Alternatives to butter

Always had block butter. Never anything else. Not even spreadables.

If I do sandwiches I spread mayonnaise thinly on bread or whatever I am using instead of butter.

Thought this may interest some of you.

I use butter mainly but also olive oil if it's just for bread or when cooking.

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This is all very interesting. Thanks 👍

Why would you choose an alternative to Butter, especially Kerrygold Butter from Grass Fed Cows. Butter is good for you. I live on a low carb diet, no bread, pasta, or anything with high carbs in it. I fry low carb sausages, bacon, 2 eggs every morning for my breakfast. I make omelettes cooked in butter. Also good quality cheese is good for you. It is carbs that are the enemy as they are full of sugar and cause spikes in insulin and inflammation in the body. I also eat every kind of fish you can think of, all with a dab of butter on them.

My breakfast every morning is 2 slices of wholemeal bread spread with peanut butter and bitter marmalade. And a milky coffee. Divine.

Georgesgran

I don’t use much butter, so another who uses the real thing.
Anchor spreadable, as it’s British.

Same here.

It's interesting isn't it that Anchor butter came all the way from New Zealand until 2012 when Arla moved production to the UK. Gone from the most food miles possible to almost local!

fancythat

Ironic. I have just gone the other way.

I read recently, rightly or wrongly, that all sorts of oils are not good for us[not counting olive oil or coconut oil]. And they are added to all sorts of things.

Rapeseed oil, Canola, soya, vegetable oils etc.

Rapeseed oil, cold pressed is more beneficial than olive oil, it has less saturated fat , so better for your heart. The added benefit,its produced in the UK.

I try to avoid any seed oil, I cook in olive oil and use butter (sparingly).
I try not to eat ultra processed food as so many contain seed oils but it is in nearly everything. I even bought some olives that were in rape seed and sunflower oil!
I try to avoid carbs as much as possible but I love bread but eat a good quality sour dough.

Freya5, I only ever buy cold pressed British rapeseed oil , and as a bonus it comes in glass - no wretched plastic. We don’t use very much though.

It's interesting isn't it that Anchor butter came all the way from New Zealand until 2012 when Arla moved production to the UK. Gone from the most food miles possible to almost local!

I've always wondered about that. I read recently that what actually happens is that the butter still comes from NZ but when it gets to the UK now it is remixed with some milk and salt (for the salted variety) and packaged and therefore can stamped 'Made in UK'. I don't use Anchor anymore as I don't want milk proteins in my butter. Kerrygold (my favourite butter until recently) are apparently doing the same thing. It reduces the cost of producing the butter.

I can’t check now, since not at home, but I thought my pack of Anchor spreadable says ‘British milk’?

However DD’s pack of CountryLife spreadable, says, British CountryLife butter blended with British rapeseed oil, and on the back it says butter, 50%, rapeseed oil, 25%, water, salt.

Butter is processed food the same as non dairy alternatives - it’s just been processed through a cow, which has been subject to all kinds of exploitations . I vote for olive oil or Vitalite.

I just checked and the Anchor site does say that it's churned in Westbury. From 100% British milk. So what I read may be wrong. I'll have to go back and do some checking.

I’m sure Kerrygold butter is very nice, Turtledove, but whenever possible I do like to support our own farmers, rather than anyone else’s.

Witzend

*Freya5*, I only ever buy cold pressed British rapeseed oil , and as a bonus it comes in glass - no wretched plastic. We don’t use very much though.

Same here. A bottle lasts in a cool place, and a teaspoon of it does well for my airfryer chips.

I cook with olive oil mainly but do roast potatoes in vitalite and use benecol buttery for sandwiches, no butter as DP is no dairy where food is concerned.

If you have cholesterol issues they used to tell you to avoid butter and that is why I went on to the olive oil spread. I tried flora but I couldn’t stand the taste. I like lurpak butter for things like icing but it costs heaps here, unfortunately.

I often swap butter for options like mashed avocado, heart-healthy olive oil, or creamy Greek yogurt in cooking and baking. They add moisture and richness without the saturated fat of butter.

Another fan of butter
Interesting that many are rejecting spreads that are ultra processed food
If the question had been asked 10 years ago I imagine the answer might have been different

Real butter, in moderation like anything else, is the healthiest option unless you have a dairy allergy. Likewise whole milk.

As lactose is the usual culprit in dairy intolerance There is very little lactose in butter and tends to be tolerated

Been through them all but the alternatives all are so highly processed I returned to real butter a few years back

petra

Primrose53

Only the real thing for us now. Some of those horrible spreads are just one molecule away from plastic. 🤮🤮

Quite right. Awful stuff.

Absolutely agree, real food not UPF.