Lurpak butter cost soars 37% to £5 as Aldi and Lidl dupes also rise 15% amid ... trends now

Shoppers are once again feeling the pinch as household staple food spreadable butter has shot up in price compared to this time last year.

The cost of a 500g tub of premium Danish butter Lurpak has shot up to a whopping £5 in some supermarkets compared to a cost of around £3.65 a year ago - a 37% per cent increase in cost.

But budget shoppers have also been impacted by high inflation on spreadable butters as the cost of living crisis continues to bit at Britain - as Aldi's Nordpak and Lidl's Danpak 'dupes' have also seen above-inflation price rises in the last year.

Grocery price inflation has now hit a record 16.7 per cent high, as Britons are predicted to spend an extra £788 on their annual shopping bills this year.

Shoppers were left dumbfounded in July last year after the price of a 1kg tub of Lurpak spreadable butter reached the eye watering cost of nearly £10.

Shoppers snapped a 1kg pack of Lurpak being sold in an Iceland supermarket for an an extraordinary £9.30.

The high price of essentials led to supermarkets security tagging products such as butter last year as Sainsbury's sold 750g tubs of Lurpak spreadable butter for £7.25 last year.

Common household items including refrigerated ones and even butter were been found locked in a security box as the cost of living crisis sees prices skyrocket.

A spokesperson for Lurpak said last year that prices were rising as their farmer were also seeing their costs of 'feed, fertiliser and fuel they need to produce milk' rise significantly due to inflation.

'While we don't set the prices on the shelves, we do work closely with the retailers to ensure our farmers receive a fair price for the milk they produce,' they added, according to Lancashire Live.

The price of Aldi's Nordpak copycat butter brand shot up around 15 per cent since last February from £1.99 for a 500g tub last February, to £2.29 this February.

And Lidl's Dankpak brand has also risen in cost, by about 16% from £1.89 this time last year to £2.19 today.

The price of Morrison's own-brand spreadable butter from £2.20 in February last year to £2.49 today - 13 per cent rise in price.

But the size of Morrison's spreadable tub has also shrunk from 500g to

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