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?

Of course butter goes off if it is warm. You could put a small slice out in a butter dish so it gets used before it goes rank rather than havin the whole block go off though...

I don't eat dairy so use dairy free spreads.

Am not really an eater of toast or bread so they mostly go into cakes where you can't really tell the difference.

Sometimes I eat it on bread, it's okay. Tasty enough.

Butter is a bitch anyway. Always too hard or too soft. Nothing in between.

butter is not spreadable.
and there is the cost factor.

Aja, if 'spread' is what you meant, you need to ask MN to correct your post, which says 'butter'.

Butter does spread if you keep it at room temperature and buy one of the softer types of pure butter (Kerrygold, Softer Butter, Loseley or M&S do one). Just put whatever you would use in a week in a butter dish or plastic tub. In the summer, maybe a bit less and it might need to go in and out of the fridge if it's really hot, but in the UK, it's fine out of the fridge for a week most of the year.

Other people can do what they like as long as they don't ever lie to me that their shitey spread is butter - Asda cafe I am looking at you.

Butter is too rich for my digestive system. Spread is cheaper than butter. It spreads straight from the fridge.

Butter all the way here. Needs to be kept in the fridge due to local temperatures.
Cut off a chunk for toast and sandwiches, microwave for 12 seconds, use.
Tastes sooo much better than spread and spreadable butter.
But the bit that bugs me is when visitors ask for butter for toast, butter is produced, and they look appalled. They don't actually want butter. If it's margarine you want, thats what you need to ask for!

Cost.

Price? Butter is very expensive now.

See, not that hard to understand is it?

Where do you buy your butter op?
I'd love to know.
I shop with Coles and occasionally foodworks.
In Coles the cheapest butter is $5 a tub (500g) and in foodworks its $6.50.
You can buy a kilo of Coles spread for $1.60 (which I've used in a pinch and tastes fine) the same in foodworks is $2.00 for 1 kilo (spread also). Have t tried the FW one though.
I buy olive oil spread for about $3/kilo or $2 for 500g but I've never seen butter for less than $10/kilo (or 500g for $5.) that's a pretty big price difference and significant enough to put me off buying butter every week

Where I live (one of the hottest parts of Queensland) I cannot leave butter out (real or "spread") as it just melts within the hour. Butter straight from the fridge is a faff too so I only use it to make pies.
I don't really taste the difference but Dh can't eat butter anyway so I'd be buying twice if I insisted upon butter. I don't care, though.

We always had the spreadable stuff when I was growing up. It was what my mum could afford, and tbh I think what she preferred anyway. She'd get these big 1kg tubs from Safeway for £1 if I remember right! I use butter now from a local farmer. It's delicious. But if I had to cut costs I'd happily use a spreadable, there's some really good ones around nowadays.

I use Flora

Apparently some people get a sense of superiority from eating congealed animal fat/oil as opposed to us plebs who prefer to get roughly the same chemicals from plant sources.

I grew up on Flora (tastes rank) never had proper butter.

Now I have my own home I sometimes buy proper butter but it’s too expensive now.

I generally buy Clover nowadays. Tastes delicious, spreads straight from the fridge can usually find it on offer.

I keep hearing people say Flora tastes bad.I switch between butter at relatives homes and Flora at home pretty easily. I grew up using butter!

Daughter is allergic to dairy

YABU

Lots of reasons:
vegan,
need a low fat diet,
dairy intolerant,
don't like the taste,
spreads more easily,
cheaper,

We have a mix- bertolli for sandwiches, butter for toast, crackers etc.
I also prefer to use sunflower spread for baking as the cakes taste lighter and don't go hard in the fridge.
Spread isn't fake, just made from different ingredients.

DD2 uses Pure spread as advised by the dietician at the Allergy Clinic in the hospital. She has 11 food allergies including dairy.

Why are people being so snide to the OP? No-one is looking down on anyone, she has a strong opinion on a very innocuous subject, which people are invited to debate...or they can just scroll on past.

Honestly I get so fed up of this place. I swear some of you must never actually speak to people in real life.

It didn't used to be like this.

No idea. But YANBU it is revolting
(Not envy)

I am a very non fussy eater, I will eat almost anything. But 'low fat spread' is one of the few things that actually turns my stomach. I got caught out a few times when I stopped off and bought toast or a bagel on the way to work. They always asked if I'd like them to butter it for me and I said yes then I got to work and discovered that it wasn't butter at all, it was 'spread'. I hadn't been paying attention in the cafe. That drives me mad. If you're not using butter, don't call it butter, just say what it is.

It's cheaper and spreads easier. I just keep butter round for baking.

Which butter is better though.I tend to buy what is on offer but some supermarket own brands are not very nice.The last time I had butter that tasted like that of my childhood was a holiday to Guernsey.

Yeo Valley spreadable is lovely.

I don't understand why people judge other people for what they choose to eat. I mean there are many reasons for eating spreads instead of butter, from cost to allergies.
Eat what you want but don't be snide about what others choose to eat. We don't have butter in the house so if you had toast at mine it would be flora. If you don't like it fine but if you then tell me it's disgusting I would choose not to feed you again.