What are some REAL butter brands?

I use Kerrygold (I think that is what it is called). It comes in a gold foil wrapper. And deliciously real butter! I have used the Trader Joe's brand butter as well and it is good.

I always see it at Safeway and Raley's (major grocery stores). I HATE margarine and artificial butter. Bleck.

Land O' Lakes! It's what I grew up on! I just buy the storebrand equivalent now. I buy the salted whipped variety and I leave it out on the counter (yes, my family has done it for years and we've never gotten sick!) because the salt "cures" it really, that's the key.. it HAS to be salted in order to be able to leave it out and prevent "things" from growing in it! Eventually it has to be thrown out and I buy a fresh one but I HATE refrigerated butter! I like room temperature, soft butter ready for my foods! :happy:

(Disclaimer: leave butter out on your counter at your own risk!) :flowerforyou:

i use land o lakes as well. and we also leave our butter out.

Challenge butter is a good one too. It is just regular old butter.

I will take a 1/2 tbls of the real stuff over a gob of the fake. Mmmmmm butter.

I have had ppl over for dinner make a comment about it being an 'off' night for me because I was putting butter on my peas. :huh:

I use Kerrygold (I think that is what it is called). It comes in a gold foil wrapper. And deliciously real butter! I have used the Trader Joe's brand butter as well and it is good.

OMG, I soooo second this!!!! Other than that, I get some heavy cream and sometimes make my own.............yummy!!!!

So I was looking at the land o lakes info on their butter.

Regular salted whipped butter ingredients: Pasteurized Sweet Cream, Natural Flavoring
50 calories, 6g of fat, 50mg of sodium.

LIGHT whipped butter: 45 calories, 5g of fat, 85 mg of sodium.
Butter (Cream, Salt), Water*, Food Starch-Modified*, Contains Less Than 2% of Tapioca Maltodextrin*, Salt, Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides*, Lactic Acid*, Potassium Sorbate* (Preservative), Sodium Benzoate* (Preservative), Xanthan Gum*, Natural Flavor* Vitamin A Palmitate*, Beta Carotene* (color).

What is wrong with people?? lol. (in a non offensive way that is!!)
So you lose 5 calories, ADD 35mg of sodium... and ingest those crazy ingredients? for 5 less calories??
mono and diglycerides!!

I know no one wants to hear this....................but the low fat propaganda people, Big Pharma and the government are all in this together to keep people from eating healthier so that the money makers (Big Pharma and the medical establishment) keep the US turning.............The medical field is BIG business!!

That is why I pretty much try to stay with a naturopathic doctor, but I am using my insurance right now to get the necessary blood work and stuff done to take back to the naturopath to get back on track.

I look back at how people used to eat at the turn of the century and before the 1950's when the low fat propaganda started.

Our ancestors a generation or 2 back ate real butter, lard, bacon grease, fruit, veggies, protein, fresh eggs, raw milk striaght from the cow, etc...............they ate very natural and very UNprocessed. And guess what, our ancestors lived to be in good health and live to ripe old ages..............

The 1950's and the low fat way started and here comes high cholesterol, Diabetes is now an epidemic and so is obesity. There are so many syndromes and diseases, cancer is at an all time high................

It is like they are waging genocide on the American people and you know what else? Most people don't seem to mind. That is sad to me.

That makes up a lot of my reason for being so passionate about how I feel.

Mmmm.... butter.

I also grew up on Land O'Lakes. The real, full fat stuff. Salted and yes, room temperature. Soooo tasty.

I tried to buy margarine once while in college because I wasn't going through the real stuff fast enough and my butter kept going rancid. My mom came for a visit and nearly disowned me.

"MARGARINE?!? That is not how you were raised!" she said. :laugh:

That was the last time I did THAT! Besides, it tasted awful. Give me real food, please!

whatever brand you find, make sure it is salted or unsalted sweet cream. The fewer the ingredients the better.

I totally agree that the launch into fat free and low cal options really hurt our nation.

The one thing I loved when I lived in Germany was the close knit communities and the small refrigerators with tiny freezers. The reason almost all Europeans are healthy and not overweight is due to shopping once a week and only buying fresh foods. They don't stock up on frozen and can foods like we do over here and they also don't over power their food with gunk like salad dressing and seasonings. They actually taste the food with little or simple ingredients. Doritos and flavored chips that we sell over here are covered in seasonings, over there they just lightly season chips and they actually taste better, that's why I think we lose our taste buds over here and end up salting everything.

You can find everything fresh over there simply by going to the neighborhood markets. They even had a milk and egg truck that would drive by weekly so that you could buy both fresh from the farm. There are a lot of things I miss over there and great fresh foods are one of them.
Yes, you can find everything here but it always seems like a challenge or you have to go to a natural foods store and you end up paying twice as much.

Edited to add a disclaimer....................

***I am not trying to push my ideas or beliefs on anyone that belongs to this site. I am merely sharing information with everyone. ***


You could always make your own.....................then you KNOW the ingredients that went into making it!!!

Here is a recipe from Mother Nature News that tells you what to do.............

My husband and I have taken turns with the shaking part to create butter, but it was well worth it in the end............

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/1978-03-01/How-To-Make-Butter.aspx

I have actually wanted to try this! There is a dairy farm close by here I just had no idea how to make it. Thank you!

And yeah, it is crazy the things that companies do to genetically modify food to save on a few calories. I have started questioning how foods are made to be low fat or fat free if they aren't naturally like that, and it kind of grosses me out a bit.

You can't get more real than Organic grass-fed Butter from US Wellness Meats.com
It tastes and smells unbelievable. Comes frozen and it's pricier but you'll see why.

http://www.grasslandbeef.com/Categories.bok?category=Pastureland+Butter+&+Raw+Amish+Cheese

I actually just use the WalMart brand - I think it is in a Great Value box. It's just butter - nothing special, but simple and good. And inexpensive! I use the stick butter though, not the tub. I just put it in a rubbermaid or ziplock container and keep it on the counter, 1 stick at a time. Once in a while I have to throw some out because it gets "fuzzy" but not very often.

After my step-dad's 2nd heart attack, his doc told him to mix 1/2 real butter and 1/2 extra virgin olive oil and use that - it's super good too, but you do have to refrigerate it.

I'm trying to find some REAL butter. I mean, not made from canola oil, or any partially hydrogenated oil, no margarine..
good ol REAL butter.

But I'm not sure what brands there are? Any ideas?

If you want to go decadent and delicious - Plugra European style butter. It's stupid good. Quite possibly the creamiest substance in the universe. I get mine at HEB and I've seen it at Kroger and even Super Target.