Countryside Creamery Homestyle Spread

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There are times when we use good old-fashioned butter in our kitchen. For instance, when we’re serving crab legs or some other special meal. Then, there are other times when an oil-based spread with lower saturated fat does the job just fine, such as when we’re serving toast.

Aldi sells just such a spread.

Countryside Creamery Country Recipe Homestyle Spread With No Hydrogenated Oils — that’s a mouthful — used to come in a couple of different sizes when we first wrote about it in 2018. As of 2025, it comes only in a large 45-ounce tub. So, if you’re buying spread for a household of just one or two people, this might be more than you need.

We buy Aldi products for review with our own funds, and I paid $3.95 for this at my local Aldi in March of 2025. That’s around 9 cents per ounce. Not surprisingly, the price has gone up since we first wrote about this in 2018, when we paid $1.80 for a 45-ounce container in 2018.

The color and style look suspiciously like the old-style Country Crock Spread tubs, which of course is probably the whole idea.

For comparison, a 45-ounce tub of Country Crock Original Spread cost $5.93 at Walmart in March of 2025. That’s around 13 cents per ounce.

Nutritionally, Countryside Creamery’s Homestyle Spread is practically identical to Country Crock Original Spread.

The Aldi spread contains water, soybean oil, palm kernel and palm oil, salt, soy lecithin, distilled vinegar, artificial flavors, vitamin A palmitate, and beta carotene (for color).

Country Crock Original Spread contains purified water, soybean oil, palm kernel and palm oil, salt, lecithin (soy), vinegar, natural flavors, vitamin A palmitate, and beta carotene (color).

The only real difference is that the Aldi spread contains artificial flavors, while the Country Crock spread has natural flavors. There isn’t as big of a difference between artificial and natural flavors as their wording might imply.

The Aldi spread and the Country Crock spread also have practically identical nutrition panels: a 1-tablespoon serving has 50 calories, 6 grams of total fat, 1.5 grams of saturated fat, and 100 mg of sodium. The Aldi spread has slightly more vitamin A (15% DV) versus the Country Crock spread (10%DV).

The Aldi spread container also has a small chart showing the differences in calories and saturated fat between the spread and butter. Butter has 100 calories per serving and 7 grams of saturated fat compared to the spread’s 50 calories and 1.5 grams of saturated fat.

Taste wise, I was hard-pressed to detect much, if any, of a difference between the two products, and on things like toast it would be even harder to tell.

At just over half the cost of the name brand, the Aldi spread is about as good a value as you could ask for.

The Verdict:

If you’re in the market for a spread, Aldi’s Regular Buy Countryside Creamery Homestyle Spread is a great option. It’s just about identical to name-brand Country Crock Original Spread.