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Ben Arnold

'I made my own butter to keep costs down but I was surprised by how much it set me back'

With the price of countless household items rocketing, we’re all now looking out for ways and means to keep costs down. And with news of the price of butter increasing, naturally I thought ‘sod that, I’ll just make my own then’.

It’s worth noting that of all the things you can make yourself in the kitchen, butter is absolutely one of the easiest. I’ve made it before, and it’s a complete doddle. So it was away to Morrisons to buy a tub of double cream, 600ml to be precise, for £2.10. In my head, that would produce a similar weight of butter, and I’d be quids in.

All that money saved from butter expenditure can be syphoned into our rocketing monthly energy costs, I thought. It’s perhaps not a lot, but it helps. So anyway, here’s how it went…

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