butter, light butter, margarine, light margarine?

iowaoly

I am so confused from my years of different diets and ways of eating. What do you use on toast for "butter", "margarine" etc. ? I used light margarine for many years and then switched to butter but it is way high in calories, so now I am back to light butter, but I don't know if that is any better than light margarine health wise. I try to use olive or coconut oil for things I can cook with, but sometimes you need butter or margarine. Any tips or advice on what you like?

Now...toast brings up another issue. I am back to the 40/cal per slice bread rather than the whole grain wheat. It seems for me to lose weight I need to eat the possibly more unhealthy things to get the quantity Iike rather than the smaller quantity of a higher quality food item. I hope this post makes sense.

SuggaD

Eat real food ... butter. I don't eat a lot of butter, but when I need butter, its real butter. No fake crap that is close to plastic. Had butter and jelly on my toast this weekend. I understand your issue. I personally prefer foods made with little that I don't recognize, so those 40/cal per slice breads don't work for me. But do whatever you need to do to stick to your calorie goals.

Christine_72

Use Real butter. That is all

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Nony_Mouse

Always, always butter. It is the only answer.

(but really, it's up to you, if you don't want to 'spend' calories on the real thing, don't)

jane837

I prefer butter -- it tastes much better to me.

Ready2Rock206

Kerrygold butter - best thing ever. I rarely use butter - but now when I do I try to only use kerrygold,

andyluvv

May I bump in and provide another suggestion?

Avocado spread...it's bloody delicious, you only need ONE avocado to make and it lasts quite a bit! Just blitz an avocado, add some lemon juice, coriander and salt/pepper to taste.
I wanted a good alternative to butter since I don't tend to use it (I hardly have bread around the house, but I wanted something on ryvitas!) and it's the best recipe I have EVER found.

It's great and a great natural fat source. And calories are about the same as margarine
About the low calorie bread, there are great alternatives. Hovis Wholemeal, the small batch (400g I think?) is about 50 calories a slice. Also their granary bread...just search around!

LoneWolfRunner

Butter, baby, butter...

AmazonMayan

Real butter has so much more flavor. Just use less of it to cut the calories.

TheVirgoddess

Butter. Absolutely.

In fact, eat Kerrygold butter.

Also, all you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit.

MakePeasNotWar

andyluvv wrote: »

May I bump in and provide another suggestion?

Avocado spread...it's bloody delicious, you only need ONE avocado to make and it lasts quite a bit! Just blitz an avocado, add some lemon juice, coriander and salt/pepper to taste.
I wanted a good alternative to butter since I don't tend to use it (I hardly have bread around the house, but I wanted something on ryvitas!) and it's the best recipe I have EVER found.

It's great and a great natural fat source. And calories are about the same as margarine
About the low calorie bread, there are great alternatives. Hovis Wholemeal, the small batch (400g I think?) is about 50 calories a slice. Also their granary bread...just search around!

That's what I was thinking, too. Or hummus.

Mistizoom

Butter.

galgenstrick

I don't know why all those substitutes are still on the market honestly.