Kate CA Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Which do you use and why do you use it. Do you feel it is better for you? Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter! It's more natural and tastes better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseOwlKnits Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter. I try to feed our family natural things and there's nothing natural about margarine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeidiKC Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter! It's more natural and tastes better. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustybug Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I use both. I use butter when baking and for things that the butter flavor is best. I use margarine for more everyday type things, like on toast or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingnlearning Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Ever since I heard margarine is actually a greyish color and has to be dyed to be yellow I can't eat it. bleh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caitlinsmom Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter. I try to feed our family natural things and there's nothing natural about margarine. :iagree: If flies won't eat it, I don't want it anywhere near my family! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 It tastes better. I would rather have the natural fats than the artifical ingredients. Butter is so much richer, I have not done any calculations but I have noticed that we use so much less that we are probably saving both money and calories. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I use butter for baking and for kiddo, and earth balance for myself. I want both in the house, for various reasons, but if only hubby uses the earth balance, it sits to long. I don't think of EB as I do the old partially hydrogenated marjs. Yuck. I never touch them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Anyone voting margarine is a crazy person and we need to band together and get them help. Who's with me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Anyone voting margarine is a crazy person and we need to band together and get them help. Who's with me? If by "helping them" you mean casting stones at them until they change their ways, I'm with you! :D Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcnlvr Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Anyone voting margarine is a crazy person and we need to band together and get them help. Who's with me? Um, me. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 It's true... I was thinking a butter of the month club might help them see the light. But if you're that twisted, there's probably no help for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter. Tastes better. I see no reason to use margarine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter. Tastes better. I see no reason to use margarine. :iagree: Me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter... nothing else can come close in flavor, and I know that my body can process it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 There is nothing natural about margarine. It's one of those things that will never cross my threshold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 There is nothing natural about margarine. It's one of those things that will never cross my threshold. Exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama2Many4 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Ever since I heard margarine is actually a greyish color and has to be dyed to be yellow I can't eat it. bleh. :iagree: Exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaners Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Everyone except my husband uses butter. He's having some rather unusual health issues and it falls under his dairy intolerance, so he uses margarine or some kind of butter substitute on the rare chance he has anything. I'm aware of how foul margarine is, but I'd rather not harm my husband by giving him butter. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter. Preferably Plugra butter. Have you read the ingredients on the margarine wrapper?? :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitilin Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Interesting factoid--marge used to be, by law, dyed pink, and, iirc, labeled imitation butter. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I grew up on margarine. I thought real butter was something you could only get in restaurants. In my early days on my own, I'd use "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter", but thankfully I saw the error of the stupidest named product ever (and it's ingredients) and now only use butter or if I'm feeling industrious, butter and olive oil blended together (makes it nice and spreadable). Also lots of organic cold pressed coconut oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I know butter is tastier and hydrogenated fats are deadly, but when I am expected to make many, many, many batches of cookies for fundraisers, church parties, etc I use margarine. I simply cannot afford that much butter. The butter is 2.50 lb and margarine is .99lb. Sometimes, I have to base my choices on economics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
********* Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I grew up on margarine. I thought real butter was something you could only get in restaurants. No lie, this is exactly what I thought as a kid. Seriously. I wonder if my folks still use margarine. We only use butter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I grew up on margarine. I thought real butter was something you could only get in restaurants. In my early days on my own, I'd use "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter", but thankfully I saw the error of the stupidest named product ever (and it's ingredients) and now only use butter or if I'm feeling industrious, butter and olive oil blended together (makes it nice and spreadable). Also lots of organic cold pressed coconut oil. This was me. I grew up on parkay, except for Easter when my grandma would buy a butter pressed into a lamb shaped mold. I can't believe it took me so long to realize there is nothing good about margarine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrissymama Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 butter! it is one of my favorite foods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) Butter only for 15 years. Before that, I would buy dh Golden Soft, but I finally told him that if he wanted it he had to buy it. He has bought it a few times since then, but not in the past 5 years or so. I will buy Earth Balance when we have company as not every one sees butter as a healthy option. Edited November 21, 2011 by Tap, tap, tap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 And by a landslide... it's BUTTER! Perhaps liking butter and classical homeschooling somehow just go hand and hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyinND Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Both! