To wonder why anyone uses "spreads" instead of butter?

[AjasLipstick]

They're awful! So fake and plastic-ish. Hasn't it been proved that butter's better for you?

Do you use spread? Why?

Butter is hard to spread if kept in the fridge, and we have mostly lived in open-plan living/dining/kitchen flats so keeping it out on the side would be grim as we keep our living area quite warm so it would go nasty

But it wouldn't go off in under a week, it really wouldn't.

I understand that the cost is an issue to some, but judging by the amount of shops and services that are thriving on non essential spending (fast food and lunch places, coffee shops, cinemas, restaurants, pay TV, high end mobile phones, tattoo parlours, beauty salons etc) the majority aren't so close to the breadline that they can't buy butter if they want to.

I agree Barbara I keep mine in a china butter dish with a lid on it...in Australia! Except on the hottest days.

I might put the dish in a plate of ice if it's warm. It's not THAT hard to spread when you take it from the fridge anyway...it's all in the technique.

My DH makes his own butter. It's better than anything...

I've always preferred proper butter and buy the spreadable type as it's easier to cope with. Lurpak is my favourite but as I'm on a budget I get the own brand version which is almost as good. Butterpak is the Tesco one and I believe there's also Danpack which I've seen in Lidl.

Ugh - I hate spread with a vengeance! I would rather have dry toast with jam than put spread on it. Our local favourite breakfast cafe (which is beautifully located on the beach) has just switched from butter to spread and I dislike it so much that we will not be going there any more!

I trained myself to like low fat spread in 1986 and I can't go back. Putting butter on toast would be like pouring double cream on cornflakes to me. I grew up on margarine anyway. DP has lurpak spreadable but I only use it in an emergency.

Barbara We would never use up butter in a week! There's only two of us and we don't use much of it at all. We'd have to buy really small ones to use it up that quickly which I imagine would work out even more expensive as generally stuff is cheaper when you buy bigger.

I guess because we always have. But spreads are cheaper and more practical. As discussed the fridge is too cold to keep butter in for making sandwiches but room temperature is too warm, and we're not middle-class enough to have a larder. Flavour-wise, on sandwiches I'd say the exact taste isn't important and it's more about adding some moistness. Health-wise spreads are way lower in fat and calories.

We do keep butter for crumpets, potatoes, and cooking. Spreads for sandwiches and toast.

We'd have to buy really small ones to use it up

Or you could just cut a bit off the block, put in a plastic tub and leave the rest in the fridge or even freezer if you don't think you'll use it in the month or two it lasts.

Or you could just get spread if that suits you.

safari I'm as working class as they come, live in an ex council house and we have a larder, but we call it a pantry. We don't keep butter in it, it lives out in the kitchen.

I buy flora buttery lol habit