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Which Butter or Spread do you use?

amethyst — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:55:31 GMT

Do you use a particular Make just because you prefer the flavour, or for health preference reasons?

I have: "I Can't Believe Its Not Butter" (the LIGHT version) - because I like the flavour, it's easy to spread, and LIGHT hoping to be less fattening.

(Heard somewhere that Easy Spreads were not actually healthy)!

amethyst

Re: Which Butter or Spread do you use?

bitsnknots — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:58:20 GMT

We normally use Flora. Sometimes, we will have a treat and we'll have some butter.

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chickengrandma-2008 — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:58:26 GMT

I only use butter since I learnt that margarine was only one molecule (or something) away from being plastic. Something like that anyway!!

Re: Which Butter or Spread do you use?

amethyst — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:02:35 GMT

"Almost Plastic" - that is what I seem to remember hearing. Butter tends to be advised against too, so it is like the devil and the deep blue sea!!

amethyst

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chickengrandma-2008 — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:13:03 GMT

I think, like eggs, butter is 'good for you' this week!!

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goldcrest725 — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:27:06 GMT

I just buy what ever is on offer at the time of requirement. And, as a pensioner, living on my own, I only buy 500g tubs. I've found that the 1kg tubs tend to go mouldy before I've used them up. Even if I keep them in the fridge.

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mygreyangel — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:31:16 GMT

Don't use any and haven't in 2.5 years.... seems normal now.

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captainbovine — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:48:22 GMT

OH likes Clover so I get that. I prefer butter ... I trust a cow not a scientist!!!!!

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peteryola — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:52:17 GMT

@bitsnknots wrote:
We normally use Flora.

Same here, the Original. I like the taste. It did taste better until about a year ago when they reverted to a previous formula; it hasn't been so good since but it's still the best taste I can find, so....

Re: Which Butter or Spread do you use?

goldcrest725 — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:53:28 GMT

@captainbovine wrote:
OH likes Clover so I get that. I prefer butter ... I trust a cow not a scientist!!!!!

Yes. But you're just biased!

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cookiecookuk — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:59:07 GMT

vitealite dairy free if in a healthy mood oy kerrygold butter in in a devil mood...

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ginap.123 — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:41:21 GMT

Don't use a spread but might put a scraping of low fat mayo if anything is needed (or just brown sauce if it's a bacon butty)

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captainbovine — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:49:47 GMT

of course I'm biased...I make lovely butter!

oooh nice thick sesame bloomer toasted and fresh butter....dribble!

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carolyorkie2010 — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:55:32 GMT

Bertolli. I love Lurpak on my toast.

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5129frederick — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:59:28 GMT

I used to have Stork SB while my wife and daughter had Flora so I swung across rather than keep getting two lots of margering when we went shopping. I got used to it after a while but then Flora tried to be greedy by changing the ingredients by adding more water to it, making it far cheaper to produce. We tried it a couple of more times but found it tasted so insipid, we actually dumped the tub in the bin and swung across to Clover, which we much preferred, and have been using ever since.

However, on special occasions like my birthday - 29th. of this month (no hinting or prompting, you'll notice), we'll be using butter - Kerrygold. I much prefer butter to margerine, but margerine is meant to be healthier. In fact it isn't even margerine - that's why they can't legally call it that. The last time I saw the word "margerine" was on a packet of Blue Band when I was a child. Margering was originally coloured green - yuk! This was done intentionally to prevent wise boys from palming it off as butter shortly after the war.

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ilove2patch — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 22:13:49 GMT

Anchor Speadable & supermarket own block butter. Both in moderation. I don't eat plastic.

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mustavaquid — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:08:51 GMT

I tend to buy the sunflower oil spreads, at the moment I'm half way through a 500g tub of Sainsbury's Lighter Sunflower Spread ( 75p. ) which I bought last weekend and I'm liking it a lot. I'm not too keen on the olive oil and buttermilk spreads. The 'special shop' where I usually buy it from normally has a good selection to choose from --- own brand Asda, Co-op, M&S, Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose, alongside Stork, Utterly Buttery, I Can't Tell...., Bertolli, Flora etc., etc., so it's really easy to compare the ingredients and other info.. They are all usually the same price or close to it. I sometimes buy butter but not very often, only really when I fancy baked spuds. There's usually a good selection of those too to choose from, salted and unsalted, all usually 69p. for a 250g pack, most of the supermarket brands and sometimes 'specials' such as Welsh and others from small producers. I've tried some of those and they are mostly very, very nice.

If I'm using the bus to get around to do my shopping ( I have to drive to the special shop as it's not on or close to a bus route ) and I need some spread, I'll get a pack of Kerrymaid from Heron, 80p. for 500g, or a 250g of 'Happy Shopper' for 50p. from the local convenience store. I tend to use the bus quite a lot now as it's free with my OAP pass.

I would never buy or eat anything which was labelled margerine.

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suzieseaside — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 03:14:59 GMT

Proper butter and nothing but.

Any make though I must admit that the expensive French Beurre d'Isigny is one of the best I have ever tasted.

Maybe margarine has improved in taste from decades ago when I thought it was disgusting and haven't touched it since, but I don't see the point of it and it's health benefits are questionable. I suppose those olive oil spreads are better for you but what the heck.

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goldcrest725 — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 03:56:03 GMT

Yes. I recall, just after the war. I was born in 1945. With all the food rationing, there was this stuff called SPECIAL MARGARINE. It was the most foul tasting muck you could imagine. But then, in the early 50s, Stork margarine made it's first appearence. It was absolute heaven.

And since we've touched on the subject of bread. I love some of the more exotic loaves you can get in the supermarkets these days. Only thing is, they can come in such weird shapes, they won't always fit into a normal toaster. So I recently bought a 4 slice, 2 slot toaster. With the full length slots, you can toast any size or shape slice you can imagine.

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fishpieface — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 08:37:56 GMT

I use stork for cooking but proper butter for spreading on my toast/sandwiches etc. Only thinly spread,

but I prefer proper butter and less of it than that artificial stuff that's made of goodness-knows-what.

I'm like Captain, trusting the cow and not someone in a lab somewhere who decides it's good for us

only for someone in another lab years later who decides it isn't!

Same with cream, I won't eat that "plastic cream" as I call it, I use proper cream and not excessively.

Yes, Dairy is fattening and not that good for you, butused sensibly and not to excess I can't think it

does more harm that artificial stuff.