Butter

emmajulie98765
emmajulie98765 Posts: 29 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi, I'm new to this so trying to work a few things out! I'm 5'3 and weigh 132 lbs. I want to lose between 8-10 lbs and so have started exercising and cutting out my over eating and working healthier alternatives into my diet. I'm wondering if there is an alternative to butter on toast or a lower calorie alternative butter? I currently have lurpak spreadable.
Thanks!

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited February 2015
    Make it work within your calories ...5g butter is around 36 cals ...of course there are lower fat alternatives but they taste like it

    Or don't have butter at all and have cottage cheese, or cheese spread or just jam or whatever you like
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    There is nothing wrong with butter, just work it into your calorie allowance :).
  • karen_fitzgibbon
    karen_fitzgibbon Posts: 736 Member
    Butter makes toast so much more betterer
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    You could look at spreads like Blue Bonnet Light, that has fewer calories than butter, but also tastes like @$$.
    As to whether it's healthier than butter, that's doubtful.
    I don't eat dairy, so I stick with Earth Balance, but if I ate dairy, I would go with butter.
  • emmajulie98765
    emmajulie98765 Posts: 29 Member
    So what does 5 g look like? Is it like one of those little packets you get in a pub with your bread roll? Finding it difficult to enter the correct amount on mfp as I don't know how much it is!! I would weigh it but I don't think I can tell 5 g on my scales accurately. Butter is too nice to give up completely!
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    estirling86 wrote: »
    So what does 5 g look like? Is it like one of those little packets you get in a pub with your bread roll? Finding it difficult to enter the correct amount on mfp as I don't know how much it is!! I would weigh it but I don't think I can tell 5 g on my scales accurately. Butter is too nice to give up completely!

    Hard to tell without weighing. My scale is fairly accurate. You could measure it with a measuring spoon 1 teaspoon is approx 5 grams. But it won't be as accurate as a weight.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited February 2015
    If you can't read 5g on your scale you should invest $10 in a new one that you can put a plate and your toast on, zero it out then add the butter

    I think most catering packs are 10g so half of that http://www.singleportions.co.uk/butter--margarine---single-portions---catering-187-c.asp

    And it's a flat teaspoon roughly
  • emmajulie98765
    emmajulie98765 Posts: 29 Member
    Thank you
  • dontjinxit
    dontjinxit Posts: 82 Member
    I've been putting mustard on toast. It's probably weird, but it's a whole lot fewer calories.
  • emmajulie98765
    emmajulie98765 Posts: 29 Member
    I love mustard and have been having it instead of mayo but think I would struggle to eat it on toast!!
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    You don't need to have an alternative to anything. ALL things, in moderation. Make room in your allotment for the real thing, its worth it.
  • dontjinxit
    dontjinxit Posts: 82 Member
    estirling86 wrote: »
    I love mustard and have been having it instead of mayo but think I would struggle to eat it on toast!!

    It's English mustard if that makes it seem any better. But, yeah, I think I've become over zealous in avoiding butter. I just want to save most of my calories for foods, rather than toppings.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    I buy GOOD grass-fed butter. I use it every now and then. It's worth every single one of its 40 calories a teaspoon when it adds so much flavor.
  • andylllI
    andylllI Posts: 379 Member
    I like avocado on toast. It gives you a fatty mouth feel because it's fatty but it also gives you micronutrients for your 30-50 calories. Green toast is not everyones cup of tea in the am tho and it's more expensive than butter (at least in my neck of the woods).
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    estirling86 wrote: »
    So what does 5 g look like? Is it like one of those little packets you get in a pub with your bread roll? Finding it difficult to enter the correct amount on mfp as I don't know how much it is!! I would weigh it but I don't think I can tell 5 g on my scales accurately. Butter is too nice to give up completely!

    If you have to eyeball it, it is one teaspoon. The lines on the butter wrappers are marked for tablespoons so it is 1/3 of the butter between the two lines. Weighing is still better but I eyeball it when I am someplace like my Mom's.

  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    andylllI wrote: »
    I like avocado on toast. It gives you a fatty mouth feel because it's fatty but it also gives you micronutrients for your 30-50 calories. Green toast is not everyones cup of tea in the am tho and it's more expensive than butter (at least in my neck of the woods).

    Yum

    My favourite is white toast, cottage cheese, sliced avocado and sliced tomato ...bloody delicious
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    andylllI wrote: »
    I like avocado on toast. It gives you a fatty mouth feel because it's fatty but it also gives you micronutrients for your 30-50 calories. Green toast is not everyones cup of tea in the am tho and it's more expensive than butter (at least in my neck of the woods).

    Yum

    My favourite is white toast, cottage cheese, sliced avocado and sliced tomato ...bloody delicious

    I'm partial to wheat toast, cottage cheese, and black pepper

  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,464 Member
    A little bit of humus or nut butter is nice on toast - still high calorie, but some extra nutrients, and satisfying.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    If your scale won't do it just put the bread on the scale first (or a measuring cup) and then add the butter on top. Mine isn't accurate if you're weighing less than 5 grams but once you get something heavier on there it'll read just fine.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    If your scale won't do it just put the bread on the scale first (or a measuring cup) and then add the butter on top. Mine isn't accurate if you're weighing less than 5 grams but once you get something heavier on there it'll read just fine.

    Or you can spend about $5 on Amazon or Ebay and get a gram scale that measures to the tenth of a gram. I have one I use for the small amounts of ingredients I need for the bath and body products I make. It stays in the kitchen with my main kitchen scale (that measures to the whole gram) and I use it for things like butter, peanut butter, etc.

  • kjarvo
    kjarvo Posts: 236 Member
    One of those packets is usually 10g. I usually use 6g of margarine per slice - it always seems to be the same. There isn't anything wrong with butter in small amounts, just don't have too much of it. If you prefer it to margarine on sandwiches that is fine as long as you don't have loads of saturated fats elsewhere.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    If your scale won't do it just put the bread on the scale first (or a measuring cup) and then add the butter on top. Mine isn't accurate if you're weighing less than 5 grams but once you get something heavier on there it'll read just fine.

    Or you can spend about $5 on Amazon or Ebay and get a gram scale that measures to the tenth of a gram. I have one I use for the small amounts of ingredients I need for the bath and body products I make. It stays in the kitchen with my main kitchen scale (that measures to the whole gram) and I use it for things like butter, peanut butter, etc.

    I didn't know that was a thing-- cool :)
  • battybecks
    battybecks Posts: 147 Member
    Marmite.

    Cheese.

    Marmite and cheese!

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