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Do you use butter or margarine?

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  • BadassCrossfitMama
    BadassCrossfitMama Posts: 110 Member
    BUTTER! ever since I found out margarine was 2 molecules away from plastic!
  • vytamindi
    vytamindi Posts: 845 Member
    People get fat on butter? Really?
  • elvenaria1
    elvenaria1 Posts: 5 Member
    I only use Butter.....margarine = ewww
  • jetlag
    jetlag Posts: 800 Member
    Margarine does NOT have less fat than butter! That is absolutely false. Read the nutritional information labels or look it up on NutritionData.com: margarine is 99%-100% calories from fat per serving, butter is 100%.

    Butter and margarine are not 100% fat. Butter is about 81% and margarine ranges from 75% to 80%.

    Look it up in the MFP food database.


    As for the question: butter. Always. I NEVER eat margarine.
  • Defren
    Defren Posts: 216 Member
    Butter every time. Marg is basically plastic and full of artificial crap and in comparison tastes like sh**


    ^This. I don't have artificial anything in the house. I eat Primal so it has to be clean for me. I wouldn't have margarine if it were free.
  • majica8
    majica8 Posts: 210 Member
    Neither on sandwiches etc. I either have nothing or low-fat, low-cal cheese spread (laughing cow light)
    If I'm cooking something, depends on what it is. Cheese sauce for lasagne - margarine. Don't know why, but that's my mum's recipe and I'm not changing it.
    Anything else tends to be butter. Pastry, mashed potato, onion sauce etc

    I don't have either on things like veg or new potatoes either. Used to, but I can live without it and the extra cals are useful sometimes :)
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,368 Member
    I've used butter once in 7 months. I prefer olive oil. Margarine is nasty and I'd never use it.
  • CookNLift
    CookNLift Posts: 3,660 Member
    Olive Oil, or GF Butter (Unsalted)

    I would never recommend using margarine for the following reasons:
    1. It's disgusting
    2. It's fake butter
    3. Flavorless
    4. Did I mention it's a butter substitute....aka Fake Butter
    5. I read somewhere that margarine is one molecule away from being plastic....and it was once used to fatten turkeys. Not that i care, because of the above reasons for not eating it. But science sometimes helps, especially when I forget to put the supporting facts with it :0/
  • teamAmelia
    teamAmelia Posts: 1,247 Member
    There's a difference? :indifferent:

    I hardly ever eat the stuff, anyway, because when I do, it's normally something so sinfully good and requiring syrup, like waffles. Mmmmmm.
  • SarahBeth0625
    SarahBeth0625 Posts: 685 Member
    BUTTER always. Margarine = no way. We buy the Full Circle Organic brand butter. It's actually a good price. :smile:

    Olive oil is something I use often as well.
  • Vince_1964
    Vince_1964 Posts: 359 Member
    Butter ... like the taste much better and it doesn't contain all the stuff I can't pronounce.
  • nyboer
    nyboer Posts: 346 Member
    Butter
  • bellaa_x0
    bellaa_x0 Posts: 1,062 Member
    easy answer. None of it :)

    ^^ this
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Olive Oil, or GF Butter (Unsalted)

    I would never recommend using margarine for the following reasons:
    1. It's disgusting
    2. It's fake butter
    3. Flavorless
    4. Did I mention it's a butter substitute....aka Fake Butter
    5. I read somewhere that margarine is one molecule away from being plastic....and it was once used to fatten turkeys. Not that i care, because of the above reasons for not eating it. But science sometimes helps, especially when I forget to put the supporting facts with it :0/

    Coffee-mate non-dairy creamer is Fake cream.
  • vytamindi
    vytamindi Posts: 845 Member
    Olive Oil, or GF Butter (Unsalted)

    I would never recommend using margarine for the following reasons:
    1. It's disgusting
    2. It's fake butter
    3. Flavorless
    4. Did I mention it's a butter substitute....aka Fake Butter
    5. I read somewhere that margarine is one molecule away from being plastic....and it was once used to fatten turkeys. Not that i care, because of the above reasons for not eating it. But science sometimes helps, especially when I forget to put the supporting facts with it :0/

    Coffee-mate non-dairy creamer is Fake cream.

    And that's, like, two electrons away from being a hot glue gun stick.
  • tifferz_91
    tifferz_91 Posts: 282 Member
    Olive Oil, or GF Butter (Unsalted)

    I would never recommend using margarine for the following reasons:
    1. It's disgusting
    2. It's fake butter
    3. Flavorless
    4. Did I mention it's a butter substitute....aka Fake Butter
    5. I read somewhere that margarine is one molecule away from being plastic....and it was once used to fatten turkeys. Not that i care, because of the above reasons for not eating it. But science sometimes helps, especially when I forget to put the supporting facts with it :0/


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  • jmyrtle
    jmyrtle Posts: 44 Member
    Butter, Coconut oil, Olive oil, and cooking Spray(Pam)
  • RobinsEgg
    RobinsEgg Posts: 3,702 Member
    Butter is the clear winner here folks!
  • peleroja
    peleroja Posts: 3,979 Member
    I bake with butter for the flavour and texture, I use oil for cooking (olive or grape seed usually), and I like margarine for the occasional slice of toast or whatever. It's easy to spread and comes in a 10-cals-per-teaspoon option...easy choice. I don't use any of them that frequently but I'm not a believer in clean eating.
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    Yogurt butter is my preference, margarine a distant second. I've never particularly liked regular butter, though.
  • VpinkLotus
    VpinkLotus Posts: 849 Member
    I use land o lakes light butter with canola oil.
  • Dechant63
    Dechant63 Posts: 59
    I rarely eat either. Haven't bought either in 4-5 years probably. Any recipe that needs it I just don't put it in. If I'm at a restaurant Iight put a little on a sweet potatoe or a roll. But other than that I don't eat it.
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