Margarine vs Butter?

FRiNADA

For cooking I use unsalted stick butter and for spreads I use smart balance. I think food tastes better when cooked in butter...less dry.

parker313_99

Kerrygold butter. I love the way it tastes.

paperpudding

For cooking I use unsalted stick butter and for spreads I use smart balance. I think food tastes better when cooked in butter...less dry.

Just picking up on this point - since I was one of few posters who said they use margarine.
I use it for spreading on sandwiches and crumpets and suchlike.

I dont cook with it. I dont cook anything in butter either - other than very small amount of non stick cooking spray, I dont cook with any oils.

jenilla1

I use olive oil. Occasionally, I use butter for baking, but that's not very often.

tabicatinthehat

Butter on things for taste, but coconut oil for cooking.

Aero1dynamic

I use coconut oil. For everything.

Gawanne

Butter. What does margarine taste like? Wasn't it dreamt up in WW11 if memory serves me correctly because butter was rationed and scarce? I remember my mother mixing all sorts of stuff in our rationed butter to make it go further. No wonder we went mad when butter was plentiful again.

highcarbveganzombie

Butter! I buy unsalted (my father lives with me and he has some blood pressure issues) and it tastes amazing.

simplydelish2

Almost plastic vs. Cream....I'll take the real food every time.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

I use this because 100% butter is really hard out of the fridge:

johnnylakis

i like i cant believe its not butter

sunburntgalaxy

I was raised on butter - my dad was very anti-margarine (my mom grew up with it because it was cheaper - back when you had to mix in the color to make it the color of real butter - she thought it was fun when she was a kid but it just kind of freaked me out that it didn't come the color of butter - but she grew up in the 40s and 50s) and so anything other than real butter just tastes really bad to me. I go with good old fashioned Land O Lakes (not a fan of the European butters - they are usually cultured butters and I just am not into that).

ecjim

There's a dairy near my parents' home that produces non-homogenized, low-temp-pasteurized, Jersey milk. They sell it in glass half-gallon bottles. You have to shake the milk up before pouring a glass, to mix the cream back in that's risen to the top. Wonderful stuff!
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We had that when I was a kid -The bottles with the cream on the top - didn't really like the end of the milk after the cream was gone They would give away the skim milk for free ( bring your own container) after they skimmed the cream - I'm still able to get raw, unpasteurized milk with all the cream - Eastcoast Jim

kimtab

I use real butter. It tastes better, it's less processed. It's not like I'm eating it by the spoonful or anything so I don't worry much about the fat.

melimomTARDIS

Margarine spread is 1/4 the cost of butter, tastes nice, my favorite non-hydrogenated brands frequently go on sale. (Blue bonnet, Parkay, imperial) I like that they spread nicely, and don't brown when making a grilled cheese.

I even use a spray butter for some things.

I wouldn't use a trans fat containing hard stick butter, because I try to not consume any transfats.

I use any spread or oil very sparingly.

I vote margarine for families and individuals on a tight budget.

jmbond06

I use Brummel and Brown yogurt spread. It's all we ever ate growing up so I still buy it. I'm sure real butter would be much better for me though.