kerrygold here, and bought some to compare it with.

The Organic valley butter was much more dark golden than the Kerrygold, and tasted more "buttery" and flavorful as well.

So, I think I'll personally be sticking with that. It's $4.99 a lb. here in the grocery store and Whole Foods.

[CherryBomb]

Does anyone know anything about the Kroger organic brand? Their milk and butter say that the cows "freely graze on green pastures and organic feed" but I haven't been able to find out exactly how much grass they're eating. I think I might switch over to OV. I got ahold of some of their pasture butter the other day and OMG it's delicious.

[tallulahma]

Originally Posted by daisymommy

The Organic valley butter was much more dark golden than the Kerrygold, and tasted more "buttery" and flavorful as well.

So, I think I'll personally be sticking with that. It's $4.99 a lb. here in the grocery store and Whole Foods.

thats really good to know... i never thought to compare... i wonder if it varies by season?

[blessedmama59]

Originally Posted by CherryBomb

Does anyone know anything about the Kroger organic brand? Their milk and butter say that the cows "freely graze on green pastures and organic feed" but I haven't been able to find out exactly how much grass they're eating. I think I might switch over to OV. I got ahold of some of their pasture butter the other day and OMG it's delicious.

I am curious about this too, bc I often buy a package to use for baking. And yesssss, the OV pastured is so delicious.

[CookAMH]

I've been buying Organic Valley pastured butter (green) for a little while now. I use organic from Costco or Tillamook butter in things where the taste isn't as prominent, and I use the pasture butter on toast or in anything I make for DS. We just can't afford to use pasture butter all the way around and we use a good bit of butter.

Organic Valley has coupons on their website for $1 off.

I've been ordering it from Azure Standard and a box of 12 comes out to about $3.20 per 8oz package. But with the recent coupons from OV (I could print two) it is cheaper to buy it locally. I just don't know how often they'll reset the coupons.

http://www.organicvalley.coop/coupons/

[pedi08]

This is great info thanks. So stick to organic grass fed butter and no use for butter oil