Butter, light butter spread or butter substitute?
autumnsquirrel
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I've heard that butter substitutes aren't good for us, so I went with regular butter...It took a little while to see that I can save some calories and fat by using Land O Lakes light butter spread. Is this spread real butter or or an unhealthy substitute? Just want to do the right thing, but don't want to give up the butter taste. Thanks for all your input:)
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Real butter is, well, Real. The rest is crap.
Store bought butter is however, not entirely 'real' but at least it's the closest you'll get without making it yourself.
I use it in limited qty mind you.
One thing you can do is create your own soft spread by beating butter and olive oil together. Makes an almost whipped creamy butter
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Real butter is, well, Real. The rest is crap.
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Land O Lakes Light Butter w/Canola Oil is MY choice for a spread. I don't use it much, but you're right, butter is better than butter substitutes, & their Light Butter is pretty much just butter & canola oil. A Tblsp of the Light Butter, has about the same calories as a tsp of regular butter. Good choice! :-)0
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All you need to know is that if the word "hydrogenated" is in the ingredients list, it is bad, otherwise, it's fine. Hydrogenated oils are trans fats and are about the only food ingredient that you should 100% avoid all the time.0
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I use butter spray or olive oil0
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Butter. All the way. You're not saving many calories and it's probably more expensive to buy that light stuff. Just use less butter.
Plus, Butter.
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Real butter is, well, Real. The rest is crap.
Store bought butter is however, not entirely 'real' but at least it's the closest you'll get without making it yourself.
I use it in limited qty mind you.
One thing you can do is create your own soft spread by beating butter and olive oil together. Makes an almost whipped creamy butter
Land O Lakes also makes a Light Butter w/Olive Oil, if you want to save yourself some work...pretty much just butter & olive oil.0 -
Actually, the butter substitutes tend to be cheaper.
The only butter substitute one should avoid are those made from partially hydrogenated oil. Just look at the nutrition label to see if it has any trans fats (or look at the ingredient list). If not, then the only other concern is flavor.0 -
Butter - not too much, but butter.0
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Thanks, everyone:) I have Smart Balance, but only tried that a couple of times; I heard bad things about that, too. Will stick with real butter, but just use half of what the serving calls for----I only really like this on a piece of Ezekiel bread, or melted in with my Edamame pods:) Other than that, I use Pam spray for cooking. This dieting thing is hard; trying to get a good handle on it, but it is driving me crazy sometimes:/0
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I personally like Olivio0
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butter, or spreadable butter (only has olive oil added so that it doesn't solidify quite asmuch). I don't eat bread so only use it for cooking/baking.
I like the taste of margarine too much and could literally eat it off a spoon (disgusting i know) so i no longer use it, plus it's processed rubbish.0 -
I only use butter or evoo 0
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I don't eat butter anymore... I found out that I liked the butter taste mainly through the salt. I was buying the spread because it's cheaper, and we used a lot of it, but after we stopped using that, I went and bought butter, I have some in my fridge/freezer, I just never use it unless I make biscuits or gravy (which we hardly eat anymore)
Try it one time... sprinkle a little salt on what you need butter on (well... if it's veggies or something), as for toast, just use butter, I guess.
Usually I sprinkle cheese on my stuff anymore and I don't need salt or butter. I mixture of yogurt/sour cream 50/50 gives you a creamy texture on a baked potato without throwing away the flavour.0 -
never use a substitute for ANYTHING. Low-fat means high calorie as well.. Just moderate what you eat.0
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Butter all the way for me too - it's the real deal - I don't like food that has been overly processed.0
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I try to avoid butter, but if I have it, I have the real stuff.0
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Butter or ghee.0
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I use butter. Not so much as a spread... I use Ranch on my sandwiches. But I'll stir fry veggies in some butter.0
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Everybody talking about the real deal... like it's trendy or the "in" thing. Some people just want to use a substitute or light version so they can save calories to use on something else, rather than waste 60-80 calories or more, on using real butter. Anyway, i use a light butter most of the time.0
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I just use real butter. If the ingredients aren't basically 'cream, salt' then it is not the same. I don't know what is in light butter, but if they are mixing it with other oils, you are not just eating butter.
I would go for grass fed, if you can find/afford it, because it has additional CLA's (a very good for you kind of fat), more O3's, more vitamins, etc... Kerry Gold is a reasonably priced brand.0 -
just use butter0
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Real butter or coconut oil for me.0
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BUTTER!!!!!
Trying to use olive oil, avocado, natural PB as my "fats" of choice these days, but sometimes ya just gotta have butter.
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I am under the impression that butter is butter ie made with dairy products.. milk, churned til it turns into butter.
Margarine (Flora, Olivio, vitalite, ICBINB etc) are all made with sunflower oil or other oils, but has no dairy in it (this is why vegan's eat it)
Spreads really are horrible aside from the Weigh watchers one which does actually taste like butter, but isn't.0 -
The only problem with 'real butter' that you buy is that like most things, it's been processed if even a little.
Recently, when making cheese I decided to skim the fat off my raw cows milk and make some butter, what surprised me was that it remained hard sitting on the counter when the store bought butter we had did not. This gave me pause to think but then I was already doing that about milk because I could not use store bought milk to make cheese the same way I use raw milk because store bought milk is highly processed also.
Sadly, if you can't or don't make it yourself you are stuck with what is available to buy and I recommend buying natural foods over any man made or manipulated foods regardless of what the FDA or USDA tell us (After all, they seem to think Mac-n-cheese is food!).
As for buying olive oil and butter mixed, why? Buying it made for me means I get to pay more for something I can make myself.
But then this coming from a guy who makes his own non-stick stuff (better then pam and 10 times cheaper), his own flour (can't beat the bread I make with store bought stale crap) and many other things
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From the Land O Lakes site:Ingredients: Sweet Cream, Natural Flavoring.
CONTAINS: MILK
Since Butter is made naturally with the fat skimmed off the top of the milk one has to wonder why their ingredients are as listed -- perhaps they water it down some and the additional 'natural flavoring' which could be anything, may also contribute to the softening under room temp vs real home made butter.
Anyway, I'm way off track here but thought I'd point that out for those interested.0 -
I really like Land'O'Lakes light butter with olive oil...it saves you about 50n cals a TBL too 0
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The only problem with 'real butter' that you buy is that like most things, it's been processed if even a little.
Recently, when making cheese I decided to skim the fat off my raw cows milk and make some butter, what surprised me was that it remained hard sitting on the counter when the store bought butter we had did not. This gave me pause to think but then I was already doing that about milk because I could not use store bought milk to make cheese the same way I use raw milk because store bought milk is highly processed also.
Sadly, if you can't or don't make it yourself you are stuck with what is available to buy and I recommend buying natural foods over any man made or manipulated foods regardless of what the FDA or USDA tell us (After all, they seem to think Mac-n-cheese is food!).
As for buying olive oil and butter mixed, why? Buying it made for me means I get to pay more for something I can make myself.
But then this coming from a guy who makes his own non-stick stuff (better then pam and 10 times cheaper), his own flour (can't beat the bread I make with store bought stale crap) and many other things
You make your own cheese? Whaaat....0 -
real butter all the way. everything else is just oil with a mix of chemicals and plastic lol0
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