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butter, light butter, margarine, light margarine?

iowaoly
iowaoly Posts: 35 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am so confused from my years of different diets and ways of eating. What do you use on toast for "butter", "margarine" etc. ? I used light margarine for many years and then switched to butter but it is way high in calories, so now I am back to light butter, but I don't know if that is any better than light margarine health wise. I try to use olive or coconut oil for things I can cook with, but sometimes you need butter or margarine. Any tips or advice on what you like?

Now...toast brings up another issue. I am back to the 40/cal per slice bread rather than the whole grain wheat. It seems for me to lose weight I need to eat the possibly more unhealthy things to get the quantity Iike rather than the smaller quantity of a higher quality food item. I hope this post makes sense.

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  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    Eat real food ... butter. I don't eat a lot of butter, but when I need butter, its real butter. No fake crap that is close to plastic. Had butter and jelly on my toast this weekend. I understand your issue. I personally prefer foods made with little that I don't recognize, so those 40/cal per slice breads don't work for me. But do whatever you need to do to stick to your calorie goals.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Use Real butter. That is all :smile:
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  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    Always, always butter. It is the only answer.

    (but really, it's up to you, if you don't want to 'spend' calories on the real thing, don't)
  • jane837
    jane837 Posts: 68 Member
    I prefer butter -- it tastes much better to me.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Kerrygold butter - best thing ever. I rarely use butter - but now when I do I try to only use kerrygold,
  • andyluvv
    andyluvv Posts: 281 Member
    May I bump in and provide another suggestion?

    Avocado spread...it's bloody delicious, you only need ONE avocado to make and it lasts quite a bit! Just blitz an avocado, add some lemon juice, coriander and salt/pepper to taste.
    I wanted a good alternative to butter since I don't tend to use it (I hardly have bread around the house, but I wanted something on ryvitas!) and it's the best recipe I have EVER found.

    It's great and a great natural fat source. And calories are about the same as margarine :)
    About the low calorie bread, there are great alternatives. Hovis Wholemeal, the small batch (400g I think?) is about 50 calories a slice. Also their granary bread...just search around! :)
  • LoneWolfRunner
    LoneWolfRunner Posts: 1,160 Member
    Butter, baby, butter...
  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    Real butter has so much more flavor. Just use less of it to cut the calories.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    Butter. Absolutely.

    In fact, eat Kerrygold butter.

    Also, all you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit. :)
  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,324 Member
    andyluvv wrote: »
    May I bump in and provide another suggestion?

    Avocado spread...it's bloody delicious, you only need ONE avocado to make and it lasts quite a bit! Just blitz an avocado, add some lemon juice, coriander and salt/pepper to taste.
    I wanted a good alternative to butter since I don't tend to use it (I hardly have bread around the house, but I wanted something on ryvitas!) and it's the best recipe I have EVER found.

    It's great and a great natural fat source. And calories are about the same as margarine :)
    About the low calorie bread, there are great alternatives. Hovis Wholemeal, the small batch (400g I think?) is about 50 calories a slice. Also their granary bread...just search around! :)

    That's what I was thinking, too. Or hummus.
  • Mistizoom
    Mistizoom Posts: 578 Member
    Butter.
  • galgenstrick
    galgenstrick Posts: 2,086 Member
    I don't know why all those substitutes are still on the market honestly.
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