A thrifty mum has made her own butter for just £2 to beat the rising price of Lurpak which currently costs £7.25 a tub. Hayley Louise Minns, 39, wasn't impressed when the spread reached a record high over the weekend - prompting some supermarkets to protect it with security tags.
So the mum-of-four made her own using two 300ml pots of cream she already had in the fridge, costing just £1.05 each. It worked perfectly - and she used some of it to make buttermilk pancakes.
Part time nurse Hayley, from Hull said: "I was cleaning my fridge and noticed I had almost two full pots of cream in there. I knew I wouldn't use them - my husband forgets what he has bought sometimes and gets more - and I didn't want it to go to waste.
"I kept seeing all these memes on Facebook about the price of Lurpak, so thought I'd see if I could make it into butter as I know I'd use that. I remember a little while ago, I did the same with ice cream as I had too much cream and about eight bananas overripe that the kids wouldn't eat so I turned it into banana ice cream and googled how to make caramel sauce.
"I like messing about in the kitchen. People say you must have too much time on your hands, but seriously, I don't, as I have four young children including a set of four-year-old twin boys that keep me very busy!
"I just make time for stuff as I like to cook from scratch and not have as many additives and stuff in my food that I don't know what it is.
"We used to buy Lurpak regularly but then switched to the Aldi version as we have with lots of branded things. We switched to Aldi products a while ago when we had just the two children and obviously, from having a family, your food bills increase.
"The butter turned out lovely! I gave some to my neighbour and made her a buttermilk pancake - I always cook for her as she's elderly and on her own. She put the butter on top of the pancake and said it was delicious. I'll definitely make it again, but use a muslin cloth this time to help squeeze the excess buttermilk out."
Hayley lives with her husband, steel erector Paul Minns, 39, and daughters ten and eight, ad four-year-old twin boys.
