Butter

[annedonnelly]

You’re not eating enough butter!

I don't eat it. I never have. I just use it for cooking.

I hardly even use any marg/spread on bread/toast. Just a thin scraping.

 

[Shadow]

For sarnies, I've switched to spreadable

heathen!!

 

[Shadow]

Both butters I use, a pricey but truly super butter and a supermarket own label for cooking, are 250g.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't eat, spread or cook with butter, but I use a lot of it when baking, especially Christmas baking.
I noticed an Aldi (still 250g I presume) block is now £1.99.
It was £1.70 only a few weeks ago

 

[lazybloke]

heathen!!

It's okay, i still use real butter for healthy fry-ups!

 

[Shadow]

It's okay, i still use real butter for healthy fry-ups!

Oh well, as you say, thats ok then!

 

[mistyoptic]

Thanks - it's more of a shape problem as there's apparently no easy way to cut the bigger blocks in half so that they fit into a butter dish designed for the 250g size..

We have a Luminarc glass butter dish (with a cow embossed on it). I think it’s intended for 250g but the Sainsbury’s 500g butter block just fits in, so half of one would be fine

 

[Electric_Andy]

I have vitalite dairy free, it's the most "butter-like" thing I can eat. They still come in 500g tubs and are usually 2.25 but I see Iceland have them for 1.50. having been dairy-free for a few years now, if I taste real butter now it tastes like mouldy cream

 

[Webbo2]

I have vitalite dairy free, it's the most "butter-like" thing I can eat. They still come in 500g tubs and are usually 2.25 but I see Iceland have them for 1.50. having been dairy-free for a few years now, if I taste real butter now it tastes like mouldy cream

Most of the butter substitutes are closer to plastic than butter.

 

[wafter]

We have a Luminarc glass butter dish (with a cow embossed on it). I think it’s intended for 250g but the Sainsbury’s 500g butter block just fits in, so half of one would be fine

Thanks - will take a look

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

As far as healthy eating is concerned I started to wonder about the "Healthier alternative to butter"
when my Dad had a heart attack and the doctors and dieticians that helped him avoid anotehr one ALL said
switch to proper butter

although whether or not they would approve of the thickness that my Mum used on her bread/toast is anotehr matter - she did like butter!!!

 

[Mo1959]

As far as healthy eating is concerned I started to wonder about the "Healthier alternative to butter"
when my Dad had a heart attack and the doctors and dieticians that helped him avoid anotehr one ALL said
switch to proper butter

although whether or not they would approve of the thickness that my Mum used on her bread/toast is anotehr matter - she did like butter!!!

There's so much conflicting information about nutrition now, it's hard to know what to do for the best.

I think many researchers are now saying that the old food pyramid and avoiding saturated fat was actually a mistake and that fat, especially from grass fed cows is much better for you than the ultra processed spreads made with seed oils.

 

[wafter]

There's so much conflicting information about nutrition now, it's hard to know what to do for the best.

I think many researchers are now saying that the old food pyramid and avoiding saturated fat was actually a mistake and that fat, especially from grass fed cows is much better for you than the ultra processed spreads made with seed oils.

There's always an agenda at play somewhere; it's a ploy as old as the hills to invent a problem then sell you the "solution" - which often turns out to be unhelpful at best and sometimes actually worse.

Ultimately I don't think you'll go far wrong with the basic mantra of natural, minimally-processed, high-quality and balanced; while avoiding anything that claims to cheat nature / appears too good to be true.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

There's always an agenda at play somewhere; it's a ploy as old as the hills to invent a problem then sell you the "solution" - which often turns out to be unhelpful at best and sometimes actually worse.

Ultimately I don't think you'll go far wrong with the basic mantra of natural, minimally-processed, high-quality and balanced; while avoiding anything that claims to cheat nature / appears too good to be true.

Yes
they also cherry pick research and then point out how their product is so much better becuase of - andthen quote sections of the research out of context

for example
research shows too much saturated fat is bad for you
Our Great new spread does the same thing as butter - whicj is TOTALLY SATURATED FAT - but has much less saturated fat
THEREFORE out product is better for you diet if you are trying to reduce saturated fat


which sounds great - except that teh ersearch says "too much" and not "any"
and they did not look at what else in in the spread

very clever
but......

 

[briantrumpet]

Be outraged at coffee too: since metrication, they've got away with selling 8oz (227g) bags of coffee "cos we're British and measure in Imperial!!" (as opposed to the 250g standard in the EU), but they're starting to sneak in metric 200g bags now it suits them to make the packs smaller for the same price. I only looked, as the bag of Taylors coffee I bought was literally inflated to an unusual degree, and I wondered why.

Just checked, and Aldi's own label is still 227g here.

I wonder how long before pints of milk (268ml) suddenly become a metric 250ml, but at the same price.

I'd pass a law saying that downsized packs, where there's been a long-standing standard size, should carry a label saying "Smaller pack size".

And don't get me started on Curly Wurlies.