Do you use butter or margarine?

cfergusontx

I try not to use fake anything and margarine fake butter.

aliceclutz90

Small amounts of butter - untold amounts of crap in margarine! don't fall for the stupid adverts about cholesterol and what not.

annakow

Butter but I use less

JustAnotherGirlSuzanne

Butter!

bcattoes

Omg. I eat margarine daily!!! Shoot. I better stop. Is smart balance margarine? What about spreadable vegetable oil?

Yes, Smart Balance is margarine as would be spreadable vetetable oil. But all margarine is not the same. Look for one with little to no partially hydrogenated oils in the ingredients. Those are trans fats and should be avoided or limited. Fully hydrogenated oils are not trans fats.

dlionsmane

Organic Butter! It tastes better and you can use less.

Edited to add that I use Organic unsalted butter

NKF92879

butter, unsalted

scottaworley

Butter because trans fat sucks

MyM0wM0w

Real butter. I make it myself once a month in the food processor. It takes a whopping 20 minutes and there is no garbage in it.

HappyStack

Either. I eat it so infrequently I just go for whatever is in the fridge at the time.

zyxst

Margarine, Becel 50% light. I want butter, but unsalted butter isn't tasty.

sarahertzberger

after reading the labels and becoming more conscious of what I'm eating, it's butter now, in moderation.

LaRaAnHa

Butter. I do enjoy a slice of bread smothered in Country Crock when I eat soup though.

MisterDerpington

Both. Margarine on toast (butter just plainly spread doesn't do much for me) and butter in recipes that need it (like thickening up a sauce).

littlegem65

Butter for me! Margarine is crap!

PapaverSomniferum

That's funny that you posted this. I recently saw this posted on facebook and wondered how much of it was true. I'll have to research it later...

"
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings....

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.

Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?"

This ^^ is nonsense. First of all, all margarines are the same. It's like comparing cereals and saying all have the same ingredients and nutritional content. Butter is butter. But since margarine is a processed food, contents vary greatly. There are many margarines avaialble without trans fats these days.

And anyone that says flies won't go near margarine obviously doesn't use it. I grew up in a household that used only margarine. Trust me, flies will land on it.

first of all

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

second:

StheK

Butter. I don't know why. For some reason, the idea of eating congealed cow's milk fat is just not as disgusting as eating congealed... whatever the hell is in margarine. There's no logic to this. It just IS.

But I hardly ever eat it. It just doesn't occur to me.

scarrletti_girl

I use butter. But I get the light butter, or the brand with less calories.

conniemaxwell5

I always use butter. It tastes better and it doesn't have the addtives that margarine has. Unless you found a low fat margarine, butter and margarine are the same in calories and fat.

splashblob

Most of the time, butter. I do use Earth Balance too, which some counted as margarine.