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter only for the past ten years. It's more natural. I use it in and on everything. I never use shortening or margarine. I grew up on margarine. :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakesask Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 My parents and grandparents always used margarine, because it's less expensive, and I have followed their lead. I only buy butter to make certain special things, like sugar cookies and shortbread. I don't use margarine as a spread, and I don't put it on bread or vegetables or anything else, so it's pretty much only for baking. The things I bake aren't particularly healthy anyway, what with the refined sugar and the bleached flour, so I don't worry too much about the "dangers" of the margarine I'm throwing in. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfatherslily Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Well, I've got you all beat. I buy the huge tub of Great Value soft spread. So there. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylou Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Margarine is one hydrogen molecule away from the plastic GI Joe your son plays with. Sorry about the bad grammar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I'd love to just use butter, but its so darned expensive! Maybe I'll just suck it up and start though...right after I buy a covered butter dish. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I'd love to just use butter, but its so darned expensive! Maybe I'll just suck it up and start though...right after I buy a covered butter dish. :lol: The cheapest place to buy it is Aldi's. And it is worth the price. Yes, it is twice what margainer is, but it isn't something you go through that fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleWMN Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter, because it's real. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silliness7 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 butter - tastes better and better for you Although I do buy margarine for the mac n' cheese these days because it is cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silliness7 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 The cheapest place to buy it is Aldi's. And it is worth the price. Yes, it is twice what margainer is, but it isn't something you go through that fast. I know I don't, but have you seen the leaving your butter out thread? There are some serious butter consumers haunting these virtual halls. :D I'm glad to see there are a few other people who find it too expensive to use butter exclusively (or at all. :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Ever since I heard margarine is actually a greyish color and has to be dyed to be yellow I can't eat it. bleh. And bless the day you discovered this and changed to butter or olive oil...or coconut oil. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silliness7 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) At a used book store I came across some government pamphlets that were touting the health benefits of margarine over butter. I can't remember the date 20's or 40's? Don't remember. Very old. I couldn't believe it. ETA: Sorry this is a bit OT but the butter conversation sparked an interest. Here is a pamphlet similar to what I remember seeing. Apparently it wasn't put out by the gov't as the dairy farmers were lobbying heavily against the use of margarine. It's interesting to skim through. Edited November 21, 2011 by silliness7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 We use both in our house. My dh and oldest dd always use butter. I prefer Smart Balance (because I have inherited high cholesterol), but I will use a little butter sometimes. My ds and youngest dd will use either the butter or Smart Balance; they don't seem to care which one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeBlessings Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Butter. I try not to use anything with hydrogenated oil in it, including margarine. I believe it is BAD for you. Besides, butter is better. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I use butter for baking and Smart Balance as a spread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Brummel as a spread for my cinnamon toast.... love the taste. Butter for almost everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 butter! it is one of my favorite foods. Is this you?? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alenee Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Alright, already. :glare: Someone want to link a *reputable*site that discusses why margarine is so bad? Oh, and to answer the OP, both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I'd love to just use butter, but its so darned expensive! My answer to this is always that I can use literally a fifth of the butter to get the flavor (a better flavor too) that you can get from margarine. So little goes so far. Of course, more is better. More butter! More! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alenee Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) ***Not to start a debate or anything, but... I have to add this little tid-bit: as I search for "the truth about margarine", I find all of the comments from this thread nearly verbatim on other sites and from one link that was doing a sort of "snopes" thing on an e-mail chain letter about it, several of the comments posted here are false. It's one thing to state you like it because it tastes better but when you give reasons why it's unhealthy, you ought to do a little bit of fact-checking before posting it. :001_huh: Aren't we smarter than that? eta: sorry this is coming off SO snarky. It just blows my mind how stuck-up we can get over this kind of thing and then to boot, add information that is iffy at best. Is butter healthier than margarine? Yes. Are we going to be unhealthy if we choose MORE BUTTER, MORE BUTTER? (this reminds me of those who begin Atkins and think they can eat a whole cow for dinner and not get fat) Yes. Are we all still going to die even if we choose butter over margarine? Yes. Edited November 21, 2011 by Alenee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I voted other. Butter or lard, depending what I'm using it for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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